Jama (ST)

Overview & 2024 Context

Jama, Legislative Assembly segment number 11 in Dumka district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. LOIS MARANDI of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished first with 76,424 votes (46.88%), defeating SURESH MURMU (BJP), who polled 70,686 (43.36%). The victory margin was 5,738 votes. Of 225,298 electors, 163,008 votes were polled and turnout stood at 72.35%.

The 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election returned the JMM-led INDIA bloc to power — the first consecutive re-election of an incumbent government in the state’s history. Campaign discourse centred on Maiya Samman–style welfare for women, Adivasi asmita and jal–jungle–jameen, set against NDA messaging on infiltration, corruption and law-and-order, as widely reported during the polls. In this Legislative Assembly, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: LOIS MARANDI (JMM, 76,424 / 46.88%); SURESH MURMU (BJP, 70,686 / 43.36%); RASIK MURMU (IND, 2,811 / 1.72%); POLINA MURMU (IND, 2,067 / 1.27%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between LOIS MARANDI and SURESH MURMU is the binding fact for seat 11, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 5,738 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Dumka is part of the Santhal Pargana belt of Jharkhand. With headquarters at Dumka, the district combines dense rural habitations, tribal identity politics and market towns; welfare delivery and land–migration concerns often travel with statewide narratives. Administratively, Jama is Assembly Constituency number 11 under Dumka (headquarters: Dumka). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Jama sits inside that Dumka administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2019: SITA MURMU (JMM) by 2,426 votes; 2014: SITA MURMU ALIAS SITA (JMM) by 2,306 votes; 2009: 1 SITA SOREN (JMM) by 12,706 votes; 2005: SUNIL SOREN (BJP) by 6,630 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for LOIS MARANDI (JMM) in Assembly Constituency number 11 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 225,298. Votes polled: 163,008. Turnout: 72.35%. Winner LOIS MARANDI (JMM): 76,424 (46.88%); runner-up SURESH MURMU (BJP): 70,686 (43.36%); margin: 5,738 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 74,144 (45.8%), female 87,740 (54.2%), other 1.

Turnout 72.35% with 163,008 votes from 225,298 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Dumka.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included women’s cash-transfer welfare, tribal identity and land/forest rights, mining and jobs, and contested narratives on infiltration versus social cohesion. In Dumka, voters also weighed tribal identity, welfare schemes, migration, farm incomes. a comfortable but contested win for LOIS MARANDI (JMM) against SURESH MURMU (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 11.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Jama is narrower: LOIS MARANDI (JMM) outpolled SURESH MURMU (BJP) by 5,738 votes under 72.35% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 11.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Jama. LOIS MARANDI (JMM) converted 76,424 votes; SURESH MURMU (BJP) had 70,686. Turnout 72.35% and margin 5,738 in seat 11 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2024 table: electors 225,298, votes polled 163,008, and the head-to-head between LOIS MARANDI and SURESH MURMU. District cues in Dumka still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.