Constituency-wise election results 2019 in Jharkhand: Full list of winners and losers from BJP, Congress, JMM, AJSU and other parties

The JMM-led grand opposition alliance won the election to Jharkhand Assembly winning 47 seats. The election not only saw caretaker chief minister Raghubar Das being ousted from his home constituency Jamshedpur East by former colleague and rebel BJP leader Saryu Roy but also saw several of the top BJP leaders, including cabinet ministers biting the dust. Roy contested from Jamshedpur East as an Independent candidate after the BJP dropped his name for the Jamshedpur West constituency for raising corruption allegations against the chief minister. Roy, who was the food and supply minister before he resigned from the cabinet as a member of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly, won the seat by 15,833 votes. Among some of the top losers were Women Child Development and Minority Welfare minister Dr Louis Marandi, BJP’s Jamshedpur West candidate Devendra Nath Singh, Jharkhand legislative Assembly Speaker Dinesh Oraon, Sunit Choudhary from Ramgarh seat, among others. While outgoing cabinet’s rural development minister Nilkantha Singh retained the Khunti seat and that too comfortably with a winning margin of 26,327, ex-minister of urban development, housing, registration and disaster management Chandreshwar Prasad Singh faced tough competition from JMM’s Mahua Maji with the vote margin between the two being just 5,904 votes. Here’s a look at the winners and losers in the Jharkhand Assembly constituencies:

The poll results indicate that local and real issues of farm crisis, economy and unemployment have found more resonance at the ground and that bodes well for the Opposition in future polls to win back states from the BJP. The Jharkhand poll results also show that the caste equations against BJP are consolidating. A Congress leader said the BJP has lost the support of tribals by installing a non-tribal chief minister in the tribal-dominated state. Though the Congress has returned to power in seven states with the latest victory in Jharkhand, its last two successes have come primarily with the support of allies. While Congress is in power in the states of Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Puducherry on its own, it has come to power in Maharashtra and Jharkhand jointly with the support of its allies Shiv Sena and NCP and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.