Darjeeling #4GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1999

Won

S.P. Lepcha

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,11,969 19.0 pp

votes

over Nar Bahadur Khatiwara (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors12,76,753

Votes polled5,90,023

Turnout46.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.64 L52.0% of electorate

Female electors6.13 L48.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 923females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	S.P. Lepcha	CPIM	2,56,826	43.50%
2	Nar Bahadur Khatiwara	INC	1,44,857	24.60%
3	Tarun Roy	AITC	1,27,603	21.60%
4	R.B.Rai	IND	31,719	5.40%
5	Sunil Roy	IND	11,797	2.00%
6	Krishna Bhakta Paurel	IND	5,118	0.90%
7	Sampad Roy	IND	2,551	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,552, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 580,471 · NOTA n/a · published 590,023 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999