Which candidates won by highest margin of votes in Meghalaya Assembly elections in 2018?

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With the political parties all set to lock horns on February 27, 2023 for the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly Election to elect the 60 members of the Assembly, here is a look at the 2018 Assembly election results to see which candidates won by the highest margin of votes.

** United Democratic Party’s Kyrmen Shylla won the Khliehriat seat by a 8,181-vote margin against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Justine Dkhar. He won 20,285 out of the total 34,489 votes polled.

** Congress candidate Dr Mukul Sangma won the Ampati seat by a 8,104-vote margin against BJP’s Bakul Ch Hajong. Out of the total 26,092 votes polled, Sangma won 16,721 votes.

** Congress candidate Dikkanchi D Shira won the Mahendraganj constituency by a margin of 7,861 votes against BJP’s Premananda Koch. Out of the total 27,825 votes polled, Shira won 13,994 votes.

** Congress candidate Mazel Ampareeen Lyngdoh won the constituency of East Shillong by a margin of 6,074 votes against BJP’s Neil Antonio War. Lyngdoh won 10,368 votes out of the total 17,194 votes polled.

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** BJP’s Sanbor Shullai won from the South Shillong seat against INC’s Manas Chaudhiri by a margin of 5,097 votes. Out of the 22,540 votes polled, Shullai bagged 11,204 votes.

** Congress candidate Kimfa Sidney Marbaniang won from Rambrai Jyrngam seat against Hill State People’s Democratic Party’s K Phlastingwell Pangniang by a margin of 3,803 votes. Marbaniang won 12,135 out of the total 27,763 votes polled.

** Congress candidate David A Nongrum won from the Mawryngkneg seat by a 3,763-vote margin against People’s Democratic Front’s Highlander Kharmalki. Nongrum won 10,336 out of the total 27,521 votes polled.

** Congress candidate Clement Marak won from the Selsella constituency against the National People's Party’s Ferlin CA Sangma by a margin of 3,597 votes. Out of the 28,093 votes polled, Marak bagged 12,619 votes.

** National People's Party’s Gigur Myrthong won the Mawshynrut constituency by a 3,424-vote margin against the Hill State People’s Democratic Party’s Witting Mawsor. Out of the 30,080 votes polled, Myrthong bagged 9,540 votes.

** Congress candidate Mayralborn Syiem won from Nongpoh seat against United Democratic Party’s Rona Khymdeit with a 3,324-vote margin. Out of the 27,317 votes polled, 11,119 votes were bagged by Syiem.