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8. Mawhati

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Meghalaya Assembly Election, 1988

ML-MAWHATI

HPU 36.8%won by 10.4%IND 26.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: HPD (HPD) lost it to HPU (HPU), which now leads by 10.4%.

  • HPU vote shareHPU went from 0.0% to 36.8% of the vote here (+36.8%).
  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 26.4% — it did not contest here in 1983.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.2% between them, down from 94.3% — the field split more ways.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
9,643
Margin
1,003
10.40%

Candidates

5 contested · winner HPU
  1. 1S.R.MOKSHAHPU · HPU3,55036.8%
  2. 2MARTIN N. MAJAWIndependent · IND2,54726.4%
  3. 3JOSEPH JOIT MAKDOHIndian National Congress · INC1,79818.6%
  4. 4CLEMENT SHADAPHPD · HPD1,72317.9%
  5. 5ORISTER SYNGKLICommunist Party of India · CPI250.3%

Since 1983

Derived
Winner then
HPD
Winner now
HPUflipped
HPU–IND swing
+10.4%
HPU share
0.0% → 36.8%
IND share
0.0% → 26.4%
Turnout
— → —
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