Constituency
16. East Shillong
Community mirrorMeghalaya · Meghalaya Assembly Election, 2018
ML-EAST-SHILLONG
INC 60.3%won by 35.3%BJP 25.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.7% to 35.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from United Democratic Party (UDP) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.3% between them, down from 94.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 71.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
24,169
Turnout
71.1%
Valid votes
17,194
Margin
6,074
35.33%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1MAZEL AMPAREEN LYNGDOHIndian National Congress · INC10,36860.3%
- 2NEIL ANTONIO WARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,29425.0%
- 3B. M. LANONGUnited Democratic Party · UDP2,00911.7%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3021.8%
- 5ROMEO PHIRA RANIIndependent · IND2211.3%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −21.8%
- INC share
- 62.9% → 60.3%
- BJP share
- 5.8% → 25.0%
- Turnout
- 74.7% → 71.1%