Jharkhand assembly election, Dec 2014

81 assembly constituencies in Jharkhand, 66.51% turnout.

Seats

Candidates

1,136

111 women, 9 elected

Turnout

66.51%

1.39 cr of 2.09 cr

Leading party

BJP

37 of 81 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in Jharkhand

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	37	+19	72	43,34,728	31.26%	+11.08
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	19	+1	79	28,32,921	20.43%	+5.23
JVM JVM	8	-3	73	13,85,080	9.99%	+1.00
INC Indian National Congress	6	-8	62	14,50,640	10.46%	-5.70
AJSUP AJSUP	5	0	8	5,10,277	3.68%	-1.44
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	1	+1	61	2,52,033	1.82%	-0.62
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	1	0	37	2,04,505	1.47%	-0.87
JKP JKP	1	0	20	1,54,827	1.12%	+0.02
MCO MCO	1	0	13	1,41,853	1.02%	-0.07
JBSP JBSP	1	0	19	1,10,029	0.79%	-0.11
NSAM NSAM	1	+1	9	68,121	0.49%	-0.04
IND Independent	0	-2	363	9,27,840	6.69%	-3.92
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	-5	19	4,33,429	3.13%	-1.91
JD(U)JD(U)	0	-2	11	1,33,815	0.96%	-1.81
CPI Communist Party of India	0	0	24	1,23,248	0.89%	+0.03
SP Samajwadi Party	0	0	46	1,09,735	0.79%	+0.34
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	0	18	76,169	0.55%	+0.09
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	0	0	10	70,000	0.50%	-0.42
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	9	48,170	0.35%	+0.02
AIFB AIFB	0	0	14	37,817	0.27%	0.00
LJP Lok Janshakti Party	0	0	1	21,010	0.15%	-0.09
JKPP JKPP	0	0	8	20,342	0.15%	+0.11
BMUP BMUP	0	0	19	19,610	0.14%	—
JVD JVD	0	0	9	18,802	0.14%	—
AKBJHP AKBJHP	0	0	11	18,366	0.13%	—
SAP SAP	0	0	15	13,689	0.10%	+0.03
SUCI SUCI	0	0	9	9,768	0.07%	—
IUML Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	7	8,623	0.06%	—
RADP RADP	0	0	4	7,746	0.06%	-0.20
APOI APOI	0	0	6	7,707	0.06%	—
PMS Pragatisheel Magahi Samaj	0	0	8	7,277	0.05%	—
CPILML CPILML	0	0	2	5,941	0.04%	—
AMB AMB	0	0	8	5,515	0.04%	-0.02
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	3	4,421	0.03%	-0.02
ABHM ABHM	0	0	3	4,060	0.03%	+0.02
BASAPA BASAPA	0	0	3	4,015	0.03%	—
BSUD BSUD	0	0	3	3,664	0.03%	—
JKPN JKPN	0	0	2	3,600	0.03%	-0.03
JKKP JKKP	0	0	4	3,503	0.03%	0.00
RMKPP RMKPP	0	0	1	3,366	0.02%	—

BJP37 (46%)
JMM19 (23%)
JVM8 (10%)
INC6 (7%)
AJSUP5 (6%)
BSP1 (1%)
Others5 (6%)

BJP37
JMM19
JVM8
INC6
AJSUP5
BSP1
Others5

BJP37
JMM19
JVM8
INC6
AJSUP5
BSP1
CPI(ML)(L)1
JKP1
Others3

Constituency performance

From the 81 results in Jharkhand

Closest contest

TORPA

won by 43 (0.04%)

Biggest victory

JAMSHEDPUR EAST

won by 70,157 (41.70%)

Highest turnout

PAKHUR

80.76%

Lowest turnout

RANCHI

48.61%

Seat change

Against Jharkhand's previous Vidhan Sabha election (2009), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained29 (36%)
Changed hands52 (64%)

29 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 52 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

Jharkhand, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 81 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–50 of 81

