2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election
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81 seats of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly 41 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 66.53% (9.56%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, 2014 (Hindi: झारखण्ड विधानसभा चुनाव) was held in five phases between November 25, and December 20, counting of votes and results were announced on December 23, 2014.[1][2] The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) won the elections defeating The Indian National Congress (INC) and its major allies Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United), and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
The term of the legislative assembly of Jharkhand ended on January 3, 2015. The Chief Election Commissioner announced five-phased assembly elections to be held in Jharkhand along with Jammu and Kashmir, beginning from November 25 and ending December 20; counting of votes and results were announced on December 23, 2014.[1][2] Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs were used in 7 assembly seats out of 81 in Jharkhand elections- Jamshedpur East, Jamshedpur West, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Kanke and Hatia.[3][4]
Voting[]
The five stages of the elections were held as follows:
Date | Seats | Turnout | |
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25 November | 13 | 61.92%[5] | |
2 December | 20 | 65.46% [6] | |
9 December | 17 | 61% [7][8] | |
14 December | 15 | 61.65% | |
20 December | 16 | 71.25% | |
Total | 81 | 66.03% |
Results[]
Parties and Coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||
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Vote | % | +/- | Contested | Won | +/- | |||
Bharatiya Janata Party | 4,334,728 | 31.26 | 11.08 | 72 | 37 | 19 | ||
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 2,832,921 | 20.43 | 5.23 | 79 | 19 | 1 | ||
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) | 1,385,080 | 9.99 | 1.00 | 73 | 8 | 3 | ||
Indian National Congress | 1,450,640 | 10.46 | 5.7 | 62 | 6 | 8 | ||
All Jharkhand Students Union | 510,277 | 3.68 | 1.44 | 8 | 5 | |||
Bahujan Samaj Party | 252,033 | 1.82 | 61 | 1 | 1 | |||
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 210,446 | 1.52 | 39 | 1 | ||||
Jharkhand Party | 153,483 | 1.11 | 19 | 1 | ||||
Marxist Co-ordination Committee | 141,853 | 1.02 | 13 | 1 | ||||
Jai Bharat Samanta Party | 110,029 | 0.79 | 19 | 1 | ||||
Nav Jawan Sangharsh Morcha | 68,121 | 0.49 | 9 | 1 | 1 | |||
Rashtriya Janata Dal | 433,429 | 3.13 | 19 | 0 | 5 | |||
Janata Dal (United) | 133,815 | 0.96 | 11 | 0 | 2 | |||
Independents | 927,840 | 6.69 | 363 | 0 | 2 | |||
None of the above | 235,039 | 1.69 | 81 | 0 | ||||
Total | 13,868,225 | 100.00 | 1217 | 81 | ±0 | |||
Valid votes | 13,868,225 | 99.97 | ||||||
Invalid votes | 4,816 | 0.03 | ||||||
Votes cast / turnout | 13,873,041 | 66.53 | ||||||
Abstentions | 6,979,767 | 33.47 | ||||||
Registered voters | 20,852,808 |
Results by constituency[]
Assembly Constituency | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | |||||||
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# | Name | Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
1 | Rajmahal | Anant Kumar Ojha | Bharatiya Janata Party | 77481 | Md Tajuddin | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 76779 | 702 | ||
2 | Borio | Tala Marandi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 57565 | Lobin Hembrom | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 56853 | 712 | ||
3 | Barhait | Hemant Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 62515 | Hemlal Murmu | Bharatiya Janata Party | 38428 | 24087 | ||
4 | Litipara | Anil Murmu | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 67194 | Simon Marandi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 42111 | 25083 | ||
5 | Pakaur | Alamgir Alam | Indian National Congress | 83338 | Akil Akhtar | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 65272 | 18066 | ||
6 | Maheshpur | Stephen Marandi | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 51866 | Devidhan Tudu | Bharatiya Janata Party | 45710 | 6156 | ||
7 | Shikaripara | Nalin Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 61901 | Paritosh Soren | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 37400 | 24501 | ||
