Constituency
31. Mawsynram
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1988
ML-MAWSYNRAM
INC 40.3%won by 8.5%HPU 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.5% to 8.5%.
- New challengerHPU (HPU) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1983.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.1% of the vote between them, up from 58.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
9,763
Margin
831
8.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MESTONNATH KHARCHANDYIndian National Congress · INC3,93440.3%
- 2D.P. IANGJUHHPU · HPU3,10331.8%
- 3E.W.B. JYRWAHPD · HPD1,45014.9%
- 4ILLIPSON JYAWAIndependent · IND6406.6%
- 5KARADOKLIE E. TARIANGPDC · PDC6366.5%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–HPU swing
- −23.3%
- INC share
- 31.9% → 40.3%
- HPU share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —