Constituency
17. Laitumkharah
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1988
ML-LAITUMKHARAH
INC 55.9%won by 13.8%HPU 42.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AHL (AHL) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.3% to 55.9% of the vote here (+35.6%).
- New challengerHPU (HPU) finished second with 42.1% — it did not contest here in 1983.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 97.9% of the vote between them, up from 77.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
7,721
Margin
1,064
13.78%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PETER G. MAREANIANGIndian National Congress · INC4,31355.9%
- 2J. KHONGLAHHPU · HPU3,24942.1%
- 3L. MORROW M. KHARPURIHPD · HPD1592.1%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- AHL
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–HPU swing
- −6.5%
- INC share
- 20.3% → 55.9%
- HPU share
- 0.0% → 42.1%
- Turnout
- — → —