Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Lok Sabha constituency which witnessed a record polling percentage of 66.33 within the remaining General Elections (2014) had once recorded simply 29.98% (lowest voting percentage ever recorded on this constituency) within the 1971 polls. In the 1971 LS polls Congress retained the Jamshedpur seat. Congress candidate Sardar Swarna defeated CPI's Kedar Das by means of simply 206 votes. The voting percentage was once simply 29.98. The voting percentage had dropped from 47.34% within the previous polls which took place in 1967. In the 1967 LS polls SC Prasad of Congress had defeated CPM’s U Mishra by means of a margin of 40,702 votes.
Between 1962 and 1984 Lok Sabha polls, Jamshedpur seat was once either in Congress or Left events kitty. In that period six basic elections had taken position and three times Congress received the seat and in three other polls Left events had Jamshedpur under their keep watch over.
After the withdrawal of infamous Emergency by means of then Congress PM Indira Gandhi, the 1977 election was once arranged and Congress was once swept away by means of the opposition wave. In that polls Congress candidate and really well-known labour union stalwart suffered a humiliating defeat within the hands of Janata Dal candidate Rudra Pratap Sarangi. The voting percentage was once 46.85. But the Janata Party alliance crumbled and fresh polls had been held in 1980. Indira Gandhi again came back to energy and become the PM within the seventh Lok Sabha.
Interestingly in that polls too when Janata Party candidates misplaced in most places, party repeated its sitting MP Rudra Pratap Sarangi who controlled to trounce Congress's VG Gopal again within the Jamshedpur LS seat. In that polls the voting percentage was once 48.43.
After this call for for bifurcation of Bihar and advent of separate tribal-dominated picked up tempo and throughout the Jharkhand Movement the grip of Congress over this Jamshedpur seat declined. After 1984, in which Gopeshwar, received the seat on Congress price tag, the party may just by no means field a powerful candidate who may just within the Jamshedpur seat. In this era JMM and BJP bloomed on this commercial and mining belt.
In the 1989 and 1991 Lok Sabha election Shailendra Mahato received the seat on JMM price tag.
During the BJP's Vajpayee-Advani generation, a fascinating candidate who had nothing to do with the Steel City or was once noticed in Jamshedpur ahead of, tele artist Nitish Bharadwaj (Krishna from Mahabharata serial) was once solid from the safforn party. The greenhorn in politics Nitish defeated an excessively known title in Bihar politics Inder Singh Namdhari. Namdhari was once then the shipping minister in erstwhile Bihar.
The "Krishna" impact was once heavy at the minds of each rural and concrete citizens here that voting percentage jumped to 59.2%. Unable to save the citadel from Nitish Bharadwaj wave, a political veteran like Namdhari was once defeated by means of a margin of 55000 votes.
The voting percentage again rose to 60% within the 1998 parliamentary elections, which declined to 54.74% within the 1999 polls.
After Jharkhand was once carved out from Bihar in 2000, the primary Lok Sabha polls had been held in 2004. Sunil Mahato received the seat on JMM price tag. The polling percentage in that election rose by means of just about 2% to 56.59%.
BJP’s Arjun Munda received the Jamshedpur seat within the 2009 LS polls and in that voting percentage here again dived to 51.12%. The 2014 Lok Sabha ballot noticed the seat received by means of saffron camp’s Bidyut Baran Mahato, who dumped JMM simply ahead of polls. Bidyut defeated JVM-P candidate Ajoy Kumar by means of a margin of just about 1 lakh votes.
Now, all eyes are at the provide polls if the record set in previous one can also be damaged.
Between 1962 and 1984 Lok Sabha polls, Jamshedpur seat was once either in Congress or Left events kitty. In that period six basic elections had taken position and three times Congress received the seat and in three other polls Left events had Jamshedpur under their keep watch over.
After the withdrawal of infamous Emergency by means of then Congress PM Indira Gandhi, the 1977 election was once arranged and Congress was once swept away by means of the opposition wave. In that polls Congress candidate and really well-known labour union stalwart suffered a humiliating defeat within the hands of Janata Dal candidate Rudra Pratap Sarangi. The voting percentage was once 46.85. But the Janata Party alliance crumbled and fresh polls had been held in 1980. Indira Gandhi again came back to energy and become the PM within the seventh Lok Sabha.
Interestingly in that polls too when Janata Party candidates misplaced in most places, party repeated its sitting MP Rudra Pratap Sarangi who controlled to trounce Congress's VG Gopal again within the Jamshedpur LS seat. In that polls the voting percentage was once 48.43.
After this call for for bifurcation of Bihar and advent of separate tribal-dominated picked up tempo and throughout the Jharkhand Movement the grip of Congress over this Jamshedpur seat declined. After 1984, in which Gopeshwar, received the seat on Congress price tag, the party may just by no means field a powerful candidate who may just within the Jamshedpur seat. In this era JMM and BJP bloomed on this commercial and mining belt.
In the 1989 and 1991 Lok Sabha election Shailendra Mahato received the seat on JMM price tag.
During the BJP's Vajpayee-Advani generation, a fascinating candidate who had nothing to do with the Steel City or was once noticed in Jamshedpur ahead of, tele artist Nitish Bharadwaj (Krishna from Mahabharata serial) was once solid from the safforn party. The greenhorn in politics Nitish defeated an excessively known title in Bihar politics Inder Singh Namdhari. Namdhari was once then the shipping minister in erstwhile Bihar.
The "Krishna" impact was once heavy at the minds of each rural and concrete citizens here that voting percentage jumped to 59.2%. Unable to save the citadel from Nitish Bharadwaj wave, a political veteran like Namdhari was once defeated by means of a margin of 55000 votes.
The voting percentage again rose to 60% within the 1998 parliamentary elections, which declined to 54.74% within the 1999 polls.
After Jharkhand was once carved out from Bihar in 2000, the primary Lok Sabha polls had been held in 2004. Sunil Mahato received the seat on JMM price tag. The polling percentage in that election rose by means of just about 2% to 56.59%.
BJP’s Arjun Munda received the Jamshedpur seat within the 2009 LS polls and in that voting percentage here again dived to 51.12%. The 2014 Lok Sabha ballot noticed the seat received by means of saffron camp’s Bidyut Baran Mahato, who dumped JMM simply ahead of polls. Bidyut defeated JVM-P candidate Ajoy Kumar by means of a margin of just about 1 lakh votes.
Now, all eyes are at the provide polls if the record set in previous one can also be damaged.
Jamshedpur seat: 1971 Lok Sabha polls recorded lowest voting percentage
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