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Darjeeling #4GEN
Won
R B Rai
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
77,124 9.1 pp
votes
over K B Chettri (INC)
The contest
Electors12,12,950
Votes polled8,43,297
Turnout69.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.35 L52.4% of electorate
Female electors5.77 L47.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
909females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R B Rai | CPIM | 3,57,291 | 42.40% | |
| 2 | K B Chettri | INC | 2,80,167 | 33.20% | |
| 3 | Geeta Chatterjee | BJP | 68,421 | 8.10% | |
| 4 | Gazendra Gurung | IND | 29,499 | 3.50% | |
| 5 | Krishna Bhakta Pourel | IND | 16,511 | 2.00% | |
| 6 | Usmani Mustak | IND | 14,432 | 1.70% | |
| 7 | Kamini Mohan Roy | IND | 7,474 | 0.90% | |
| 8 | Purnendu Chatterjee | IND | 2,359 | 0.30% | |
| 9 | Mohammad Zamil Ahamad | ML | 2,095 | 0.20% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 65,048, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 778,249 · NOTA n/a · published 843,297 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-13