“A voter turnout of 66.65 per cent has been recorded across 43 Assembly constituencies in phase-1 of Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024, surpassing the turnout by 2.75 per cent in these seats in 2019 elections,” the poll panel said.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday announced that the INDIA bloc would jointly contest the forthcoming Assembly polls. He also said that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress together would field candidates on 70 of the 81 constituencies.
In the 2015 polls, AAP secured 67 of the 70 assembly seats.
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Monday termed the Jharkhand Assembly poll victory as “special and of extreme contemporary importance”…
In a major setback to the BJP and its Chief Minister in office Raghubar Das, most of the assembly segments that went to the polls in the second phase of Jharkhand elections and were seemingly saffron stronghold have been swept by the JMM.
The Congress, JMM and RJD alliance which is currently leading on 42 seats contested on 31, 43 and seven seats respectively.
Meanwhile, incumbent CM Raghubar Das, who was leading in Jamshedpur East, has been pushed to the second position by independent candidate Saryu Roy. Das is now trailing by 771 votes.
The exit polls have predicted that the Jharkhand state elections are likely to throw up a hung Assembly and given an edge to the Congress-JMM-RJD alliance.
The exit polls indicate edge to JMM and Congress alliance.
Jharkhand recorded around 71 per cent voting in the fifth and final phase of polling on Friday for 16 Assembly constituencies.
