Elections in Sikkim
Legislative Assembly election results of Sikkim
The total number of seats in the assembly is 32, including one seat reserved for the Sangha. Results list national parties first, state parties second and unrecognized parties last. Results are presented as by the Election Commission of India. Parties participating as independents are not listed.
1974 (Before integration with India)
Total: 32
1979
Chief Minister : Nar Bahadur Bhandari
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 241 | 0.33% |
Indian National Congress | 12 | 0 | 1476 | 2.04% |
Janata Party | 30 | 0 | 9534 | 13.18% |
Sikkim Scheduled Caste League | 2 | 0 | 85 | 0.12% |
Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary) | 27 | 11 | 14889 | 20.58% |
Sikkim Janata Parishad | 31 | 16 | 22776 | 31.49% |
Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 32 | 4 | 11400 | 15.76% |
Independents | 108 | 1 | 11938 | 16.5% |
Total: | 244 | 32 | 72339 |
1985
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Communist Party of India | 2 | 0 | 25 | 0.03% |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 0 | 336 | 0.35% |
Indian National Congress | 32 | 1 | 23440 | 24.15% |
Janata Party | 20 | 0 | 913 | 0.94% |
Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 14 | 0 | 438 | 0.45% |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 32 | 30 | 60371 | 62.2% |
Independents | 94 | 1 | 11534 | 11.88% |
Total: | 195 | 32 | 97057 |
1989
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Indian National Congress | 31 | 0 | 24121 | 18.05% |
Rising Sun Party | 31 | 0 | 11472 | 8.59% |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 32 | 32 | 94078 | 70.41% |
Denzong Peoples Chogpi | 4 | 0 | 298 | 0.22% |
Independents | 20 | 0 | 3650 | 2.73% |
Total: | 118 | 32 | 133619 |
1994
Chief Minister : Pawan Kumar Chamling
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bharatiya Janata Party | 3 | 0 | 274 | 0.16% |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 270 | 0.16% |
Indian National Congress | 31 | 2 | 26045 | 15.02% |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 11 | 0 | 2906 | 1.68% |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 19 | 72856 | 42% |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 31 | 10 | 60851 | 35.08% |
Independents | 76 | 1 | 10255 | 5.91% |
Total: | 186 | 32 | 173457 |
1999
Chief Minister : Pawan Chamling
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 398 | 0.19% |
Indian National Congress | 31 | 0 | 7512 | 3.67% |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 31 | 24 | 107214 | 52.32% |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 32 | 7 | 85827 | 41.88% |
Independents | 9 | 1 | 3976 | 1.94% |
Total: | 105 | 32 | 204927 |
2004
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes |
% |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bharatiya Janata Party | 4 | 0 | 667 | 0.34% |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 0 | 144 | 0.07% |
Indian National Congress | 28 | 1 | 51329 | 26.13% |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 31 | 139662 | 71.09% |
Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad | 9 | 0 | 1123 | 0.57% |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0.05% |
Independents | 16 | 0 | 3450 | 1.76% |
Total: | 91 | 32 | 196465 |
2009
Chief Minister : Pawan Kumar Chamling
Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 11 | 0 | 1966 | 0.78% |
bgcolor="Template:Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 3 | 0 | 272 | 0.11% |
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress | 32 | 0 | 69612 | 27.64% |
bgcolor="Template:Sikkim Democratic Front/meta/color"| | Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 32 | 165991 | 65.91% |
bgcolor="Template:Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad/meta/color"| | Sikkim Democratic Front | 20 | 0 | 5516 | 2.19% |
bgcolor="Template:Nationalist Congress Party/meta/color"| | Nationalist Congress Party | 11 | 0 | 1065 | 0.42% |
Independent | 16 | 0 | 3450 | 1.37% | |
SGPP | 27 | 0 | 2909 | 1.16% | |
SJEP | 6 | 0 | 497 | 0.2% | |
Total: | 167 | 32 | 251851 |
2014
Chief Minister : Pawan Kumar Chamling
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2019
Chief Minister : Shri Tamang (a.k.a. Golay)
Party | Contested | Won | +/– | Votes | % | +/– | |
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bgcolor="Template:Sikkim Krantikari Morcha/meta/color"| | Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | 32 | 17 | 7 | 47.03 | 6.23 | |
bgcolor="Template:Sikkim Democratic Front/meta/color"| | Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 12 | 7 | 47.63 | 7.37 | |
Hamro Sikkim Party | 32 | 0 | |||||
bgcolor="Template:Indian National Congress/meta/color"| | Indian National Congress | 32 | 0 | 0.77 | 0.63 | ||
bgcolor="Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color"| | Bharatiya Janata Party | 32 | 2 | 1.62 | 0.92 | ||
bgcolor="Template:Independent politician/meta/color"| | Independents | 0 | |||||
Total | 32 | ||||||
Source: Election Commission of India[1] |