Lok Sabha Elections 2019: BJP-AJSU Party alliance wins 12 of 14 seats in Jharkhand
In 2014, The Saffron Party Had Won 12 Constituencies, With The JMM Bagging Just Two Seats.
The BJP-AJSU Party alliance swept the polls in Jharkhand, winning 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress and the JMM bagged one each.
Riding a Modi wave for the second successive general elections, the saffron party won 11 seats and its ally emerged the winner in one, results made available by the Election Commission said.
The BJP and the AJSU Party fought the elections in alliance for the first time.
The BJP had won 12 seats on its own in 2014.
The JMM, which contested four seats, won only Rajmahal (ST) seat, while its Mahagathbandhan ally the Congress, which was in the fray in seven, wrested Singhbhum (ST) constituency from the BJP.
Two former chief ministers, Shibu Soren and Babulal Marandi, bit the dust, with the JMM president losing the Dumka (ST) seat to BJPs Sunil Soren by 47,590 votes and Marandi facing defeat at the hands of BJPs Annapurna Devi by a margin of 4,55,600 votes from Koderma.
Shibu Soren had won Dumka seat eight times.
Constituency | Winner/Leading | Party | Loser/Trailing | Party |
Chatra | Sunil Kumar Singh | BJP | Manoj Kumar Yadav | Congress |
Dhanbad | Pashupati Nath Singh | BJP | Kirti Azad | Congress |
Dumka | Sunil Soren | BJP | Shibu Soren | JMM |
Giridih | Chandra Prakash Choudhary | AJSU | Jagarnath Mahto | JMM |
Godda | Nishikant Dubey | BJP | Pradeep Yadav | JVM(P) |
Hazaribagh | Jayant Sinha | BJP | Gopal Prasad Sahu | Congress |
Jamshedpur | Bidyut Baran Mahato | BJP | Champai Soren | JMM |
Khunti | Arjun Munda | BJP | Kali Charan Munda | Congress |
Kodarma | Annpurna Devi | BJP | Babu Lal Marandi | JVM (P) |
Lohardaga | Sudharshan Bhagat | BJP | Sukhdeo Bhagat | Congress |
Palamau | Vishnu Dayal Ram | BJP | Ghuran Ram | RJD |
Rajmahal | Vijay Kumar Hansdak | JMM | Hemlal Murmu | BJP |
Ranchi | Sanjay Sethi | BJP | Subodh Kant Sahay | Congress |
Singhbhum | Geeta Kora | Congress | Laxman Giluwa | BJP |
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