Deoghar (SC)

Overview & 2024 Context

Deoghar, Assembly Constituency number 15 in Deoghar district, produced a clear mandate in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. SURESH PASWAN of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) finished first with 156,079 votes (53.51%), defeating NARAYAN DAS (BJP), who polled 116,358 (39.89%). The victory margin was 39,721 votes. Of 438,372 electors, 291,709 votes were polled and turnout stood at 66.54%.

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: SURESH PASWAN (RJD, 156,079 / 53.51%); NARAYAN DAS (BJP, 116,358 / 39.89%); BAJRANGI MAHTHA (IND, 4,414 / 1.51%); GYAN RANJAN (BSP, 3,854 / 1.32%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between SURESH PASWAN and NARAYAN DAS is the binding fact for seat 15, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 39,721 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Deoghar is part of the Santhal Pargana belt of Jharkhand. With headquarters at Deoghar, the district combines dense rural habitations, tribal identity politics and market towns; welfare delivery and land–migration concerns often travel with statewide narratives. Administratively, Deoghar is Legislative Assembly seat number 15 under Deoghar (headquarters: Deoghar). 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. Deoghar sits inside that Deoghar 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: NARAYAN DAS (BJP) by 2,624 votes; 2014: NARAYAN DAS (BJP) by 45,152 votes; 2009: 1 SURESH PASWAN (RJD) by 17,740 votes; 2005: KAMESHWAR NATH DAS Tharhi Dulampur, Deosangh, Kunda (JD(U)) by 9,623 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for SURESH PASWAN (RJD) in Assembly Constituency number 15 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: 438,372. Votes polled: 291,709. Turnout: 66.54%. Winner SURESH PASWAN (RJD): 156,079 (53.51%); runner-up NARAYAN DAS (BJP): 116,358 (39.89%); margin: 39,721 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 148,113 (51.25%), female 140,903 (48.75%), other 10.

Turnout 66.54% with 291,709 votes from 438,372 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Deoghar.

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 Deoghar, voters also weighed tribal identity, welfare schemes, migration, farm incomes. a clear mandate for SURESH PASWAN (RJD) against NARAYAN DAS (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 15.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Deoghar is narrower: SURESH PASWAN (RJD) outpolled NARAYAN DAS (BJP) by 39,721 votes under 66.54% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 15.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Deoghar. SURESH PASWAN (RJD) converted 156,079 votes; NARAYAN DAS (BJP) had 116,358. Turnout 66.54% and margin 39,721 in seat 15 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 438,372, votes polled 291,709, and the head-to-head between SURESH PASWAN and NARAYAN DAS. District cues in Deoghar 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.