Kolebira (ST)

Overview & 2024 Context

Kolebira, Legislative Assembly segment number 71 in Simdega district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI of Indian National Congress (INC) finished first with 75,376 votes (51.69%), defeating SUJAN JOJO (BJP), who polled 38,345 (26.3%). The victory margin was 37,031 votes. Of 210,377 electors, 145,818 votes were polled and turnout stood at 69.31%.

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: NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC, 75,376 / 51.69%); SUJAN JOJO (BJP, 38,345 / 26.3%); VIBHAV SANDESH EKKA (JKP, 18,878 / 12.95%); RICHARD TIRKEY (IND, 3,333 / 2.29%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI and SUJAN JOJO is the binding fact for seat 71, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 37,031 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Simdega belongs to south Chotanagpur Jharkhand. Headquarters at Simdega; Adivasi rural belts, plateau agriculture and (around Ranchi) capital-region services shape the local economy and booth-level mobilisation. Administratively, Kolebira is Assembly Constituency number 71 under Simdega (headquarters: Simdega). 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. Kolebira sits inside that Simdega 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: NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC) by 12,338 votes; 2014: ANOSH EKKA (JKP) by 17,143 votes; 2009: 1 ANOSH EKKA (JKP) by 7,502 votes; 2005: ENOS EKKA (JKP) by 4,286 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC) in Assembly Constituency number 71 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: 210,377. Votes polled: 145,818. Turnout: 69.31%. Winner NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC): 75,376 (51.69%); runner-up SUJAN JOJO (BJP): 38,345 (26.3%); margin: 37,031 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 68,474 (47.49%), female 75,700 (52.51%).

Turnout 69.31% with 145,818 votes from 210,377 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Simdega.

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 Simdega, voters also weighed tribal land rights, forest livelihoods, capital-region jobs, rural roads. a landslide verdict for NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC) against SUJAN JOJO (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 71.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Kolebira is narrower: NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC) outpolled SUJAN JOJO (BJP) by 37,031 votes under 69.31% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 71.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Kolebira. NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI (INC) converted 75,376 votes; SUJAN JOJO (BJP) had 38,345. Turnout 69.31% and margin 37,031 in seat 71 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 210,377, votes polled 145,818, and the head-to-head between NAMAN BIXAL KONGARI and SUJAN JOJO. District cues in Simdega 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.