Maheshpur (ST)

Overview & 2024 Context

Maheshpur, Assembly Constituency number 6 in Pakur district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. STEPHEN MARANDI of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished first with 114,924 votes (59.43%), defeating NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM (BJP), who polled 53,749 (27.8%). The victory margin was 61,175 votes. Of 240,157 electors, 193,371 votes were polled and turnout stood at 80.52%.

The 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election returned the JMM-led INDIA bloc to power — the first consecutive re-election of an incumbent government in the state’s history. Campaign discourse centred on Maiya Samman–style welfare for women, Adivasi asmita and jal–jungle–jameen, set against NDA messaging on infiltration, corruption and law-and-order, as widely reported during the polls. In this Assembly Constituency, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM, 114,924 / 59.43%); NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM (BJP, 53,749 / 27.8%); GOPIN SOREN (CPI(M), 5,329 / 2.76%); MISTRY SOREN (BHAZS, 5,031 / 2.6%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between STEPHEN MARANDI and NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM is the binding fact for seat 6, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 61,175 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Pakur is part of the Santhal Pargana belt of Jharkhand. With headquarters at Pakur, the district combines dense rural habitations, tribal identity politics and market towns; welfare delivery and land–migration concerns often travel with statewide narratives. Administratively, Maheshpur is Legislative Assembly seat number 6 under Pakur (headquarters: Pakur). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Maheshpur sits inside that Pakur administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2019: STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM) by 34,106 votes; 2014: STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM) by 6,156 votes; 2009: 1 MISTRI SOREN (JVM) by 21,974 votes; 2005: SUPHAL MARANDI Jonka (JMM) by 12,816 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM) in Assembly Constituency number 6 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 240,157. Votes polled: 193,371. Turnout: 80.52%. Winner STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM): 114,924 (59.43%); runner-up NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM (BJP): 53,749 (27.8%); margin: 61,175 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 92,978 (48.52%), female 98,663 (51.48%), other 1.

Turnout 80.52% with 193,371 votes from 240,157 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Pakur.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included women’s cash-transfer welfare, tribal identity and land/forest rights, mining and jobs, and contested narratives on infiltration versus social cohesion. In Pakur, voters also weighed tribal identity, welfare schemes, migration, farm incomes. a landslide verdict for STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM) against NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 6.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Maheshpur is narrower: STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM) outpolled NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM (BJP) by 61,175 votes under 80.52% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 6.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Maheshpur. STEPHEN MARANDI (JMM) converted 114,924 votes; NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM (BJP) had 53,749. Turnout 80.52% and margin 61,175 in seat 6 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2024 table: electors 240,157, votes polled 193,371, and the head-to-head between STEPHEN MARANDI and NAVNEET ANTHONY HEMBROM. District cues in Pakur still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.