Constituency
43. Songsak
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1978
ML-SONGSAK
IND 35.0%won by 3.7%INC 31.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AHL (AHL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 3.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 16.1% to 35.0% of the vote here (+18.9%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 31.4% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% between them, down from 91.0% — 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
3,299
Margin
121
3.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1MIRIAM D.SHIRAIndependent · IND1,15635.0%
- 2CHORONSSING SANGMAIndian National Congress · INC1,03531.4%
- 3ARQUISH MOMINAHL · AHL55716.9%
- 4ROCKEFELLER G.MOMINIndependent · IND55116.7%
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
- −12.4%
- IND share
- 16.1% → 35.0%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 31.4%
- Turnout
- — → —