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Dhanbad Lok Sabha Elections

Dhanbad Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Jharkhand and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 12.

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Jharkhand are being held in four phases on April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19.

Dhanbad constituency covers six assembly segments – Bokaro, Sindri, Nirsa, Dhanbad, Jharia and Chandankiyari which is reserved for the members of Scheduled Castes.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Pashupati Nath Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – won by getting a margin of over 2.92 lakh votes. He had defeated Ajay Kumar Dubey of the Indian National Congress (INC). Singh had secured 543491 votes while Dubey got 250537 votes.

The voter turnout figure was at 60.53 percent across 2240 polling stations.

Some of the other candidates in the fray were Anand Mahato of the Marxist Co-Ordination and Samresh Singh of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik).

In the year 2009, Pashupati Nath Singh of the BJP managed to secure his winning position by getting a margin of 58 thousand votes against Chandra Shekhar Dubey of the INC. While Singh got 260521 seats, Dubey got 202474 seats.

Other members in the fray were Samresh Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party and A.K. ROY of the Marxist Co-Ordination.

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Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Pashupati Nath Singh	BJP	Won	827234
Kirti Azad	INC	Lost	341040
Rajesh Kumar Singh	IND	Lost	11110
Lakshmi Devi	IND	Lost	10876
Siddharth Gautam	IND	Lost	9492
Madhvi Singh	AITC	Lost	8235
Sudhir Kumar Mahato	BMP	Lost	7495
Nota	Nota	Lost	4346
Meghnath Rawani	BSP	Lost	4241
Bamapada Bauri	IND	Lost	4135
Varun Kumar	IND	Lost	4026
Sanjay Paswan	IND	Lost	3762
Mihir Chandra Mahato	APOI	Lost	3004
Deepak Kumar Das	PPI(D)	Lost	2194
Prem Prakash Paswan	IND	Lost	2117
Umesh Paswan	IND	Lost	1967
Ram Lal Mahto	SUCI	Lost	1741
Heera Lal Shankhvar	AIFB	Lost	1684
Mantosh Kumar Mandal	AMB	Lost	1635
Meraj Khan	SP	Lost	1453
K.C. Singh Raj	IND	Lost	1030