Constituency
298. Tura
Community mirrorMeghalaya · India Lok Sabha Election, 1989
IN-TURA
INC 62.7%won by 33.0%IND 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 54.9% to 33.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,52,106
Turnout
52.3%
Valid votes
1,84,306
Margin
60,878
33.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1SANFORD MARAKIndian National Congress · INC1,15,55362.7%
- 2LAMBERTH K. SANGMAIndependent · IND54,67529.7%
- 3ROBIN REMACommunist Party of India · CPI14,0787.6%
Since 1984
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −21.8%
- INC share
- 74.3% → 62.7%
- IND share
- 19.4% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- 51.0% → 52.3%