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Constituency

29. Sohra

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Meghalaya Assembly Election, 1998

ML-SOHRA

IND 38.8%won by 10.1%INC 28.6%

What changed here

Derived

Independent held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.7% to 10.1%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from HPU (HPU) to Indian National Congress (INC).
  • Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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
10,889
Margin
1,104
10.14%

Candidates

4 contested · winner IND
  1. 1FLINDER ANDERSON KHONGLAMIndependent · IND4,22138.8%
  2. 2WALTER DAVID LYNGWIIndian National Congress · INC3,11728.6%
  3. 3SIMIL GURY KHARHUJONPDM · PDM2,05118.8%
  4. 4S.P. SWERUnited Democratic Party · UDP1,50013.8%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
IND
Winner now
IND
IND–INC swing
−4.4%
IND share
39.9% → 38.8%
INC share
25.4% → 28.6%
Turnout
— → —
28. Nongshken30. Shella
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