Constituency
41. Songsak
Community mirrorMeghalaya · Meghalaya Assembly Election, 2018
ML-SONGSAK
INC 42.9%won by 7.6%NPEP 35.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: National People's Party (NPP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.2% to 42.9% of the vote here (+22.7%).
- New challengerNPEP (NPEP) finished second with 35.3% — it did not contest here in 2013.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.1% of the vote between them, up from 57.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
26,687
Turnout
89.8%
Valid votes
23,954
Margin
1,830
7.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1DR. MUKUL SANGMAIndian National Congress · INC10,27442.9%
- 2NIHIM D SHIRANPEP · NPEP8,44435.3%
- 3THOMAS N. MARAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,07712.8%
- 4ARUN N MARAKUnited Democratic Party · UDP8003.3%
- 5FARDINA C. MARAKIndependent · IND4641.9%
- 6SILMAN MARAKNationalist Congress Party · NCP4051.7%
- 7SANDHYA R. MARAKIndependent · IND2741.1%
- 8None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2160.9%
Since 2013
Derived- Winner then
- NPP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–NPEP swing
- −12.6%
- INC share
- 20.2% → 42.9%
- NPEP share
- 0.0% → 35.3%
- Turnout
- 87.8% → 89.8%