8 | Nala | Rabindra Nath Mahato | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 56131 | Satyanand Jha | Bharatiya Janata Party | 49116 | 7015 | ||
9 | Jamtara | Irfan Ansari | Indian National Congress | 67486 | Birendra Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | 58349 | 9137 | ||
10 | Dumka | Louis Marandi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 69760 | Hemant Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 64846 | 4914 | ||
11 | Jama | Sita Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 53250 | Suresh Murmu | Bharatiya Janata Party | 50944 | 2306 | ||
12 | Jarmundi | Badal Patralekh | Indian National Congress | 43981 | Hari Narayan Ray | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 41273 | 2708 | ||
13 | Madhupur | Raj Paliwar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 74325 | Haji Hussain Ansari | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 67441 | 6884 | ||
14 | Sarath | Randhir Kumar Singh | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 62717 | Uday Shankar Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 48816 | 13901 | ||
15 | Deoghar | Narayan Das | Bharatiya Janata Party | 92022 | Suresh Paswan | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 46870 | 45152 | ||
16 | Poreyahat | Pradeep Yadav | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 64036 | Devendranath Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 52878 | 11158 | ||
17 | Godda | Raghu Nandan Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | 87158 | Sanjay Prasad Yadav | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 52672 | 34486 | ||
18 | Mahagama | Ashok Kumar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 70635 | Shahid Iqbal | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 39075 | 31560 | ||
19 | Kodarma | Neera Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | 84874 | Annapurna Devi Yadav | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 71349 | 13525 | ||
20 | Barkatha | Janki Prasad Yadav | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 63336 | Amit Kumar Yadav | Bharatiya Janata Party | 55129 | 8207 | ||
21 | Barhi | Manoj Yadav | Indian National Congress | 57818 | Umashankar Akela | Bharatiya Janata Party | 50733 | 7085 | ||
22 | Barkagaon | Nirmala Devi | Indian National Congress | 61817 | Roshan Lal Chaudhary | All Jharkhand Students Union | 61406 | 411 | ||
23 | Ramgarh | Chandra Prakash Choudhary | All Jharkhand Students Union | 98987 | Shahzada Anwar | Indian National Congress | 45169 | 53818 | ||
24 | Mandu | Jai Prakash Bhai Patel | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 78499 | Kumar Mahesh Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 71487 | 7012 | ||
25 | Hazaribagh | Manish Jaiswal | Bharatiya Janata Party | 89675 | Pradip Prasad | Independent | 62546 | 27129 | ||
26 | Simaria | Ganesh Ganjhu | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 67404 | Sujeet Kumar Bharati | Bharatiya Janata Party | 51764 | 15640 | ||
27 | Chatra | Jay Prakash Singh Bhogta | Bharatiya Janata Party | 69745 | Satyanand Bhogta | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 49169 | 20576 | ||
28 | Dhanwar | Raj Kumar Yadav | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 50634 | Babulal Marandi | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 39922 | 10712 | ||
29 | Bagodar | Nagendra Mahto | Bharatiya Janata Party | 74898 | Vinod Kumar Singh | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 70559 | 4339 | ||
30 | Jamua | Kedar Hazra | Bharatiya Janata Party | 56027 | Satya Narayan Das | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 32927 | 23100 | ||
31 | Gandey | Jai Prakash Verma | Bharatiya Janata Party | 48838 | Salakhan Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 38559 | 10279 | ||
32 | Giridih | Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 57450 | Sudivya Kumar | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 47517 | 9933 | ||
33 | Dumri | Jagarnath Mahto | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 77984 | Lalchand Mahto | Bharatiya Janata Party | 45503 | 32481 | ||
34 | Gomia | Yogendra Prasad | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 97799 | Madhav Lal Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 60285 | 37514 | ||
