Barhi Assembly constituency

Barhi
Constituency No. 21 for the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Jharkhand
LS constituency	Hazaribagh
Established	2000
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
5th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Umashankar Akela
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2019

Barhi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Overview

Barhi police station in Hazaribagh district and Chauparan police station in Hazaribagh district. ^[1]

Barhi assembly constituency is part of Hazaribagh (Lok Sabha constituency). There are four blocks under the jurisdiction of Barhi Assembly constituency- Barhi, Chauparan, Padma in Hazaribagh district and Chandwara in Koderma district. Two new administrative blocks (Padma and Chandwara) were created during the 1990s when Ram Lakhan Singh was the MLA of the constituency. The constituency covers 64 panchyats under these four blocks- Barhi (20 panchayats), Chauparan (26 panchayats), Padma (8 Panchayats) and Chadwara (10 panchayats). Entire Barhi constituency is divided into 318 polling booths. ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

1952 - 2000

Earlier Barhi constituency was the part of Bihar Legislative Assembly.

Election	Member	Party
1952	Rameshwar Prasad Mahato		Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party
1957
1962	Kamakhya Narain Singh		Swatantra Party
1967	I. J. N. Singh		Jan Kranti Dal
1969			Janata Party
1972	Rameshwar Prasad Mahato		Indian National Congress
1977	Lalita Rajya Lakshmi		Janata Party
1980	Niranjan Prasad Singh		Indian National Congress
1985
1990	Ram Lakhan Sinha		Communist Party of India
1995	Manoj Yadav		Indian National Congress
2000

2000 - present

On 15 November 2000, Jharkhand was carved out from Bihar. The 1st Jharkhand Assembly elections were conducted in 2005.

Year	Name	Party
2005	Manoj Yadav		Indian National Congress
2009	Umashankar Akela		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Manoj Yadav		Indian National Congress
2019	Umashankar Akela

Election results

Assembly election 2024

2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Barhi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Umashankar Akela
	JLKM	Krishna Kumar Yadav
	INC	Arun Sahu
	BJP	Manoj Kumar Yadav
	NCP	Mahesh Thakur
Margin of victory
Turnout
			Swing

Assembly election 2019

2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Barhi ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Umashankar Akela	84,358	46.78%	13.65
	BJP	Manoj Yadav	72,987	40.48%	11.40
	JVM(P)	Arbind Kumar	4,282	2.37%	0.98
	Independent	Mo. Seraj	3,686	2.04%	New
	Independent	Bipin Kumar Sinha	2,451	1.36%	New
	CPI	Ramanuj Kumar	2,219	1.23%	0.72
	BSP	Md. Jamal Uddin	2,032	1.13%	0.55
	NOTA	Nota	1,898	1.05%	1.03
	Independent	Manoj Kumar Paswan	1,474	0.82%	New
	AITC	Rajeev Ranjan	1,327	0.74%	New
	Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)	Digamber Bhuiya	984	0.55%	New
Margin of victory			11,371	6.31%	2.25
Turnout			1,80,319	62.63%	3.73
Registered electors			2,87,892		9.49
	INC hold		Swing	13.65

Assembly election 2014

2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Barhi ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manoj Yadav	57,818	33.13%	7.13
	BJP	Umashankar Akela	50,733	29.07%	17.46
	JMM	Sabi Devi	39,255	22.50%	19.87
	JVM(P)	Yogendra Pratap	5,857	3.36%	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	3,629	2.08%	New
	CPI	Manju Gautam	3,412	1.96%	New
	Independent	Basudeo Paswan	3,087	1.77%	New
	BSP	Santosh Ravidas	2,918	1.67%	0.56
	Independent	Rajendra Rajak	1,362	0.78%	New
	CPI(ML)L	Ranjit Kumar	1,357	0.78%	New
	Independent	Gautam Kumar Yadav	1,223	0.70%	New
Margin of victory			7,085	4.06%	2.21
Turnout			1,74,503	66.37%	4.06
Registered electors			2,62,939		26.97
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	13.40

Assembly election 2009

2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Barhi ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Umashankar Akela	60,044	46.53%	42.96
	INC	Manoj Yadav	51,959	40.27%	5.79
	Independent	Hari Mehta	3,482	2.70%	New
	JMM	Binod Kumar	3,391	2.63%	New
	BSP	Md. Moinuddin Ahmed	2,885	2.24%	1.31
	AJSU	Akhtar Ali	1,699	1.32%	New
	Independent	Paras Sharan Deo	1,591	1.23%	New
	LJP	Vasudeo Paswan	1,139	0.88%	New
	Independent	Fagu Ram	1,127	0.87%	New
Margin of victory			8,085	6.27%	0.31
Turnout			1,29,034	62.31%	0.14
Registered electors			2,07,089		2.14
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	0.48

Assembly election 2005

2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Barhi ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manoj Yadav	58,313	46.06%	21.20
	SP	Umashankar Akela	49,990	39.48%	New
	BJP	Kamta Prasad Agrawal	4,525	3.57%	14.98
	BSP	Basudeo Paswan	4,491	3.55%	1.57
	Independent	Ranjit Kumar	2,406	1.90%	New
	Independent	Deepak Kumar	1,755	1.39%	New
	AD	Abdul Razak Ansari	1,483	1.17%	New
	Independent	Badri Gope	1,158	0.91%	New
	Independent	Narendra Kumar	722	0.57%	New
	Independent	Fagu Ram	644	0.51%	New
Margin of victory			8,323	6.57%	42.13
Turnout			1,26,613	62.45%	5.12
Registered electors			2,02,742		27.18
	INC hold		Swing	21.20

Assembly election 2000

2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barhi ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Manoj Yadav	72,443	67.25%	New
	BJP	Mahaveer Sahu	19,983	18.55%	New
	CPI	Krishna Kumar	5,878	5.46%	New
	Independent	Umashankar Akela	3,750	3.48%	New
	BSP	Basudeo Paswan	2,129	1.98%	New
	RJD	Girdhari Lal Yadav	1,720	1.60%	New
	JPP	Santosh Sahay	562	0.52%	New
Margin of victory			52,460	48.70%
Turnout			1,07,720	68.78%
Registered electors			1,59,415
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• Vidhan Sabha
• List of states of India by type of legislature

References

• Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India

1. "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
2. "Hazaribagh Loksabha Constituency (Jharkhand)". India Study Channel.com. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
3. "Jharkhand Legislative Assembly Election, 2019". Election Commission of India. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
4. "Jharkhand General Legislative Election 2014". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 13 October 2021.
5. "Jharkhand 2009". Election Commission of India. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
6. "Jharkhand General Legislative Election 2005". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 13 October 2021.
7. "Sikaripara Election Results 2014 Jharkhand". Elections.in. Retrieved 26 January 2016.

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