Constituency
26. Shella
Community mirrorMeghalaya · Meghalaya Assembly Election, 2023
ML-SHELLA
UDP 43.4%won by 1.4%NPP 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedUnited Democratic Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 1.5% to 1.4%.
- New challengerNational People's Party (NPP) finished second with 41.9% — it did not contest here in 2018.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.3% of the vote between them, up from 64.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
35,082
Turnout
87.3%
Valid votes
30,616
Margin
434
1.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner UDP- 1BALAJIED KUPAR SYNREMUnited Democratic Party · UDP13,27443.4%
- 2GRACE MARY KHARPURINational People's Party · NPP12,84041.9%
- 3ARENA HYNNIEWTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,6708.7%
- 4PLAYNESS KHIEWTAMAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC8822.9%
- 5WELLBORN BYNNUDIndian National Congress · INC5921.9%
- 6NOTANOTA · NOTA3581.2%
Since 2018
Derived- Winner then
- UDP
- Winner now
- UDP
- UDP–NPP swing
- −31.6%
- UDP share
- 33.1% → 43.4%
- NPP share
- 0.0% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- 86.3% → 87.3%