Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30
Dhanbad (Bihar) was won by Rita Verma (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 1999 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 14,226 votes over A K Roy. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Dhanbad, Bihar, from 1957 to 1999.
Full Election History, 1957–1999
Election
Winner
Party
Votes
Vote Share
Runner-up
Margin
1957
Prabhat Chanra Bose
Indian National Congress
67,095
48.1%
Kanai Lal Pal (Communist Party of India)
38,659 (27.7 pts)
1962
P. R. Chakravarti
Indian National Congress
75,170
37.8%
Satchidanand Trigunait (Swatantra Party)
24,206 (12.2 pts)
1967
L. R. Lakshmi
JKD
68,034
36.6%
A. P. Sharma (Indian National Congress)
20,267 (10.9 pts)
1971
Ram Narain Sharma
Indian National Congress
107,308
46.4%
Vinod Vihari Mahto (CPI (Marxist))
70,923 (30.7 pts)
1977
A. K. Roy
Independent
205,495
68.7%
Ram Narain Sharma (Indian National Congress)
141,849 (47.4 pts)
1980
A. K. Roy
Independent
136,280
34.2%
Yogeshwar Prasad 'Yogesh' (Congress (I))
15,306 (3.9 pts)
1984
Shankar Dayal Singh
Indian National Congress
203,909
41.4%
A.K.Roy (Independent)
62,295 (12.6 pts)
1989
A.K.Roy
M-COR
247,013
38.8%
Samresh Singh (Bharatiya Janata Party)
13,571 (2.1 pts)
1991
Rita Verma (W)
Bharatiya Janata Party
257,066
44.3%
A.K. Roy (M-COR)
85,299 (14.7 pts)
1996
Rita Verma
Bharatiya Janata Party
269,942
33.4%
Shamresh Singh (Janata Dal)
22,196 (2.8 pts)
1998
Rita Verma
Bharatiya Janata Party
442,590
50.6%
A.K. Roy (MCO)
178,689 (20.4 pts)
1999
Rita Verma
Bharatiya Janata Party
366,065
48.1%
A K Roy (MCO)
14,226 (1.9 pts)
Full Result Breakdown by Election
1957
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Prabhat Chanra Bose
Indian National Congress
67,095
48.1%
Kanai Lal Pal
Communist Party of India
28,436
20.4%
Mashesh Desai
Praja Socialist Party
27,116
19.4%
Kamta Pd. Mahto
Jharkhand Party
16,901
12.1%
1962
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
P. R. Chakravarti
Indian National Congress
75,170
37.8%
Satchidanand Trigunait
Swatantra Party
50,964
25.6%
Arjun Agarwalla
Independent
34,405
17.3%
Chinmoy Mukerjee
Communist Party of India
22,748
11.4%
Kameshwar Prasad
Socialist Party
8,378
4.2%
Kamta Prasad Mahto
Independent
4,600
2.3%
Babulal Sultania
Jharkhand Party
2,540
1.3%
1967
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
L. R. Lakshmi
JKD
68,034
36.6%
A. P. Sharma
Indian National Congress
47,767
25.7%
I. H. Khan
Samyukta Socialist Party
22,269
12.0%
B. B. Mahto
CPI (Marxist)
18,767
10.1%
M. P. Singh
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
17,346
9.3%
M. Desai
Independent
11,887
6.4%
1971
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Ram Narain Sharma
Indian National Congress
107,308
46.4%
Vinod Vihari Mahto
CPI (Marxist)
36,385
15.7%
Pran Prasad
JAP
23,714
10.3%
S. K. Rai
Communist Party of India
16,243
7.0%
Gautam Kumar
Bharatiya Jana Sangh
12,256
5.3%
P. N. Sur
BKD
11,365
4.9%
Pranav Chatterjee
Samyukta Socialist Party
6,557
2.8%
Kameshwar Jha
Independent
6,160
2.7%
Safi Ahmad
HSD
2,946
1.3%
Nalini Ranjan Singh
SUC
2,750
1.2%
Bhagwan Das Paswan
Independent
2,146
0.9%
Udit Narayan Prasad
Independent
1,473
0.6%
Budhan Ram
Independent
759
0.3%
N. Nag
Independent
621
0.3%
M .A. Zafar Ansari
Independent
506
0.2%
1977
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
A. K. Roy
Independent
205,495
68.7%
Ram Narain Sharma
Indian National Congress
63,646
21.3%
Gaya Singh
Communist Party of India
17,658
5.9%
Budhan Ram
Independent
2,153
0.7%
Haradhan Singh
Independent
1,958
0.7%
Padam Kumar Roy
Independent
1,752
0.6%
Ramjan Mian
Independent
1,524
0.5%
Rama Kant Pathak
Independent
1,191
0.4%
Vijoy Kumar Mohra
Independent
970
0.3%
Bawaneshwar Pra. Singh 'Bagi'
Independent
932
0.3%
Akhileshwar Prasad
Independent
749
0.3%
Mu. Amirulla
Independent
519
0.2%
Mihir Kumar Mahto
Independent
413
0.1%
1980
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
A. K. Roy
Independent
136,280
34.2%
Yogeshwar Prasad 'Yogesh'
Congress (I)
120,974
30.4%
Narendra Kumar Singh
Janata Party
78,081
19.6%
Ahmad Kumar Ansari
Janata Party (Secular)
27,605
6.9%
Aklu Ram Mahato
Independent
10,931
2.7%
Kedar Prasad Sao
Independent
4,263
1.1%
Haradhan Singh
Independent
2,797
0.7%
S. P. Roy
Congress (U)
2,681
0.7%
Surajdeo Na. Yadav
Independent
1,992
0.5%
Genori Paswan
Independent
1,640
0.4%
Narayan Mahato
JKD
1,583
0.4%
Dewan Manjhi
Independent
1,572
0.4%
P. K. Roy
Independent
1,475
0.4%
Sudhansu Mahtha
Independent
1,444
0.4%
Ajit Singh
Independent
941
0.2%
Anukul Kumar Bose
Independent
929
0.2%
Lal Mohan Mukhi
Independent
881
0.2%
S. N.Prasad
Independent
769
0.2%
Satyandra Kumar Singh
Independent
643
0.2%
Budhan Ram
Independent
522
0.1%
1984
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Shankar Dayal Singh
Indian National Congress
203,909
41.4%
A.K.Roy
Independent
141,614
28.7%
Samres Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party
70,438
14.3%
Surya Deb Singh
Janata Party
55,283
11.2%
A.N.Dubey
Independent
3,054
0.6%
Budhan Ram
Independent
2,257
0.5%
Pradeep Kumar Sarkar
Independent
2,102
0.4%
Kumar Virendra Nath
Independent
1,534
0.3%
Krishna Prasad Sinha
Independent
1,330
0.3%
Nandal Gour
Independent
1,310
0.3%
Rajendra Pd. Agarwal
Independent
1,254
0.3%
Amwai Soren
Independent
1,247
0.3%
Ganauri Paswan
Independent
1,155
0.2%
Shankar Pandey
Independent
885
0.2%
Pran Krishna Mahto
Independent
753
0.2%
Subhas Chandra Verma
Independent
746
0.2%
Raju Malakar
Independent
712
0.1%
Raghav Singh
Independent
671
0.1%
Badri Ravidas
ICJ
595
0.1%
Arjun Pandey
Independent
557
0.1%
Uma Shankar Pd.
