Constituency
30. Shella
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 2003
ML-SHELLA
UDP 32.9%won by 2.3%KHNAM 30.6%
What changed here
DerivedUnited Democratic Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.5% to 2.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerKHNAM (KHNAM) finished second with 30.6% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.5% between them, down from 79.2% — the field split more ways.
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
9,550
Margin
222
2.32%
Candidates
6 contested · winner UDP- 1DONKUPAR ROYUnited Democratic Party · UDP3,14532.9%
- 2SHRI PYNDAPBORTHIAW SAIBONKHNAM · KHNAM2,92330.6%
- 3SHRI. G. GRANDERSON SYIEMLIEHIndian National Congress · INC2,17222.7%
- 4SHRI KONDRO K. KSANLAMIndependent · IND1,04611.0%
- 5SHRI. BISANLING DKHARHPDP · HPDP2272.4%
- 6SHRI. PORIMOR SHONGLAITNationalist Congress Party · NCP370.4%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- UDP
- Winner now
- UDP
- UDP–KHNAM swing
- −42.1%
- UDP share
- 44.4% → 32.9%
- KHNAM share
- 0.0% → 30.6%
- Turnout
- — → —