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In the 2009 Jharkhand elections, BJP’s Ramji Lal Sharda narrowly lost from Hatia seat to Congress’s Gopal SN Shahdev by just 25 votes.
The recently concluded assembly elections in Jharkhand witnessed several contested seats. (Representative File/PTI)
Voting for 81 members of the Jharkhand Assembly ended on November 20. The counting of votes for the election, which took place in two phases, was scheduled for November 23. For example, one examines Jharkhand’s four Assembly election results since the formation of the state in 2005. In this case, they will notice that the narrowest victory achieved was by a margin of 25 votes, while the largest margin of victory was at 72,643 votes.
In the 2009 Jharkhand assembly elections, BJP candidate and former minister from Hatia assembly seat lost to Congress candidate by smallest margin. Gopal SN Shahdev of Congress got 39,921 votes while BJP candidate Ramji Lal Sharda got 39,896 votes, losing by just 25 votes.
In the 2005 assembly elections, NCP candidate Kamlesh Singh narrowly won the Hussainabad seat by just 35 votes. Singh got 21,661 votes, while RJD candidate Sanjay Singh Yadav, the runner-up, got 21,626 votes.
In the 2014 assembly elections, victory in the Torpa seat was decided by just 43 votes. BJP’s Koche Munda got 31,960 votes, while JMM’s Paulus Surin came second with 32,003 votes.
In addition, the margin of victory was close to 285 votes in Simdega (2019), 290 votes in Chakradharpur (2009), 411 votes in Barkagaon (2014), 436 votes in Khunti (2009), 438 votes in Latehar (2005), 569 votes in Bishunpur and 592 votes in Lohardaga (2014).
At the same time, the names of former Chief Minister Raghuvar Das, Biranchi Narayan, and Congress’s Alamgir Alam were among the candidates who won with the largest margin of victory in the Jharkhand Assembly elections.
In the 2014 assembly elections, BJP candidate Biranchi Narayan, from Bokaro assembly seat, won with a record 72,643 votes. He secured a total of 1,14,321 votes in the election, while independent candidate Samaresh Singh came second with 41,678 votes.
After this, BJP’s Raghuvar Das got the most important victory. In the 2014 assembly elections, Das secured a total of 1,03,427 votes from the Jamshedpur East constituency, defeating Anand Bihari Dubey of the Indian National Congress by a margin of 70,157 votes.
In Pilkada 2019, the biggest victory was achieved by Alamgir Alam, the Congress candidate from Pakur. He secured a total of 1,28,218 votes, defeating BJP’s Beni Prasad Gupta by 65,108 votes.
Other important victory margins include: 64,912 votes in Khijri (2014), 60,565 votes in Baharagora (2019), 59,804 votes in Kanke (2014), 58,863 votes in Ranchi (2014), 55,344 votes in Kharsawan (2014) , 52,997 votes in Dhanbad (2019), 51,812 votes in Hazaribagh (2019), and 48,123 votes in Mandu (2019).
The recently concluded assembly elections in Jharkhand witnessed closely contested seats, with the reputations of several Chief Ministers and their relatives hanging in the balance.
Hemant Soren, the current Chief Minister, contested from JMM along with his wife, Kalpana Soren, and brother, Basant Soren. Hemant Soren’s sister-in-law Sita Soren is a BJP candidate. The electoral fate of former Chief Minister and BJP leader Babulal Marandi is also in the hands of voters.
The election saw several other prominent figures with family ties to the former Chief Minister contesting for the seat. Purnima Das Sahu, daughter-in-law of former Chief Minister and current Odisha Governor Raghuvar Das, contested the election. Meera Munda, wife of former Chief Minister Arjun Munda, and Geeta Koda, wife of former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, are also contesting.
Adding to the list of notable contenders is former IPS officer Dr. Arun Kumar Oraon, representing the BJP, and former IPS officer and Congress MP Dr. Ajay Kumar.
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