Constituency
7. Jowai
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1978
ML-JOWAI
IND 31.8%won by 7.0%IND 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AHL (AHL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 7.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 12.8% to 31.8% of the vote here (+19.0%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.7% between them, down from 78.6% — 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
7,003
Margin
488
6.97%
Candidates
7 contested · winner IND- 1TYLLI KYNDIAHIndependent · IND2,23031.8%
- 2DISINGH SHALLAMIndependent · IND1,74224.9%
- 3SHOWALESS K. SHILLAHPD · HPD1,44120.6%
- 4GORDON D. PDE.Independent · IND1,26218.0%
- 5BERYL LAMAREIndian National Congress · INC2774.0%
- 6PETER KIR NIKHLAIndependent · IND290.4%
- 7EBARLIS LALARIndependent · IND220.3%
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–IND swing
- 0.0%
- IND share
- 12.8% → 31.8%
- IND share
- 12.8% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —