Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Darjeeling Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: R B Rai of CPM won with 3,57,291 votes, defeating K B Chettri of INC, who received 2,80,167 votes. R B Rai won by a margin of 77,124 votes, equivalent to 9.91% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 7,78,249.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
CPM
3,57,291
45.91%
2,80,167
36.00%
68,421
8.79%
IND
29,499
3.79%
IND
16,511
2.12%
IND
14,432
1.85%
IND
7,474
0.96%
IND
2,359
0.30%
MUL
2,095
0.27%