Jharia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Jharia (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Members of Assembly

• 2005: Kunti Devi, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2009: Kunti Devi, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2014: Sanjeev Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2019: Purnima Niraj Singh, Indian National Congress

Election Results

2019

2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Jharia

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Purnima Niraj Singh	79,786	50.50	24.30
	BJP	Ragini Singh	67,732	42.90	5.20
	JVM(P)	Yogendra Yadav	2,779	1.80	4.60
	[[All Jharkhand Students Union|Template:All Jharkhand Students Union/meta/shortname]]	Abadhesh Kumar	1,279	0.80
		Rest of the Candidates	6,297
Margin of victory			12,054	7.60
Turnout
	INC gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Vidhan Sabha
• List of states of India by type of legislature

References

• Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India [1]