Constituency
86. Dumka
Community mirrorBihar · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DUMKA
BJP 36.9%won by 0.9%JMM 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 2.1% to 0.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.9% between them, down from 91.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.6% to 57.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,51,280
Turnout
57.3%
Valid votes
5,45,500
Margin
4,648
0.85%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJP- 1Babu Lal MarandiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,01,14136.9%
- 2Rupi Soren KiskuJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,96,49336.0%
- 3Ramesh HembramIndian National Congress · INC1,34,62524.7%
- 4Ravan MurmuAMB · AMB4,2770.8%
- 5Anand TuduNationalist Congress Party · NCP3,8800.7%
- 6Palu HemramFBL · FBL1,7570.3%
- 7Basudeo BesraIndependent · IND1,2680.2%
- 8Chetan MarandiIndependent · IND1,2240.2%
- 9Maya Wanti KiskuAJBP · AJBP5530.1%
- 10Santosh Kumar BesraIndependent · IND2820.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–JMM swing
- −1.3%
- BJP share
- 47.0% → 36.9%
- JMM share
- 44.9% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 62.0% → 57.3%