Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, 2014

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81 seats of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly 41 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	66.03%
	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Raghubar Das	Hemant Soren	Babu Lal Marandi
Party	BJP	JMM	JVM(P)
Leader's seat	Jamshedpur East	Barhait, Dumka (lost)	Giridih (lost) Dhanwar (lost)
Last election	18	18	11
Seats won	37+6	19	8-6
Seat change	19	1	3

Chief Minister before election

sibu Soren
JMM

Elected Chief Minister

Raghubar Das
BJP

sibu Soren
JMM

Raghubar Das
BJP

The Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, 2014 (Hindi:झारखण्ड विधानसभा चुनाव)was held in five phases between November 25, and December 20, counting of votes and results were announced on December 23, 2014.The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) won the elections defeating The Indian National Congress (INC) and its major allies Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United), and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).

The term of the legislative assembly of Jharkhand ended on January 3, 2015. The Chief Election Commissioner announced five-phased assembly elections to be held in Jharkhand along with Jammu and Kashmir, beginning from November 25 and ending December 20, counting of votes and results will be announced on December 23, 2014.Voter-verified paper audit trail(VVPAT) along with EVMs were used in 7 assembly seats out of 81 in Jharkhand elections- Jamshedpur East, Jamshedpur West, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Kanke and Hatia.

The five stages of the elections were held as follows:

Raghubar Das was sworn in as the 10th chief minister of Jharkhand state on 28 December 2014.

Six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) MLAs on 11 Feb 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.

“Naveen Jaiswal (Hatia), Amar Kumar Bauri (Chandankiyari), Ganesh Ganju (Simeria), Alok Kumar Chourasia (Daltonganj), Ranjit Singh (Sarath) and Janki Yadav (Barkatha) joined the party at Jharkhand Bhavan in Delhi”

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