Independent
555
0.1%
Ajay K.Shrivastava
Independent
419
0.1%
Mahesh Pd. Singh
Independent
276
0.1%
Anil K. Banerjee
Independent
256
0.1%
1989
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
A.K.Roy
M-COR
247,013
38.8%
Samresh Singh
Bharatiya Janata Party
233,442
36.6%
Shankar Dayal Singh
Indian National Congress
118,770
18.6%
Virju
Independent
5,521
0.9%
Raniti Pd. Sinha
Independent
4,707
0.7%
Shankar Kishore Mahto
JMM
4,254
0.7%
Arvind Kumar Sinha
Independent
4,055
0.6%
Budhan Ram
Independent
2,942
0.5%
Devan Majhi
Independent
1,831
0.3%
A.N.Dubey
Independent
1,710
0.3%
Vaidyanath Singh Chaudhary
DDP
1,704
0.3%
Ambai Saren
Independent
1,680
0.3%
Rajeswar Pd. Singh
Independent
1,609
0.3%
Val Mukund Diwakar
Independent
1,247
0.2%
Ganauri Paswan
Independent
1,173
0.2%
Ramavatar Sah
Independent
1,083
0.2%
Sudershan Mishra
Independent
833
0.1%
Quyum Ansari
Independent
812
0.1%
Sudhanshu Mahtha
Independent
693
0.1%
Ramashankar
Independent
683
0.1%
Ram Sunder Bharti
Independent
636
0.1%
Ashish Kumar Nandi
Independent
623
0.1%
1991
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Rita Verma (W)
Bharatiya Janata Party
257,066
44.3%
A.K. Roy
M-COR
171,767
29.6%
Aklu Ram Mahto
JMM
61,252
10.6%
Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh
Indian National Congress
56,413
9.7%
Amtaf Dutta
Independent
4,856
0.8%
Ram Prasad Nonia
Independent
3,449
0.6%
Rajendra Nishad
Independent
2,438
0.4%
A.N. Dubey
Independent
1,977
0.3%
Nandi Kishore Chow
Independent
1,918
0.3%
Vavneshwar Pd. Singh
SSD
1,398
0.2%
Nand Kumar Pandey
JKP
1,373
0.2%
Shamaele Nabi
Janata Party
1,138
0.2%
Devan Manjhi
Independent
1,058
0.2%
Satyendra Kumar Azad
Bahujan Samaj Party
1,054
0.2%
Rajendra Saw
Independent
1,016
0.2%
Md. Fahim Khan
Independent
867
0.1%
Masih Soren
Independent
765
0.1%
Durga Pd. Keshari
Independent
756
0.1%
Ambai Soyen
Independent
747
0.1%
Krishna Paswan
Independent
739
0.1%
A.P.Sharma
Independent
689
0.1%
Rajendra Prasad Pandey
Independent
629
0.1%
Rajendra Singh
Independent
601
0.1%
Jitendra Kumar Singh
Independent
589
0.1%
Movin Akhtar
Independent
548
0.1%
Ashish Kumar Nandi
Independent
485
0.1%
Ajodhya Raman
Independent
479
0.1%
Ram Vandan Singh
Independent
475
0.1%
Jai Mohan Thakur
DDP
463
0.1%
Budhan Ram
BKUS
414
0.1%
M.S. Chhabra
Independent
389
0.1%
Ganauri Paswan
Independent
375
0.1%
Sudhanshu Mahtha
Independent
358
0.1%
Ishwar Mahto
Independent
324
0.1%
Suman Kumar Singh
Independent
300
0.1%
Vinod Bihari Sinha
Independent
289
0.0%
Ram Avtar Agarwal
Independent
274
0.0%
Md. Aslam
Independent
254
0.0%
Sudarshan Mishra
Independent
218
0.0%
Izhar Ahmad
Independent
203
0.0%
1996
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Rita Verma
Bharatiya Janata Party
269,942
33.4%
Shamresh Singh
Janata Dal
247,746
30.7%
A.K. Roy
MCO
114,406
14.2%
Munir Ahmad Khan
JMM
50,969
6.3%
Bijay Kumar Singh
Indian National Congress
48,208
6.0%
Shiva Mahto
JMM(M)
32,385
4.0%
Binod Kr. Poddar
Independent
5,775
0.7%
Jarnadan Mahato
CPI (ML) Liberation
5,551
0.7%
Goutam Kumar
Independent
3,889
0.5%
Deolal Bauri
Independent
2,558
0.3%
A.P. Sharma
Independent
2,079
0.3%
Rajesh Kumar Lal
ABJS
1,642
0.2%
Dashrath Paswan
Independent
1,369
0.2%
Anand Kumar Sinha
Independent
1,353
0.2%
Randhir Singh
