Constituency
152. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1969
BR-DUMKA
INC 37.5%won by 11.6%IND 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.3% to 37.5% of the vote here (+11.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 63.4% of the vote between them, up from 56.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
29,611
Margin
3,448
11.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PAIKA MURMUIndian National Congress · INC11,11537.5%
- 2SURAJ MANI HANSDAIndependent · IND7,66725.9%
- 3BABULAL MARANDICommunist Party of India · CPI5,22317.6%
- 4CHANDAR SORENBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS3,99513.5%
- 5RASIK MURMUIndependent · IND5231.8%
- 6JOSEPH MARANDIJan Asra Party · JAP4751.6%
- 7PAUL MURMULTC · LTC4371.5%
- 8CYRIL THOMAS BESRABhartiya Krishak Dal · BKD1760.6%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- BJS
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–IND swing
- +12.4%
- INC share
- 26.3% → 37.5%
- IND share
- 27.1% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —