Constituency
13. Nongspung
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1988
ML-NONGSPUNG
HPD 35.8%won by 1.9%HPU 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedHPD held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.3% to 1.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerHPU (HPU) finished second with 33.9% — it did not contest here in 1983.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.6% between them, down from 75.0% — 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
11,517
Margin
219
1.90%
Candidates
5 contested · winner HPD- 1S. LONIAK MARBANIANGHPD · HPD4,11935.8%
- 2WINSTONE SYIEMIONGHPU · HPU3,90033.9%
- 3JOHN A. LYNGDOHIndian National Congress · INC2,56322.3%
- 4BLARSING KURBAHIndependent · IND6785.9%
- 5FASTERWELL MARBANIANGCommunist Party of India · CPI2572.2%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- HPD
- Winner now
- HPD
- HPD–HPU swing
- −54.3%
- HPD share
- 56.2% → 35.8%
- HPU share
- 0.0% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- — → —