35 | Bermo | Yogeshwar Mahto | Bharatiya Janata Party | 80489 | Rajendra Prasad Singh | Indian National Congress | 67876 | 12613 | ||
36 | Bokaro | Biranchi Narayan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 114321 | Samresh Singh | Independent | 41678 | 72643 | ||
37 | Chandankiyari | Amar Kumar Bauri | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 81925 | Umakant Rajak | All Jharkhand Students Union | 47761 | 34164 | ||
38 | Sindri | Fulchand Mandal | Bharatiya Janata Party | 58623 | Anand Mahato | Marxist Co-ordination Committee | 52075 | 6548 | ||
39 | Nirsa | Arup Chatterjee | Marxist Co-ordination Committee | 51581 | Ganesh Mishra | Bharatiya Janata Party | 50546 | 1035 | ||
40 | Dhanbad | Raj Sinha | Bharatiya Janata Party | 132091 | Mannan Mallick | Indian National Congress | 79094 | 52997 | ||
41 | Jharia | Sanjeev Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 74062 | Niraj Singh | Indian National Congress | 40370 | 33692 | ||
42 | Tundi | Raj Kishore Mahato | All Jharkhand Students Union | 55466 | Mathura Prasad Mahato | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 54340 | 1126 | ||
43 | Baghmara | Dulu Mahato | Bharatiya Janata Party | 86603 | Jaleshwar Mahato | Janata Dal (United) | 56980 | 29623 | ||
44 | Baharagora | Kunal Sarangi | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 57973 | Dineshananda Goswami | Bharatiya Janata Party | 42618 | 15355 | ||
45 | Ghatsila | Laxman Tudu | Bharatiya Janata Party | 52506 | Ramdas Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 46103 | 6403 | ||
46 | Potka | Maneka Sardar | Bharatiya Janata Party | 68191 | Sanjib Sardar | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 61485 | 6706 | ||
47 | Jugsalai | Ram Chandra Sahis | All Jharkhand Students Union | 82302 | Mangal Kalindi | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 57257 | 25045 | ||
48 | Jamshedpur East | Raghubar Das | Bharatiya Janata Party | 103427 | Anand Bihari Dubey | Indian National Congress | 33270 | 70157 | ||
49 | Jamshedpur West | Saryu Roy | Bharatiya Janata Party | 95346 | Banna Gupta | Indian National Congress | 84829 | 10517 | ||
50 | Ichaghar | Sadhu Charan Mahato | Bharatiya Janata Party | 75634 | Sabita Mahato | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 33384 | 42250 | ||
51 | Seraikella | Champai Soren | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 94746 | Ganesh Mahali | Bharatiya Janata Party | 93631 | 1115 | ||
52 | Chaibasai | Deepak Birua | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 68801 | Jyoti Bhramar Tubid | Bharatiya Janata Party | 34086 | 34715 | ||
53 | Majhgaon | Niral Purty | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 45272 | Madhu Koda | Jai Bharat Samanta Party | 34090 | 11182 | ||
54 | Jaganathpur | Geeta Koda | Jai Bharat Samanta Party | 48546 | Mangal Singh Suren | Bharatiya Janata Party | 23935 | 24611 | ||
55 | Manoharpur | Joba Majhi | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 57558 | Gurucharan Nayak | Bharatiya Janata Party | 40989 | 16569 | ||
56 | Chakradharpur | Shashibhushan Samad | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 64396 | Navami Oraon | Bharatiya Janata Party | 37948 | 26448 | ||
57 | Kharsawan | Dashrath Gagrai | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 72002 | Arjun Munda | Bharatiya Janata Party | 60036 | 11966 | ||
58 | Tamar | Vikash Kumar Munda | All Jharkhand Students Union | 57428 | Gopal Krishna Patar | Independent | 31422 | 26006 | ||
59 | Torpa | Paulus Surin | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 32003 | Koche Munda | Bharatiya Janata Party | 31960 | 43 | ||
60 | Khunti | Nilkanth Singh Munda | Bharatiya Janata Party | 47032 | Jidan Horo | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 25517 | 21515 | ||
61 | Silli | Amit Kumar | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 79747 | Sudesh Mahto | All Jharkhand Students Union | 50007 | 29740 | ||
62 | Khijri | Ram Kumar Pahan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 94581 | Sundri Devi | Indian National Congress | 29669 | 64912 | ||
63 | Ranchi | C.P.Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 95760 | Mahua Maji | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 36897 | 58863 | ||
