Constituency

81. Dumka

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Bihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962

IN-DUMKA

INC 37.7%won by 0.8%JP 36.9%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Jai Hind Party (JHP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.8%.

INC vote shareINC went from 16.6% to 37.7% of the vote here (+21.1%).
New challengerJanahitha Paksha (JP) finished second with 36.9% — it did not contest here in 1957.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.7% of the vote between them, up from 48.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout fell 44.1% to 33.5%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

3,99,218

Turnout

33.5%

Valid votes

1,33,643

Margin

1,085

0.81%