Constituency
82. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-DUMKA
INC 35.4%won by 6.3%CPI 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.8% to 6.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.5% between them, down from 69.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,25,852
Turnout
30.6%
Valid votes
1,60,670
Margin
10,084
6.28%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SATYA CHARAN BESRAIndian National Congress · INC56,88835.4%
- 2SATRUGHAN BESRACommunist Party of India · CPI46,80429.1%
- 3BATESHWAR HEMBROMBharatiya Jana Sangh · BJS26,47016.5%
- 4SHIBU MURMUIndependent · IND21,56013.4%
- 5KUNJI RAM TUDUPHJ · PHJ4,3542.7%
- 6PAGAN MANJHIIndependent · IND2,5831.6%
- 7KISTU MARANDIJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,2970.8%
- 8N. NAGIndependent · IND7140.4%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −1.5%
- INC share
- 38.8% → 35.4%
- CPI share
- 31.0% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- 32.4% → 30.6%