BJP gets 40.1 per cent vote share in Jharkhand

The BJP recorded 40.1 per cent polling winning 12 seats in Jharkhand, a massive increase compared to the 27.53 per cent it registered in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections bagging eight seats.
The saffron party got 52,07,439 votes as it triumphed in 12 out of the 14 seats this time.
However, Congress could neither improve upon the 15.02 per cent nor the one seat it got in 2009 as it secured just 13.3 per cent vote drawing a blank and getting 17,24,740 votes.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), which won Dumka and Palamau seats in 2009, retained both the seats this time too, but its vote percentage reduced to 9.3 from 11.7 per cent. It got 12,05,031 votes.

The Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi had won from Kodarma seat in the 2009 general polls while another leader Ajay Kumar made it two winning the bypoll in Jamshedpur.
But this time both Marandi and Kumar lost from Dumka and Jamshedpur respectively. The party, which fielded in all the 14 constituencies got 12.1 per cent vote, accumulating a total 15,67,655 electorate.

Though no Independent candidate won this time as against two in 2009, these candidates were polled 4,26,224 with a percentage of 3.3 of the total valid votes.
The Trinamool Congress got 2.4 per cent votes, garnering 3,06,332 votes.

The RJD went without a seat for the second successive Lok Sabha polls recording just 1.6 per cent and the Ajsu party got 4,81,667 votes (3.7 per cent), while the BSP registered only 1.1 per cent of the total valid votes.
The Aam Aadmi Party got 89,302 votes with a percentage of 0.7 and the CPI-ML-Liberation registered 2.5 per cent.
Other left parties - the CPI, the Marxist Coordination Committee and the Forward Block totalled 1.9 per cent.
Meanwhile, a total of 1,90,927 votes went under the NOTA at 1.5 per cent.
In 2009, the BJP won 8, the JMM-2, JVM-1, Congress-1 and 2-independents.