Barkagaon (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Barkagaon (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand under Hazaribagh district. It consists of three blocks namely Barkagaon, Keredari and Patratu.

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.^[1] 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 Hazari bagh district

Members of Assembly[]

• 1980: Ramendra Kumar, Communist Party of India^[2]
• 1985: Ramendra Kumar, Communist Party of India^[3]
• 1990: Ramendra Kumar, Communist Party of India^[4]
• 1995: Loknath Mahto, Bharatiya Janata Party^[5]
• 2000: Loknath Mahto, Bharatiya Janata Party^[6]
• 2005: Loknath Mahto, Bharatiya Janata Party
• 2009: Yogendra Sao, Indian National Congress
• 2014: Nirmala Devi, Indian National Congress
• 2019 :Amba Prasad, Indian National Congress

Election Results[]

2019[]

2019 Jharkhand state assembly elections: Barkagaon

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amba Prasad	98,862	44.30	15.10
	AJSU	Roshan Lal Choudhary	67,348	30.20	1.10
	BJP	Loknath Mahto	31,761	14.20
	JVM(P)	Durga Charan Prasad	3,347	1.50	5.60
Majority			31,514	14.10
Turnout
	INC hold		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]

Coordinates: 23°51′N 85°13′E / 23.85°N 85.22°E / 23.85; 85.22

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