Barhi
SLA
StateJharkhand
Loksabha consHazaribagh
Constituency no21
Established2000
ReservationNone
Incumbent imageMLA Manoj Kumar Yadav.jpg
MlaManoj Yadav
PartyBJP
Latest election year2024

Barhi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Overview

Barhi police station in Hazaribagh district and Chauparan police station in Hazaribagh district.[1]

Barhi assembly constituency is part of Hazaribagh (Lok Sabha constituency). There are four blocks under the jurisdiction of Barhi Assembly constituency- Barhi, Chauparan, Padma in Hazaribagh district and Chandwara in Koderma district. Two new administrative blocks (Padma and Chandwara) were created during the 1990s when Ram Lakhan Singh was the MLA of the constituency. The constituency covers 64 panchyats under these four blocks- Barhi (20 panchayats), Chauparan (26 panchayats), Padma (8 Panchayats) and Chadwara (10 panchayats). Entire Barhi constituency is divided into 318 polling booths.[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

ElectionMemberParty
Bihar Legislative Assembly
1952Rameshwar Prasad Mahato
1957
1962Kamakhya Narain Singh
1967I. J. N. Singh
1969
1972Rameshwar Prasad Mahato
1977Lalita Rajya Lakshmi
1980Niranjan Prasad Singh
1985
1990Ram Lakhan Singh
1995Manoj Kumar Yadav
2000
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
2005Manoj Kumar Yadav
2009Umashankar Akela
2014Manoj Kumar Yadav
2019Umashankar Akela
2024Manoj Kumar Yadav

See also

References

  • Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India [1]
  1. ^ "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India". Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
  2. ^ "Hazaribagh Loksabha Constituency (Jharkhand)". India Study Channel.com. Retrieved 2010-04-17.