Poreyahat

Overview & 2024 Context

Poreyahat, Legislative Assembly seat number 16 in Godda district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. PRADEEP YADAV of Indian National Congress (INC) finished first with 117,842 votes (52.89%), defeating DEVENDRANATH SINGH (BJP), who polled 83,712 (37.57%). The victory margin was 34,130 votes. Of 317,374 electors, 222,818 votes were polled and turnout stood at 70.21%.

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: PRADEEP YADAV (INC, 117,842 / 52.89%); DEVENDRANATH SINGH (BJP, 83,712 / 37.57%); RAJENDRA PANDIT (IND, 3,665 / 1.64%); RAM CHANDRA HEMBROM (CPI, 3,318 / 1.49%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between PRADEEP YADAV and DEVENDRANATH SINGH is the binding fact for seat 16, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 34,130 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Godda is part of the Santhal Pargana belt of Jharkhand. With headquarters at Godda, the district combines dense rural habitations, tribal identity politics and market towns; welfare delivery and land–migration concerns often travel with statewide narratives. Administratively, Poreyahat is Legislative Assembly segment number 16 under Godda (headquarters: Godda). 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. Poreyahat sits inside that Godda 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: Pradeep Yadav (JVM) by 13,597 votes; 2014: PRADIP YADAV (JVM) by 11,158 votes; 2009: 1 PRADIP YADAV (JVM) by 36,704 votes; 2005: PRADEEP YADAV (BJP) by 24,292 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for PRADEEP YADAV (INC) in Legislative Assembly number 16 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: 317,374. Votes polled: 222,818. Turnout: 70.21%. Winner PRADEEP YADAV (INC): 117,842 (52.89%); runner-up DEVENDRANATH SINGH (BJP): 83,712 (37.57%); margin: 34,130 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 105,795 (47.89%), female 115,116 (52.11%), other 1.

Turnout 70.21% with 222,818 votes from 317,374 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Godda.

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 Godda, voters also weighed tribal identity, welfare schemes, migration, farm incomes. a landslide verdict for PRADEEP YADAV (INC) against DEVENDRANATH SINGH (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 16.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Poreyahat is narrower: PRADEEP YADAV (INC) outpolled DEVENDRANATH SINGH (BJP) by 34,130 votes under 70.21% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 16.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Poreyahat. PRADEEP YADAV (INC) converted 117,842 votes; DEVENDRANATH SINGH (BJP) had 83,712. Turnout 70.21% and margin 34,130 in seat 16 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 317,374, votes polled 222,818, and the head-to-head between PRADEEP YADAV and DEVENDRANATH SINGH. District cues in Godda 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.