2019 Jharkhand Assembly Election Results Monday Dec 23,2019

The Hemant Soren-led alliance of JMM, Congress and RJD attained a majority in the 81-member Jharkhand assembly on Monday Dec 23,2019

The coalition has clinched 47 seats, which is way past the required majority mark in the Jharkhand assembly, while BJP has won only 25

Constituency	Assembly Constituency No	Winning Candidate	Winning Party	Losing Candidate	Losing Party	Vote Margin
Baghmara	43	Dulu Mahato	BJP	Jaleshwar Mahato	Congress	824
Bagodar	29	Vinod Kumar Singh	CPIML	Nagendra Mahto	BJP	14545
Baharagora	44	Samir Kr. Mohanty	JMM	Kunal Shadangi	BJP	60565
Barhait	3	Hemant Soren	JMM	Simon Malto	BJP	25740
Barhi	21	Umashankar Akela	Congress	Manoj Kumar Yadav	BJP	11371
Barkagaon	22	Amba Prasad	Congress	Roshan Lal Choudhary	AJSU	31514
Barkatha	20	Amit Kumar Yadav S/O-Chitranjan Yadav	Independent	Janki Prasad Yadav	BJP	24812
Bermo	35	Rajendra Pd. Singh	Congress	Yogeshwar Mahto	BJP	25172
Bhawanathpur	81	Bhanu Pratap Shahi	BJP	Sogra Bibi	BSP	39904
Bishrampur	77	Ramchandra Chandravanshi	BJP	Rajesh Mehta	BSP	8513
Bishunpur	69	Chamra Linda	JMM	Ashok Oraon	BJP	17382
Bokaro	36	Biranchi Narayan	BJP	Shweta Singh	Congress	13313
Borio	2	Lobin Hembrom	JMM	Surya Narayan Hansada	BJP	17924
Chaibasa	52	Deepak Birua	JMM	J. B. Tubid	BJP	26159
Chakradharpur	56	Sukhram Oraon	JMM	Laxman Giluwa	BJP	12234
Chandankyari	37	Amar Kumar Bauri	BJP	Uma Kant Rajak	AJSU	9211
Chatra	27	Satyanand Bhokta	RJD	Janardan Paswan	BJP	24055
Chattarpur	78	Pushpa Devi	BJP	Vijay Kumar	RJD	26792
Daltonganj	76	Alok Kumar Chaurasiya	BJP	Krishna Nand Tripathi	Congress	21517
Deoghar	15	Narayan Das	BJP	Suresh Paswan	RJD	2624
Dhanbad	40	Raj Sinha	BJP	Mannan Mallick	Congress	30629
Dhanwar	28	Babulal Marandi	JVM(P)	Lakshman Prasad Singh	BJP	17550
Dumka	10	Hemant Soren	JMM	Lois Marandi	BJP	13188
Dumri	33	Jagarnath Mahto	JMM	Yashoda Devi	AJSU	34288
Gandey	31	Dr Sarfraz Ahmad	JMM	Jai Prakash Verma	BJP	8855
Garhwa	80	Mithilesh Kumar Thakur	JMM	Satyendra Nath Tiwari	BJP	23522
Ghatsila	45	Ramdas Soren	JMM	Lakhan Chandra Mardi	BJP	6724
Giridih	32	Sudivya Kumar	JMM	Nirbhay Kumar Shahabadi	BJP	15884
Godda	17	Amit Kumar Mandal	BJP	Sanjay Prasad Yadav	RJD	4512
Gomia	34	Lambodar Mahto	AJSU	Babita Devi	JMM	10937
Gumla	68	Bhushan Tirkey	JMM	Mishir Kujur	BJP	7667
Hatia	64	Navin Jaiswal	BJP	Ajay Nath Shahdeo	Congress	16264
Hazaribagh	25	Manish Jaiswal	BJP	Dr. Ramchandra Prasad	Congress	51812
Hussainabad	79	Kamlesh Kumar Singh	NCP	Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav	RJD	9849
Ichagarh	50	Sabita Mahato	JMM	Hare Lal Mahato	AJSU	18710
Jagannathpur	54	Sona Ram Sinku	Congress	Mangal Singh Bobonga	JVM(P)	11606
