Barhi Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Overview Barhi police station in Hazaribagh district and Chauparan police station in Hazaribagh district.
Barhi assembly constituency is part of Hazaribagh (Lok Sabha constituency). There are four blocks under the jurisdiction of Barhi Assembly constituency- Barhi, Chauparan, Padma in Hazaribagh district and Chandwara in Koderma district. Two new administrative blocks (Padma and Chandwara) were created during the 1990s when Ram Lakhan Singh was the MLA of the constituency. The constituency covers 64 panchyats under these four blocks- Barhi (20 panchayats), Chauparan (26 panchayats), Padma (8 Panchayats) and Chadwara (10 panchayats). Entire Barhi constituency is divided into 318 polling booths.
Members of Legislative Assembly Election MemberPartyBihar Legislative Assembly 1952 Rameshwar Prasad Mahato 1957 1962 Kamakhya Narain Singh 1967 I. J. N. Singh 1969 1972 Rameshwar Prasad Mahato 1977 Lalita Rajya Lakshmi 1980 Niranjan Prasad Singh 1985 1990 Ram Lakhan Singh 1995 Manoj Kumar Yadav 2000Jharkhand Legislative Assembly 2005 Manoj Kumar Yadav 2009 Umashankar Akela 2014 Manoj Kumar Yadav 2019 Umashankar Akela 2024 Manoj Kumar Yadav
Election results Assembly election 2024
Assembly election 2019
Assembly election 2014
Assembly election 2009
Assembly election 2005
Assembly election 2000
See also Vidhan Sabha List of states of India by type of legislature
References Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India