Constituency
54. Kherapara
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1978
ML-KHERAPARA
AHL 40.3%won by 0.8%IND 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedAHL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 63.3% to 0.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 41.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
4,347
Margin
34
0.78%
Candidates
3 contested · winner AHL- 1ALFRIEN MARAKAHL · AHL1,75140.3%
- 2HENDON T.SANGMAIndependent · IND1,71739.5%
- 3PLANSING MARAKIndian National Congress · INC87920.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- AHL
- Winner now
- AHL
- AHL–IND swing
- −62.5%
- AHL share
- 81.6% → 40.3%
- IND share
- 18.4% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- — → —