Barkagaon Assembly constituency

Barkagaon
Barkagaon
Constituency No. 22 for the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Jharkhand
District	Ramgarh
Lok Sabha constituency	Hazaribagh
Established	2000
Total electors	340,643
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	5th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Roshan Lal Choudhary
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

Barkagaon Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand under Hazaribagh district.^[1]^[2] It consists of three blocks namely Barkagaon, Keredari and Patratu.

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Indian National Congress MLAs in Jharkhand claimed that their colleague, Barkagaon's current MLA Nirmala Devi, was arrested on 25 August 2015 for a murder in the Hazaribagh district 9 days before.^[3] Fellow MLA, Irfan Ansari of Jamtara constituency, condemned the arrest, alleging that the government is trying to attack INC legislators by falsely accusing them of crimes they never committed. Its come under Hazaribagh district.

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Election	Member
Bihar Legislative Assembly
1952	Kamakhya Narain Singh	Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party
1957	Shashank Manjari	Chota Nagpur Santhal Parganas Janata Party
1962	Shashank Manjari	Swatantra Party
1967	Mahesh Ram	Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1969		Janata Party
1972		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977	Kailash Pati Singh	Janata Party
1980^[4]	Ramendra Kumar	Communist Party of India
1985^[5]
1990^[6]
1995^[7]	Loknath Mahto	Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Loknath Mahto	Bharatiya Janata Party
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
2005	Loknath Mahto	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Yogendra Sao	Indian National Congress
2014	Nirmala Devi
2019	Amba Prasad
2024	Roshan Lal Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Roshan Lal Choudhary	124,468	46.85%	32.67
	INC	Amba Prasad	93,075	35.03%	9.09
	JLKM	Baleshwar Kumar	26,867	10.11%	New
	Independent	Aman Kumar	2,668	1.00%	New
	CPI	Aniruddh Kumar	2,385	0.90%	0.31
	AIMIM	Md Shamim Miyan	1,643	0.62%	0.73
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan)	Sohar Mahto	1,638	0.62%	0.81
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,179	0.44%	0.02
Margin of victory			31,393	11.82%	2.25
Turnout			2,65,680	68.82%	3.04
Registered electors			3,86,072		13.34
	BJP gain from INC		Swing	2.72

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amba Prasad	98,862	44.13%	14.89
	AJSU	Roshan Lal Choudhary	67,348	30.06%	1.02
	BJP	Loknath Mahto	31,761	14.18%	New
	JVM(P)	Durga Charan Prasad	3,347	1.49%	5.63
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan)	Suresh Mahto	3,205	1.43%	New
	AIMIM	Pritam Singh	3,022	1.35%	New
	CPI	Mithilesh Kumar Dangi	2,710	1.21%	6.66
	NOTA	None of the Above	960	0.43%	0.52
Margin of victory			31,514	14.07%	13.87
Turnout			2,24,045	65.77%	0.10
Registered electors			3,40,643		6.12
	INC hold		Swing	14.89

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Nirmala Devi	61,817	29.24%	3.40
	AJSU	Roshan Lal Chaudhary	61,406	29.04%	11.05
	JMM	Sanjeev Kumar	32,496	15.37%	3.35
	CPI	Ramendra Kumar	16,631	7.87%	0.97
	JVM(P)	Shivlal Mahto	15,068	7.13%	New
	BSP	Deepak Kumar Das	3,851	1.82%	New
	Independent	Kartik Mahto	3,122	1.48%	New
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,002	0.95%	New
Margin of victory			411	0.19%	0.72
Turnout			2,11,447	65.87%	11.07
Registered electors			3,21,008		17.49
	INC hold		Swing	3.40

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Yogendra Sao	38,683	25.83%	6.79
	BJP	Loknath Mahto	37,319	24.92%	4.22
	AJSU	Roshan Lal Choudhary	26,945	17.99%	New
	JMM	Sanjeev Kumar	17,990	12.01%	2.31
	CPI	Bindhyachal	10,329	6.90%	7.89
	CPI(ML)L	Quamuddin Ansari	2,269	1.52%	0.49
	Independent	Krishna Oraon	1,897	1.27%	New
Margin of victory			1,364	0.91%	9.19
Turnout			1,49,740	54.80%	4.15
Registered electors			2,73,225		0.73
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	3.31

Barkagaon Assembly constituency

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

Assembly election 2024

Assembly election 2019

Assembly election 2014

Assembly election 2009

Assembly election 2005

Assembly election 2000

See also

References

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2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election: Barkagaon^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Loknath Mahto	47,283	29.14%	6.77
	INC	Yogendra Sao	30,902	19.05%	12.98
	CPI	Ramendra Kumar	23,992	14.79%	11.84
	Independent	Shivlal Mahto	18,258	11.25%	New
	JMM	Sanjeev Kumar	15,751	9.71%	2.80
	CPI(ML)L	Pairu Pratap Ram	3,254	2.01%	0.62
	BSP	Darshan Ganjhu	3,233	1.99%	New
Margin of victory			16,381	10.10%	0.81
Turnout			1,62,246	58.95%	11.73
Registered electors			2,75,221		14.05
	BJP hold		Swing	6.77

2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Barkagaon^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Loknath Mahto	40,921	35.91%	*New*
	CPI	Puran Ram Shahu	30,342	26.63%	New
	Marxist Co-Ordination	Mithilesh Kumar Singh	10,882	9.55%	New
	JMM	Shivlal Mahto	7,876	6.91%	New
	RJD	Girdhari Gope	7,860	6.90%	New
	INC	Idris Ansari	6,908	6.06%	New
	CPI(ML)L	Guni Ouran	2,993	2.63%	New
Margin of victory			10,579	9.28%
Turnout			1,13,955	47.92%
Registered electors			2,41,318
	BJP win (new seat)