Littipara (ST)

Overview & 2024 Context

Littipara, Legislative Assembly seat number 4 in Pakur district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. HEMLAL MURMU of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished first with 88,469 votes (53.78%), defeating BABUDHAN MURMU (BJP), who polled 61,720 (37.52%). The victory margin was 26,749 votes. Of 217,898 electors, 164,505 votes were polled and turnout stood at 75.5%.

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 Assembly Constituency, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: HEMLAL MURMU (JMM, 88,469 / 53.78%); BABUDHAN MURMU (BJP, 61,720 / 37.52%); NIRMAL MURMU (IND, 2,470 / 1.5%); RASKA HEMBRAM (IND, 1,728 / 1.05%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between HEMLAL MURMU and BABUDHAN MURMU is the binding fact for seat 4, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 26,749 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Pakur is part of the Santhal Pargana belt of Jharkhand. With headquarters at Pakur, the district combines dense rural habitations, tribal identity politics and market towns; welfare delivery and land–migration concerns often travel with statewide narratives. Administratively, Littipara is Legislative Assembly segment number 4 under Pakur (headquarters: Pakur). 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. Littipara sits inside that Pakur 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: Dinesh William Marandi (JMM) by 13,903 votes; 2014: DR. ANIL MURMU (JMM) by 25,083 votes; 2009: 1 SIMON MARANDI (JMM) by 5,397 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for HEMLAL MURMU (JMM) in Legislative Assembly number 4 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: 217,898. Votes polled: 164,505. Turnout: 75.5%. Winner HEMLAL MURMU (JMM): 88,469 (53.78%); runner-up BABUDHAN MURMU (BJP): 61,720 (37.52%); margin: 26,749 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 77,240 (47.41%), female 85,690 (52.59%), other 1.

Turnout 75.5% with 164,505 votes from 217,898 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Pakur.

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 Pakur, voters also weighed tribal identity, welfare schemes, migration, farm incomes. a landslide verdict for HEMLAL MURMU (JMM) against BABUDHAN MURMU (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 4.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Littipara is narrower: HEMLAL MURMU (JMM) outpolled BABUDHAN MURMU (BJP) by 26,749 votes under 75.5% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 4.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Littipara. HEMLAL MURMU (JMM) converted 88,469 votes; BABUDHAN MURMU (BJP) had 61,720. Turnout 75.5% and margin 26,749 in seat 4 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 217,898, votes polled 164,505, and the head-to-head between HEMLAL MURMU and BABUDHAN MURMU. District cues in Pakur 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.