Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency is one of 42 parliamentary constituencies of the state of West Bengal. Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency was formed prior to the 1957 elections.

Darjeeling registered 78.71 percent voter turnout in 2019, a loss of 1.49 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1600564 while the total voter turnout is 1259754. While in 2014, the constituency registered 80.20 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1422807 while the total voter's turnout was 1141113.

The Darjeeling Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 4) comprises of seven assembly segments, two of which are reserved for the SC category and one is reserved for the ST category. 

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	AMAR SINGH RAI	All India Trinamool Congress
2	RAJU BISTA	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	SUDIP MANDAL	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Sankar Malakar	Indian National Congress
5	SAMAN PATHAK	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
6	CHRISTOPHER GAHATRAJ	Indian Democratic Republican Front
7	TANMAY DUTTA	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	DIPAK KUMAR ROY	Kamatapur People’s Party (United)
9	BHARAT DONG	Gorkha Rashtriya Congress
10	SUNIL PANDIT	Rashtriya Janasachetan Party (R.J.P.)
11	HARKA BAHADUR CHHETRI	All India Jana Andolan Party
12	AJAY DAHAL	Independent
13	RESEEKA CHETTRI	Independent
14	DIGBIJAY MANDAL	Independent
15	NIRODE CHANDRA ADHIKARY	Amra Bangalee
16	RAJESH SINGH	Independent

SS Ahluwalia of the BJP is the sitting Member of Parliament from this constituency. 

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Ahluwalia defeated the All India Trinamool Congress candidate and noted footballer – Bhai Chung Bhutia.

Ahluwalia got 488,257 votes as compared to Bhai Chung Bhutia who got 291,018 votes.

The electors in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency cast their votes on April 18 in the second phase of 2019 Lok Sabha election.

The combined results of the seven-phased Lok Sabha election 2019 will be out on May 23.