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All 2 Meghalaya seats in the Lok Sabha | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 76.6% (![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Lok Sabha Results of Meghalaya |
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Meghalaya on 19 April 2024 to elect 2 members of the 18th Lok Sabha.
Poll event | Phase |
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Notification Date | 20 March |
Last Date for filing nomination | 27 March |
Scrutiny of nomination | 28 March |
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 30 March |
Date of poll | 19 April |
Date of counting of votes/Result | 4 June 2024 |
No. of constituencies | 2 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Indian National Congress | ![]() | ![]() | Vincent Pala | 2 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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National People's Party | ![]() | ![]() | Agatha Sangma | 2 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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All India Trinamool Congress | ![]() | ![]() | Charles Pyngrope | 1 | |
United Democratic Party | ![]() | ![]() | Metbah Lyngdoh | 1 | |
Voice of the People Party | ![]() | ![]() | Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit | 1 |
Constituency | ||||||||||
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INDIA | NDA | Others | ||||||||
1 | Shillong (ST) | INC | Vincent Pala | NPP | Ampareen Lyngdoh | UDP | Robertjune Kharjahrin | |||
VPP | Ricky AJ Syngkon | |||||||||
2 | Tura (ST) | INC | Saleng A. Sangma | NPP | Agatha Sangma | AITC | Zenith Sangma |
Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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NDA | INDIA | Others | ||||
India Today-CVoter | February 2024 | ±3-5% | 1 | 1 | 0 | Tie |
Times Now-ETG | December 2023 | ±3% | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | NDA |
India TV-CNX | October 2023 | ±3% | 2 | 0 | 0 | NDA |
Times Now-ETG | September 2023 | ±3% | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | NDA |
August 2023 | ±3% | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | NDA |
Polling agency | Lead | |||
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NDA | INDIA | Others |
Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
INDIA | INC | 580,103 | 34.05 | 2 | 1 | ![]() | |||
VPP | 569,156 | 33.40 | 1 | 1 | ![]() | ||||
NDA | NPP | 412,741 | 24.22 | 2 | 0 | ![]() | |||
Others | 122,139 | 7.35 | 2 | 0 | ![]() | ||||
NOTA | 16,753 | 0.98 | |||||||
Total | 100% | - | 10 | 2 | - |
Constituency | Turnout | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | ||||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
1 | Shillong (ST) | 73.78%![]() | VPP | Ricky AJ Syngkon | 5,71,078 | 55.02% | INC | Vincent Pala | 1,99,168 | 19.19% | 3,71,910 | 35.83% | ||
2 | Tura (ST) | 81.37%![]() | INC | Saleng A. Sangma | 3,83,919 | 56.96% | NPP | Agatha Sangma | 2,28,678 | 33.93% | 1,55,241 | 23.03% |
Party | Assembly segments | Position in the Assembly (as of 2023 election) | |
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INC | 24 | 5 | |
NPP | 4 | 28 | |
VPP | 32 | 4 | |
UDP | 0 | 12 | |
Others | 0 | 11 | |
Total | 60 |
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