Hill People's Union

The Hill People's Union was a political party in the state of Meghalaya in India. It was founded in 1985.^[1] 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.^[2] It was once "one of the three major regional parties" in the state.^[3] In the 1988 elections, under the leadership of Brington Buhai Lyngdoh, the party won 19 seats in the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.^[1][4] In the 1993 elections it fell to eleven seats.^[5] In 1997 its members joined with the HSPDP and the Public Demands Implementation Convention to form the United Democratic Party.^[6]