Constituency
86. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-DUMKA
JMM 31.9%won by 1.1%BJP 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedJharkhand Mukti Morcha held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.9% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 26.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.8% between them, down from 86.6% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.3% to 54.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,49,909
Turnout
54.5%
Valid votes
5,17,803
Margin
5,478
1.06%
Candidates
13 contested · winner JMM- 1SHIBU SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,65,41131.9%
- 2BABU LAL MARANDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,59,93330.9%
- 3BASUDEV BESRAJanata Dal · JD1,36,24426.3%
- 4THAKUR TUDUIndian National Congress · INC34,5246.7%
- 5HELEN SORENIndependent · IND4,7240.9%
- 6PARMESHWAR BASKIIndependent · IND4,3970.8%
- 7SHYAM LAL KISKUIndependent · IND3,5720.7%
- 8PHILEMON SORENIndependent · IND2,7380.5%
- 9MATHU MURMUIndependent · IND2,0170.4%
- 10JONATHAN TUDUJKPP · JKPP1,5460.3%
- 11RAM DULAL DEHARIIndependent · IND1,3110.3%
- 12PANCHANAN TUDUIndependent · IND8950.2%
- 13BUDHU MOHALIIndependent · IND4910.1%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- JMM
- JMM–BJP swing
- −28.9%
- JMM share
- 58.3% → 31.9%
- BJP share
- 28.3% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- 51.2% → 54.5%