Jharkhand Assembly Election 2019

The 2019 Assembly Elections in Jharkhand were held in five phases, from November 30 to December 20, 2019 and the results were declared on December 23, 2019. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the leadership of Raghubar Das, failed to retain power in the 81-seat state assembly. The trio of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won a comfortable majority and formed the government in the state. The JMM, under the leadership of Hemant Soren, won 30 seats, the Congress won 16 while the RJD won a single seat. The BJP, which had fought the last assembly election with Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM), failed to retain power in the state and won 25 seats. Thus Hemant Soren – son of former Chief Minister Shibu Soren – took oath as the Chief Minister of the state on December 29, 2019. The results fell in line with the exit poll results which had earlier predicted that the alliance of JMM-Congress-RJD will get a majority in the state while the BJP would fail to retain power. In the 2014 state elections, the BJP had won 43 off 81 seats in the state and defeated the Congress-led UPA which comprised of RJD, JD(U) and the JMM. It was the first time when a single-party majority government was formed in Jharkhand.