Elections in Sikkim
# Elections in Sikkim

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

### General elections

The general elections took place before Sikkim's integration with India.

**1953**

| Party | Party | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Party | Party | Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Total |
| | Sikkim National Party | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| | Sikkim State Congress | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Appointed members | Appointed members | – | – | 6 |
| Total | Total | 6 | 6 | 18 |
| Source: |||||

**1958**

| Party | Party | Seats | Seats | Seats | Seats | Seats |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Party | Party | 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 | Appointed members | – | – | – | 6 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 6 | 6 | 2 | 20 | +2 |
| Source: |||||||

**1967**

| Party | Party | Seats | +/– |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Sikkim National Congress | 8 | New |
| | Sikkim National Party | 5 | –1 |
| | Sikkim State Congress | 2 | –5 |
| | Others | 3 | +3 |
| Appointed members | Appointed members | 6 | –1 |
| Total | Total | 24 | +4 |
| Source: ||||

**1970**

| Party | Party | Seats | +/– |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Sikkim National Party | 8 | +3 |
| | Sikkim State Congress | 4 | +2 |
| | Sikkim National Congress | 3 | –5 |
| | Others | 3 | 0 |
| Appointed members | Appointed members | 6 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 24 | 0 |
| Source: ||||

**1973**

| Party | Party | Seats | +/– |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Sikkim National Party | 9 | +1 |
| | Sikkim National Congress | 5 | +2 |
| | Sikkim Janata Congress | 2 | – |
| | Independents | 2 | – |
| Appointed members | Appointed members | 6 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 24 | 0 |
| Source: AC Sinha ||||

**1974**

| | Sikkim National Congress | 31 | +26 |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Sikkim National Party | 1 | –8 |
| Total | Total | 32 | +8 |
| Source: Sikkim Assembly ||||

### Legislative Assembly elections

**1979**

| Party | Party | 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 | Total | 72,339 | 100.00 | 32 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 72,339 | 94.81 | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 3,960 | 5.19 | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 76,299 | 100.00 | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 117,157 | 65.13 | |
| Source: ECI |||||

**1985**

| Party | Party | 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 | Total | 97,057 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 97,057 | 97.61 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 2,378 | 2.39 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 99,435 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 155,041 | 64.13 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

**1989**

| Party | Party | 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 | Total | 133,619 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 133,619 | 95.97 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 5,608 | 4.03 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 139,227 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 192,619 | 72.28 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

**1994**

| | 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 | Total | 173,457 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 173,457 | 97.44 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 4,566 | 2.56 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 178,023 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 217,743 | 81.76 | | |
| Source: ECI ||||||

**1999**

| Party | Party | No. of candidates | No. elected | 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: | Total: | 105 | 32 | 204,927 | |

**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**

| Party | Party | 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: | Total: | 167 | 32 | 251851 | |
| Source: Election Commission of India ||||||

**2014**

Summary of results of the 2014 Sikkim Legislative Assembly election :

| Political Party | Political 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% |
| | TMC | 7 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0.2% |
| | Independent | 5 | 1227 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| | NOTA | | 4460 | - | - | 1.4% |
| Total | Total | | 478,861 | 32 | | |

**2019**

| Party | Party | 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 | Total | | 32 | | | | |
| Source: Election Commission of India ||||||||

## Loksabha Election

| Election | Member | Party |
| - | - | - |
| 1977 | Chhatra Bahadur Chhetri | Indian National Congress |
| 1980 | Pahal Man Subba | Sikkim Janata Parishad |
| 1984 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari | Independent |
| 1985 | Dil Kumari Bhandari | Sikkim Sangram Parishad |
| 1989 | Nandu Thapa | Sikkim Sangram Parishad |
| 1991 | Dil Kumari Bhandari | Sikkim Sangram Parishad |
| 1996 | Bhim Prasad Dahal | Sikkim Democratic Front |
| 1998 | Bhim Prasad Dahal | Sikkim Democratic Front |
| 1999 | Bhim Prasad Dahal | Sikkim Democratic Front |
| 2004 | Nakul Das Rai | Sikkim Democratic Front |
| 2009 | Prem Das Rai | Sikkim Democratic Front |
| 2014 | Prem Das Rai | Sikkim Democratic Front |
| 2019 | Indra Hang Subba | Sikkim Krantikari Morcha |
