Constituency
85. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-DUMKA
JMM 58.3%won by 29.9%BJP 28.3%
What changed here
DerivedJharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.0% to 29.9%.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 28.3% — it did not contest here in 1989.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.6% between them, down from 94.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.5% to 51.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,71,904
Turnout
51.2%
Valid votes
4,46,415
Margin
1,33,641
29.94%
Candidates
13 contested · winner JMM- 1SHIBU SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,60,16958.3%
- 2BABULAL MARANDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,26,52828.3%
- 3SET HAMRAJIndian National Congress · INC40,9629.2%
- 4JONATHAN TUDUIndependent · IND4,2200.9%
- 5KUNJI RAM TUDUIndependent · IND3,2600.7%
- 6MAHADEO MARANDIJanahitha Paksha · JP2,0500.5%
- 7BUDHU MOHLIDMM · DMM1,8430.4%
- 8MATTOO MURMUIndependent · IND1,4220.3%
- 9JONA VIKRAM BESRAIndependent · IND1,3820.3%
- 10BABULAL HANSDAIndependent · IND1,3760.3%
- 11ALWIN SORENIndependent · IND1,3640.3%
- 12SARSHIL MARANDIDDP · DDP1,3510.3%
- 13PREMA NAND SORENIndependent · IND4880.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- JMM
- JMM–BJP swing
- −31.0%
- JMM share
- 61.0% → 58.3%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 28.3%
- Turnout
- 46.7% → 51.2%