After initial setbacks, BJP state unit president Ravindra Kumar Rai defeated CPI(ML-Liberation) candidate Raj Kumar Yadav by a margin of over 90,000 votes from Koderma constituency.The seat was held by Babulal Marandi.
Sitting BJP MP Pashupati Nath Singh won Dhanbad Lok Sabha seat, sweeping away his nearest Congress rival Ajay Kumar
Dubey by a margin of 2,92,948 votes.
Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker Karia Munda emerged victorious from the Khunti (ST), trouncing Jharkhand Party candidate and former state minister Anosh Ekka by 92,948 votes.
