Sikkim Assembly Poll 2024 Results: Incumbent CM Prem Singh Tamang wins both Soreng Chakung and Rhenock seats
First Published: 2nd June, 2024 9:01 IST
According to the early trend, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha is leads in 29 seats. The halfway mark is 17, and the state has 32 Assembly seats.
The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) chief and chief minister Prem Singh Tamang won from two assembly seats Rhenock in Gangtok district and Soreng-Chakung in Soreng district.
According to the early trend, Sikkim Krantikari Morcha is leads in 29 seats. The halfway mark is 17, and the state has 32 Assembly seats.
The counting of votes for the 32 Assembly seats in Sikkim is currently underway, following the election held in a single phase on April 19.
Strict security measures have been put into place by the Election Commission to make sure that the counting of votes goes by smoothly in Sikkim.
Teacher-turned-politician and incumbent Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang usurped the CM’s chair from Pawan Chamling by winning 17 seats in 2019.
Former SDF leader and a 6-time MLA, 56-year-old Tamang turned a rebel after the Rolu picnic incident of 2009 when the SDF government had issued a show cause notice to the government employees who had gone for the picnic.
In 2013 he resigned from SDF and formed SKM in 2013 in Soreng, West Sikkim, and became its President.
In the 2014 Sikkim Assembly polls, SKM won 10 of the 32 Assembly seats.
Tamang won the Chakung seat thrice – 1994, 1999 and 2004 as SDF candidate.
He won the Upper Burtuk seat in 2009 on SDF ticket and in 2014 he won the Upper Burtuk and the Namthang-Rateypani seats as SKM leader.
He won the Poklok-Kamrang seat in the 2019 by-election.
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