South Tura Result 2023 Highlights: CM Conrad Sangma Wins Seat By 5016 Votes

South Tura Result 2023 Live Updates: Meghalaya Chief Minister of the NPP, contesting the Meghalaya Assembly Election from the South Tura Constituency, exuded confidence that it would return to power.

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South Tura Result 2023 Live Updates: Meghalaya Chief Minister of the National People’s Party (NPP), contesting the Meghalaya Assembly Election from the South Tura Constituency, exuded confidence that it would return to power. He said even though people came to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his rallies, it won't convert into votes for the BJP.

Since 2018, the BJP has been a junior partner in the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government. Ahead of the elections, the two parties decided to go solo. Since then, the NPP and BJP have been engaged in a bitter war of words.

The Garo Hills, which has 24 seats of the total 60, has given a chief minister for 34 years of the state's 50 years of existence. 

According to the Election Commission of India (ECI), over 21 lakh people were eligible to elect their representatives from 369 candidates in the single-phased election.

Voting was held in 59 constituencies as the ECI adjourned polling in Sohiong Assembly constituency after the demise of one of the candidates HDR Lyngdoh, who was fielded by United Democratic Party (UDP). Lyngdoh died on February 20 after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Some of the key players in the election were Conrad K Sangma of the NPP, former chief minister and TMC chief ministerial candidate Mukul Sangma, former Assembly Speaker Metbah Lyngdoh of the United Democratic Party (UDP), and Lok Sabha MP and Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) President Vincent H Pala, who is also the grand old party's chief ministerial candidate.

Tight security arrangements were made to conduct free and fair polls in the state, with special vigil in place in the vulnerable and critical polling stations. Of the 3,419 polling booths in the state, 640 were considered as vulnerable, 323 critical and 84 both vulnerable as well as critical.

A total of 119 companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) were deployed across the northeastern state for the polls.

On the other hand, the ECI had ordered the sealing of the state’s international border with neighbouring Bangladesh till March 2.

 

23:42 PM (IST)  •  02 Mar 2023

South Tura Result 2023: CM Conrad Sangma Wins Seat By 5016 Votes

Meghalaya chief minister Conrad K Sangma on Thursday won the election from South Tura seat, as per the results announced by the Election Commission of India. Sangma, 45, won the seat by securing 13,342 with a vote share of 52.04 per cent. His nearest rival Bernard N Marak of the Bharatiya Janata Party got 8,326 votes.