Elections in Sikkim have been held in theIndian state ofSikkim between 1953 and 1974, before its integration with India, and since 1979 after its integration. The total number of seats in the assembly is 32, including one seat reserved for theSangha.
The general elections took place beforeSikkim's integration withIndia.
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Total | ||||
| Sikkim National Party | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Sikkim State Congress | 0 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Appointed members | – | – | 6 | |||
| Total | 6 | 6 | 18 | |||
| Source:[1][2] | ||||||
| Party | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bhutia-Lepcha | Nepali | Others | Total | +/– | ||
| Sikkim State Congress | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | +1 | |
| Sikkim National Party | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
| Appointed members | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 6 | 6 | 2 | 20 | +2 | |
| Source:[3][2] | ||||||
| Party | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim National Congress | 8 | New | |
| Sikkim National Party | 5 | –1 | |
| Sikkim State Congress | 2 | –5 | |
| Others | 3 | +3 | |
| Appointed members | 6 | –1 | |
| Total | 24 | +4 | |
| Source:[4] | |||
| Party | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim National Party | 8 | +3 | |
| Sikkim State Congress | 4 | +2 | |
| Sikkim National Congress | 3 | –5 | |
| Others | 3 | 0 | |
| Appointed members | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 24 | 0 | |
| Source:[5] | |||
| Party | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim National Party | 9 | +1 | |
| Sikkim National Congress | 5 | +2 | |
| Sikkim Janata Congress | 2 | – | |
| Independents | 2 | – | |
| Appointed members | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 24 | 0 | |
| Source:AC Sinha | |||
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|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | +/– | |
| Sikkim National Congress | 31 | +26 | |
| Sikkim National Party | 1 | –8 | |
| Total | 32 | +8 | |
| Source:Sikkim Assembly | |||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim Janata Parishad | 22,776 | 31.49 | 16 | |
| Sikkim Congress (Revolutionary) | 14,889 | 20.58 | 11 | |
| Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 11,400 | 15.76 | 4 | |
| Janata Party | 9,534 | 13.18 | 0 | |
| Indian National Congress | 1,476 | 2.04 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 241 | 0.33 | 0 | |
| Sikkim Scheduled Caste League | 85 | 0.12 | 0 | |
| Independents | 11,938 | 16.50 | 1 | |
| Total | 72,339 | 100.00 | 32 | |
| Valid votes | 72,339 | 94.81 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 3,960 | 5.19 | ||
| Total votes | 76,299 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 117,157 | 65.13 | ||
| Source:ECI | ||||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,371 | 62.20 | 30 | +14 | |
| Indian National Congress | 23,440 | 24.15 | 1 | +1 | |
| Janata Party | 913 | 0.94 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sikkim Prajatantra Congress | 438 | 0.45 | 0 | –4 | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 336 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 | |
| Communist Party of India | 25 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 11,534 | 11.88 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 97,057 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 97,057 | 97.61 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 2,378 | 2.39 | |||
| Total votes | 99,435 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 155,041 | 64.13 | |||
| Source:ECI | |||||
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 94,078 | 70.41 | 32 | +2 | |
| Indian National Congress | 24,121 | 18.05 | 0 | –1 | |
| Rising Sun Party | 11,472 | 8.59 | 0 | New | |
| Denzong Peoples Chogpi | 298 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 3,650 | 2.73 | 0 | –1 | |
| Total | 133,619 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 133,619 | 95.97 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 5,608 | 4.03 | |||
| Total votes | 139,227 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 192,619 | 72.28 | |||
| Source:ECI | |||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 72,856 | 42.00 | 19 | New | |
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 60,851 | 35.08 | 10 | –22 | |
