Manipur Election 2022: Karong (st) Assembly Seat
]Manipur Election: Karong (st) Assembly Constituency 2022
Karong (st) comes under the Senapati district and it is one of the 60 Manipur Legislative Assembly Constituencies . People of Karong (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 52,295 registered voters for Karong (st) assembly seat, out of which 26,868 were male and 25,427 were female voters. 0.3% of voters opted for for the None of the Above (NOTA) option.
In the 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly Election, there were 6 candidates in the fray from Karong (st) constituency. Karong (st) was one of 28 seats won by the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress's D.D. Thaisii won the election upstaging Bharatiya Janata Party's R. Yuh Jonathan Tao by a margin of 4,293 votes.
The top three candidates split 70.8% of votes between them. Indian National Congress's D.D. Thaisii secured a total of 14,038 votes, while Bharatiya Janata Party's R. Yuh Jonathan Tao got 9,745 votes. Independent candidate Thaiba Sanii bagged 7,322 votes to finish at the third place. The top three parties got 31.9%, 22.2% and 16.7% respectively.
In Manipur Assembly election 2012, Naga Peoples Front's Dr. V. Alexander Pao outperformed Indian National Congress's D. D. Thaisii by 6,136 votes.