Constituency
8. Mawhati
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1978
ML-MAWHATI
IND 40.1%won by 8.7%HPD 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.6% to 8.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerHPD (HPD) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.5% of the vote between them, up from 54.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
6,016
Margin
525
8.73%
Candidates
5 contested · winner IND- 1MARTIN N. MAJAWIndependent · IND2,41240.1%
- 2SENWEL ROY MOKSHAHPD · HPD1,88731.4%
- 3J. C. MAKHODIndian National Congress · INC1,04817.4%
- 4BETTERSON KHARKONGORAHL · AHL3676.1%
- 5ODWISS KHYMDEITIndependent · IND3025.0%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–HPD swing
- −25.7%
- IND share
- 34.4% → 40.1%
- HPD share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —