Manipur Election 2022: Chandel (st) Assembly Seat
Manipur Election: Chandel (st) Assembly Constituency 2022
Chandel (st) is one of the 60 Manipur Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes under the Chandel district. People of Chandel (st) voted for Manipur Assembly Election 2022 on March 3 and the result was declared on March 10.
In Manipur Assembly Election 2017, there were 47,545 registered voters for Chandel (st) assembly seat, out of which 23,177 were male and 24,368 were female voters. 0.3% of voters opted for for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In 2017, 7 candidates were contesting for Chandel (st) assembly constituency seat. Chandel (st) was one of 4 seats won by the National People's Party. It was a close contest with National People's Party's Letpao Haokip winning the election upstaging independent candidate Ts Warngam by a margin of just 2,125 votes.
85.7% of the total votes were casted to top three candidates. National People's Party's Letpao Haokip grabbed a total of 14,216 votes, while independent candidate Ts Warngam got 12,091 votes. Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate S.S. Olish bagged 9,842 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties registered 33.7%, 28.7% and 23.3% respectively.
In Manipur Assembly election 2012, Naga Peoples Front's St. Nunghlung Victor outperformed Indian National Congress's Thangkholun Haokip by 166 votes.