Congress' Northeast woes: Vote share down 13% since 2014; BJP's up 23%

From winning an average of 1.5 seats in the six states' elections between 2009 and 2014, the BJP has won an average of 23.5 seats here since 2014

Since 2014, the average percentage of votes the Indian National Congress has drawn in six of the seven northeastern states–Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur–has dropped 13.4 percentage points from 38.1% to 24.7%. The average number of seats it has won has nearly halved from 34.8 to 19.5, an IndiaSpend analysis shows.

Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power at the Centre in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, its average vote share in the northeast has grown 23.1 percentage points from 3.9% to 27%. From winning an