Chatra
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Sunil Kumar Singh
Parliamentary Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1957
Reservation	None
State	Jharkhand
Assembly Constituencies	Simaria Chatra Manika Latehar Panki

Chatra Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 14 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Jharkhand state in eastern India. It covers the entire Chatra and Latehar districts and part of Palamu district

Vidhan Sabha segments

Presently, Chatra Lok Sabha smallestconstituency in jharkhandcomprises the following five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[1]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District
26	Simaria	SC	Chatra
27	Chatra	SC	Chatra
73	Manika	ST	Latehar
74	Latehar	SC	Latehar
75	Panki	None	Palamu

Until 1977, Chatra was one of the vast Parliamentary constituencies with parts of Gaya, Hazaribag and Palamu districts. The districts of Chatra and Latehar came into being much later. Sans Panki, all the assembly segments namely Chatra, Simaria, Latehar and Manika are reserved seats, whereas Chatra continues to be an unreserved Parliamentary constituency.

Members of Lok Sabha

1957: Vijaya Raje, CNSPJP (Janata Party)
1962: Vijaya Raje, Swatantra
1967: V.Raje (Vijaya Raje), Independent
1971: Shankar Dayal Singh, Indian National Congress
1977: Sukhdeo Verma, Janata Party
1980: Ranjit Singh, Indian National Congress
1984: Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh, Indian National Congress
1989: Upendra Nath Verma, Janata Dal
1991: Upendra Nath Verma, Janata Dal
1996: Dhirendra Agarwal, Bharatiya Janta Party
1998: Dhirendra Agarwal, Bharatiya Janta Party
1999: Nagmani Kushwaha, Rashtriya Janata Dal
2004: Dhirendra Agarwal, Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009: Inder Singh Namdhari, Independent
2014: Sunil Kumar Singh, Bharatiya Janta Party
2019: Sunil Kumar Singh, Bharatiya Janta Party

Election results

2019 Lok Sabha

2019 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh	5,28,077	57.03
	INC	Manoj Kumar Yadav	1,50,206	16.22
	RJD	Subhash Yadav	83,425	9.01
	CPI	Arjun Kumar	22,577	2.44
	BSP	Nageshwar Ganjhu	18,888	2.04
Majority			3,77,871	40.81
Turnout			9,25,956	64.97
	BJP gain from INC		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sunil Kumar Singh	2,95,862	41.50
	INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	1,17,836	16.53
	JVM(P)	Nilam Devi	1,04,176	14.61
	AJSU	Nagmani	35,674	5.00
Majority			1,78,026	24.97
Turnout			7,12,980	54.32
	BJP gain from Independent		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Chatra
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Inder Singh Namdhari	1,08,336	22.86
	INC	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	92,158	19.44
	RJD	Nagmani Kushwaha	68,764	14.51
	CPI(ML)	Keshwar Yadav	63,846	13.47
	JD(U)	Arun Kumar Yadav	46,088	9.72
Majority			16,178	3.41
Turnout			4,73,941	45.67
	Independent gain from RJD		Swing

1984 Lok Sabha

Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh (INC) : 211,020 votes ^[2]
Shukdeo Prasad Verma (ICJ) : 54,478

Notes

^ "Parliamentary Constituency". Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand website. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26.
^ "1984 India General (8th Lok Sabha) Elections Results".

v t e Lok Sabha constituencies of Jharkhand
1.Rajmahal 2.Dumka 3.Godda 4.Chatra 5.Kodarma 6.Giridih 7.Dhanbad 8.Ranchi 9.Jamshedpur 10.Singhbhum 11.Khunti 12.Lohardaga 13.Palamu 14.Hazaribagh

North Chotanagpur division topics

General

Districts

Sub-divisions

Bokaro	Bermo Chas
Chatra	Chatra Simaria
Giridih	Bagodar-Saria Dumri Giridih Sadar Khori Mahuwa
Koderma	Koderma
Hazaribagh	Hazaribagh Sadar Barhi
Ramgarh	Ramgarh

Community development
blocks

Bokaro	Bermo Chandankiyari Chandrapura Chas Gomia Jaridih Kasmar Nawadih Petarwar
Chatra	Chatra Gidhour Itkhori Kanhachatti Kunda Lawalong Mayurhand Pathalgada Pratappur Shaligram Ramnarayanpur (Hunterganj) Simaria Tandwa
Dhanbad	Baghmara Baliapur Dhanbad Govindpur Jharia Nirsa Purbi Tundi Topchanchi Tundi
Giridih	Bagodar Bengabad Birni Deori Dhanwar Dumri Gandey Gawan Giridih Jamua Pirtand Sariya Tisri
Hazaribagh	Barhi Barkagaon Barkatha Bishnugarh Chalkusha Chauparan Churchu Dadi Daru Ichak Katkamdag Katkamsandi Keredari Padma Sadar, Hazaribagh Tati Jhariya
Koderma	Chandwara Domchanch Jainagar Koderma Markacho Satgawan
Ramgarh	Chitarpur Dulmi Gola Mandu Patratu Ramgarh

Rivers, waterfalls, dams

Languages, people

Transport

Railway stations

Coalfields and
coal companies

Central Coalfields

Institutes of higher learning

Lok Sabha constituencies

Vidhan Sabha
constituencies

Chatra	Chatra Simaria
Dhanbad	Bokaro Sindri Nirsa Dhanbad Jharia Chandankiyari
Giridih	Giridih Dumri Gomia Bermo Tundi Baghmara
Hazaribagh	Barhi Barkagaon Ramgarh Mandu Hazaribagh
Kodarma	Kodarma Barkatha Dhanwar Bagodar Jamua Gandey