Gomia

Overview & 2024 Context

Gomia, Assembly Constituency number 34 in Bokaro district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. YOGENDRA PRASAD of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) finished first with 95,170 votes (42.18%), defeating PUJA KUMARI (JLKM), who polled 59,077 (26.18%). The victory margin was 36,093 votes. Of 313,994 electors, 225,652 votes were polled and turnout stood at 71.87%.

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: YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM, 95,170 / 42.18%); PUJA KUMARI (JLKM, 59,077 / 26.18%); Lambodar Mahto (AJSUP, 54,508 / 24.16%); PRAKASH LAL SINGH (IND, 2,926 / 1.3%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between YOGENDRA PRASAD and PUJA KUMARI is the binding fact for seat 34, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 36,093 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Bokaro sits in north/central Chotanagpur Jharkhand. Headquartered at Bokaro, it mixes coal-mining and industrial corridors with rural blocks; jobs, roads and local contractor networks matter as much as alliance symbols. Administratively, Gomia is Legislative Assembly seat number 34 under Bokaro (headquarters: Bokaro). 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. Gomia sits inside that Bokaro 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: Lambodar Mahto (AJSUP) by 10,937 votes; 2014: YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM) by 37,514 votes; 2009: 1 MADHAV LAL SINGH (INC) by 8,303 votes; 2005: CHHATTU RAM MAHTO (BJP) by 3,442 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM) in Assembly Constituency number 34 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: 313,994. Votes polled: 225,652. Turnout: 71.87%. Winner YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM): 95,170 (42.18%); runner-up PUJA KUMARI (JLKM): 59,077 (26.18%); margin: 36,093 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 106,098 (47.72%), female 116,222 (52.28%).

Turnout 71.87% with 225,652 votes from 313,994 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Bokaro.

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 Bokaro, voters also weighed mining jobs, rural roads, urban services, contractor networks. a landslide verdict for YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM) against PUJA KUMARI (JLKM) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 34.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Gomia is narrower: YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM) outpolled PUJA KUMARI (JLKM) by 36,093 votes under 71.87% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 34.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Gomia. YOGENDRA PRASAD (JMM) converted 95,170 votes; PUJA KUMARI (JLKM) had 59,077. Turnout 71.87% and margin 36,093 in seat 34 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 313,994, votes polled 225,652, and the head-to-head between YOGENDRA PRASAD and PUJA KUMARI. District cues in Bokaro 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.