Constituency
27. Chatra
Community mirrorJharkhand Assembly Election, 2009
JH-CHATRA
RJD 51.0%won by 29.2%BJP 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which now leads by 29.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2005 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RJD vote shareRJD went from 35.8% to 51.0% of the vote here (+15.2%).
- Safe seatRashtriya Janata Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,32,264
Margin
38,555
29.15%
Candidates
10 contested · winner RJD- 1JANARDAN PASWANRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD67,44151.0%
- 2SUBEDAR PASWANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,88621.8%
- 3SAHINDRA RAMIndian National Congress · INC18,88314.3%
- 4KRISHNA BHUIYANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,2193.2%
- 5SAGAR RAMIndependent · IND3,3472.5%
- 6MITHLESH KUMARIndependent · IND2,9432.2%
- 7SURESH DASJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,2391.7%
- 8NANDLAL BHUIYANIndependent · IND1,6261.2%
- 9PRAMOD KUMAR RAMCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3661.0%
- 10KAMESHWAR GANJHUIndependent · IND1,3141.0%
Since 2005
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2005 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- RJDflipped
- RJD–BJP swing
- +32.8%
- RJD share
- 35.8% → 51.0%
- BJP share
- 39.4% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- — → —