Constituency
28. Upper Burtuk
Community mirrorSikkim · Sikkim Assembly Election, 2024
SK-UPPER-BURTUK
SKM 51.0%won by 20.7%BJP 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) lost it to Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), which now leads by 20.7%.
- SKM vote shareSKM went from 45.4% to 51.0% of the vote here (+5.6%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 30.3% — it did not contest here in 2019.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.2% between them, down from 97.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
16,236
Turnout
77.1%
Valid votes
12,405
Margin
2,568
20.70%
Candidates
5 contested · winner SKM- 1Kala RaiSikkim Krantikari Morcha · SKM6,32351.0%
- 2Dilli Ram ThapaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,75530.3%
- 3Dil Bahadur ThapaSikkim Democratic Front · SDF1,62313.1%
- 4Bhim Kumar TamangCAPS · CAPS5814.7%
- 5Aita TamangIndian National Congress · INC1231.0%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- SDF
- Winner now
- SKMflipped
- SKM–BJP swing
- −24.7%
- SKM share
- 45.4% → 51.0%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- 77.5% → 77.1%