The Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the schedule for the Assembly Elections 2024 in Maharashtra and Jharkhand on October 15. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, announced the much-anticipated poll dates for the 2024 state elections. Polling in Jharkhand for its 81 Assembly seats will take place across two phases on November 13 (43 constituencies) and November 20 (38 constituencies), while Maharashtra's 288 seats will witness voting on November 20. The total number of electors as per electoral rolls in Jharkhand is 2,60,87,698, whereas the total number of electors as per electoral rolls in Maharashtra is 9,64,85,765. 28 seats are reserved for the Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Jharkhand, while 25 seats are reserved for the STs in Maharashtra. 9 seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SCs) in Jharkhand, whereas 29 seats are reserved for the SCs in Maharashtra. The counting of votes in Jharkhand and Maharashtra will take place on November 23.
Result Date : 23 Nov 2024
Result Date : 23 Nov 2024
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The counting of votes in the Jharkhand Assembly elections concluded on Saturday, with the JMM-led alliance winning 56 out of 81 Assembly seats. Among the INDIA bloc, JMM won 34 seats, while Congress won 16 seats, followed by RJD at four and CPI (ML) (L) at two seats, respectively.
Hemant Soren's JMM-led alliance on Saturday stormed to power in Jharkhand for a second consecutive term, winning 56 seats in the 81-member assembly, despite an all-out blitz by the BJP-led NDA which managed only 24 seats.
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AIMIM won its first victory in Maharashtra, with Mufti Mohammad Ismail Abdul Khalique bagging the Malegaon Central seat. Party chief Asaduddin Owaisi congratulated him and urged others to continue their efforts.
In the 2024 polls, for the first, Raj Thackeray's son Amit Thackeray announced his electoral debut, however the latter failed miserably to register his mark. Amit Thackeray lost to Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Mahesh Sawant.
