Chatra Lok Sabha constituency

Chatra
JH-4
Chatra ; JH-4
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Chatra Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Jharkhand
Assembly constituencies	Simaria ; Chatra ; Manika ; Latehar ; Panki
Established	1957
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Kalicharan Singh
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Last updated November 27, 2024

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.

Vidhan Sabha segments

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

#	Name	District	Member
26	Simaria (SC)	Chatra	Kumar Ujjwal	BJP	BJP
27	Chatra (SC)	Chatra	Janardan Paswan	LJP(RV)	BJP
73	Manika (ST)	Latehar	Ramchandra Singh	INC	INC
74	Latehar (SC)	Latehar	Prakash Ram	BJP	BJP
75	Panki	Palamu	Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta	BJP	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

Year	Member
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	Upendra Nath Verma	Janata Dal
1996	Dhirendra Agarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Dhirendra Agarwal	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Nagmani	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2004	Dhirendra Agarwal	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Inder Singh Namdhari	Independent
2014	Sunil Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Sunil Kumar Singh
2024	Kalicharan Singh

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Kalicharan Singh	574,556	52.89
	INC	Krishna Nand Tripathi	3,53,597	32.55
	NOTA	None of the above	8,511	0.78
Majority
Turnout				63.69
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Chatra^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh	528,077	57.03
	INC	Manoj Kumar Yadav	1,50,206	16.22
	RJD	Subhash Yadav	83,425	9.01
	CPI	Arjun Kumar	22,577	2.44
	BSP	Nageshwar Ganjhu	18,888	2.04
Majority			3,77,871	40.81
Turnout			9,25,956	64.97
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh	2,95,862	41.50
	INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	1,17,836	16.53
	JVM(P)	Nilam Devi	1,04,176	14.61
	AJSU	Nagmani	35,674	5.00
Majority			1,78,026	24.97
Turnout			7,12,980	54.32
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Inder Singh Namdhari	1,08,336	22.86
	INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	92,158	19.44
	RJD	Nagmani Kushwaha	68,764	14.51
	CPI(ML)	Keshwar Yadav	63,846	13.47
	JD(U)	Arun Kumar Yadav	46,088	9.72
Majority			16,178	3.41
Turnout			4,73,941	45.67
	Independent gain from RJD		Swing

1984 Lok Sabha

Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh (INC) : 211,020 votes ^[3]
Shukdeo Prasad Verma (ICJ) : 54,478

Notes

↑ "Parliamentary Constituency". Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand website. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26.
↑ The New Indian Express (19 May 2024). "For first time in seven decades, voters seek local representative". Archived from the original on 24 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
↑ "1984 India General (8th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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[1] "Parliamentary Constituency". Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand website. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26.

[For_first_time_in_seven_decades,_voters_seek_local_representative-2] The New Indian Express (19 May 2024). "For first time in seven decades, voters seek local representative". Archived from the original on 24 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.

[3] "1984 India General (8th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

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