Silli

Overview & 2024 Context

Silli, Legislative Assembly seat number 61 in Ranchi district, produced a clear mandate in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. AMIT KUMAR of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished first with 73,169 votes (41.9%), defeating SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP), who polled 49,302 (28.23%). The victory margin was 23,867 votes. Of 225,111 electors, 174,624 votes were polled and turnout stood at 77.57%.

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: AMIT KUMAR (JMM, 73,169 / 41.9%); SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP, 49,302 / 28.23%); DEVENDRA NATH MAHTO (JLKM, 41,725 / 23.89%); HEMANTI DEVI (IND, 1,620 / 0.93%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between AMIT KUMAR and SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO is the binding fact for seat 61, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 23,867 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Ranchi belongs to south Chotanagpur Jharkhand. Headquarters at Ranchi; Adivasi rural belts, plateau agriculture and (around Ranchi) capital-region services shape the local economy and booth-level mobilisation. Administratively, Silli is Legislative Assembly segment number 61 under Ranchi (headquarters: Ranchi). 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. Silli sits inside that Ranchi 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: SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP) by 20,195 votes; 2014: AMIT KUMAR (JMM) by 29,740 votes; 2009: 1 SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP) by 7,707 votes; 2005: SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSU) by 19,312 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for AMIT KUMAR (JMM) in Legislative Assembly number 61 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: 225,111. Votes polled: 174,624. Turnout: 77.57%. Winner AMIT KUMAR (JMM): 73,169 (41.9%); runner-up SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP): 49,302 (28.23%); margin: 23,867 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 85,147 (49.2%), female 87,919 (50.8%).

Turnout 77.57% with 174,624 votes from 225,111 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Ranchi.

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 Ranchi, voters also weighed tribal land rights, forest livelihoods, capital-region jobs, rural roads. a clear mandate for AMIT KUMAR (JMM) against SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 61.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Silli is narrower: AMIT KUMAR (JMM) outpolled SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP) by 23,867 votes under 77.57% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 61.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Silli. AMIT KUMAR (JMM) converted 73,169 votes; SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO (AJSUP) had 49,302. Turnout 77.57% and margin 23,867 in seat 61 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 225,111, votes polled 174,624, and the head-to-head between AMIT KUMAR and SUDESH KUMAR MAHTO. District cues in Ranchi 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.