Dhanbad Lok Sabha constituency

Dhanbad Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateJharkhand
Assembly constituenciesBokaro
Chandankiyari
Sindri
Nirsa
Dhanbad
Jharia
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2019

Dhanbad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. This constituency covers parts of Bokaro and Dhanbad districts.

Assembly segments[edit]

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

# Name District Member Party
36 Bokaro Bokaro Biranchi Narayan BJP
37 Chandankiyari (SC) Amar Kumar Bauri BJP
38 Sindri Dhanbad Indrajit Mahato BJP
39 Nirsa Aparna Sengupta BJP
40 Dhanbad Raj Sinha BJP
41 Jharia Purnima Niraj Singh INC

Members of Parliament[edit]

Year Name Party
1952 P. C. Bose Indian National Congress
1957
1962 P. R. Chakravarti
1967 Rani Lalita Rajya Laxmi Independent
1971 Ram Narain Sharma Indian National Congress
1977 A. K. Roy Marxist Coordination Committee
1980
1984 Shankar Dayal Singh Indian National Congress
1989 A. K. Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991 Rita Verma Bharatiya Janata Party
1996
1998
1999
2004 Chandra Shekhar Dubey Indian National Congress
2009 Pashupati Nath Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
2014
2019

Election result[edit]

2019[edit]

2019 Indian general elections: Dhanbad
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Pashupati Nath Singh 827,234 66.03
INC Kirti Azad 3,41,040 27.22
AITC Madhvi Singh 8,235 0.66
NOTA None of the above 4,345 0.38
Majority 4,86,194 38.81
Turnout 12,53,265 60.47 -0.07
BJP hold Swing

General election 2014[edit]

2014 Indian general elections: Dhanbad
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Pashupati Nath Singh 5,43,491 47.51
INC Ajay Kumar Dubey 2,50,537 21.90
MCC Anand Mahato 1,10,185 9.63
JVM(P) Samresh Singh 90,926 7.95
AITC Chandra Shekhar Dubey 29,937 2.62
AJSU Hemlata S. Mohan 21,277 1.81 New
NOTA None of the above 7,675 0.67 New
Majority 2,92,954 25.61
Turnout 11,43,945 60.53
BJP hold Swing

General election 2009[edit]

2009 Indian general elections: Dhanbad
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Pashupati Nath Singh 2,60,521 31.99
INC Chandrashekhar Dubey 2,02,474 24.86
BSP Samaresh Singh 1,32,445 16.26
MCC A. K. Roy 85,457 10.49
Majority 58,047 7.14
Turnout 8,14,208 45.07
BJP gain from INC Swing

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

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

External links[edit]

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