Constituency
38. Rongrenggiri
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 1998
ML-RONGRENGGIRI
INC 40.9%won by 10.0%UDP 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.4% to 40.9% of the vote here (+17.5%).
- New challengerUnited Democratic Party (UDP) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1993.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.8% of the vote between them, up from 49.7% — 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
17,232
Margin
1,723
10.00%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1DEBORA C. MARAKIndian National Congress · INC7,04640.9%
- 2PROJEND D. SANGMAUnited Democratic Party · UDP5,32330.9%
- 3LENIN R. MARAKIndependent · IND3,37419.6%
- 4TRUMEN MARAKIndependent · IND7894.6%
- 5ISMAIL MARAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7004.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–UDP swing
- −13.4%
- INC share
- 23.4% → 40.9%
- UDP share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —