Palamu Lok Sabha constituency

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Palamu
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Lok Sabha constituency
Palamu Lok Sabha constituency
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Jharkhand
Assembly constituencies Daltonganj
Bishrampur
Chhatarpur
Hussainabad
Garhwa
Bhawanathpur
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year 2019

Palamu Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Palamau Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. This constituency is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes. This constituency covers the entire Garhwa district and part of Palamu district.

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Assembly segments

Palamu Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments: [1]

#NameDistrictMemberParty
76 Daltonganj Palamu Alok Chaurasiya BJP
77 Bishrampur Ramchandra Chandravanshi BJP
78 Chhatarpur (SC) Pushpa Devi BJP
79 Hussainabad Kamlesh Kumar Singh NCP
80 Garhwa Garhwa Mithilesh Kumar Thakur JMM
81 Bhawanathpur Bhanu Pratap Sahi BJP

Members of Parliament

YearMemberParty
1952 Gajendra Prasad Sinha Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Shashank Manjari Swatantra Party
1967 Kamla Kumari Indian National Congress
1971
1977 Ramdeni Ram Janata Party
1980 Kamla Kumari Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Indian National Congress
1989 Jorawar Ram Janata Dal
1991 Ram Deo Ram Bharatiya Janata Party
1996 Braj Mohan Ram
1998
1999
2004 Manoj Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal
2006^ Ghuran Ram
2009 Kameshwar Baitha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
2014 Vishnu Dayal Ram Bharatiya Janata Party
2019

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Palamau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vishnu Dayal Ram
RJD Mamta Bhuiyan
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout 61.27Decrease2.svg3.07
gain from Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Palamau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vishnu Dayal Ram 755,659 62.46
RJD Ghuran Ram 2,78,05322.98
BSP Anjana Bhuiyan53,5974.43
CPI(ML) Sushma Mehta5,0040.41
Majority4,77,60639.48
Turnout 12,10,42664.34
BJP hold Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Palamau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Vishnu Dayal Ram 4,76,51348.76
RJD Manoj Kumar2,12,57121.75
JVM(P) Ghuran Ram1,56,83216.05
Majority2,63,94227.01
Turnout 9,78,15959.43
BJP gain from JMM Swing
2009 Indian general elections: Palamau
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JMM Kameshwar Baitha1,67,99525.78
RJD Ghuran Ram1,44,45722.17
JVM(P) Prabhat Kumar90,20613.84
Majority23,5383.61
Turnout 6,51,57945.97
JMM gain from RJD Swing

See also

Notes

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

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