Independent
1,047
0.1%
Rizwan
Independent
940
0.1%
Jitendra Singh
Independent
940
0.1%
Ditho Sinha
Independent
922
0.1%
Ram Autar Agarwal
Independent
904
0.1%
Budhan Ram
Independent
886
0.1%
Dilip Kumar
Independent
730
0.1%
Jeetender Singh
Independent
729
0.1%
Yogendra Singh
Independent
606
0.1%
Md. Mith Khalipha
Independent
599
0.1%
Anil Kumar Singh
Independent
599
0.1%
R.R. Pramanik
Shiv Sena
591
0.1%
Ishwarlal Mahato
Independent
586
0.1%
Ratan Sharma
Independent
585
0.1%
Ambai Soren
Independent
580
0.1%
Bhola Rawani
Independent
577
0.1%
Durga Charan Mahto
AMB
574
0.1%
Chandra Sekhar Singh Tufan
Independent
523
0.1%
Ashok Kumar Singh
Independent
490
0.1%
Ramnath Singh
Independent
475
0.1%
Vinod Kumar
Independent
457
0.1%
Shakuntala Mishra
Independent
415
0.1%
Suklal Mahto
AIIC(T)
394
0.0%
Uma Shanker Prasad
Independent
378
0.0%
Paramjit Singh
Independent
349
0.0%
Jamini Ka Mukherjee
Independent
348
0.0%
Amitab Dutta
Independent
329
0.0%
Awadh Kishore Prasad
Independent
314
0.0%
Alok Kumar
Independent
296
0.0%
Kedar Prasad
Independent
279
0.0%
Panchdeo Narayan
BPI
274
0.0%
Kapildeo Yadav
Independent
247
0.0%
Ashis Kumar Nandi
Independent
223
0.0%
Shankar Prasad Khandelwal
Independent
210
0.0%
Anandi Mistry
Independent
204
0.0%
Syed Abu Samim
Independent
190
0.0%
Anil Kumar Singh
Independent
189
0.0%
Indu Singh
Independent
167
0.0%
Shri Krishna Paswan
Independent
146
0.0%
Sudarshan Prasad Mishra Chandan
Independent
137
0.0%
1998
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Rita Verma
Bharatiya Janata Party
442,590
50.6%
A.K. Roy
MCO
263,901
30.2%
Aklu Ram Mahato
Rashtriya Janata Dal
147,222
16.8%
Marigendra Kumar Yadav
Independent
5,779
0.7%
Surendra Prasad Roy
Samajwadi Party
5,147
0.6%
Saroj Kumar Chaudhary
Independent
3,135
0.4%
Kuldip Chaudhary
Independent
2,637
0.3%
Madhav Dhivar
AMB
2,573
0.3%
Ram Nagina
Independent
1,647
0.2%
1999
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Rita Verma
Bharatiya Janata Party
366,065
48.1%
A K Roy
MCO
351,839
46.2%
Kansari Mandal
JMM
18,617
2.4%
Upendra Narayan Singh
CPI (ML) Liberation
7,823
1.0%
S K Verma
Janata Dal (Secular)
6,227
0.8%
Dhan Prasad
Bahujan Samaj Party
4,560
0.6%
Saroj Kumar Choudhary
AJBP
1,864
0.2%
Motilal Rajwar
Independent
1,680
0.2%
Sharat Das
ABJS
1,613
0.2%
Munshi Hembram
Independent
1,173
0.2%
Margin Over Time
Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party's broad bloc (Congress / BJP / Left / other).
Trend
Dhanbad has been contested at 12 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1957. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Indian National Congress, JKD, Independent, M-COR, Bharatiya Janata Party.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who won Dhanbad in the 1999 Lok Sabha election?
Rita Verma (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Dhanbad, Bihar, in 1999 with 366,065 votes (48.1%), a margin of 14,226 votes over A K Roy.
Which parties have won Dhanbad since 1957?
Since 1957, Dhanbad has been won by: Bharatiya Janata Party, Independent, Indian National Congress, JKD, M-COR.
What was the closest result in Dhanbad?
The closest result on record for Dhanbad was 1999, when Bharatiya Janata Party beat MCO by just 14,226 votes (1.9 percentage points).