#Jharkhand Election Results Live| Hemant Soren leads in Barhait

| Updated: 23 November, 2024 11:59 am IST

Mahagathbandhan coalition has swept beyond the pivotal 40-seat midway point in the Jharkhand Assembly Election 2024 vote count.

NEW DELHI: Hemant Soren, the current Chief Minister of Jharkhand and a member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), represents the Barhait seat. He is facing opposition from the BJP’s Gamaliyan Hembrom. In the 2019 elections, Soren secured a comfortable victory with 73,725 votes, ahead of BJP’s Simon Marandi, who received 47,985 votes.

As per the data shared by the Election Commission of India (ECI), this time, voter turnout in Jharkhand reached a record 67.74 percent, which is considered the highest since the formation of the state on November 15, 2000. While some exit polls indicated that the BJP-led NDA is likely to dethrone the ruling JMM-led coalition, some predicted the return of the INDIA alliance as well. All eyes will be on key seats that will decide the electoral fates of prominent politicians.

As vote counting continues in Jharkhand’s 2024 assembly elections, Chief Minister Hemant Soren is leading in Barhait, a constituency he has represented since 2014. However, his party, the JMM trails behind the BJP which is ahead in the overall seat tallies for the State.

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This signals that while Soren maintains a stronghold over Jharkhand’s people and his constituency, BJP’s efforts included a campaign featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior leaders. Modi’s personal campaigning in the State underscores the stakes for this assembly election.

The Jharkhand assembly elections of 2024 saw many key alliances clash over political ideologies. The INDIA bloc, led by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) with Hemant Soren as its chief ministerial candidate, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is expected to garner most of the votes.

Some Exit Polls predicted a BJP-NDA sweep, while others, like Axis My India, said the INDIA bloc would manage to hold the state. Early counting updates show that the BJP has a massive lead of 26. However, with a voter turnout of 67.59% in the final phase, the outcome remains uncertain.