Sindri

Overview & 2024 Context

Sindri, Legislative Assembly segment number 38 in Dhanbad district, produced a narrow contest in the 2024 Jharkhand polls. CHANDRADEO MAHATO of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) (CPI(ML)(L)) finished first with 105,136 votes (39.63%), defeating TARA DEVI (BJP), who polled 101,688 (38.33%). The victory margin was 3,448 votes. Of 365,443 electors, 265,308 votes were polled and turnout stood at 72.6%.

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: CHANDRADEO MAHATO (CPI(ML)(L), 105,136 / 39.63%); TARA DEVI (BJP, 101,688 / 38.33%); USHA DEVI (JLKM, 42,664 / 16.08%); MOBIN ANSARI (NCP, 3,820 / 1.44%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between CHANDRADEO MAHATO and TARA DEVI is the binding fact for seat 38, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 3,448 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, Sindri is Assembly Constituency number 38 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. Sindri 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: INDRAJIT MAHATO (BJP) by 8,253 votes; 2014: FULCHAND MANDAL (BJP) by 6,548 votes; 2009: 1 PHUL CHAND MANDAL (JVM) by 3,760 votes; 2005: RAJ KISHORE MAHATO (BJP) by 7,003 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2024 win for CHANDRADEO MAHATO (CPI(ML)(L)) in Assembly Constituency number 38 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: 365,443. Votes polled: 265,308. Turnout: 72.6%. Winner CHANDRADEO MAHATO (CPI(ML)(L)): 105,136 (39.63%); runner-up TARA DEVI (BJP): 101,688 (38.33%); margin: 3,448 — a narrow contest relative to total votes polled in this Legislative Assembly seat.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 133,693 (50.86%), female 129,177 (49.14%), other 1.

Turnout 72.6% with 265,308 votes from 365,443 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 narrow contest for CHANDRADEO MAHATO (CPI(ML)(L)) against TARA DEVI (BJP) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 38.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Sindri is narrower: CHANDRADEO MAHATO (CPI(ML)(L)) outpolled TARA DEVI (BJP) by 3,448 votes under 72.6% turnout, and that is the 2024 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 38.

Reading 2024 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Sindri. CHANDRADEO MAHATO (CPI(ML)(L)) converted 105,136 votes; TARA DEVI (BJP) had 101,688. Turnout 72.6% and margin 3,448 in seat 38 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 365,443, votes polled 265,308, and the head-to-head between CHANDRADEO MAHATO and TARA DEVI. 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.