Jamshedpur East Assembly Election Result 2024 Highlights: BJP'S Purnima Sahu Wins With 107191 Votes

Jharkhand Election Results 2024 Highlights: Purnima Sahu of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Jamshedpur East seat with total votes 107191.

Purnima Sahu of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Jamshedpur East seat with total votes 107191. Sahu won with a voting margin of 42871 votes against Ajoy Kumar of Indian National Congress. Jamshedpur East Assembly seat is one of the 6 assembly seats in the East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. 

A total of 24 candidates were in the fray for the Jamshedpur East Assembly seat including several independents. Some of the key candidates being -- Ajoy Kumar (Indian National Congress), Anand Kumar Patralekh (Bahujan Samaj Party), Purnima Sahu (Bharatiya Janata Party), Indal Kumar Singh (Peoples Party Of India (Democratic)}, Krishna Hansda (Bharat Adivasi Party), Tarun Kumar Dey (Jharkhand Loktantrik Krantikari Morcha), Pawan Kumar Pandey (Nationalist Congress Party), Madhavendra Mehta (Jharkhand People's Party), Surjeet Singh (Right To Recall Party), Abhishek Kumar (Independent).

Jharkhand's ruling alliance comprising the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and CPI-ML, stormed into power, thereby claiming stakes to form the second consecutive government. 

This is for the first time in the state's political history that the incumbent government is retaining power for the second term because no government has ever been re-elected in the state. 

Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024 recorded a voter turnout of 67.74 percent, the highest since the formation of the state in 2000. The polling was held in two phases -- 43 seats on November 13, and 38 seats on November 20.

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8.01 am: Counting Begins

8.30 am: State's Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar says, "One counting centre each has been set up in all 24 districts... All preparations have been made. The process has begun...Counting of postal ballots will begin at 8 am and EVM counting will begin at 8.30 am. The results of the first round will be declared by 9.30 am

9.02 am: BJP ahead with 27 seats, JMM with 25 seats in early trends

9.19 am: BJP ahead with 35 seats, JMM with 30 seats in early trends

10.01 am: BJP'S Purnima Sahu Ahead With 7590 Votes

Purnima Sahu of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Jamshedpur East seat with total votes 107191.