Daltonganj (Jharkhand) Assembly Constituency Election Update

About Daltonganj Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

A town in the Palamu district of Jharkhand, the assembly constituency of Daltonganj belongs to Palamu parliamentary constituency. The seat is represented by INC (Indian National Congress). It was earlier occupied by an independent candidate. Krishna Nand Tripathi of INC won the 2009 assembly elections and is the present MLA. He defeated Dileep Singh Namdhari of BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). Tripathi bagged 43571 votes as against Namdhari's 39338 votes. The administrative headquarter of the district, the city had a population of 201,596 in 2011. It is also known as Medininagar named after Colonel Edward Tuite Dalton.

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Sitting and previous MLAs from Daltonganj Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Daltonganj assembly elections conducted so far.

Year	A C No.	Constituency Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Votes
2014	76	Daltonganj	GEN	Alok Kr. Chaurasiya	M	JVMP	59202	Krishna Nand Tripathi	M	INC	54855
2009	76	Daltonganj	GEN	Krishna Nand Tripathi	M	INC	43571	Dileep Singh Namdhari	M	BJP	39338
2007	By Polls	Daltonganj	GEN	Inder Singh Namdhari	M	IND	41637	Anil Kumar Chaurasiya	M	AJSU	31444
2005	76	Daltonganj	GEN	Indar Singh Namdhari	M	JD(U)	45386	Anil Kumar Chaurasiya	M	IND	41625