Legislative Assembly elections were held in

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north ...

, India, from 30 November to 20 December 2019 to elect the 81 members of the 5th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. Results were declared on 23 December 2019. The pre-election term of the Assembly was set to end on 27 December 2019.

Schedule

The schedule for the election proceedings was announced on 1 November 2019.

Parties and alliances

Surveys and polls

Opinion polls

Exit polls

Result

Alliance wise results

Source:

Results by constituency

Government formation

After the defeat of the incumbent BJP government, incumbent

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Raghubar Das tendered his resignation from the post. He tendered his resignation to

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. In the evening, during the election results, JMM leader and Former Chief Minister of Jharkhand

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addressed the media and thanked the people of Jharkhand for the mandate. He also expressed his gratitude to his alliance partners,

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& RJD and their president,

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respectively. The next day on 24 December 2019, the meeting of all the 30 JMM

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was called, in which

was elected as the leader of the JMM legislature group.

was already the leader and Chief Ministerial candidate of the UPA during the election campaign. On the very same day, Alamgir Alam was elected as the leader of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP). After the elections, JVM(P) chief and Former Chief Minister of Jharkhand Babulal Marandi extended the support of his party to the

government, thus providing more strength to the government. On 24 December 2019,

along with the alliance partners, met

and staked claim to form the government.

Bypolls 2019-2024

External links

Election Commission of India
(official website) * Statistical Report

References

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