Jamua (SC)

Overview & 2024 Context

Jamua, Legislative Assembly segment number 30 in Giridih district, produced a clear mandate in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. MANJU KUMARI of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 117,532 votes (53.34%), defeating KEDAR HAZRA (JMM), who polled 84,901 (38.53%). The victory margin was 32,631 votes. Of 359,735 electors, 220,340 votes were polled and turnout stood at 61.25%.

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, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: MANJU KUMARI (BJP, 117,532 / 53.34%); KEDAR HAZRA (JMM, 84,901 / 38.53%); ROHIT KUMAR DAS (JLKM, 5,083 / 2.31%); SANJAY DAS (IND, 2,476 / 1.12%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between MANJU KUMARI and KEDAR HAZRA is the binding fact for seat 30, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 32,631 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Giridih sits in north/central Chotanagpur Jharkhand. Headquartered at Giridih, it mixes coal-mining and industrial corridors with rural blocks; jobs, roads and local contractor networks matter as much as alliance symbols. Administratively, Jamua is Assembly Constituency number 30 under Giridih (headquarters: Giridih). 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. Jamua sits inside that Giridih 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: KEDAR HAZRA (BJP) by 18,175 votes; 2014: KEDAR HAZRA (BJP) by 23,100 votes; 2009: 1 CHANDRIKA MAHTHA (JVM) by 18,527 votes; 2005: KEDAR HAZRA (BJP) by 5,134 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for MANJU KUMARI (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 30 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: 359,735. Votes polled: 220,340. Turnout: 61.25%. Winner MANJU KUMARI (BJP): 117,532 (53.34%); runner-up KEDAR HAZRA (JMM): 84,901 (38.53%); margin: 32,631 — a clear mandate relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 101,328 (46.34%), female 117,343 (53.66%).

Turnout 61.25% with 220,340 votes from 359,735 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Giridih.

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 Giridih, voters also weighed mining jobs, rural roads, urban services, contractor networks. a clear mandate for MANJU KUMARI (BJP) against KEDAR HAZRA (JMM) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 30.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Jamua is narrower: MANJU KUMARI (BJP) outpolled KEDAR HAZRA (JMM) by 32,631 votes under 61.25% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 30.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Jamua. MANJU KUMARI (BJP) converted 117,532 votes; KEDAR HAZRA (JMM) had 84,901. Turnout 61.25% and margin 32,631 in seat 30 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 359,735, votes polled 220,340, and the head-to-head between MANJU KUMARI and KEDAR HAZRA. District cues in Giridih 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.