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8. Mawhati

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Meghalaya Assembly Election, 1998

ML-MAWHATI

INC 28.4%won by 5.0%IND 23.4%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: HPU (HPU) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.0%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 36.6% to 28.4% of the vote here (−8.2%).
  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.4% — it did not contest here in 1993.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 51.8% between them, down from 75.1% — the field split more ways.

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
13,877
Margin
696
5.02%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PHINGWELL MUKTIEHIndian National Congress · INC3,94128.4%
  2. 2RANGKYNSAI MAKDOHIndependent · IND3,24523.4%
  3. 3S.R. MOKSHAUnited Democratic Party · UDP3,07522.2%
  4. 4CLEMENT SHADAPHPDP · HPDP1,75512.6%
  5. 5MARTIN LYNGDOHPDM · PDM1,60311.6%
  6. 6MARIUS NONGRUMCommunist Party of India · CPI1431.0%
  7. 7HOWARD MOKSHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1150.8%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
HPU
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–IND swing
−31.6%
INC share
36.6% → 28.4%
IND share
0.0% → 23.4%
Turnout
— → —
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