| Indian National Congress | 26,045 | 15.02 | 2 | +2 | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2,906 | 1.68 | 0 | New | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 274 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 270 | 0.16 | 0 | New | |
| Independents | 10,255 | 5.91 | 1 | +1 | |
| Total | 173,457 | 100.00 | 32 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 173,457 | 97.44 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 4,566 | 2.56 | |||
| Total votes | 178,023 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 217,743 | 81.76 | |||
| Source:ECI | |||||
| Party | No. of candidates | No. elected[6] | Votes won | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | 0 | 398 | 0.19% | |
| Indian National Congress | 31 | 0 | 7,512 | 3.67% | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 31 | 24 | 107,214 | 52.32% | |
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 32 | 7 | 85,827 | 41.88% | |
| Independents | 9 | 1 | 3,976 | 1.94% | |
| Total: | 105 | 32 | 204,927 | ||
| Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected[7] | No. of votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 4 | 0 | 667 | 0.34% |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 1 | 0 | 144 | 0.07% |
| Indian National Congress | 28 | 1 | 51329 | 26.13% |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 31 | 139662 | 71.09% |
| Sikkim Himali Rajya Parishad | 9 | 0 | 1123 | 0.57% |
| Sikkim Sangram Parishad | 1 | 0 | 90 | 0.05% |
| Independents | 16 | 0 | 3450 | 1.76% |
| Total: | 91 | 32 | 196465 |
| Party | No. of candidates | No. of elected | No. of votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 11 | 0 | 1966 | 0.78% | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 3 | 0 | 272 | 0.11% | |
| Indian National Congress | 32 | 0 | 69612 | 27.64% | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 32 | 165991 | 65.91% | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 20 | 0 | 5516 | 2.19% | |
| Nationalist Congress Party | 11 | 0 | 1065 | 0.42% | |
| Independent | 16 | 0 | 3450 | 1.37% | |
| SGPP | 27 | 0 | 2909 | 1.16% | |
| SJEP | 6 | 0 | 497 | 0.2% | |
| Total: | 167 | 32 | 251851 | ||
| Source:Election Commission of India[8] | |||||
| Political Party | Candidates | Number of Votes | Seats Won | Net Change in seats | % of votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDF | 32 | 169983 | 22 |  10 | 55.0% | |
| SKM | 32 | 126024 | 10 |  10 | 40.8% | |
| INC | 32 | 4390 | 0 | 0 | 1.4% | |
| BJP | 13 | 2208 | 0 | 0 | 0.7% | |
| AITC | 7 | 586 | 0 | 0 | 0.2% | |
| Independent | 5 | 1227 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | |
| NOTA | 4460 | - | - | 1.4% | ||
| Total | 478,861 | 32 | ||||
| Party | Contested | Won | +/– | Votes | % | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | 32 | 17 | 7 | 1,65,508 | 47.03 | 6.23 | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 32 | 15 | 7 | 1,67,620 | 47.63 | 7.37 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 12 | 0 |  | 5,700 | 1.62 | 0.92 | |
| Indian National Congress | 24 | 0 | | 2,721 | 0.77 | 0.63 | |
| Hamro Sikkim Party | 23 | 0 | | 2,098 | 0.60 | | |
| Independents | 0 | | | ||||
| Total | 32 | ||||||
| Source:Election Commission of India[10] | |||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Sikkim Krantikari Morcha | 225,068 | 59.41 | 31 | +14 | |
| Sikkim Democratic Front | 105,503 | 27.85 | 1 | -14 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 19,956 | 5.27 | – | – | |
| Indian National Congress | 1,228 | 0.32 | – | – | |
| Citizen Action Party - Sikkim | 23,261 | 6.14 | – | – | |
| NOTA | 3,813 | 1.01 | – | – | |
| Total | 378,829 | 100.00 | 32 | – | |
| Source:Election Commission of India[11] | |||||
| Election year | Vidhan Sabha election | 1st party | 2nd party | Others | Total seats | Chief minister | CM's party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Second Assembly | SJP 16 | SCR 11 | SPC 4,IND. 1 | 32 | Nar Bahadur Bhandari | SJP | |||
| 1985 | Third Assembly | SSP 30 | INC 1 | IND 1 | 32 | SSP | ||||
| 1989 | Fourth Assembly | SSP 32 | 32 | |||||||
| 1994 | Fifth Assembly | SDF 19 | SSP 10 | INC 2,IND 1 | 32 | Pawan Kumar Chamling | SDF | |||
| 1999 | Sixth Assembly | SDF 24 | SSP 7 | IND 1 | 32 | |||||
| 2004 | Seventh Assembly | SDF 31 | INC 1 | 32 | ||||||
| 2009 | Eighth Assembly | SDF 32 | 32 | |||||||
| 2014 | Ninth Assembly | SDF 22 | SKM 10 | 32 | ||||||
| 2019 | Tenth Assembly | SKM 17 | SDF 15 | 32 | Prem Singh Tamang | SKM | ||||
| 2024 | Eleventh Assembly | SKM 31 | SDF 1 | 32 | ||||||
