Jarmundi Vidhan Sabha Constituency Result in Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2019: Devendra Kunwar of BJP Wins MLA Seat

Jarmundi, December 17: Devendra Kunwar of the Bharatiya Janata Party has won the Jarmundi Vidhan Sabha seat. The polling in Jarmundi assembly constituency in Jharkhand was held in the fifth phase on December 20, 2019. The Jarmundi seat comes under the Godda Lok Sabha constituency. The sitting MLA of the Jarmundi constituency is Badal. Even this year, the Congress had given its ticket to Badal while the BJP had given its ticket to Devendra Kunwar. Jharkhand Assembly Elections Results 2019: JMM-Congress-RJD Alliance Set to Form Government, BJP Trounced.

The major poll battle in Jharkhand Assembly elections was between BJP, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) and the alliance between Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). These three parties had come together to take on the Saffron party in the ensuing elections. While BJP planned to go solo this time, the JMM fought on 43 seats, Congress on 31 seats and RJD on 7.

A total of 16 constituencies went into polls in phase five. The notification was issued on November 26. The last date of filing the nomination papers was December 3. The counting of votes and result will be declared on December 23.

In the 2014 Assembly elections in Jharkhand, the BJP had won the elections by defeating the Congress and its allies. BJP had won 43 seats out of 81 seats. Ever since Jharkhand was formed, it was the first time (2014), that a single-party (BJP) formed a majority in the state assembly.

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