Chattarpur (SC)

Overview & 2024 Context

Chattarpur, Assembly Constituency number 78 in Palamu district, produced a photo-finish in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE of Indian National Congress (INC) finished first with 71,857 votes (36.5%), defeating PUSHPA DEVI (BJP), who polled 71,121 (36.13%). The victory margin was 736 votes. Of 320,465 electors, 196,872 votes were polled and turnout stood at 61.43%.

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 Legislative Assembly seat, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE (INC, 71,857 / 36.5%); PUSHPA DEVI (BJP, 71,121 / 36.13%); VIJAY KUMAR (RJD, 20,963 / 10.65%); SANDEEP KUMAR (IND, 6,159 / 3.13%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE and PUSHPA DEVI is the binding fact for seat 78, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 736 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Palamu is in the Palamu division of western Jharkhand. Headquartered at Palamu, the district is largely agrarian with forest fringes; drought stress, rural employment and connectivity dominate local issue talk. Administratively, Chattarpur is Assembly Constituency number 78 under Palamu (headquarters: Palamu). 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. Chattarpur sits inside that Palamu 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: PUSHPA DEVI (BJP) by 26,792 votes; 2014: RADHA KRISHNA KISHORE (BJP) by 5,862 votes; 2009: 1 SUDHA CHOUDHARY (JD(U)) by 9,746 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE (INC) in Legislative Assembly segment number 78 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: 320,465. Votes polled: 196,872. Turnout: 61.43%. Winner RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE (INC): 71,857 (36.5%); runner-up PUSHPA DEVI (BJP): 71,121 (36.13%); margin: 736 — a photo-finish relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 92,932 (47.71%), female 101,845 (52.29%).

Turnout 61.43% with 196,872 votes from 320,465 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Palamu.

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 Palamu, voters also weighed drought relief, rural employment, connectivity, farm distress. a photo-finish for RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE (INC) against PUSHPA DEVI (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 78.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Chattarpur is narrower: RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE (INC) outpolled PUSHPA DEVI (BJP) by 736 votes under 61.43% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 78.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Chattarpur. RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE (INC) converted 71,857 votes; PUSHPA DEVI (BJP) had 71,121. Turnout 61.43% and margin 736 in seat 78 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 320,465, votes polled 196,872, and the head-to-head between RADHA KRISHANA KISHORE and PUSHPA DEVI. District cues in Palamu 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.