Jharkhand Election Results 2024 highlights: NDA secures 9 seats, INDIA bloc wins 5 seats

Union Minister and MP Arjun Munda loses Jharkhand’s Khunti seat by 1.49 lakh votes to Congress candidate Kalicharan Munda

Women candidates like Selja Kumari, Kangana Ranaut, Hema Malini, Dimple Yadav and Misa Bharti are leading by a significant margin in their respective constituencies in the general elections. A total of 797 women contested the Lok Sabha elections. Some of the prominent women candidates who are leading in the contest include Kangana Ranaut, Hema Malini, Dimple Yadav and Misa Bharti

Amethi’s incumbent MP Smriti Irani and Sultanpur MP Maneka Gandhi are among MPs trailing in their constituencies.

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has dominated the last three Lok Sabha polls in Jharkhand, is in for a shock in Jharkhand’s five tribal seats - Khunti, Singhbhum. In Khunti, Union minister and sitting MP Arjun Munda was trailing to Congress’s Kalicharan Munda by around 1.09 lakh votes, according to the Election Commission.

Likewise, in Lohardaga, Sukhdeo Bhagat of Congress was leading by 49,584 votes. In Singhbhum, JMM’s Joba Manjhi was leading by 80,393 votes over her nearest rival Geeta Kora of the BJP after the seventh round of counting, officials said. 

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JMM-turned-BJP leader Sita Soren now trails by 2167 votes from family bastion Dumka. JMM has fielded Nalin Soren against her after she switched to BJP

Union Minister Arjun Munda trails Congress’ Kali Charan Munda by 68334 votes in Khunti Lok Sabha

Singbhum’s incumbent MP Geeta Koda, wife of former CM Madhu Koda, is trailing by 84,011 votes against JMM’s five-term MLA Joba Majhi. In February, the Congress MP, Geeta Koda had joined the BJP.

Sita Soren, widow of Mr. Shibu Soren’s eldest son Durga Soren, who jumped ship to BJP is leading from her family bastion Dumka by a margin of 11,295 votes. Ms. Soren, who previously represented the Jama Assembly seat was suspended from JMM after she joined the BJP in March. 

The split was reportedly triggered by her differences with Kalpana Soren, who is married to the JMM founder’s middle son Hemant Soren, former Jharkhand Chief Minister. Political experts say that the BJP hopes to pierce the Soren family bastion of Santhal Pargana by recruiting a family member.

Former CM and Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda is trailing by 10,000 votes in the Khunti Lok Sabha battle. His contender was Congress’s Kalicharan Munda

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BJP leads on seven seats, AJSU on one while Congress and JMM lead on two seats each

BJP has the edge over the INDIA bloc as it leads in Dumka, Godda, Palamau, Jamshedpur while JMM and Congress lead on one seat each

The election campaign was centred around ex-CM Hemant Soren’s arrest in a land scam case. Between Hemant Soren’s resignation on January 31 and the oath-taking of new Chief Minister Champai Soren on February 2, the state went nearly 40 hours without a Chief Minister. Following Mr. Soren’s arrest, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was also arrested in an excise policy case. While Mr. Soren resigned from his post prior to his arrest, Mr. Kejriwal has remained adamant that he would not resign.