2024 Assembly Elections Results of Barkagaon Assembly Constituency

The coming 2024 assembly election to the Barkagaon seat will be held on November 13, 2024

Contesting Candidates for Barkagaon Assembly constituency

 Assembly Elections 2024    

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
BJP

Current Trends

One of the 81 assembly constituencies in Jharkhand, Barkagaon is currently held by its sitting Congress MLA Amba Prasad who emerged victorious from the seat in 2019 by defeating the AJSU’s candidate Roshan Lal Choudhary by a margin of 31,514 votes. BJP’s Loknath Mahto came third.

Located in the Ramgdh district of Jharkhand, Barkagaon is one of the five assembly constituencies, the combination of which go on to form the parliamentary constituency of Hazaribagh which is currently held by BJP’s Manish Jaiswal who defeated of the Jai Prakash Bhai Patel of Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Other four assembly seats in the Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency are Ramgarh, Mandu, Hazaribagh and Barhi.

Electoral History of Barkagaon assembly constituency

Earlier Loknath Mahto was elected from Barkagaon assembly constituency three times in a row (1995, 2000 and 2005). The current MLA Amba Prasad is the daughter of Yogendra Sao who had won in 2009 as a Congress candidate. Her mother Nirmala Devi was elected from the seat in 2009.