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55. Dalu

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Meghalaya Assembly Election, 1988

ML-DALU

INC 34.5%won by 10.3%HPU 24.1%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 10.5% to 10.3%.

  • New challengerHPU (HPU) finished second with 24.1% — it did not contest here in 1983.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 58.6% of the vote between them, up from 49.4% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
7,964
Margin
823
10.33%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1MOUNTBATTEN SANGMAIndian National Congress · INC2,74634.5%
  2. 2ARCHIBOLD A. SANGMAHPU · HPU1,92324.1%
  3. 3NITYA NARAYAN SIMCHANGIndependent · IND1,91524.0%
  4. 4ROBIN REMACommunist Party of India · CPI84010.5%
  5. 5RONALD MARAKIndependent · IND5406.8%

Since 1983

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–HPU swing
−19.6%
INC share
29.9% → 34.5%
HPU share
0.0% → 24.1%
Turnout
— → —
54. Kherapara56. Dalamgiri
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