GANGTOK, 16 May: Sikkim Democratic Front tied in the Lok
Sabha elections in its favour as well today, with its candidate, PD Rai, the
sitting MP, riding SDF return to power and securing 53% of the votes polled.
His closest rival, TN Dhakal of the SKM polled 39.5% of the Lok Sabha votes in
Sikkim.
In absolute numbers, SDF received 1,63,698 votes.
The runners-up polled 1,21,956 votes.
Interestingly, SDF polled fewer votes in Lok Sabha than its
vote-share in Assembly elections [where it polled 55% of the votes at 1,69,986
votes]. These fewer votes, interestingly, did not go to SKM either since SKM’s
Mr. Dhakal bagged slightly fewer votes than his party’s performance in the
Assemblies – his 1,21,956 votes a shade lower than the 1,26,024 votes that SKM
received in assembly elections.
The Lok Sabha voting pattern continued to play different
from the assembly elections as BJP pipped Congress to the third post here.
While in the Assembly elections, INC and NOTA were level at
1.4% of the votes, with BJP [which fielded fewer candidates] bagging only 0.7%
of the votes at 2,208. In the Lok Sabha contest, NB Khatiwada of BJP came ahead
of INC’s Dr. AD Subba.
Mr. Khatiwada bagged 7,279 votes at 2.4% vote share against
Dr. Subba’s 7,189 at 2.3%.
4,332 [1.4%] voters for the Lok Sabha took the NOTA option
while 2,541 voted for AAP and 1,972 voted TMC.
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