Chatra (Lok Sabha constituency)

Chatra
Chatra
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Sunil Kumar Singh
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1957
Reservation	None
State	Jharkhand
Assembly Constituencies	Simaria; Chatra; Manika ; Latehar ; Panki

Chatra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. It covers the entire Chatra and Latehar districts and part of Palamu district

Vidhan Sabha segments[]

Presently, Chatra Lok Sabha smallestconstituency in jharkhandcomprises the following five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[1]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
26	Simaria	SC	Chatra
27	Chatra	SC	Chatra
73	Manika	ST	Latehar
74	Latehar	SC	Latehar
75	Panki	None	Palamu

Until 1977, Chatra was one of the vast Parliamentary constituencies with parts of Gaya, Hazaribag and Palamu districts. The districts of Chatra and Latehar came into being much later. Sans Panki, all the assembly segments namely Chatra, Simaria, Latehar and Manika are reserved seats, whereas Chatra continues to be an unreserved Parliamentary constituency.

Members of Lok Sabha[]

1957: Vijaya Raje, CNSPJP (Janata Party)
1962: Vijaya Raje, Swatantra
1967: V.Raje (Vijaya Raje), Independent
1971: Shankar Dayal Singh, Indian National Congress
1977: Sukhdeo Verma, Janata Party
1980: Ranjit Singh, Indian National Congress
1984: Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh, Indian National Congress
1989: Upendra Nath Verma, Janata Dal
1991: Upendra Nath Verma, Janata Dal
1996: Dhirendra Agarwal, Bharatiya Janta Party
1998: Dhirendra Agarwal, Bharatiya Janta Party
1999: Nagmani Kushwaha, Rashtriya Janata Dal
2004: Dhirendra Agarwal, Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009: Inder Singh Namdhari, Independent
2014: Sunil Kumar Singh, Bharatiya Janta Party
2019: Sunil Kumar Singh, Bharatiya Janta Party

Election results[]

2019 Lok Sabha[]

2019 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh	5,28,077	57.03
	INC	Manoj Kumar Yadav	1,50,206	16.22
	RJD	Subhash Yadav	83,425	9.01
	CPI	Arjun Kumar	22,577	2.44
	BSP	Nageshwar Ganjhu	18,888	2.04
Majority			3,77,871	40.81
Turnout			9,25,956	64.97
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh	2,95,862	41.50
	INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	1,17,836	16.53
	JVM(P)	Nilam Devi	1,04,176	14.61
	AJSU	Nagmani	35,674	5.00
Majority			1,78,026	24.97
Turnout			7,12,980	54.32
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Inder Singh Namdhari	1,08,336	22.86
	INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	92,158	19.44
	RJD	Nagmani Kushwaha	68,764	14.51
	CPI(ML)	Keshwar Yadav	63,846	13.47
	JD(U)	Arun Kumar Yadav	46,088	9.72
Majority			16,178	3.41
Turnout			4,73,941	45.67
	Independent gain from RJD		Swing