The Election Commission of India has announced the dates for 81-member Jharkhand Assembly. Voting for the Jharkhand Assembly Elections will be held in 5 phase with polling beginning on Nov 30. The counting of votes will take place on December 23. Jharkhand Assembly Election schedule was announced by the Cheif Election Commissioner Sunil Arora in New Delhi today. The model code of conduct sets in Jharkhand from today with the announcement of election dates.
Nomination process would begin on November 6 while the last date of filing nomination is November 14. November 16 will be the last date to withdraw nominations. Jharkhand has a total of 81 assembly constituencies. Raghubar Das is the present chief minister of Jharkhand.
Jharkhand Assembly Election 2019 Voting Dates
| Phase |
Date |
| Phase 1 |
November 30 |
| Phase 2 |
December 7 |
| Phase 3 |
December 12 |
| Phase 4 |
December 16 |
| Phase 5 |
December 20 |
The term of the 81-seat Jharkhand assembly ends on January 5 next year. Jharkhand has 14 seats in the Lok Sabha. In the previous assembly elections in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had emerged as the single largest party in the state, winning 37 seats with a 31.8 per cent vote share.
The assembly polls to the 81-member assembly in the state were held in five phases as well in 2014. The BJP is in power in the state and an alliance of opposition parties, mainly the Congress and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, is making a determined bid to oust the government headed by Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
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