Jama	11	Sita Murmu	JMM	Suresh Murmu	BJP	2426
Jamshedpur East	48	Saryu Roy	Independent	Raghubar Das	BJP	15833
Jamshedpur West	49	Banna Gupta	Congress	Devendra Nath Singh	BJP	22583
Jamtara	9	Irfan Ansari	Congress	Birendra Mandal	BJP	38741
Jamua	30	Kedar Hazra	BJP	Manju Kumari	Congress	18175
Jarmundi	12	Badal	Congress	Devendra Kunwar	BJP	3099
Jharia	41	Purnima Niraj Singh	Congress	Ragini Singh	BJP	12054
Jugsalai	47	Mangal Kalindi	JMM	Muchiram Bauri	BJP	21934
Kanke	65	Sammari Lal	BJP	Suresh Kumar Baitha	Congress	22540
Kharasawan	57	Dashrath Gagrai	JMM	Jawahar Lal Banra	BJP	22795
Khijri	62	Rajesh Kachhap	Congress	Ram Kumar Pahan	BJP	5469
Khunti	60	Nilkanth Singh Munda	BJP	Sushil Pahan	JMM	26327
Kodarma	19	Dr. Neera Yadav	BJP	Amitabh Kumar	RJD	1797
Kolebira	71	Naman Bixal Kongari	Congress	Sujan Jojo	BJP	12338
Manoharpur	55	Joba Majhi	JMM	Gurucharan Nayak	BJP	16019
Nala	8	Rabindra Nath Mahato	JMM	Satyanand Jha	BJP	3520
Nirsa	39	Aparna Sengupta	BJP	Arup Chatterjee	Marxist Co-Ordination	25458
Pakur	5	Alamgir Alam	Congress	Veni Prasad Gupta	BJP	65108
Panki	75	Kushwaha Shashi Bhushan Mehta	BJP	Devendra Kumar Singh	Congress	37190
Poreyahat	16	Pradeep Yadav	JVM(P)	Gajadhar Singh	BJP	13597
Potka	46	Sanjib Sardar	JMM	Menka Sardar	BJP	43110
Rajmahal	1	Anant Kumar Ojha	BJP	Md. Tajuddin	AJSU	12372
Ramgarh	23	Mamta Devi	Congress	Sunita Choudhary	AJSU	28718
Ranchi	63	Chandreshwar Prasad Singh	BJP	Mahua Maji	JMM	5904
Latehar	74	Baidyanath Ram	JMM	Prakash Ram	BJP	16328
Littipara	4	Dinesh William Marandi	JMM	Daniel Kisku	BJP	13903
Lohardaga	72	Rameshwar Oraon	Congress	Sukhdeo Bhagat	BJP	30150
Madhupur	13	Haji Hussain Ansari	JMM	Raj Paliwar	BJP	23069
Mahagama	18	Deepika Pandey Singh	Congress	Ashok Kumar	BJP	12499
Maheshpur	6	Stephen Marandi	JMM	Mistry Soren	BJP	34106
Majhganon	53	Niral Purty	JMM	Bhupendra Pingua	BJP	47192
Mandar	66	Bandhu Tirkey	JVM(P)	Deo Kumar Dhan	BJP	23127
Mandu	24	Jai Prakash Bhai Patel	BJP	Nirmal Mahto	AJSU	2062
Manika	73	Ramchandra Singh	Congress	Raghupal Singh	BJP	16240
Saraikella	51	Champai Soren	JMM	Ganesh Mahali	BJP	15667
Sarath	14	Randhir Kumar Singh	BJP	Uday Shankar Singh	JVM(P)	28720
Shikaripara	7	Nalin Soren	JMM	Paritosh Soren	BJP	29471
Silli	61	Sudesh Kumar Mahto	AJSU	Seema Devi	JMM	20195
Simaria	26	Kishun Kumar Das	BJP	Manoj Kumar Chandra	AJSU	10996
Simdega	70	Bhushan Bara	Congress	Shradhanand Besra	BJP	285
Sindri	38	Indrajit Mahato	BJP	Anand Mahato	Marxist Co-Ordination	8253
Sisai	67	Jiga Susaran Horo	JMM	Dinesh Oraon	BJP	38418
Tamar	58	Vikas Kumar Munda	JMM	Ram Durlav Singh Munda	AJSU	30971
Torpa	59	Koche Munda	BJP	Sudeep Guria	JMM	9630
Tundi	42	Mathura Prasad Mahato	JMM	Vikram Pandey	BJP	25659