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
BAGHMARA	BJPDULU MAHATO	JD(U)JALESHWAR MAHATO	29,62317.67%	64.5%
BAGODAR	BJPNAGENDRA MAHTO	CPI(ML)(L)VINOD KUMAR SINGH	4,3392.26%	66.7%
BAHARAGORA	JMMKUNAL SHARANGI	BJPDINESHANANDA GOSWAMI	15,3559.48%	76.0%
BARHAIT	JMMHEMANT SOREN	BJPHEMLAL MURMU	24,08717.79%	72.9%
BARHI	INCMANOJ KUMAR YADAV	BJPUMASHANKAR AKELA	7,0854.06%	66.3%
BARKAGAON	INCNIRMALA DEVI	AJSUPROSHAN LAL CHAUDHARY	4110.19%	65.9%
BARKATHA	JVMJANKI PRASAD YADAV	BJPAMIT KUMAR YADAV	8,2074.21%	64.5%
BERMO	BJPYOGESHWAR MAHTO	INCRAJENDRA PRASAD SINGH	12,6136.74%	65.4%
BHAWANATHPUR	NSAMBHANU PRATAP SHAHI	BJPANANT PRATAP DEO	2,6611.26%	68.2%
BISHRAMPUR	BJPRAM CHANDRA CHANDRAVANSHI	INDANJU SINGH	13,9108.32%	61.3%
BISHUNPUR	JMMCHAMRA LINDA	BJPSAMIR ORAON	10,8437.37%	66.9%
BOKARO	BJPBIRANCHI NARAYAN	INDSAMARESH SINGH	72,64327.57%	53.5%
BORIO	BJPTALA MARANDI	JMMLOBIN HEMBROM	7120.45%	67.6%
CHAIBASA	JMMDEEPAK BIRUA	BJPJYOTI BHRAMAR TUBID	34,71524.57%	72.8%
CHAKRADHARPUR	JMMSHASHIBHUSHAN SAMAD	BJPNAVAMI ORAON	26,44821.51%	71.5%
CHANDANKYARI	JVMAMAR KUMAR BAURI	AJSUPUMA KANT RAJAK	34,16421.34%	73.4%
CHATRA	BJPJAY PRAKASH SINGH BHOGTA	JVMSATYANAND BHOKTA	20,57611.31%	53.6%
CHATTARPUR	BJPRADHA KRISHNA KISHORE	RJDMANOJ KUMAR	5,8624.10%	59.6%
DALTONGANJ	JVMALOK KR. CHAURASIYA	INCKRISHNA NAND TRIPATHI	4,3472.19%	64.7%
DEOGHAR	BJPNARAYAN DAS	RJDSURESH PASWAN	45,15220.81%	64.6%
DHANBAD	BJPRAJ SINHA	INCMANNAN MALLICK	52,99723.34%	59.2%
DHANWAR	CPI(ML)(L)RAJ KUMAR YADAW	JVMBABULAL MARANDI	10,7126.06%	63.6%
DUMKA	BJPLOIS MARANDI	JMMHEMANT SOREN	4,9143.15%	69.2%
DUMRI	JMMJAGARNATH MAHTO	BJPLALCHAND MAHTO	32,48118.76%	70.7%
GANDEY	BJPJAI PRAKASH VERMA	JMMSALAKHAN SOREN	10,2796.08%	70.7%
GARHWA	BJPSATYENDRA NATH TIWARI	RJDGIRINATH SINGH	21,75510.69%	67.8%
GHATSHILA	BJPLAKSHMAN TUDU	JMMRAMDAS SOREN	6,4033.96%	69.3%
GIRIDIH	BJPNIRBHAY KUMAR SHAHABADI	JMMSUDIVYA KUMAR	9,9336.63%	63.9%
GODDA	BJPRAGHU NANDAN MANDAL	RJDSANJAY PRASAD YADAV	34,48619.27%	66.1%
GOMIYA	JMMYOGENDRA PRASAD	BJPMADHAV LAL SINGH	37,51421.19%	69.6%
GUMLA	BJPSHIVSHANKAR ORAON	JMMBHUSHAN TIRKEY	4,0323.11%	60.7%
HATIA	JVMNAVIN JAISWAL	BJPSEEMA SHARMA	8,0183.68%	57.3%
HAZARIBAGH	BJPMANISH JAISWAL	INDPRADIP PRASAD	27,12913.45%	60.1%
HUSSAINABAD	BSPKUSHWAHA SHIVPUJAN MEHTA	NCPKAMLESH KR. SINGH	27,75217.93%	62.3%
ICHAGARH	BJPSADHU CHARAN MAHATO	JMMSABITA MAHATO	42,25023.82%	79.7%
JAGANATHPUR	JBSPGEETA KORA	BJPMANGAL SINGH SUREN	24,61121.72%	70.9%
JAMA	JMMSITA MURMU ALIAS SITA SOREN	BJPSURESH MURMU	2,3061.72%	71.5%
JAMSHEDPUR EAST	BJPRAGHUBAR DAS	INCANAND BIHARI DUBEY	70,15741.70%	60.9%
JAMSHEDPUR WEST	BJPSARYU ROY	INCBANNA GUPTA	10,5175.50%	59.6%
JAMTARA	INCIRFAN ANSARI	BJPBIRENDRA MANDAL	9,1374.76%	78.6%
JAMUA	BJPKEDAR HAZRA	JVMSATYA NARAYAN DAS	23,10014.56%	59.0%
JARMUNDI	INCBADAL	JMMHARI NARAYAN RAY	2,7081.77%	73.7%
JHARIA	BJPSANJEEV SINGH	INCNIRAJ SINGH	33,69221.90%	57.7%
JUGASHLAI	AJSUPRAM CHANDRA SAHIS	JMMMANGAL KALINDI	25,04512.26%	67.4%
KANKE	BJPDR. JITU CHARAN RAM	INCSURESH KUMAR BAITHA	59,80428.80%	59.8%
KHARASAWAN	JMMDASHRATH GAGRAI	BJPARJUN MUNDA	11,9668.17%	77.8%
KHIJRI	BJPRAMKUMAR PAHAN	INCSUNDRI DEVI	64,91236.01%	60.6%
KHUNTI	BJPNILKANTH SINGH MUNDA	JMMJIDAN HORO	21,51517.96%	63.0%
KODARMA	BJPDR. NEERA YADAV	RJDANNAPURNA DEVI	13,5256.83%	65.9%
KOLEBIRA	JKPANOSH EKKA	BJPMANOJ NAGESIYA	17,14313.86%	65.6%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in Jharkhand alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.

Frequently asked

Straight answers to the questions this result page exists to answer.

Who won the Jharkhand assembly election, Dec 2014?

Bharatiya Janata Party won 37 of 81 seats in Jharkhand, short of a majority on its own.

What was the voter turnout in the Jharkhand assembly election, Dec 2014?

Turnout was 66.51% — 1.39 cr of 2.09 cr registered electors voted.

How many assembly seats does Jharkhand have?

Jharkhand has 81 assembly seats.