

Keshav Raj Sharma
IND
Pemba Tshering
IND
Suraj Gurung
IND
NOTA
NOTA
Nima Gyamtsho Sherpa
IND
Gautam Raj Rai
CPI(M)
Anjani Sharma
IND
Milan Thokar
IND
Bharat Prakash Rai
IND

Sarda Rai Subba
AITC
Govind Chettri
IND
NOTA
NOTA
Ashok Kumar Lepcha
GRAC
From roads and drinking water to tourism, healthcare, and tea garden wages, voters in Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Kurseong are increasingly weighing delivery alongside identity.
West Bengal Election Results 2024 Live Updates: The TMC and the BJP fought on its own on all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. While the Left fought on 30 seats whereas the Congress fielded its candidates on 12 seats as per the seat sharing agreement between the two parties.
Bengal Election Results 2024: Axis My India's exit poll placed the BJP, the principal opposition party in Bengal, ahead of the TMC. As per the exit polls, the saffron party is projected to win 26-31 seats - a jump of nearly 10 from 2019.
Darjeeling Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 LIVE Updates: For the Lok Sabha elections 2024, the BJP has nominated sitting MP Manipur-born Raju Bista, while the Trinamool Congress fielded Gopal Lama, a former bureaucrat. Congress nominated Munish Tamang. Kurseong MLA from BJP, Bishnu Prasad Sharma, is fighting the general elections this time as an independent.
West Bengal Lok Sabha Exit Poll 2024: The Royal Bengal contest was a high-octane one with TMC supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee going hammer and tongs against the BJP with the 'outsider' narrative.
Abhishek, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said TMC candidates are the true representatives of the INDIA bloc in West Bengal.
West Bengal Phase 2 Voting: The polling for Darjeeling, Balurghat, and Raiganj will decide the electoral fate of two sitting BJP MPs, including BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar. Majumdar is up against veteran TMC leader and Minister Biplab Mitra.
In Darjeeling, the main contest is between BJP's Raju Bista and TMC's Gopal Lama.
The key issues plaguing Darjeeling include-- separate statehood for Gorkhaland, water shortage, land slides and soil erosion, tea workers' issues, pollution.
Three seats going to polls in North Bengal are currently with the BJP. In the second phase, voters will seal the electoral fate of BJP's state president Sukanta Majumdar, and Darjeeling MP Raju Bista.




