Constituency
86. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DUMKA
BJP 47.0%won by 2.1%JMM 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 2.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 30.9% to 47.0% of the vote here (+16.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.9% of the vote between them, up from 62.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.5% to 62.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,51,918
Turnout
62.0%
Valid votes
5,89,933
Margin
12,556
2.13%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1BABU LAL MARANDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,77,33447.0%
- 2SHIBU SORENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,64,77844.9%
- 3KALESHWAR HEMBRAMCommunist Party of India · CPI25,5004.3%
- 4DAVID MURMUJanata Dal · JD17,0882.9%
- 5LALITA HEMREMSamajwadi Party · SP4,0740.7%
- 6CHETAN MARANDIIndependent · IND1,1590.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JMM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–JMM swing
- +3.2%
- BJP share
- 30.9% → 47.0%
- JMM share
- 31.9% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- 54.5% → 62.0%