64 | Hatia | Navin Jaiswal | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 88228 | Seema Sharma | Bharatiya Janata Party | 80210 | 8018 | ||
65 | Kanke | Jitu Charan Ram | Bharatiya Janata Party | 115702 | Suresh Kumar Baitha | Indian National Congress | 55898 | 59804 | ||
66 | Mandar | Gangotri Kujur | Bharatiya Janata Party | 54200 | Bandhu Tirkey | All India Trinamool Congress | 46595 | 7605 | ||
67 | Sisai | Dinesh Oraon | Bharatiya Janata Party | 44472 | Jiga Susaran Horo | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 41879 | 2593 | ||
68 | Gumla | Shivshankar Oraon | Bharatiya Janata Party | 50473 | Bhushan Tirkey | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 46441 | 4032 | ||
69 | Bishunpur | Chamra Linda | Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 55851 | Sameer Oraon | Bharatiya Janata Party | 45008 | 10843 | ||
70 | Simdega | Vimla Pradhan | Bharatiya Janata Party | 45343 | Menon Ekka | Jharkhand Party | 42149 | 3194 | ||
71 | Kolebira | Anosh Ekka | Jharkhand Party | 48978 | Manoj Nagesiya | Bharatiya Janata Party | 31835 | 17143 | ||
72 | Lohardaga | Kamal Kishore Bhagat | All Jharkhand Students Union | 56920 | Sukhdeo Bhagat | Indian National Congress | 56328 | 592 | ||
73 | Manika | Harikrishna Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 31583 | Ramchandra Singh | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 30500 | 1083 | ||
74 | Latehar | Prakash Ram | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 71189 | Brajmohan Ram | Bharatiya Janata Party | 44402 | 26787 | ||
75 | Panki | Bidesh Singh | Indian National Congress | 41175 | Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta | Independent | 39180 | 1995 | ||
76 | Daltonganj | Alok Kumar Chaurasiya | Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) | 59202 | Krishna Nand Tripathi | Indian National Congress | 54855 | 4347 | ||
77 | Bishrampur | Ramchandra Chandravanshi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 37974 | Anju Singh | Independent | 24064 | 13910 | ||
78 | Chhatarpur | Radha Krishna Kishore | Bharatiya Janata Party | 43805 | Manoj Kumar | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 37943 | 5862 | ||
79 | Hussainabad | Kushwaha Shivpujan Mehta | Bahujan Samaj Party | 57275 | Kamlesh Kumar Singh | Nationalist Congress Party | 29523 | 27752 | ||
80 | Garhwa | Satyendra Nath Tiwari | Bharatiya Janata Party | 75196 | Girinath Singh | Rashtriya Janata Dal | 53441 | 21755 | ||
81 | Bhawanathpur | Bhanu Pratap Sahi | Nav Jawan Sangharsh Morcha | 58908 | Anant Pratap Deo | Bharatiya Janata Party | 56247 | 2661 |
Government Formation[]
Raghubar Das was sworn in as the 10th chief minister of Jharkhand state on 28 December 2014.
Six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) MLAs on 11 February 2015 joined the BJP, a day after petitioning the Speaker to allow them to sit alongside ruling BJP-led coalition members in the state Assembly.
“Naveen Jaiswal (Hatia), Amar Kumar Bauri (Chandankiyari), Ganesh Ganju (Simeria), Alok Kumar Chourasia (Daltonganj), Randhir Singh (Sarath) and Janki Yadav (Barkatha) joined the party at Jharkhand Bhavan in Delhi”
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b "EC announces five-phased polls in J&K, Jharkhand; counting on December 23". 2014-10-25.
- ^ a b "EC announces five phased polling for Jharkhand and J-K". Business Standard India. 2014-10-25.
- ^ 5-PHASE POLLS IN J&K, J’KHAND FROM NOV 25
- ^ 5 phase polls for 4th Assembly to begin on Nov 25
- ^ "Impressive turnout in J&K and Jharkhand". The Hindu. thehindu. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ "Assembly polls 2nd phase: 71 pc voting in J&K, 65.46 pc in Jharkhand". indianexpress. 2014-12-03. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
- ^ "Polls in the Shadow of Terror: 58% People Vote in Jammu and Kashmir". NDTV. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ "Braving bullets 58% cast ballot in Jammu and Kashmir, 61% voting in Jharkhand in third phase of elections". dna India. 2014-12-09. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
External links[]
- State Assembly elections in Jharkhand
- 2010s in Jharkhand
- 2014 State Assembly elections in India
- November 2014 events in India
- December 2014 events in India