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The '''Hill People's Union''' was a political party in the state of [[Meghalaya]] in India. It was founded in 1985.<ref name="LewisSagar1992">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4uyAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Hill+People%27s+Union%22|first=David S.|last=Lewis|first2=Darren J.|last2=Sagar|chapter=Hill People's Union|title=Political Parties of Asia and the Pacific: A Reference Guide|publisher=Longman|year=1992|isbn=9780582098114|page=110}}</ref> The founders were 11 members from the [[All Party Hill Leaders Conference]] and [[Hill State People's Democratic Party]] (HSPDP) who joined together after the fall of the earlier short-lived coalition government formed by the two parties, which had won 31 seats in the 1983 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly elections.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2017/07/07/khongwir-recollects-a-regional-alliance-that-did-not-last/|title=Khongwir recollects a regional alliance that did not last|newspaper=The Shillong Times|date=7 July 2017|access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref> It was once "one of the three major regional parties" in the state.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12099 |title=East of Eden |journal=The Illustrated Weekly of India |year=1992 |volume=111 |issue=1–12 |page=32 |quote=The three major regional parties in Meghalaya — the Hill People's Union, the Hill State People's Democratic Party and the Public Demands Implementation Convention — formed the Regional Democratic Front before the Lok Sabha elections and parliamentary elections in November 1989.}}</ref> In the 1988 elections, under the leadership of [[Brington Buhai Lyngdoh]], the party won 19 seats in the [[Meghalaya Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="LewisSagar1992"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/nation/story/19880229-rough-time-for-minority-congress-i-ministry-in-meghalaya-796951-1988-02-29|first=Ramesh|last=Menon|title=Rough time for minority Congress(I) ministry in Meghalaya|work=India Today Magazine|date=29 February 1988|access-date=21 February 2018}}</ref> In the 1993 elections it fell to eleven seats.<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDS-DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA735&lpg=PA735|editor-first=Barry|editor-last=Turner|chapter=Meghalaya|title=The Statesman's Yearbook, 1998–99|year=2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=9780230271272}}</ref> In 1997 its members joined with the HSPDP and the [[Public Demands Implementation Convention]] to form the [[United Democratic Party (Meghalaya)|United Democratic Party]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://oaji.net/articles/2017/1115-1491479202.pdf|first=Antarwell|last=Warjri|title=Role of Regional Political Parties and Formation of the Coalition Governments in Meghalaya|journal=International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies|volume=3|issue=5|year=2017|page=210}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1985 establishments in Meghalaya]]<br />
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