Jarmundi Constituency Result Live Updates: Jarmundi Constituency Result Live Updates: Badal of Congress defeated BJP's Devendra Kunwar by 3099 votes from Jarmundi Constituency. Congress candidate Badal was trailing from the seat in the initial trends. Jarmundi is one of the non-Left Wing Extremism affected constituencies. The seat is held by Congress leader Badal Patralekh, who had defeated two-time Independent MLA Harinarayan Ray by a margin of 2,708 votes. Ray had contested on a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) ticket in 2014. He won the seat in 2005 and 2009 elections.
Polling in Jharkhand Assembly elections 2019 was held in 5 phases between November 30 and December 20, 2019 to elect the 81 members of the Legislative Assembly.
Coalition |
Parties |
Number of candidates |
|
---|---|---|---|
UPA (81) |
Congress |
31 |
|
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha |
43 |
||
Rashtriya Janata Dal |
7 |
||
NDA |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
79 |
|
All Jharkhand Students Union |
52 |
||
Jharkhand Vikas Morcha |
81 |
Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2014 Result
In Jharkhand Assembly elections 2014, BJP swept 37 out of the 81 seats and with its allies AJSU party (5) and JVM(6) formed the government with 48 seats in the alliance. Raghubar Das was sworn in as the 10th chief minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014.
Six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) MLAs on 11 February 2015 joined the BJP, a day after petitioning the Speaker to allow them to sit alongside ruling BJP-led coalition members in the state Assembly.