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Bharatiya Janta Party on Darjeeling

State 19 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 4 OF 7 contested

BJP never finished second here
Strike rate
57.1%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures
Best vote share59.20%in 2019
Worst vote share7.10%in 1991
Average vote share33.24% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1991
Last contested2024
Votes polled here26.53 Lacross all 7 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Bharatiya Janta Party vote share in Darjeeling, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 60 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share  ·  a ringed point is a year they won this seat  ·  a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989, 1998, 1999 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

7 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Raju Bista 6,79,331 51.20% 1 Won
2019 Raju Bista 7,50,067 59.20% 1 Won
2014 S.S.Ahluwalia 4,88,257 42.80% 1 Won
2009 Jaswant Singh 4,97,649 51.40% 1 Won
2004 Dr. G. S. Yonzone 1,13,972 12.90% 3 Lost · 3rd
1996 Geeta Chatterjee 68,421 8.10% 3 Lost · 3rd
1991 Ankesh Acharjya 54,969 7.10% 3 Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Indian National CongressGorkha National Liberation FrontAll India Trinamool CongressIndian National Congress (I)IndependentIndian National Congress (U)West Bengal Trinamool CongressAll India Gorkha LeagueJanta Party (SECULAR)Bahujan Samaj PartyAkhil Bhartiya Gorkha League (BUDHIMAN GURUNG)Janta PartyAll India Jana Andolan PartyCommunist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh PartyAmara BengaliAmbedkarite Party Of IndiaJan ParishadSocialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Lok DalMuslim LeageGorkha Rashtriya CongressRashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)Indian People's Forward BlockNorth Bengal People’s PartyKamatapur People’s Party (United)Bahujan Mukti PartyAmra BangaleeIndian Democratic Republican Front

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Darjeeling
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12
Computed
2026-09-12 17:34 UTC

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