Constituency
22. Laban
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1983
ML-LABAN
INC 39.9%won by 14.2%AHL 25.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 14.2% to 14.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.6% between them, down from 73.4% — 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
6,486
Margin
920
14.18%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1BHASKAR CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC2,58839.9%
- 2GARLAND NONGLAITAHL · AHL1,66825.7%
- 3ARTHUR P. MASSARIndependent · IND75211.6%
- 4BINOY LAHIRICommunist Party of India · CPI5889.1%
- 5MANAS CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND3725.7%
- 6HASIBUDDIN AHMEDIndependent · IND1432.2%
- 7RICHARD M. TOIHPD · HPD1332.1%
- 8KANTI MAY DEBIndependent · IND1251.9%
- 9KARADOKLIE E. TARIANGIndependent · IND751.2%
- 10ROBINDRA DAS CHOUDHURYJanata Party · JNP420.6%
Since 1978
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–AHL swing
- +0.0%
- INC share
- 43.8% → 39.9%
- AHL share
- 29.6% → 25.7%
- Turnout
- — → —