Nirsa

Overview & 2024 Context

Nirsa, Assembly Constituency number 39 in Dhanbad district, produced a photo-finish in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. ARUP CHATTERJEE of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) (CPI(ML)(L)) finished first with 104,855 votes (43.73%), defeating APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP), who polled 103,047 (42.98%). The victory margin was 1,808 votes. Of 332,433 electors, 239,780 votes were polled and turnout stood at 72.13%.

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: ARUP CHATTERJEE (CPI(ML)(L), 104,855 / 43.73%); APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP, 103,047 / 42.98%); ASHOK KUMAR MONDAL (JLKM, 16,316 / 6.8%); RANJEET BAURI (BSP, 3,698 / 1.54%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between ARUP CHATTERJEE and APARNA SENGUPTA is the binding fact for seat 39, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 1,808 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Dhanbad sits in north/central Chotanagpur Jharkhand. Headquartered at Dhanbad, it mixes coal-mining and industrial corridors with rural blocks; jobs, roads and local contractor networks matter as much as alliance symbols. Administratively, Nirsa is Legislative Assembly seat number 39 under Dhanbad (headquarters: Dhanbad). 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. Nirsa sits inside that Dhanbad 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: APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP) by 25,458 votes; 2014: ARUP CHATTERJEE (MCO) by 1,035 votes; 2009: 1 ARUP CHATTERJEE (MCO) by 35,577 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for ARUP CHATTERJEE (CPI(ML)(L)) in Assembly Constituency number 39 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: 332,433. Votes polled: 239,780. Turnout: 72.13%. Winner ARUP CHATTERJEE (CPI(ML)(L)): 104,855 (43.73%); runner-up APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP): 103,047 (42.98%); margin: 1,808 — a photo-finish relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly segment.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 119,671 (50.14%), female 118,999 (49.86%), other 3.

Turnout 72.13% with 239,780 votes from 332,433 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Dhanbad.

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 Dhanbad, voters also weighed mining jobs, rural roads, urban services, contractor networks. a photo-finish for ARUP CHATTERJEE (CPI(ML)(L)) against APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 39.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Nirsa is narrower: ARUP CHATTERJEE (CPI(ML)(L)) outpolled APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP) by 1,808 votes under 72.13% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 39.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Nirsa. ARUP CHATTERJEE (CPI(ML)(L)) converted 104,855 votes; APARNA SENGUPTA (BJP) had 103,047. Turnout 72.13% and margin 1,808 in seat 39 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 332,433, votes polled 239,780, and the head-to-head between ARUP CHATTERJEE and APARNA SENGUPTA. District cues in Dhanbad 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.