Constituency
19. South Shillong
Community mirrorMeghalaya · Meghalaya Assembly Election, 2018
ML-SOUTH-SHILLONG
BJP 49.7%won by 22.6%INC 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 22.6%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 13.4% to 49.7% of the vote here (+36.3%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.8% of the vote between them, up from 63.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.1% to 71.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
31,641
Turnout
71.2%
Valid votes
22,540
Margin
5,097
22.61%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1SANBOR SHULLAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,20449.7%
- 2MANAS CHAUDHURIIndian National Congress · INC6,10727.1%
- 3SOUNDER STRONG CAJEENPEP · NPEP3,60416.0%
- 4VIKASH GUPTANationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0854.8%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA3931.7%
- 6MOON LYNGDOHIndependent · IND1470.7%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- NCP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +38.2%
- BJP share
- 13.4% → 49.7%
- INC share
- 28.9% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- 75.3% → 71.2%