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| Giridih | |
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| Constituency No. 32 for the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Jharkhand |
| District | Giridih |
| LS constituency | Giridih |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 264,814 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 5th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Elected year | 2019 |
Giridih Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand.[1][2]
Earlier Giridih constituency was the part of Bihar Legislative Assembly.
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Before 1957: see Giridih cum Dumri constituency
| |||
| 1957 | Kamakhya Narain Singh | Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party | |
| Hemlal Pragnait | |||
| 1962 | Raghunandan Ram | Indian National Congress | |
| 1967 | |||
| 1969 | Chaturanan Mishra | Communist Party of India | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | |||
| 1980 | Urmila Debi | Indian National Congress | |
| 1985 | Om Lal Azad | Communist Party of India | |
| 1990 | Jyotindra Prasad | Indian National Congress | |
| 1995 | Chandra Mohan Prasad | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2000 | |||
On 15 November 2000, Jharkhand was carved out from Bihar. The 1st Jharkhand Assembly elections were conducted in 2005.
| Election | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Munna Lal | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | |
| 2009 | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha | |
| 2014 | Bharatiya Janata Party | ||
| 2019 | Sudivya Kumar | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | |
| 2024 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JMM | Sudivya Kumar | 94,042 | 45.28 | ||
| BJP | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | 90,204 | 43.43 | ||
| JLKM | Naveen Anand Chaurasiya | 10,787 | 5.19 | New | |
| Margin of victory | |||||
| Turnout | 207,682 | ||||
| JMM hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JMM | Sudivya Kumar | 80,871 | 48.19% | ||
| BJP | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | 64,987 | 38.72% | ||
| JVM(P) | Chunnu Kant | 6,903 | 4.11% | ||
| NOTA | Nota | 2,773 | 1.65% | ||
| Independent | Mohammad Lallu | 2,493 | 1.49% | New | |
| LJP | Upendra Kumar Sharma | 2,026 | 1.21% | New | |
| Independent | Shyam Prasad Barnwal | 1,533 | 0.91% | New | |
| BSP | Sikandar Ali | 1,272 | 0.76% | ||
| AAP | Shweta Kumari | 1,182 | 0.70% | New | |
| Marxist Co-Ordination | Md Salman Sahab | 1,124 | 0.67% | ||
| Independent | Budhan Hemabram | 991 | 0.59% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 15,884 | 9.46% | |||
| Turnout | 1,67,822 | 63.37% | |||
| Registered electors | 2,64,814 | ||||
| JMM gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | 57,450 | 38.34% | ||
| JMM | Sudivya Kumar | 47,517 | 31.71% | ||
| JVM(P) | Babu Lal Marandi | 26,665 | 17.79% | ||
| INC | Ruma Singh | 2,998 | 2.00% | New | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 2,457 | 1.64% | New | |
| BSP | Nageshwar Das | 2,436 | 1.63% | ||
| JD(U) | Tribhuwan Dayal | 2,050 | 1.37% | New | |
| Marxist Co-Ordination | Govind Kumar Yadav | 1,930 | 1.29% | New | |
| NCP | Md. Afak Naushad | 1,659 | 1.11% | New | |
| CPI(ML)L | Rajesh Kumar Sinha | 1,141 | 0.76% | New | |
| Independent | Prem Kumar Sinha | 987 | 0.66% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 9,933 | 6.63% | |||
| Turnout | 1,49,846 | 63.89% | |||
| Registered electors | 2,34,535 | ||||
| BJP gain from JVM(P) | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JVM(P) | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | 28,771 | 26.24% | New | |
| Independent | Munna Lal | 21,669 | 19.77% | New | |
| BJP | Chandra Mohan Prasad | 18,283 | 16.68% | ||
| AJSU | Vinod Kumar | 11,737 | 10.71% | New | |
| BSP | Manoj Kumar Sahu | 10,267 | 9.37% | ||
| JMM | Sudivya Kumar | 8,272 | 7.55% | ||
| Independent | Vivakar Pandey | 2,443 | 2.23% | New | |
| RJD | Irshad Ahmad | 1,796 | 1.64% | ||
| Independent | Hemlal Hansda | 1,628 | 1.49% | New | |
| Independent | Ramdeo Vishwandhu | 1,205 | 1.10% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 7,102 | 6.48% | |||
| Turnout | 1,09,629 | 53.34% | |||
| Registered electors | 2,05,538 | ||||
| JVM(P) gain from JMM | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JMM | Munna Lal | 31,895 | 30.08% | ||
| BJP | Chandra Mohan Prasad | 24,920 | 23.50% | ||
| RJD | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | 21,029 | 19.83% | ||
| BSP | Manoj Kumar Sahu | 8,214 | 7.75% | ||
| LJP | Jyotindra Prasad | 4,392 | 4.14% | New | |
| Independent | Jageshwar Singh | 3,168 | 2.99% | New | |
| SP | Md. Kasim Noshad Ali | 2,771 | 2.61% | New | |
| Independent | Anima Hansda | 1,887 | 1.78% | New | |
| Independent | Nawal Kishor Mandilwar | 1,239 | 1.17% | New | |
| Independent | Dilip Kumar Upadhyay | 1,163 | 1.10% | New | |
| Independent | Bani Mondal | 790 | 0.75% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 6,975 | 6.58% | |||
| Turnout | 1,06,024 | 50.98% | |||
| Registered electors | 2,07,962 | ||||
| JMM gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Chandra Mohan Prasad | 24,722 | 27.71% | New | |
| RJD | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | 23,697 | 26.56% | New | |
| INC | Jyotindra Prasad | 14,804 | 16.59% | New | |
| JMM | Irshad Ahmad | 12,069 | 13.53% | New | |
| Independent | Jageshwar Singh | 5,409 | 6.06% | New | |
| CPI | Omi Lal Azad | 3,197 | 3.58% | New | |
| BSP | Shunil Kumar | 1,506 | 1.69% | New | |
| Independent | Mukteshwar Prasad Singh | 1,413 | 1.58% | New | |
| Independent | Suresh Ram | 1,192 | 1.34% | New | |
| Independent | Nageshwar Dass | 732 | 0.82% | New | |
| Margin of victory | 1,025 | 1.15% | |||
| Turnout | 89,230 | 49.19% | |||
| Registered electors | 1,83,826 | ||||
| BJP win (new seat) | |||||