Palamu Lok Sabha constituency

Palamu
JH-13
Palamu ; JH-13
Lok Sabha constituency
	Interactive Map Outlining Palamu Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Jharkhand
Assembly constituencies	Daltonganj; Bishrampur; Chhatarpur; Hussainabad; Garhwa; Bhawanathpur
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Vishnu Dayal Ram
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

Palamu Lok Sabha constituency (formerly Palamau Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. This constituency is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled castes. This constituency covers the entire Garhwa district and part of Palamu district.

Assembly segments

Palamu Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[1]

#	Name	District	Member
76	Daltonganj	Palamu	Alok Chaurasiya	BJP	BJP
77	Bishrampur		Ramchandra Chandravanshi	BJP	BJP
78	Chhatarpur (SC)		Pushpa Devi	BJP	BJP
79	Hussainabad		Kamlesh Kumar Singh	BJP	BJP
80	Garhwa	Garhwa	Mithilesh Kumar Thakur	JMM	BJP
81	Bhawanathpur	Garhwa	Bhanu Pratap Sahi	BJP	BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Member
1952	Gajendra Prasad Sinha	Indian National Congress
1957	Gajendra Prasad Sinha	Indian National Congress
1962	Shashank Manjari	Swatantra Party
1967	Kamla Kumari	Indian National Congress
1971	Kamla Kumari	Indian National Congress
1977	Ramdeni Ram	Janata Party
1980	Kamla Kumari	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Kamla Kumari	Indian National Congress
1989	Jorawar Ram	Janata Dal
1991	Ram Deo Ram	Bharatiya Janata Party
1996	Braj Mohan Ram
1998
1999
2004	Manoj Kumar	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2006^	Ghuran Ram	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Kameshwar Baitha	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
2014	Vishnu Dayal Ram	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019
2024

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Palamau
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Vishnu Dayal Ram	770,362	55.39
	RJD	Mamta Bhuiyan	481,555	34.53
	NOTA	None of the above	24,343	1.75
Majority			2,88,807	20.86
Turnout			13,90,738	61.27	3.07
	BJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Palamau
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Vishnu Dayal Ram	755,659	62.46
	RJD	Ghuran Ram	2,78,053	22.98
	BSP	Anjana Bhuiyan	53,597	4.43
	CPI(ML)	Sushma Mehta	5,004	0.41
Majority			4,77,606	39.48
Turnout			12,10,426	64.34
	BJP hold		Swing

2014

2014 Indian general elections: Palamau
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Vishnu Dayal Ram	4,76,513	48.76
	RJD	Manoj Kumar	2,12,571	21.75
	JVM(P)	Ghuran Ram	1,56,832	16.05
Majority			2,63,942	27.01
Turnout			9,78,159	59.43
	BJP gain from JMM		Swing

2009

2009 Indian general elections: Palamau
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JMM	Kameshwar Baitha	1,67,995	25.78
	RJD	Ghuran Ram	1,44,457	22.17
	JVM(P)	Prabhat Kumar	90,206	13.84
Majority			23,538	3.61
Turnout			6,51,579	45.97
	JMM gain from RJD		Swing

Notes

^ "Parliamentary Constituency". Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand website. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26.

23°48′N 85°54′E / 23.8°N 85.9°E / 23.8; 85.9

[1] "Parliamentary Constituency". Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand website. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26.

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