Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, 2009

Sikkim Assembly Elections 2009

2004 ← 30 April 2009 → 2014

All 32 Assembly Constituencies Turnout 83.78%   Majority party Minority party   Leader Pawan Kumar Chamling Nar Bahadur Bhandari Party SDF INC Alliance UPA UPA Leader since 1994 Leader's seat Poklok-kamrang none Last election 2004 2004 Seats before 31 1 Seats won 32 0 Seat change +1 -1 Popular vote 165,991 69,612 Percentage 65.91% 27.64% Swing -5.18% +1.51%

Sikkim District Map

CM before election Pawan Kumar Chamling SDF CM-elect Pawan Kumar Chamling SDF

Pawan Kumar Chamling
SDF

Pawan Kumar Chamling
SDF

The Sikkim Legislative Assembly election of 2009 took place in April 2009, concurrently with the Indian general election, 2009. The elections were held in the state for all 32 legislative assembly seats along with third phase of Indian general elections, 2009 on 30 April 2009. The results were declared 5 May 2009. The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) further strengthened their majority in the Sikkim Assembly by winning all the seats. Incumbent Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling's Government returned for an unprecedented fourth consecutive term having won previous elections in 1994, 1999 and 2004.

In the Sikkim Legislative Assembly election, 2004, the SDF almost had a clean-sweep winning 31 of the 32 seats in the state. Congress was the only other party to win any seats, winning the Sangha seat that is reserved for the monks and nuns of Sikkim's many monasteries. P.K. Chamling led SDF had already formed the previous two Governments in Sikkim having first formed the Government after the 1994 election, when they won 19 seats within a year of the party being formed), and then again after the 1999 election, when they increased their tally to 24 seats. Chamling's third term began on May 21, 2004 when he and his 11cabinate ministers were sworn in by the then Governor of Sikkim V. Rama Rao.

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