The Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Roshal Lal Choudhary is running ahead of INC candidate Amba Prasad with a margin of 24657 votes, currently.
A total of 28 candidates were in the election battle for the Barkagaon Assembly seat in the 2024 Jharkhand Assembly election. In the 2024 Jharkhand Assembly election, Barkagaon voted on November 13, 2024 and the counting of votes took place on November 23, 2024. There were a total of 3,82,006 registered voters in the 2024 Assembly election in Barkagaon Assembly constituency, of which 1,96,242 were male, 1,85,752 female and 12 of the third gender.
In the 2019 Jharkhand Assembly elections, Amba Prasad of INC won in the Barkagaon assembly elections by defeating Roshan Lal Choudhary of AJSUP by a margin of 31,514 which was 14.07% of the total votes cast for the seat. INC had a vote share of 44.13% in 2019 in this seat.
In 2014, Nirmala Devi of INC won in the Jharkhand Assembly elections, from the Barkagon seat defeating Roshan Lal Chaudhary of AJSU with a margin of 411 (0.19%) of the total votes cast for the constituency. INC had a vote share of 29.24% in 2014 on this seat.
In the 2009, Yogendra Saw of INC won Barkagaon Assembly seat after defeating Loknath Mahto of BJP by a margin of 1,364 (0.91%) of the total votes cast for the constituency. INC had a vote share of 25.83% in 2009 in this seat.