Constituency
60. Mahendraganj
Community mirrorMeghalaya Assembly Election, 2008
ML-MAHENDRAGANJ
INC 43.3%won by 5.4%IND 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 5.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 1.4% to 43.3% of the vote here (+42.0%).
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
16,199
Margin
874
5.40%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUS SALEHIndian National Congress · INC7,01743.3%
- 2NIDHU RAM HAJONGIndependent · IND6,14337.9%
- 3SAHIDUR RAHMANNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,2017.4%
- 4UTPAL KUMAR KOCHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8465.2%
- 5DHABAL CH. BARMANMinorities Democratic Party · MDP4492.8%
- 6PIYALI PHUKAN HAJONGUnited Democratic Party · UDP4262.6%
- 7SRINIWAS DUBEYCommunist Party of India · CPI1170.7%
Since 2003
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2003 and 2008. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- NCP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +36.6%
- INC share
- 1.4% → 43.3%
- IND share
- 32.5% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —