2024 Assembly Elections Results of Barhi Assembly Constituency

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

Contesting Candidates for Barhi Assembly constituency

 Assembly Elections 2024    

Party	Candidate	Votes Polled
Congress	Arun Shahu
BJP	Manoj Yadav
SP

Barhi assembly constituency is currently represented by Umashankar Akela who won the seat in 2019 as a Congress ticket. A party hopper Umashankar Akela has joined Samajwadi Party when he was denied ticket by Congress for 2024 assembly elections. Congress has nominated Arun Shahu.  Earlier too Umashankar Akela was a Samajwadi Party candidate,

Three time Congress legislator Manoj Yadav has entered the fray as BJP candidate. 

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

Electoral History of Barhi Assembly constituency 

Umashankar Akela had won the Barhi Assembly in 2009 and 2019 as candidates of BJP and Congress respectively. In 2019 he had defeated the then incumbent Congress MLA Manoj Yadav who had been elected in 2014, 2005 and 2000.

In 2005, Manoj Yadav, then a Congress candidate, had defeated Umashankar Akela, who was then a Samajwadi Party candidate,

in 200 Umashankar Akela was in the fray as an Independent.