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Last Updated: March 16, 2024, 16:04 IST
Gangtok (incl. Upper Tadong), India
The schedule of the Lok Sabha polls will be announced by the ECI at a press conference on Saturday. (Photo: PTI file)
The state will exercise its franchise to elect 32 members of the Assembly and the lone Lok Sabha member. In 2019, Sikkim had 4,23,325 voters.
Sikkim will go to Assembly and Lok Sabha polls simultaneously on April 19, the Election Commission announced in a press conference on Saturday. In 2019, elections in Sikkim were held in a single phase.
The state would exercise their franchise to elect 32 members of the Assembly and the lone Lok Sabha member. In 2019, Sikkim had 4,23,325 voters.
Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM), led by its leader Prem Singh Tamang, popularly known as P S Golay, ended chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling’s 25-year rule in the border state after a close contest in 2019.
Of the state’s 32 seats, Golay’s SKM won 17 seats, leaving the chief minister and his Sikkim Democratic Front totally stunned, who won 15 seats.
In 2019, the polling was in a single phase on April 11, 2019, and the counting took place on May 23, 2019.
The 68-year-old outgoing chief minister, however, won both Poklok-Kamrang and Namchi Singhithang seats, on the way to a record eighth term as a legislator.
His ministerial colleague DT Lepcha, too, entered the state legislature from two seats – Martam Rumtek and Gnathang-Machong. Other ministers – Ugen T. Gyatso Bhutia and N.K. Subba – also romped home from the Tumin-lingi and Maneybong-dentam assembly constituencies.
For the SKM, Kunga Nima Lepcha won from the Gangtok and Shyari assembly seats, while party supremo P.S. Golay’s 28 year-old son Aditya Golay entered the house from the Soreng-Chakung assembly seat.
