Constituency
17. Laitumkharah
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1983
ML-LAITUMKHARAH
AHL 42.7%won by 8.2%HPD 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to AHL (AHL), which now leads by 8.2%.
- AHL vote shareAHL went from 25.9% to 42.7% of the vote here (+16.7%).
- New challengerHPD (HPD) finished second with 34.5% — it did not contest here in 1978.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 92.3% — 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
6,957
Margin
569
8.18%
Candidates
4 contested · winner AHL- 1JUSTINE KHONGLAHAHL · AHL2,96842.7%
- 2PETER G. MARBANIANGHPD · HPD2,39934.5%
- 3TIPLUT NONGBRIIndian National Congress · INC1,41020.3%
- 4KISTER KHARKONGORIndependent · IND1802.6%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- AHLflipped
- AHL–HPD swing
- −17.7%
- AHL share
- 25.9% → 42.7%
- HPD share
- 0.0% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- — → —