Constituency
47. Rongchugiri
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 2008
ML-RONGCHUGIRI
NCP 41.8%won by 10.2%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedNationalist Congress Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.3% to 10.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Independent (IND) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 73.4% of the vote between them, up from 50.0% — 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
14,052
Margin
1,438
10.23%
Candidates
6 contested · winner NCP- 1JAMES PANGSANG KONGKALNationalist Congress Party · NCP5,87741.8%
- 2BECKSTER SANGMAIndian National Congress · INC4,43931.6%
- 3RAKKAN M.SANGMAIndependent · IND1,87313.3%
- 4SENGNANG R.MARAKUnited Democratic Party · UDP8195.8%
- 5PAUL B.MARAKGaro National Council · GNC5724.1%
- 6SEPTERWIN R.SANGMAIndependent · IND4723.4%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCP
- Winner now
- NCP
- NCP–INC swing
- +0.7%
- NCP share
- 26.1% → 41.8%
- INC share
- 16.6% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- — → —