Shillong #1ST

MEGHALAYA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Hoping Stone Lyngdoh

IND Independent

Margin

4,765 2.5 pp

votes

over Peter Garnette Marbaniang (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors3,41,910

Votes polled1,90,149

Turnout55.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors1.72 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors1.7 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 987females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Hoping Stone Lyngdoh	IND	55,732	29.30%
2	Peter Garnette Marbaniang	INC	50,967	26.80%
3	George Gilbert Swell	IND	38,841	20.40%
4	P. Ripple Kyndiah	IND	38,606	20.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,003, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 184,146 · NOTA n/a · published 190,149 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977