Garhwa Assembly constituency

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Garhwa
Constituency No. 80 for the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateJharkhand
DistrictGarhwa
Lok Sabha constituencyPalamu
Established2000
Total electors366,065
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
6th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBhartiya Janta Party
Elected year2024

Garhwa Assembly constituency is one of the 81 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Jharkhand state in eastern India.[1]

Overview[edit | edit source]

Garhwa (constituency number 80) is one of the two Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha constituencies in Garhwa district. It is one of the Assembly segments of the Palamu Lok Sabha constituency along with 5 other segments, namely, Bhawanathpur in this district and Daltonganj, Bishrampur, Chhatarpur and Hussainabad in Palamu district.[1]

Members of Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
Bihar Legislative Assembly
Before 1957: see Hussainabad cum Garhwa constituency
1957 Rajeshwari Saroj Das Indian National Congress
1962 Gopi Nath Singh Swatantra Party
1967 L. Prasad Indian National Congress
1969 Gopi Nath Singh Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1972 Awadh Kishore Tiwari Indian National Congress
1977 Vinod N. Dixit Janata Party
1980 Yugal Kishore Pandey Indian National Congress
1985 Gopi Nath Singh Bharatiya Janata Party
1990
1995 Girinath Singh Janata Dal
2000 Rashtriya Janata Dal
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
2005 Girinath Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009 Satyendra Nath Tiwari Jharkhand Vikas Morcha
2014 Bharatiya Janata Party
2019 Mithilesh Kumar Thakur Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
2024 Satyendra Nath Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results[edit | edit source]

Assembly election 2024[edit | edit source]

2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Garhwa[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Satyendra Nath Tiwari 133,109 45.40% Increase10.74
JMM Mithilesh Kumar Thakur 1,16,356 39.68% Decrease4.78
SP Girinath Singh 8,096 2.76% New
BSP Ajay Kumar Choudhary 7,722 2.63% Decrease1.80
Independent Rabindra Kumar Singh 4,502 1.54% New
Independent Ram Payare Pal 4,092 1.40% New
ASP(KR) Law Kumar Singh 3,202 1.09% New
NOTA None of the Above 937 0.32% Decrease0.08
Margin of victory 16,753 5.71% Decrease4.09
Turnout 2,93,209 69.88% Increase4.33
Registered electors 4,19,614 Increase14.63
BJP gain from JMM Swing Increase0.93

Assembly election 2019[edit | edit source]

2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Garhwa[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JMM Mithilesh Kumar Thakur 106,681 44.46% Increase21.09
BJP Satyendra Nath Tiwari 83,159 34.66% Decrease2.28
BSP Birendra Prasad 10,638 4.43% Increase1.04
AITC Mandip Mallah 7,368 3.07% New
AIMIM Md. Najibuddin Khan 6,231 2.60% New
JVM(P) Suraj Prasad Gupta 5,852 2.44% Increase1.08
Independent Bihari Vishwakarma 5,339 2.23% New
NOTA None of the Above 953 0.40% Decrease0.14
Margin of victory 23,522 9.80% Decrease0.88
Turnout 2,39,930 65.54% Decrease2.27
Registered electors 3,66,065 Increase21.94
JMM gain from BJP Swing Increase7.52

Assembly election 2014[edit | edit source]

2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Garhwa[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Satyendra Nath Tiwari 75,196 36.94% Increase28.15
RJD Girinath Singh 53,441 26.25% Decrease0.68
JMM Mithilesh Kumar Thakur 47,579 23.37% Increase13.92
BSP Md. Rostam Ali Ansari 6,902 3.39% New
JVM(P) Virendra Sav 2,771 1.36% Decrease32.28
Independent Babanu Singh 2,580 1.27% New
Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Liberation Virendra Choudhary 1,839 0.90% Decrease3.65
NOTA None of the Above 1,100 0.54% New
Margin of victory 21,755 10.69% Increase3.98
Turnout 2,03,562 67.81% Increase7.58
Registered electors 3,00,191 Increase20.53
BJP gain from JVM(P) Swing Increase3.30

Assembly election 2009[edit | edit source]

2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Garhwa[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JVM(P) Satyendra Nath Tiwari 50,474 33.64% New
RJD Girinath Singh 40,412 26.94% Increase4.23
JMM Mithilesh Kumar Thakur 14,180 9.45% Decrease0.09
BJP Alakh Nath Pandey 13,191 8.79% New
Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Liberation Kali Charan Mahto 6,830 4.55% Increase1.95
AJSU Anil Kumar Sah 6,665 4.44% New
Navjawan Sangharsh Morcha Rajesh Kumar (Garhwa) 2,298 1.53% New
Margin of victory 10,062 6.71% Increase1.07
Turnout 1,50,022 60.24% Decrease4.33
Registered electors 2,49,060 Increase6.21
JVM(P) gain from RJD Swing Increase10.94

Assembly election 2005[edit | edit source]

2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Garhwa[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Girinath Singh 34,374 22.71% Decrease21.98
JD(U) Sairaj Ahmed Ansari 25,841 17.07% New
BSP Anil Sao 18,225 12.04% Increase3.99
JMM Tulsi Singh 14,439 9.54% New
INC Amarit Sukla 13,392 8.85% Increase5.58
RSMD Ram Charitra Choudhary 6,088 4.02% New
Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Liberation Jitendra Kumar Chandrabansi 3,938 2.60% New
Margin of victory 8,533 5.64% Decrease6.40
Turnout 1,51,390 64.56% Increase10.90
Registered electors 2,34,487 Increase24.30
RJD hold Swing Decrease21.98

Assembly election 2000[edit | edit source]

2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Garhwa[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
RJD Girinath Singh 45,239 44.69% New
BJP Shyam Narayan Dubey 33,057 32.65% New
BSP Ahmad Ali 8,146 8.05% New
SP Ram Charitra Choudhary 4,559 4.50% New
INC Samsuddin Ansari 3,309 3.27% New
Independent Baliwant Pandey 3,244 3.20% New
CPI Ganesh Singh 1,838 1.82% New
Margin of victory 12,182 12.03%
Turnout 1,01,232 54.67%
Registered electors 1,88,639
RJD win (new seat)

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). The Election Commission of India. pp. 173–4.
  2. ↑ Election Commission of India (24 November 2024). "Jharkhand Assembly Election Results 2024 - Seats won by JMM". Archived from the original on 24 November 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  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. ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2000 to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar" (PDF). ceobihar.nic.in. Chief Electoral Officer, Bihar. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2023. Retrieved 16 January 2025.

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