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Turnout | 68.80% (4.42%) | |||||||||||||||
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The Indian General Election, 2014 polls in Meghalaya for two Lok Sabha seats will be held in a single phase on 9 April 2014. [1] As of 28 January 2014 The total voter strength of Meghalaya is 1,553,028. [2]
Conducted in Month(s) | Ref | Polling Organisation/Agency | ||
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INC | NPP | |||
Aug–Oct 2013 | [3] | Times Now-India TV-CVoter | 1 | 1 |
Jan–Feb 2014 | [4] | Times Now-India TV-CVoter | 1 | 1 |
Constituency wise Election schedule are given below [1] –
Polling Day | Phase | Date | Constituencies | Voting Percentage |
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1 | 2 | 9 April | Shillong, Tura | 71 [5] |
As per the results declared on 16 May 2014, the Indian National Congress candidate Vincent Pala secured the Shillong Lok Sabha seat while the National Peoples Party candidate Purno Agitok Sangma won the Tura seat. [6]
1 | 1 |
NPP | INC |
Name of Party | Vote Share % | Change | Seats won | Changes |
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Bharatiya Janata Party | 8.90% | 0 | 0 | |
Indian National Congress | 37.90% | −6.94% | 1 | 0 |
National People's Party | 22.20% | +22.20 | 1 | +1 |
# | Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Party | Margin | |
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1 | Shillong | 63.22 | Vincent H. Pala [7] | INC | 40,379 | |
2 | Tura | 78.13 | Purno Agitok Sangma | NPP | 39,716 | |
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