Election
Constituency

29. Sohra

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Meghalaya Assembly Election, 1988

ML-SOHRA

HPU 48.3%won by 6.8%INC 41.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: HPD (HPD) lost it to HPU (HPU), which now leads by 6.8%.

  • HPU vote shareHPU went from 0.0% to 48.3% of the vote here (+48.3%).
  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from AHL (AHL) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.8% of the vote between them, up from 77.2% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
9,524
Margin
650
6.82%

Candidates

6 contested · winner HPU
  1. 1S.P. SWERHPU · HPU4,60148.3%
  2. 2FLINDER ANDERSON KHONGLAMIndian National Congress · INC3,95141.5%
  3. 3D.ISCO SWERIndependent · IND6146.4%
  4. 4REMINGTON MARBANIANGIndependent · IND2042.1%
  5. 5MOTI LAL DIENGDOHHPD · HPD810.9%
  6. 6GAULSTAN MAYAR DIENGDOHPDC · PDC730.8%

Since 1983

Derived
Winner then
HPD
Winner now
HPUflipped
HPU–INC swing
+24.6%
HPU share
0.0% → 48.3%
INC share
17.7% → 41.5%
Turnout
— → —
28. Nongshken30. Shella
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