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Since 2014, the average percentage of votes the Congress drew in six of the seven northeastern states — Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur — has dropped from 38.1 per cent to 24.7 per cent. The average number of seats it has won has nearly halved from 34.8 to 19.5.
Since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power at the Centre in 2014, its average vote share in the northeast has jumped from 3.9 per cent to 27 per cent. From winning an average of 1.5 seats in the six states’ elections between 2009 and 2014, the BJP
