Elections in Sikkim

Elections in Sikkim were held in the Kingdom of Sikkim between 1953 and 1974, and, after its integration with India, since 1979 as the Indian state of Sikkim. The total number of seats in the assembly is 32, including one seat reserved for the Sangha.

Party		Seats
Party		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]

Party		Seats
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		–	–	–	6	0
Total		6	6	2	20	+2

Source: ^[3]^[2]

Party		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]

Party		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]

Party		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

Elections in Sikkim

Assembly Elections

General elections

1953

1958

1967

1970

1973

1974

Legislative Assembly elections

1979

1985

1989

1994

1999

2004

2009

2014

2019

2024

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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		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

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		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

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		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


Party		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

Party		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

Party	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

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:		167	32	251851
Source: Election Commission of India^[8]

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%
	AITC	7	586	0	0	0.2%
	Independent	5	1227	0	0	0.4
	NOTA		4460	-	-	1.4%
Total			478,861	32

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			32
Source: Election Commission of India^[10]

Election year	Vidhan Sabha election			Others	Total seats	Chief minister
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		SSP
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	Prem Singh Tamang	SKM

Election	Member
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	Prem Das Rai^[21]^[22]
2019	Indra Hang Subba	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
2024	Indra Hang Subba	Sikkim Krantikari Morcha