Elections in Sikkim have been held in the Indian state of Sikkim between 1953 and 1974, before its integration with India, and since 1979 after its integration. The total number of seats in the assembly is 32, including one seat reserved for the Sangha.
Assembly Elections
editGeneral elections
editThe general elections took place before Sikkim's integration with India.
1953
editParty | Seats | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Total | ||||
Sikkim National Party | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||
Sikkim State Congress | 0 | 6 | 6 | |||
Appointed members | – | – | 6 | |||
Total | 6 | 6 | 18 | |||
Source: [1][2] |
1958
editParty | Seats | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Others | Total | +/– | ||
Sikkim State Congress | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | +1 | |
Sikkim National Party | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Appointed members | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | |
Total | 6 | 6 | 2 | 20 | +2 | |
Source: [3][2] |
1967
editParty | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|
Sikkim National Congress | 8 | New | |
Sikkim National Party | 5 | –1 | |
Sikkim State Congress | 2 | –5 | |
Others | 3 | +3 | |
Appointed members | 6 | –1 | |
Total | 24 | +4 | |
Source: [4] |
1970
editParty | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|
Sikkim National Party | 8 | +3 | |
Sikkim State Congress | 4 | +2 | |
Sikkim National Congress | 3 | –5 | |
Others | 3 | 0 | |
Appointed members | 6 | 0 | |
Total | 24 | 0 | |
Source: [5] |
1973
editParty | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|
Sikkim National Party | 9 | +1 | |
Sikkim National Congress | 5 | +2 | |
Sikkim Janata Congress | 2 | – | |
Independents | 2 | – | |
Appointed members | 6 | 0 | |
Total | 24 | 0 | |
Source: AC Sinha |
1974
editParty | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|
Sikkim National Congress | 31 | +26 | |
Sikkim National Party | 1 | –8 | |
Total | 32 | +8 | |
Source: Sikkim Assembly |
Legislative Assembly elections
edit1979
editParty | Votes | % | Seats | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sikkim Janata Parishad | 22,776 | 31.49 | 16 | |
Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary) | 14,889 | 20.58 | 11 | |
Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 11,400 | 15.76 | 4 | |
Janata Party | 9,534 | 13.18 | 0 | |
Indian National Congress | 1,476 | 2.04 | 0 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 241 | 0.33 | 0 | |
Sikkim Scheduled Caste League | 85 | 0.12 | 0 | |
Independents | 11,938 | 16.50 | 1 | |
Total | 72,339 | 100.00 | 32 | |
Valid votes | 72,339 | 94.81 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 3,960 | 5.19 | ||
Total votes | 76,299 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 117,157 | 65.13 | ||
Source: ECI |
1985
editParty | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,371 | 62.20 | 30 | +14 | |
Indian National Congress | 23,440 | 24.15 | 1 | +1 | |
Janata Party | 913 | 0.94 | 0 | 0 | |
Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 438 | 0.45 | 0 | –4 | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 336 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 | |
Communist Party of India | 25 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 11,534 | 11.88 | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 97,057 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 97,057 | 97.61 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,378 | 2.39 | |||
Total votes | 99,435 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 155,041 | 64.13 | |||
Source: ECI |
1989
editParty | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 94,078 | 70.41 | 32 | +2 | |
Indian National Congress | 24,121 | 18.05 | 0 | –1 | |
Rising Sun Party | 11,472 | 8.59 | 0 | New | |
Denzong Peoples Chogpi | 298 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 3,650 | 2.73 | 0 | –1 | |
Total | 133,619 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 133,619 | 95.97 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 5,608 | 4.03 | |||
Total votes | 139,227 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 192,619 | 72.28 | |||
Source: ECI |
1994
editParty | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sikkim Democratic Front | 72,856 | 42.00 | 19 | New | |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,851 | 35.08 | 10 | –22 | |
