2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election


Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election, 2014 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 won the elections defeating The Indian National Congress and its major allies Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal, and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.
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 were announced on December 23, 2014. Voter-verified paper audit trail 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.

Voting

The five stages of the elections were held as follows:
DateSeatsTurnout
25 November1361.92%
2 December2065.46%
9 December1761%
14 December1561.65%
20 December1671.25%
Total8166.03%

Result

Government Formation

was sworn in as the 10th chief minister of Jharkhand state on 28 December 2014.
Six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha 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.
“Naveen Jaiswal, Amar Kumar Bauri, Ganesh Ganju, Alok Kumar Chourasia, Randhir Singh and Janki Yadav joined the party at Jharkhand Bhavan in Delhi”