Shillong #1ST

MEGHALAYA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

G.Gilbert Swell

IND Independent

Margin

79,302 20.6 pp

votes

over D.D.Lapang (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,82,709

Votes polled3,85,600

Turnout56.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.43 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors3.4 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 990females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	G.Gilbert Swell	IND	2,12,205	55.00%
2	D.D.Lapang	INC	1,32,903	34.50%
3	H.Aioits Roy Kharphuli	BJP	24,523	6.40%
4	Babyson Pakyntein	CPI	5,145	1.30%
5	Noren Talang	IND	1,602	0.40%
6	Jespriter Shullai	IND	1,376	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,846, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 377,754 · NOTA n/a · published 385,600 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996