Constituency
59. Salmanpura
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1988
ML-SALMANPURA
IND 49.0%won by 24.1%HPU 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: AHL (AHL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 24.1%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 22.5% to 49.0% of the vote here (+26.5%).
- New challengerHPU (HPU) finished second with 24.9% — it did not contest here in 1983.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.9% of the vote between them, up from 58.3% — 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
9,624
Margin
2,318
24.09%
Candidates
4 contested · winner IND- 1NIMARSON MOMINIndependent · IND4,71449.0%
- 2METTALSON SANGMAHPU · HPU2,39624.9%
- 3GOPINATH SANGMAIndian National Congress · INC1,26213.1%
- 4MECKENSON K. SANGMAAHLA · AHLA1,25213.0%
Since 1983
Derived- Winner then
- AHL
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–HPU swing
- +1.6%
- IND share
- 22.5% → 49.0%
- HPU share
- 0.0% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —