Jharkhand Assembly Election 2024: Check Dates, Phases, Voting Time, Full Schedule

Jharkhand Vidhansabha Election Dates 2024: The term of the Jharkhand State Assembly is set to expire on January 5, 2025.

Jharkhand Election Dates 2024: The Election Commission of India announced the dates for the Assembly Polls for Jharkhand on Tuesday. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, along with the two Election Commissioners – Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu announced the details for the polls. The state will go to the polls in two phases starting November 13. 

In Jharkhand, there are 24 districts. There are 44 general seats out of the 81 seats. There are 2.6 crore electors including 1.29 cr female, 1.31 crore male. There are over 11.84 lakh first time voters aged between 18-19 and a total of 66.84 lakh young voters aged between 20-29 years, said CEC Rajeev Kumar on October 15. There are 3.67 lakh PwD voters and 1,706 voters aged over 100. There are total of 29,562 polling stations including 5,042 urban and 24,520 rural polling booths. 

As per the Election Commission of India trends, the 81 legislative assembly seats of Jharkhand will go to the polls in two phases instead of five like the last elections. The counting of votes will take place on November 23. 

Jharkhand Assembly Election Full Schedule 2024

Jharkhand Phase 1 Election Dates

Nomination Filing Start Date: 18.10.2024
Nomination Filing End Date: 25.10.2024
Scrutiny of nomination: 28.10.2024
Withdrawal of nomination: 30.10.2024
Voting Date: 13.11.2024
Result Counting Date: 23.11.2024

Jharkhand Phase 2 Election Dates

Nomination Filing Start Date: 22.10.2024
Nomination Filing End Date: 29.10.2024
Scrutiny of nomination: 30.10.2024
Withdrawal of nomination: 01.11.2024
Voting Date: 20.11.2024
Result Counting Date: 23.11.2024

Jharkhand Assembly Elections Phase Wise Seats

Phase-1	Phase-2
19 Kodarma	1 Rajmahal
20 Barkatha	2 Borio (ST)
21 Barhi	3 Barhait (ST)
22 Barkagaon	4 Litipara (ST)
25 Hazaribagh	5 Pakaur
26 Simaria (SC)	6 Maheshpur (ST)
27 Chatra (SC)	7 Sikaripara (ST)
44 Baharagora	8 Nala
45 Ghatsila (ST)	9 Jamtara
46 Potka (ST)	10 Dumka (ST)
47 Jugsalai (SC)	11 Jama (ST)
48 Jamshedpur East	12 Jarmundi
49 Jamshedpur West	13 Madhupur
50 Ichagarh	14 Sarath
51 Seraikella (ST)	15 Deoghar (SC)
52 Chaibasa (ST)	16 Poreyahat
53 Majhgaon (ST)	17 Godda
54 Jaganathpur (ST)	18 Mahagama
55 Manoharpur (ST)	23 Ramgarh
56 Chakradharpur (ST)	24 Mandu
57 Kharsawan (ST)	28 Dhanwar
58 Tamar (ST)	29 Bagodar
59 Torpa (ST)	30 Jamua (SC)
60 Khunti (ST)	31 Gandey
63 Ranchi	32 Giridih
64 Hatia	33 Dumri
65 Kanke (SC)	34 Gomia
66 Mandar (ST)	35 Bermo
67 Sisai (ST)	36 Bokaro
68 Gumla (ST)	37 Chandankiyari (SC)
69 Bishunpur (ST)	38 Sindri
70 Simdega (ST)	39 Nirsa
71 Kolebira (ST)	40 Dhanbad
72 Lohardaga (ST)	41 Jharia
73 Manika (ST)	42 Tundi
74 Latehar (SC)	43 Baghmara
75 Panki	61 Silli
76 Daltonganj	62 Khijri (ST)
77 Bishrampur
78 Chhatarpur (SC)
79 Hussainabad
80 Garhwa
81 Bhawanathpur

The term of the Jharkhand State Assembly is set to expire on January 5, 2025, with elections scheduled for 81 constituencies (44 General, 9 SC, 28 ST) across the state.

In 2019, the Jharkhand assembly elections were held in five phases between November 30 and December 20. The counting of votes was held on December 21. In the assembly elections, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha got 30 seats while the Congress won 16 seats. The BJP won 25 seats, the AJSU two and then JVM(P) led by Babulal Marandi got three seats. Two months after the assembly poll results, Marandi merged his JVM party with the BJP in February 2020.