Ranchi, December 13: Dhanbad Vidhan Sabha is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand. BJP candidate Raj Sinha won the 2019 Assembly elections with 61,111 votes defeating Congress's Manan Mallick. The constituency had its polls under phase four elections on December 16. Dhanbad is the second-most populous city in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The city ranks 33rd largest city in India and ranks 42nd largest million-plus urban agglomeration in India.

Raj Sinha had also won the 2014 Assembly Elections with 132091 votes defeating Mannan Mallick who secured 79,094 votes. In 2009, Manan Mallick had won the Assembly Elections with 55641, marginally ahead of BJP candidate Raj Sinha. Nirsa Vidhan Sabha Constituency in Jharkhand: Sitting MLA, Candidates For Assembly  Elections 2019, Results And Winners.

The five-phased assembly election in Jharkhand began on November 30. Counting of votes will take place on December 23. In the ongoing bypolls Congress and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) has decided to keep their alliance which was decimated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha polls.

The other constituencies under phase 4 which will have their 2019 Jharkhand bypolls on December 16 are- Sindri, Deoghar, Giridih, Jharia, Tundi, Baghmara, Bokaro, Chandankiyari, Madhupur, Bagodar, Jamua, Gandey, and Dumri.

2019 dhanbad Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
UMESH PASWANIND927
MANNAN MALLICKINC90144
LAKSHMI DEVIIND831
RAJ KUMAR SONIAAP670
MEGHNATH RAWANIIND660
K.C. SINGH RAJIND330
RANJEET SINGH ALIAS BABLU SINGHIND2852
SURENDRA KUMARIND234
SANJAY PASWANIND205
SAROJ KUMAR SINGHJVM1458
RAJ SINHA (Current MLA)BJP120773
RAM JANMA PRASADBSP1145
PRADIP MOHAN SAHAYAJSU PartyNA
BINOD CHANDRAWANSHIPeoples Party of India (Democratic)NA
BIRU ANAND SINGHMarxist Co-OrdinationNA
MANILAL MAHTOJharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan)NA
MERAJ KHANSamajwadi PartyNA
MOHAMMAD FAISAL KHANBhartiya Dalit PartyNA
RAM VINAY SINGHHindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)NA
RAHUL KUMAR PASWANCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)NA
VIKASH RANJANLok Jan Shakti PartyNA
VIPIN KUMARJD(U)NA

2014 dhanbad Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Mannan MallickINC79094
Raj Sinha (Current MLA)BJP132091

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