Constituency
5. Nartiang
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1978
ML-NARTIANG
IND 45.6%won by 18.8%INC 26.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AHL (AHL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 18.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 38.3% to 45.6% of the vote here (+7.3%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.8% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 89.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
9,023
Margin
1,698
18.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1H.BRITAINWAR DANIndependent · IND4,11245.6%
- 2EDWINGSON BAREHIndian National Congress · INC2,41426.8%
- 3MOINASINGH PHYLLUTAHL · AHL1,57617.5%
- 4MICHAEL KAHITHPD · HPD92110.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AHL
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- −19.5%
- IND share
- 38.3% → 45.6%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 26.8%
- Turnout
- — → —