The counting of votes in Meghalaya has been completed. The Congress has been occupying 21 seats, while the NPP has won 19 seats. In the account of others, 17 seats and only 2 seats may have come in the BJP's account.

Polling was held on 27 February for 60-member Assembly seats in Meghalaya. Of the 18.9 lakh voters in Meghalaya, 75 per cent of the voters exercised their views.

In New Delhi the deputy election commissioner Chandra Bhushan Kumar had told that voting in Meghalaya was peaceful. Meanwhile, Chief Electoral Officer Friedrich Roy Kharkhanogore said, "There were reports of technical breakdown in 31 EVM machines and 41 VV Pat machines at around 180 polling stations." In the state assembly elections 2013, 87.97 percent voting in Meghalaya happened. Chief Minister Mukul Sangma had said confidently on the day of polling that Congress would return to power again.

Congress has been ruling on the state for a decade and the party has fielded candidates in all the 60 seats, out of which polls were held in the 59 seats. Polling was canceled in the seat after the death of the Nationalist Congress Party candidate Jonathan Sangma on the William Nagar seat on February 18 in the IED blast in East Garo Hills district. In this assembly election, a total of 18,09,818 voters have voted to decide the fate of 361 candidates.

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