Jharkhand Lok Sabha Election 2024 Exit Poll Results: Exit polls predict 12 seats for NDA, 2 for INDIA bloc

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Jharkhand is expected to repeat its electoral success in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, with the exit polls predicting above 10 seats for the NDA fold.
However, the BJP is expected to witness a dip in seat numbers compared to the 2014 and the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
According to the Axis My India, BJP is expected to win 8-10 seats in the state, while opposition INDIA bloc is likey to make gains on the 6-8 parliamentary seats.
CNX's exit poll prediction has given the BJP 10-12 seats, while Hemant Soren's JMM 1-3 seats in the state. Congress may not be able to open its account in Jharkhand, according to CNX's survey. BJP's ally AJSU may get one seat in the state, as per CNX.
Contratory to the Axis My India and CNX's studies, ETG's exit poll has predicted near sweep for the BJP with 13 seats. Opposition INDIA bloc, according to the ETG's survey, may win only one seat.
However, the BJP-led NDA might face a setback in one seat, as predicted by the ETG exit poll, released on Saturday. The opposition INDIA bloc is likely to win one seat in Jharkhand.
Poll of polls
Voting in the state was held in four phases on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1, respectively.
The Khunti, Lohardaga, Palamud and Singhbhum Lok Sabha constituencies voted on May 13, while Chatra, Hazaribagh, Kodarma on May 20. In the rest of the two phases, the Dhanbad, Giridih, Jamshedpur, Ranchi Lok Sabha constituencies voted on May 25 and Rajmahal, Dumka, Godda on June 1, which was also the last phase of polling.
The BJP-AJSU Party alliance swept the polls in Jharkhand, winning 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats while the Congress and the JMM bagged one each. Riding a Modi wave for the second successive general elections, the saffron party won 11 seats and its ally emerged the winner in one, results made available by the Election Commission said.
The BJP and the AJSU Party fought the elections in alliance for the first time. The BJP had won 12 seats on its own in 2014. The JMM, which contested four seats, won only Rajmahal (ST) seat, while its Mahagathbandhan ally the Congress, which was in the fray in seven, wrested Singhbhum (ST) constituency from the BJP.
Two former chief ministers, Shibu Soren and Babulal Marandi, bit the dust, with the JMM president losing the Dumka (ST) seat to BJPs Sunil Soren by 47,590 votes and Marandi facing defeat at the hands of BJPs Annapurna Devi by a margin of 4,55,600 votes from Koderma.
Shibu Soren had won Dumka seat eight times. However, another former chief minister and BJP candidate Arjun Munda won the Khunti (ST) seat, narrowly beating his nearest Congress rival Kalicharan Munda by 1445 votes.
The AJSU Party won the lone Giridih seat with its candidate and Jharkhand Water Resources Minister Chandraprakash Choudhary beating JMMs Jagarnath Mahato by 2,48,347 votes. In Ranchi, BJPs Sanjay Seth defeated former union minister and Congress candidate Subodh Kant Sahay by 2,83,026 votes.
Sitting BJP MP Nishikant Dubey defeated Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) candidate Pradip Yadav by 1,84,227 votes from Godda. Sitting BJP MP Bidyut Baran Mahato retained the Jamshedpur seat, defeating JMMs Champai Soren by a big margin of 3,02,090 votes.