2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election


The 2014 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election was held on 20 January 2014 to elect the members of the 4th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. The results were announced on January 20, 2014. The Bharatiya Janata Party won the elections defeating The Indian National Congress and its major allies Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United) and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha.
The term of the legislative assembly of Jharkhand ended on January 20, 2014. The Chief Election Commissioner announced five-phased assembly elections to be held in Jharkhand along with Jammu and Kashmir beginning January 20. Results were announced on January 20, 2014. Voter-verified paper audit trail along with EVMs were used in 7 of the 81 assembly seats. The seven seats were from Jamshedpur East, Jamshedpur West, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Ranchi, Kanke and Hatia.
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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%

Government formation

Raghubar Das was sworn in as the 10th chief minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014.
On 11 February 2015 six Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (P) MLAs 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.