Tenzing Norbu Lamtha of SDF won the Shyari seat in the 2024 Legislative Assembly elections in Sikkim, by a margin of 1314 votes.
The Shyari constituency in the East district of Sikkim went to polls on April 19, 2024. Over 4.64 lakh voters in the state were eligible to exercise their franchise in the Legislative Assembly elections this year, which are being held alongside the Lok Sabha elections. However, unlike some states which are voting in multiple phases, Sikkim voted in a single phase, for both the Assembly and the Lok Sabha polls.
The term of the 32-member Legislative Assembly is slated to end on June 2, 2024.
What happened in the 2019 Legislative Assembly elections?
Shyari is one of the 17 Assembly seats won by the SKM in the 2019 Legislative Assembly elections.
In the 2019 elections, Shyari constituency had 15843 voters, and saw a voter turnout of 76.3 %.
SKM candidate Kunga Nima Lepcha won the Shyari constituency in the 2019 elections, with a margin of 1356 votes.
The 2019 Legislative Assembly elections in Sikkim was largely a bi-polar contest, with the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) and the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) dividing all 32 seats amongst themselves, and capturing nearly 95% of the votes in the state.
While the SKM bagged 17 seats, the SDF came a close second, with 15. National heavyweights BJP and the Congress also contested the polls, but failed to win a single seat, with the BJP garnering a mere 1.62% vote share, and the Congress managing an even lesser 0.77%.
Subsequently, after the polls, the SKM, which made its debut in the 2014 Assembly elections in Sikkim, formed the government, with party founder Prem Singh Tamang as the Chief Minister.