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Indian National Congress on Darjeeling

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

WON 3 OF 11 contested

INC runner-up 4 times
Strike rate
27.3%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 11 published candidatures
Best vote share45.50%in 1991
Worst vote share5.10%in 2019
Average vote share26.55% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1977
Last contested2024
Votes polled here20.98 Lacross all 11 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Indian National Congress vote share in Darjeeling, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 50 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%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Indian National Congress 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: 1980, 1989 — 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

11 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Munish Tamang 83,374 6.30% 3 Lost · 3rd
2019 Sankar Malakar 65,186 5.10% 3 Lost · 3rd
2014 Sujay Ghatak 90,076 7.90% 4 Lost · 4th
2009 Dawa Narbula 1,87,809 19.40% 3 Lost · 3rd
2004 Dawa Narbula 3,96,973 44.80% 1 Won
1999 Nar Bahadur Khatiwara 1,44,857 24.60% 2 Lost · 2nd
1998 Prasanta Nandy 1,58,033 24.60% 2 Lost · 2nd
1996 K B Chettri 2,80,167 33.20% 2 Lost · 2nd
1991 Inder Jeet 3,54,645 45.50% 1 Won
1984 Dawa Narbula 2,27,290 40.50% 2 Lost · 2nd
1977 Krishna Bahadur Chettri 1,09,520 40.20% 1 Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Bharatiya Janta PartyGorkha 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 17:33 UTC

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