Indian National Congress | 26,045 | 15.02 | 2 | +2 | |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2,906 | 1.68 | 0 | New | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 274 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 270 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
Independents | 10,255 | 5.91 | 1 | +1 | |
Total | 173,457 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 173,457 | 97.44 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,566 | 2.56 | |||
Total votes | 178,023 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 217,743 | 81.76 | |||
Source: ECI |
1999
editParty | No. of candidates | No. elected[6] | Votes won | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 398 | 0.19% | |
Indian National Congress | 31 | 0 | 7,512 | 3.67% | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 31 | 24 | 107,214 | 52.32% | |
Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 32 | 7 | 85,827 | 41.88% | |
Independents | 9 | 1 | 3,976 | 1.94% | |
Total: | 105 | 32 | 204,927 |
2004
editParty | No. of candidates | No. of elected[7] | 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
editParty | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bharatiya Janata Party | 11 | 0 | 1966 | 0.78% | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 0 | 272 | 0.11% | |
Indian National Congress | 32 | 0 | 69612 | 27.64% | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 32 | 165991 | 65.91% | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 20 | 0 | 5516 | 2.19% | |
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 | ||
Source: Election Commission of India[8] |
2014
editPolitical Party | Candidates | Number of Votes |
Seats Won | Net Change in seats |
% of Votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SDF | 32 | 169983 | 22 | 10 | 55.0% | |
SKM | 32 | 126024 | 10 | 10 | 40.8% | |
INC | 32 | 4390 | 0 | 0 | 1.4% | |
BJP | 13 | 2208 | 0 | 0 | 0.7% | |
AITC | 7 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0.2% | |
Independent | 5 | 1227 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | |
NOTA | 4460 | - | - | 1.4% | ||
Total | 478,861 | 32 |
2019
editParty | Contested | Won | +/– | Votes | % | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | 32 | 17 | 7 | 1,65,508 | 47.03 | 6.23 | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 15 | 7 | 1,67,620 | 47.63 | 7.37 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 12 | 0 | 5,700 | 1.62 | 0.92 | ||
Indian National Congress | 24 | 0 | 2,721 | 0.77 | 0.63 | ||
Hamro Sikkim Party | 23 | 0 | 2,098 | 0.60 | |||
Independents | 0 | ||||||
Total | 32 | ||||||
Source: Election Commission of India[10] |
2024
editParty | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | 225,068 | 59.41 | 31 | +14 | |
Sikkim Democratic Front | 105,503 | 27.85 | 1 | -14 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 19,956 | 5.27 | – | – | |
Indian National Congress | 1,228 | 0.32 | – | – | |
Citizen Action Party - Sikkim | 23,261 | 6.14 | – | – | |
NOTA | 3,813 | 1.01 | – | – | |
Total | 378,829 | 100.00 | 32 | – | |
Source: Election Commission of India[11] |
Table Summary
editElection year | Vidhan Sabha election | 1st party | 2nd party | Others | Total seats | Chief minister | CM's party | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1979 | Second Assembly | SJP 16 | SCR 11 | SPC 4,IND. 1 | 32 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari | SJP | |||
1985 | Third Assembly | SSP 30 | INC 1 | IND 1 | 32 | SSP | ||||
1989 | Fourth Assembly | SSP 32 | 32 | |||||||
1994 | Fifth Assembly | SDF 19 | SSP 10 | INC 2,IND 1 | 32 | Pawan Kumar Chamling | SDF | |||
1999 | Sixth Assembly | SDF 24 | SSP 7 | IND 1 | 32 | |||||
2004 | Seventh Assembly | SDF 31 | INC 1 | 32 | ||||||
2009 | Eighth Assembly | SDF 32 | 32 | |||||||
2014 | Ninth Assembly | SDF 22 | SKM 10 | 32 | ||||||
2019 | Tenth Assembly | SKM 17 | SDF 15 | 32 | Prem Singh Tamang | SKM | ||||
2024 | Eleventh Assembly | SKM 31 | SDF 1 | 32 |
Loksabha Election
editElection | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
1977 | Chhatra Bahadur Chhetri[12] | Indian National Congress | |
1980 | Pahal Man Subba[13] | Sikkim Janata Parishad | |
1984 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari[14] | Independent | |
1985 | Dil Kumari Bhandari | Sikkim Sangram Parishad | |
1989 | Nandu Thapa[15] | ||
1991 | Dil Kumari Bhandari[16] | ||
1996 | Bhim Prasad Dahal[17][18][19] | Sikkim Democratic Front | |
1998 | |||
1999 | |||
2004 | Nakul Das Rai[20] | ||
2009 | Prem Das Rai[21][22] | ||
2014 | |||
2019 | Indra Hang Subba | Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | |
2024 |
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