<p>Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's brother Basant Soren won the Dumka Assembly seat by 14,588 votes on Saturday.</p>
<p>BJP candidate Sunil Soren was in second place in the seat, securing 81,097 votes. The JMM candidate got 95,685 votes.</p>
<p>Basant Soren won the Dumka seat in a bypoll in 2020, defeating BJP's Lois Marandi by 6,842 votes.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, another JMM candidate Umakant Rajak won the Chandankiyari seat in Jharkhand's Bokaro district by a margin of 33,733 votes.</p>
<p>Arjun Rajwar of the Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha was runner-up in the seat, while Leader of Opposition Amar Kumar Bauri of the BJP came third.</p>
<p>Rajak bagged 90,027 votes, while Rajwar secured 56,294 votes. Bauri managed 56,091 votes.</p>
<p>In the 2019 Assembly polls, Bauri defeated Rajak, who contested the seat on an AJSU Party ticket.</p>
<p>Rajak switched to JMM ahead of this election after the Chandankiyari seat went to the BJP as per the seat-sharing arrangement within the NDA.</p>
<p><strong>14,588</strong><br />Margin by which Basant Soren won Maoist-affected Dumka</p>
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Jharkhand assembly elections 2024: Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren`s brother Basant Soren won the Dumka Assembly seat by 14,588 votes on Saturday

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Basant Soren won the Dumka seat in a bypoll in 2020, defeating BJP's Lois Marandi by 6,842 votes.

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