The BJP contested 79 of 81 seats in the Jharkhand assembly, supported an Independent candidate in one constituency and did not put up nominee against AJSU Party president Sudesh Mahto

Chief Minister Raghubar Das was dealt a severe blow in the Jharkhand assembly elections in which he failed to retain even his own seat, Jamshedpur East, which he lost to Independent candidate Saryu Roy, who is a BJP rebel and former minister.

Jharkhand is home to four major tribal groups - Santhal, Munda, Ho and Oraon. While the BJP is traditionally known to control the Munda votes, the JMM has a following among the Santhali vote while the Congress is believed to have the backing of the Ho and Oraon

All of Raghubar Das's predecessors, including Jharkhand's first chief minister Babulal Marandi, have been from the tribal community. The BJP tried to change the pro-tribal script in 2014 when it picked a non-tribal, Raghubar Das, from the backward Teli caste, to head the state

Raghubar Das, the first chief minister to complete a full term in office, proved anything but a deft politician. His attempts to change the tribal tenancy laws in 2017, which sought to dilute the protection the scheduled tribe had over their land, created a huge trust deficit for BJP in Jharkhand. The Congress-JMM led opposition along with the Church opposed the proposed amendments.The Das government had brought two bills in 2017 to change the two tenancy acts-the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act (CNTA) and the Santhal Parganas Tenancy Act (SPTA)--to allow commercial use of tribal land. The move was largely seen as a pro-corporate and anti-tribal. Sensing the anger of the tribal community, the BJP had put the decision on hold before the Lok Sabha polls, but the opposition succeeded in conveying the message that Das would push the bills through if voted back to power

28 assembly seats are reserved for STs and 9 assembly seats are reserved for SCs out of the total 81 assembly seats

In 2014, when the BJP bagged its highest tally of 37 assembly seats in Jharkhand, it was largely possible because a significant section of the tribal community voted for the saffron party. It was manifested in the BJP's performance in the 28 ST seats, where it was almost on par with the JMM, often seen as the first claimant of tribal votes in Jharkhand (the BJP had bagged 11 seats whereas the JMM tally was 13). However in 2019, the JMM-Congress combine has now won 25 of these 28 seats and the BJP which contested all the seats could manage to win just 2 seats

However,BJP improved its performance in seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes. Of the 9 SC assembly seats in Jharkhand, the BJP bagged 6, one more than its 2014 tally of 5 seats

The last three-phases of voting were held in Jharkhand amid nationwide protests against the NRC and the CAA. On December 12, 16 and 20, polls took place for 43 seats out of the total 81 seats in the state. The result tally shows that the BJP won 17 seats followed by the JMM (11) and Congress (9), while the AJSU, a former election ally of the BJP, got two seats in the last three phases.
In 2014, the BJP had won 15 seats. In 2019, as per available data of the Election Commission, the BJP was able to retain only 10 seats. However, Congress and the JMM have gained two and six extra seats over their previous wins in the last assembly election.


This was the first state election since the creation of Jharkhand in 2000 that the BJP contested the polls alone. It junked its oldest ally in the state, the All Jharkhand Students Union Party, whose Sudesh Mahto tried till the very last moment to have a pre-poll tie-up with the BJP.

The BJP leadership, then smarting under the Maharashtra experience of having been "ditched" by 35-year-old ally Shiv Sena, decided to go solo in Jharkhand. The party, however, did not put up its candidate against Sudesh Mahto at Silli seat in Ranchi.

The trend from the counting of votes in Jharkhand shows that the BJP would have been in advantageous position had it conceded to demands by the AJSUP in the assembly election