2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election (Hindi: झारखण्ड विधानसभा चुनाव) was held on 5 phases between 25 November and 20 December 2014 to elect the members of the 4th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. Results were announced on December 23, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the elections securing 37 seats and 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 20, 2014. The Chief Election Commissioner announced five-phased assembly elections to be held in Jharkhand along with Jammu and Kashmir beginning January 20.Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) along with EVMs were used in 7 of the 81 assembly seats. The seven seats were from Jamshedpur East, Jamshedpur West, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Kanke and Hatia.5 phase polls for 4th Assembly to begin on Nov 25

Parties and Alliances colspan="6" National Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Raghubar Das 72 Sudesh Mahto 8 1 Total81

colspan="6" Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Hemant Soren 79

colspan="6" Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Babulal Marandi 73 colspan="6" Indian National Congress Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Sukhdeo Bhagat 62 colspan="6" Other Parties Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats 61 19 10 19

Voting The five stages of the elections were held as follows:

Date Seats Turnout 25 November 13 61.92% 2 December 20 65.46% 9 December 17 61% 14 December 15 61.65% 20 December 16 71.25% Total 81 66.03%

Results Parties and Coalitions Popular voteSeats Vote % +/- Contested Won+/-Bharatiya Janata Party4,334,72831.2611.08723719Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 2,832,92120.435.2379191Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)1,385,0809.991.007383Indian National Congress1,450,64010.465.76268All Jharkhand Students Union510,2773.681.4485Bahujan Samaj Party252,0331.826111Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation210,4461.52391Jharkhand Party153,4831.11191Marxist Co-ordination Committee141,8531.02131Jai Bharat Samanta Party110,0290.79191Nav Jawan Sangharsh Morcha68,1210.49911Rashtriya Janata Dal433,4293.131905Janata Dal (United)133,8150.961102Independents927,8406.6936302 None of the above235,0391.69810 Total 13,868,225 100.00 1217 81 ±0Valid votes 13,868,225 99.97Invalid votes 4,8160.03Votes cast / turnout13,873,041 66.53Abstentions 6,979,767 33.47Registered voters 20,852,808

Results by constituency +Source: Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1RajmahalAnant Kumar OjhaBJP77,48139.71Md. TajuddinJMM76,77939.357020.362Borio (ST)Tala MarandiBJP57,56536.39Lobin HembromJMM56,85335.947120.453Barhait (ST)Hemant SorenJMM62,51546.18Hemlal MurmuBJP38,42828.3824,08717.804Littipara (ST)Dr. Anil MurmuJMM67,19445.93Simon MarandiBJP42,11128.7825,08317.155PakurAlamgir AlamINC83,33835.41Akil AkhtarJMM65,27227.7418,0667.676Maheshpur (ST)Stephen MarandiJMM51,86632.25Devidhan TuduBJP45,71028.426,1563.837Shikaripara (ST)Nalin SorenJMM61,90142.05Paritosh SorenJVM37,40025.4124,50116.648NalaRabindra Nath MahatoJMM56,13133.70Satya Nand JhaBJP49,11629.497,0154.219JamtaraIrfan AnsariINC67,48635.18Birendra MandalBJP58,34930.429,1374.7610Dumka (ST)Louis MarandiBJP69,76044.65Hemant SorenJMM64,84641.514,9143.1411Jama (ST)Sita SorenJMM53,25039.80Suresh MurmuBJP50,94438.082,3061.7212JarmundiBadal PatralekhINC43,98128.83Hari Narayan RayJMM41,27327.052,7081.7813MadhupurRaj PaliwarBJP74,32537.34Hazi Hussain AnsariJMM67,44133.886,8843.4614SarathRandhir Kumar SinghJVM62,71733.78Uday Shankar SinghBJP48,81626.2913,9017.4915Deoghar (SC)Narayan DasBJP92,02242.42Suresh PaswanRJD46,87021.6045,15220.8216PoreyahatPradeep YadavJVM64,03635.51Devendranath SinghBJP52,87829.3311,1586.1817GoddaRaghu Nandan MandalBJP87,15848.71Sanjay Prasad YadavRJD52,67229.4434,48619.2718MahagamaAshok KumarBJP70,63539.28Shahid IqbalJVM39,07521.7331,56017.5519KodarmaDr. Neera YadavBJP84,87442.88Annpurna DeviRJD71,34936.0513,5256.8320BarkathaJanki Prasad YadavJVM63,33632.53Amit Kumar YadavBJP55,12928.318,2074.2221BarhiManoj YadavINC57,81833.14Umashankar AkelaBJP50,73329.087,0854.0622BarkagaonNirmala DeviINC61,81729.24Roshan Lal ChaudharyAJSU61,40629.054110.1923RamgarhChandra Prakash Ch.AJSU98,98749.06Shahzada AnwarINC45,16922.3953,81826.6724ManduJai Prakash Bhai PatelJMM78,49934.38Kumar Mahesh SinghBJP71,48731.317,0123.0725HazaribaghManish JaiswalBJP89,67544.46Pradip PrasadIND62,54631.0127,12913.4526Simaria (SC)Ganesh GanjhuJVM67,40436.50Sujeet Kumar BharatiBJP51,76428.0315,6408.4727Chatra (SC)Jay Prakash SinghBJP69,74538.34Satyanand BhogtaJVM49,16927.0320,57611.3128DhanwarRaj Kumar YadavCPI(ML)50,63428.66Babulal MarandiJVM39,92222.5910,7126.0729BagodarNagendra MahtoBJP74,89838.97Vinod Kumar SinghCPI(ML)70,55936.724,3392.2530Jamua (SC)Kedar HazraBJP56,02735.32Satya Narayan DasJVM32,92720.7623,10014.5631GandeyJai Prakash VermaBJP48,83828.90Salkhan SorenJMM38,55922.8110,2796.0932GiridihNirbhay ShahabadiBJP57,45038.34Sudivya KumarJMM47,51731.719,9336.6333DumriJagarnath MahtoJMM77,98445.05Lalchand MahtoBJP45,50326.2932,48118.7634GomiaYogendra PrasadJMM97,79955.25Madhav Lal SinghBJP60,28534.0637,51421.1935BermoYogeshwar MahtoBJP80,48942.99Rajendra Prasad SinghINC67,87636.2612,6136.7336BokaroBiranchi NarayanBJP1,14,32143.38Samresh SinghIND41,67815.8272,64327.5637Chandankyari (SC)Amar Kumar BauriJVM81,92551.18Umakant RajakAJSU47,76129.8334,16421.3538SindriFulchand MandalBJP58,62329.01Anand MahatoMCO52,07525.776,5483.2439NirsaArup ChatterjeeMCO51,58125.65Ganesh MishraBJP50,54625.141,0350.5140DhanbadRaj SinhaBJP1,32,09158.17Mannan MallickINC79,09434.8352,99723.3441JhariaSanjeev SinghBJP74,06248.14Niraj SinghINC40,37026.2433,69221.9042TundiRaj Kishore MahatoAJSU55,46631.41Mathura Prasad MahatoJMM54,34030.781,1260.6343BaghmaraDulu MahatoBJP86,60351.65Jaleshwar MahatoJD(U)56,98033.9929,62317.6644BaharagoraKunal SarangiJMM57,97335.78Dineshananda GoswamiBJP42,61826.3015,3559.4845Ghatsila (ST)Laxman TuduBJP52,50632.48Ramdas SorenJMM46,10328.526,4033.9646Potka (ST)Maneka SardarBJP68,19136.69Sanjib SardarJMM61,48533.086,7063.6147Jugsalai (SC)Ram Chandra SahisAJSU82,30240.28Mangal KalindiJMM57,25728.0225,04512.2648Jamshedpur EastRaghubar DasBJP1,03,42761.48Anand Bihari DubeyINC33,27019.7870,15741.7049Jamshedpur WestSaryu RoyBJP95,34649.86Banna GuptaINC84,82944.3610,5175.5050IchagarhSadhu Charan MahatoBJP75,63442.65Sabita MahatoJMM33,38418.8242,25023.8351Saraikella (ST)Champai SorenJMM94,74645.40Ganesh MahaliBJP93,63144.861,1150.5452Chaibasa (ST)Deepak BiruaJMM68,80148.70Jyoti Bhramar TubidBJP34,08624.1334,71524.5753Majhganon (ST)Niral PurtyJMM45,27235.27Madhu KoraJBSP34,09026.5611,1828.7154Jaganathpur (ST)Geeta KoraJBSP48,54642.84Mangal Singh SurenBJP23,93521.1224,61121.7255Manoharpur (ST)Joba ManjhiJMM57,55845.16Gurucharan NayakBJP40,98932.1616,56913.0056Chakradharpur (ST)Shashibhushan SamadJMM64,39652.38Navami OraonBJP37,94830.8626,44821.5257Kharasawan (ST)Dashrath GagraiJMM72,00249.15Arjun MundaBJP60,03640.9911,9668.1658Tamar (ST)Vikash Kumar MundaAJSU57,42842.87Gopal Krishna PatarIND31,42223.4626,00619.4159Torpa (ST)Paulus SurinJMM32,00330.77Koche MundaBJP31,96030.73430.0460Khunti (ST)Nilkanth Singh MundaBJP47,03239.25Jidan HoroJMM25,51721.3021,51517.9561SilliAmit MahtoJMM79,74755.71Sudesh MahtoAJSU50,00734.9329,74020.7862Khijri (ST)Ramkumar PahanBJP94,58152.48Sundri DeviINC29,66916.4664,91236.0263RanchiC. P. SinghBJP95,76064.38Mahua MajiJMM36,89724.8158,86339.5764HatiaNavin JaiswalJVM88,22840.45Seema SharmaBJP80,21036.778,0183.6865Kanke (SC)Dr. Jitu Charan RamBJP1,15,70255.73Suresh Kumar BaithaINC55,89826.9259,80428.8166Mandar (ST)Gangotri KujurBJP54,20028.50Bandhu TirkeyAITC46,59524.507,6054.0067Sisai (ST)Dinesh OraonBJP44,47231.02Jiga Susaran HoroJMM41,87929.212,5931.8168Gumla (ST)Shivshankar OraonBJP50,47338.89Bhushan TirkeyJMM46,44135.784,0323.1169Bishunpur (ST)Chamra LindaJMM55,85137.95Samir OraonBJP45,00830.5810,8437.3770Simdega (ST)Vimla PradhanBJP45,34333.38Menon EkkaJKP42,14931.033,1942.3571Kolebira (ST)Anosh EkkaJKP48,97839.59Manoj NagesiyaBJP31,83525.7417,14313.8572Lohardaga (ST)Kamal Kishore BhagatAJSU56,92038.81Sukhdeo BhagatINC56,32838.415920.4073Manika (ST)Harikrishna SinghBJP31,58324.70Ramchandra SinghRJD30,50023.861,0830.8474Latehar (SC)Prakash RamJVM71,18944.45Brajmohan RamBJP44,40227.7226,78716.7375PankiBidesh SinghINC41,17526.23Shashi Bhushan MehtaIND39,18024.961,9951.2776DaltonganjAlok ChaurasiyaJVM59,20229.78Krishna Nand TripathiINC54,85527.604,3472.1877BishrampurR. ChandravanshiBJP37,97422.70Anju SinghIND24,06414.3913,9108.3178Chattarpur (SC)Radha Krishna KishoreBJP43,80530.62Manoj KumarRJD37,94326.525,8624.1079HussainabadShivpujan MehtaBSP57,27537.00Kamlesh Kumar SinghNCP29,52319.0727,75217.9380GarhwaSatyendra Nath TiwariBJP75,19636.95Girinath SinghRJD53,44126.2621,75510.6981BhawanathpurBhanu Pratap Sahi58,90827.80Anant Pratap DeoBJP56,24726.542,6611.26

Government formation Raghubar Das was sworn in as the 10th chief minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014.

On 11 February 2015 six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) MLAs 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.

Bypolls (2014-2019) S.NoDateConstituencyMLA before electionParty before electionElected MLAParty after election72 14 December 2015 Lohardaga Kamal Kishore Bhagat Sukhdeo Bhagat 7516 May 2016PankiBidesh Singh Devendra Kumar Singh 17GoddaRaghu Nandan MandalAmit Kumar Mandal49 April 2017LitiparaDr. Anil Murmu Simon Marandi3428 May 2018GomiaYogendra PrasadBabita Devi61SilliAmit KumarSeema Devi7120 December 2018KolebiraAnosh EkkaNaman Bixal Kongari

See also 2014 elections in India

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