Constituency
50. Selsella
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1988
ML-SELSELLA
INC 49.1%won by 7.9%HPU 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.4% to 7.9%.
- New challengerHPU (HPU) finished second with 41.2% — it did not contest here in 1983.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.3% of the vote between them, up from 67.4% — 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
8,384
Margin
659
7.86%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ATUL C. MARAKIndian National Congress · INC4,11549.1%
- 2JARNAS BANGSHALLHPU · HPU3,45641.2%
- 3PONDITRAM KOCHIndependent · IND5816.9%
- 4CHUNI CH. MARAKAHLA · AHLA1461.7%
- 5PIJEN MARAKIndependent · IND861.0%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–HPU swing
- −35.0%
- INC share
- 42.9% → 49.1%
- HPU share
- 0.0% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- — → —