Election
Constituency

20. Meluri

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Nagaland Assembly Election, 1989

NL-MELURI

INC 42.5%won by 7.4%NPC 35.1%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: NND (NND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.4%.

  • INC vote shareINC went from 23.6% to 42.5% of the vote here (+18.9%).
  • New challengerNPC (NPC) finished second with 35.1% — it did not contest here in 1987.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.6% of the vote between them, up from 66.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
not in source
Turnout
not in source
Valid votes
7,546
Margin
557
7.38%

Candidates

3 contested · winner INC
  1. 1KHUOSATHOIndian National Congress · INC3,20642.5%
  2. 2CHIEKHUTSONPC · NPC2,64935.1%
  3. 3THUCHAMONational People's Party · NPP1,69122.4%

Since 1987

Derived
Winner then
NND
Winner now
INCflipped
INCNPC swing
−16.2%
INC share
23.6% 42.5%
NPC share
0.0% 35.1%
Turnout