Constituency
276. Dumri
Community mirrorBihar Assembly Election, 1985
BR-DUMRI
IND 39.4%won by 13.0%LKD 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 13.0%.
- IND vote shareIND went from 15.9% to 39.4% of the vote here (+23.5%).
- New challengerLKD (LKD) finished second with 26.4% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.7% between them, down from 73.8% — the field split more ways.
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
53,542
Margin
6,973
13.02%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1SHIVA MAHTOIndependent · IND21,08239.4%
- 2LAL CHAND MAHTOLKD · LKD14,10926.4%
- 3GUL MOHAMMADIndependent · IND6,37811.9%
- 4RAMDEO PRASAD YADAVIndian National Congress · INC4,6118.6%
- 5GULAM RASOOLJanata Party · JNP3,1745.9%
- 6ISHWAR PRASAD LOHANIIndependent · IND2,7965.2%
- 7RITLAL MAHTOIndependent · IND7461.4%
- 8HIRAMANI MAHTOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM6461.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–LKD swing
- −2.9%
- IND share
- 15.9% → 39.4%
- LKD share
- 0.0% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —