2019 Indian general election in Jharkhand

2019 Indian general election in Jharkhand
14 seats
Turnout	66.80% (2.98%)
	Jharkhand

Last updated March 25, 2024

The 2019 Indian general elections were held in India between 29 April to 19 May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.^[1]^[2]

Results

No	Constituency	Turnout^[3]	Winner	Party	Votes	Runner Up	Party	Votes	Margin
1	Rajmahal (ST)	72.05	Vijay Kumar Hansdak	JMM	5,07,830	Hemlal Murmu	BJP	4,08,635	99,195
2	Dumka (ST)	73.43	Sunil Soren	BJP	4,84,923	Shibu Soren	JMM	4,37,333	47,590
3	Godda	69.57	Nishikant Dubey	BJP	6,36,100	Pradeep Yadav	JVM	4,53,383	1,84,227
4	Chatra	64.97	Sunil Kumar Singh	BJP	5,28,077	Manoj Kumar Yadav	INC	1,50,206	3,77,871
5	Kodarma	66.68	Annapurna Devi Yadav	BJP	7,53,016	Babulal Marandi	JVM	2,97,416	4,55,600
6	Giridih	67.12	Chandra Prakash Chaudhary	AJSU	6,48,277	Jagarnath Mahto	JMM	3,99,930	2,48,347
7	Dhanbad	60.47	Pashupati Nath Singh	BJP	8,27,234	Kirti Azad	INC	3,41,040	4,86,194
8	Ranchi	64.49	Sanjay Seth	BJP	7,06,828	Subodh Kant Sahay	INC	4,23,802	2,83,026
9	Jamshedpur	67.19	Bidyut Baran Mahato	BJP	6,79,632	Champai Soren	JMM	3,77,542	3,02,090
10	Singhbhum (ST)	69.26	Geeta Koda	INC	4,31,815	Laxman Giluwa	BJP	3,59,660	72,155
11	Khunti (ST)	69.25	Arjun Munda	BJP	3,82,638	Kalicharan Munda	INC	3,81,193	1,445
12	Lohardaga (ST)	66.30	Sudarshan Bhagat	BJP	3,71,595	Sukhdeo Bhagat	INC	3,61,262	10,363
13	Palamau (SC)	64.34	Vishnu Dayal Ram	BJP	7,55,659	Ghuran Ram	RJD	2,78,053	4,77,606
14	Hazaribagh	64.85	Jayant Sinha	BJP	7,28,798	Gopal Sahu	INC	2,49,250	4,79,548

Assembly segments wise lead of parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2019 election)
	Bharatiya Janata Party	57	25
	Indian National Congress	11	16
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	7	30
	All Jharkhand Students Union	6	2
	Others	–	8
Total		81

Candidates

No	Constituency	Candidates
No	Constituency	NDA BJP (13) AJSU (1)		UPA INC (7) JMM (4) JVM(P) (2) RJD (1)
1	Rajmahal (ST)	Hemlal Murmu	BJP	Vijay Hansdak	JMM
2	Dumka (ST)	Sunil Soren	BJP	Shibu Soren	JMM
3	Godda	Nishikant Dubey	BJP	Pradeep Yadav	JVM
4	Chatra	Sunil Kumar Singh	BJP	Manoj Kumar Yadav	INC
5	Kodarma	Annapurna Devi Yadav	BJP	Babulal Marandi	JVM
6	Giridih	Chandra Prakash Chaudhary	AJSU	Jagarnath Mahto	JMM
7	Dhanbad	Pashupati Nath Singh	BJP	Kirti Azad	INC
8	Ranchi	Sanjay Seth	BJP	Subodh Kant Sahay	INC
9	Jamshedpur	Bidyut Baran Mahato	BJP	Champai Soren	JMM
10	Singhbhum (ST)	Laxman Giluwa	BJP	Geeta Koda	INC
11	Khunti (ST)	Arjun Munda	BJP	Kalicharan Munda	INC
12	Lohardaga (ST)	Sudarshan Bhagat	BJP	Sukhdeo Bhagat	INC
13	Palamau (SC)	Vishnu Dayal Ram	BJP	Ghuran Ram	RJD
14	Hazaribagh	Jayant Sinha	BJP	Gopal Sahu	INC

Opinion polling

Date published	Polling agency			Lead
Date published	Polling agency	NDA	UPA	Lead
9 April 2019	Times Now - VMR	11	3	8
8 April 2019	News Nation	9	5	4
6 April 2019	India TV - CNX	10	4	6
5 April 2019	Jan Ki Baat	9-11	3-5	6-8
30 March 2019	VDP Associates	7	7	–
24 Jan 2019	Republic TV - Cvoter^{[ citation needed ]}	5	9	4
05 Jan 2019	VDP Associates	4	10	6

Date published	Polling agency					Lead
Date published	Polling agency	NDA	UPA	JMM	JVM	Lead
Jan 2019	Republic TV - Cvoter^{[ citation needed ]}	41.9%	46.5%		10.1%	4.6%

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References

↑ Singh, Vijaita (1 September 2018). "General election will be held in 2019 as per schedule, says Rajnath Singh". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 4 January 2019.
↑ Vishnoi, Anubhuti (25 February 2019). "Lok Sabha polls dates soon after EC team's Kashmir visit". The Economic Times.
↑ Final voter turnout of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, The Election Commission of India (20 April 2019, updated 4 May 2019)

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[1] Singh, Vijaita (1 September 2018). "General election will be held in 2019 as per schedule, says Rajnath Singh". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 4 January 2019.

[2] Vishnoi, Anubhuti (25 February 2019). "Lok Sabha polls dates soon after EC team's Kashmir visit". The Economic Times.

[eciturnout-3] Final voter turnout of Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019, The Election Commission of India (20 April 2019, updated 4 May 2019)

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