Constituency
72. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1984
IN-DUMKA
INC 53.9%won by 26.2%JMM 27.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 26.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 0.0% to 53.9% of the vote here (+53.9%).
- New challengerJharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished second with 27.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.6% of the vote between them, up from 73.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.0% to 52.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,08,326
Turnout
52.3%
Valid votes
3,70,588
Margin
97,187
26.23%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1PRITHIWI CHAND KISKUIndian National Congress · INC1,99,72253.9%
- 2SHIBU SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,02,53527.7%
- 3BASUDEO BESRACommunist Party of India · CPI56,24515.2%
- 4BATESHWAR HEMROMIndependent · IND4,8221.3%
- 5BUDHU MOHLIIndependent · IND2,8570.8%
- 6JONA BIKRAM BESRAIndependent · IND1,9600.5%
- 7ADWARD MARANDIIndependent · IND1,2910.3%
- 8SEBASTIAN MURMUIndependent · IND1,1560.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JMM swing
- +26.2%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 53.9%
- JMM share
- 0.0% → 27.7%
- Turnout
- 46.3% → 52.3%