Constituency
172. Chatra
Community mirrorJharkhand · India Lok Sabha Election, 2009
IN-CHATRA
IND 22.9%won by 3.4%INC 19.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 3.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- IND vote shareIND went from 11.9% to 22.9% of the vote here (+10.9%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 19.4% — it did not contest here in 2004.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 42.3% between them, down from 51.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,37,665
Turnout
45.7%
Valid votes
4,73,947
Margin
16,178
3.41%
Candidates
11 contested · winner IND- 1INDER SINGH NAMDHARIIndependent · IND1,08,33622.9%
- 2DHIRAJ PRASAD SAHUIndian National Congress · INC92,15819.4%
- 3NAGMANIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD68,76414.5%
- 4KESHWAR YADAVCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL63,84613.5%
- 5ARUN KUMAR YADAVJanata Dal (United) · JDU46,0889.7%
- 6K.P. SHARMAJVM · JVM33,7187.1%
- 7SUGAN MAHTOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP16,4083.5%
- 8DHIRENDRA AGRAWALIndependent · IND15,5913.3%
- 9RATNESH KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND15,5153.3%
- 10SURENDRA YADAVJan Kalyan Party · JKP6,8451.4%
- 11PARAS NATH MANJHIABMSD · ABMSD6,6781.4%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RJD
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–INC swing
- −8.5%
- IND share
- 11.9% → 22.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 19.4%
- Turnout
- 44.5% → 45.7%