Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Darjeeling #4GEN
Won
Ananda Pathak
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
18,161 4.3 pp
votes
over K.B. Chettri (INCI)
The contest
Electors7,40,258
Votes polled4,19,397
Turnout56.7%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.17 L56.4% of electorate
Female electors3.23 L43.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
774females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ananda Pathak | CPIM | 1,85,612 | 44.30% | |
| 2 | K.B. Chettri | INCI | 1,67,451 | 39.90% | |
| 3 | Chaudhary Abdul Karim | INCU | 20,153 | 4.80% | |
| 4 | Paul Mantosh | JPS | 8,468 | 2.00% | |
| 5 | Mohhammed Ekramul Haque | JP | 8,123 | 1.90% | |
| 6 | Lakshmi Kanta Joshi | IND | 5,192 | 1.20% | |
| 7 | Tapan Kumar Biswas | IND | 5,045 | 1.20% | |
| 8 | Ranendra Nath Barma | IND | 3,960 | 0.90% | |
| 9 | Sampad Kumar Roy | IND | 1,748 | 0.40% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,645, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 405,752 · NOTA n/a · published 419,397 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-13