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BJP's Vishnu Dayal Ram, RJD's Ghuran Ram and CPI (Marxist–Leninist) Sushma Mehta were the key candidates in the fray in 2019 in Palamu.
Updated : May 24, 2019, 02:44 PM IST
BJPs sitting MP and former Jharkhand police chief Vishnu Dayal Ram retained the Palamau (SC) seat, defeating his nearest RJD rival Ghuran Ram by 4,75,284 votes.
BJP Vishnu Dayal Ram 755,659 Votes 62% Votes
RJD Ghuran Ram 278,053 Votes 23% Votes
BSP Anjana Bhuiyan 53,597 Votes 4% Votes
IND Dinesh Ram 19,491 Votes 2% Votes
NOTA Nota 13,961 Votes 1% Votes
IND Ram Ji Paswan 13,097 Votes 1% Votes
BLSD Amindra Paswan 13,047 Votes 1% Votes
Palamu Lok Sabha constituency profile
Palamu constituency consists of six assembly segments which are Daltonganj, Bhawanathpur, Chhatarpur (SC), Garhwa, Bishrampur and Hussainabad.
BJP's Vishnu Dayal Ram was the sitting MP in Palamu who defeated RJD's Manoj Kumar by a margin of more than 2.5 lakh votes in 2014.
Palamu Lok Sabha election 2019 candidates
BJP: Vishnu Dayal Ram
RJD: Ghuran Ram
CPI (Marxist–Leninist): Sushma Mehta
Palamu Lok Sabha results in 2014, 2009 and 2004
2014
Winning candidate: Vishnu Dayal Ram (BJP)
Losing candidate: Manoj Kumar (RJD)
2009
Winning candidate: Kameshwar Baitha (JMM)
Losing candidate: Ghuran RAM (RJD)
2004
Winning candidate: Manoj Kumar (RJD)
Losing candidate: Braj Mohan Ram (BJP)