Singhbhum Lok Sabha Constituency of Jharkhand: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Singhbhum Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Jharkhand and cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 12.

In Jharkhand, an estimated 65.17 percent turnout was recorded for four Lok Sabha seats.

Geeta Kora of Indian National Congress, Pardeshi Lal Munda of Bahujan Samaj Party and Laxman Giluwa of Bharatiya Janata Party are a few prominent candidates contesting for general elections 2019 from Singhbhum Lok Sabha Constituency of Jharkhand. 

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Jharkhand was held in four phases on April 29, May 6, May 12 and May 19. The counting will be held on May 23.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Singhbhum Lok Sabha Constituency of Jharkhand.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	GEETA KORA	Indian National Congress
2	PARDESHI LAL MUNDA	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	LAXMAN GILUWA	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	KRISHNA MARDI	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan)
5	CHANDRA MOHAN HEMBROM	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
6	PRATAP SINGH BANARA	Ambedkarite Party of India
7	HARI ORAWN	Kalinga Sena
8	ANIL SOREN	Independent
9	PUSHPA SINKU	Independent

Singhbhum constituency is reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Tribes. This constituency covers six assembly segments – Seraikella, Chaibasa, Majhgaon, Jaganathpur, Manoharpur and Chakradharpur.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Laxman Giluwa of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – won by getting a margin of over 87 thousand votes. He had defeated Geeta Koda of the Jai Bharat Samanta Party. Giluwa had secured 303131 votes while Koda got 215607 votes.