Sikkim assembly election, Jun 2024

The 10th Sikkim legislative assembly. Polled.

Seats declared

17 needed for a majority

Largest party

SKM

31 seats · majority

Candidates

146

14 women, 4 elected

Turnout

82.61%

3.86 lakh of 4.67 lakh

The house

32 seats, each dot one assembly constituency

SKM31
SDF1

Biggest movements

Seat change against the previous Sikkim assembly election (2019)

SKM

+14

SDF

-14

Parties

Ordered by seats won

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Strike rate	Votes	Share	Share +/−	Deposits lost
SKM Sikkim Krantikari Morcha	31	+14	32	58.4%	2,25,068	58.38%	+11.36	0
SDF Sikkim Democratic Front	1	-14	32	27.4%	1,05,503	27.37%	-20.26	5
CAPS CAPS	0	—	30	6.3%	23,261	6.03%	—	28
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	31	5.3%	19,956	5.18%	+3.56	29
IND Independent	0	0	8	6.5%	6,508	1.69%	+0.75	7
INC Indian National Congress	0	0	12	0.8%	1,228	0.32%	-0.45	12
SRPP SRPP	0	0	1	1.1%	170	0.04%	-0.05	1

Vote share is the share of valid votes cast in Sikkim at this election. A party’s national share is a different number and is never mixed with this one.

Largest victories of Jun 2024

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
DJONGU	Sikkim	SKMPintso Namgyal Lepcha	SDFSonam Gyatso Lepcha	5,00754.41%
SORENG-CHAKUNG	Sikkim	SKMP S Tamang	SDFDr. A D Subba	7,39650.94%
NAMCHI-SINGHITHANG	Sikkim	SKMKrishna Kumari Rai	SDFBimal Rai	5,30248.01%
RINCHENPONG	Sikkim	SKMErung Tenzing Lepcha	SDFNorden Bhutia	6,40045.82%
UPPER TADONG	Sikkim	SKMG.t. Dhungel	SDFDr. Chandra Bahadur Chettri	4,08945.09%
RHENOCK	Sikkim	SKMP S Tamang	SDFSom Nath Poudyal	7,04445.04%
DARAMDIN	Sikkim	SKMMingma Norbu Sherpa	SDFPem Norbu Sherpa	5,97543.05%
MANEYBUNG-DENTAM	Sikkim	SKMSudesh Kumar Subba	SDFTika Ram Chettri	6,03942.48%
NAMTHANG-RATEYPANI	Sikkim	SKMSanjeet Kharel	SDFSuman Pradhan	5,60539.75%
YUKSOM-TASHIDING	Sikkim	SKMTshering Thendup Bhutia	SDFMeewang Gyatso Bhutia	4,81235.37%

Closest results of Jun 2024

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Assembly seat	State	Winner	Runner-up	Margin
GYALSHING-BARNYAK	Sikkim	SKMLok Nath Sharma	INDKhusandra Prasad Sharma	9638.25%
RANGANG-YANGANG	Sikkim	SKMRaj Kumari Thapa	SDFMani Kumar Subba	1,2019.35%
SHYARI	Sikkim	SDFTenzing Norbu Lamtha	SKMKunga Nima Lepcha	1,31410.27%
LACHEN MANGAN	Sikkim	SKMSamdup Lepcha	SDFHishey Lachungpa	85111.99%
WEST PENDAM	Sikkim	SKMLall Bahadur Das	SDFAnup Thatal	1,95215.11%
KABI LUNGCHUK	Sikkim	SKMThenlay Tshering Bhutia	SDFGnawo Chopel Lepcha	1,69315.60%
KHAMDONG-SINGTAM	Sikkim	SKMNar Bahadur Dahal	SDFMani Kumar Sharma	1,73915.63%
NAMCHEYBUNG	Sikkim	SKMRaju Basnet	SDFPawan Kumar Chamling	2,25616.75%
MARTAM-RUMTEK	Sikkim	SKMSonam Tsh. Venchungpa	SDFMechung Bhutia	2,76218.49%
UPPER BURTUK	Sikkim	SKMKala Rai	BJPDilli Ram Thapa	2,56820.52%