Chatra Lok Sabha constituency

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Chatra Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Jharkhand
Assembly constituencies Simaria
Chatra
Manika
Latehar
Panki
Established1957
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year 2019

Chatra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. It covers the entire Chatra and Latehar districts and part of Palamu district.

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Vidhan Sabha segments

Presently, Chatra Lok Sabha is the smallest constituency in Jharkhand and comprises the following five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments: [1]

#NameDistrictMemberParty
26 Simaria (SC) Chatra Kishun Kumar Das BJP
27 Chatra (SC) Satyanand Bhogta RJD
73 Manika (ST) Latehar Ramchandra Singh INC
74 Latehar (SC) Baidyanath Ram JMM
75 Panki Palamu Shashi Bhushan Mehta BJP

Until 1977, Chatra was one of the vast Parliamentary constituencies with parts of Gaya, Hazaribag and Palamu districts. The districts of Chatra and Latehar came into being much later. Sans Panki, all the assembly segments (Chatra, Simaria, Latehar and Manika) are reserved seats, whereas Chatra continues to be an unreserved Parliamentary constituency.

Members of Parliament

YearMemberParty
1957 Vijaya Raje Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party
1962 Swatantra Party
1967 Independent
1971 Shankar Dayal Singh Indian National Congress
1977 Sukhdeo Prasad Verma Janata Party
1980 Ranjit Singh Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh Indian National Congress
1989 Upendra Nath Verma Janata Dal
1991
1996 Dhirendra Agarwal Bharatiya Janata Party
1998
1999 Nagmani Rashtriya Janata Dal
2004 Dhirendra Agarwal
2009 Inder Singh Namdhari Independent
2014 Sunil Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2019

Election results

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Chatra
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sunil Kumar Singh 528,077 57.03
INC Manoj Kumar Yadav1,50,20616.22
RJD Subhash Yadav83,4259.01
CPI Arjun Kumar22,5772.44
BSP Nageshwar Ganjhu18,8882.04
Majority3,77,87140.81
Turnout 9,25,95664.97
BJP hold Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Chatra
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sunil Kumar Singh 2,95,86241.50
INC Dhiraj Prasad Sahu 1,17,83616.53
JVM(P) Nilam Devi1,04,17614.61
AJSU Nagmani35,6745.00
Majority1,78,02624.97
Turnout 7,12,98054.32
BJP gain from Independent Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Chatra
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Inder Singh Namdhari 1,08,33622.86
INC Dhiraj Prasad Sahu 92,15819.44
RJD Nagmani Kushwaha68,76414.51
CPI(ML) Keshwar Yadav63,84613.47
Janata Dal (United) Arun Kumar Yadav46,0889.72
Majority16,1783.41
Turnout 4,73,94145.67
Independent gain from RJD Swing

1984 Lok Sabha

See also

Notes

  1. "Parliamentary Constituency". Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand website. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26.
  2. "1984 India General (8th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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