2004 Indian general election in Jharkhand

Indian general election in Jharkhand, 2004
	April–May 2004
14 seats
Turnout	55.7%
	Jharkhand
Prime Minister before election; Atal Bihari Vajpayee; BJP	Prime Minister after election ; Manmohan Singh; INC

The 2004 Indian general election in Jharkhand was held for 14 seats in the state. It was the first election to be held after announcing Jharkhand as a separate state that was carved out from Bihar in November 2000.^[1] The 2005 election was the first one being conducted in Jharkhand.^[2]

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Babulal Marandi	14

United Progressive Alliance

	Leader	Contesting Seats
Indian National Congress	Sushila Kerketta	6
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Shibu Soren	5
Rashtriya Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav	2
Communist Party of India	Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta	1

Results


Political party	Seats won
Indian National Congress	6
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	4
Rashtriya Janata Dal	2
Bharatiya Janata Party	1
Communist Party of India	1
Total	14

List of elected members

No.	Constituency	Turnout%	Name of elected M.P.		Margin
1	Rajmahal	64.5%	Hemlal Murmu	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	2,974
2	Dumka	57.7%	Shibu Soren	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1,15,015
3	Godda	62.1%	Furkan Ansari	Indian National Congress	26,754
4	Chatra	44.5%	Dhirendra Agarwal	Rashtriya Janata Dal	18,855
5	Kodarma	62.3%	Babulal Marandi	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,54,944
6	Giridih	54.4%	Tek Lal Mahto	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1,49,794
7	Dhanbad	53.8%	Chandra Shekhar Dubey	Indian National Congress	1,19,378
8	Ranchi	50.5%	Subodh Kant Sahay	Indian National Congress	15,421
9	Jamshedpur	56.6%	Sunil Mahato	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1,05,633
10	Singhbhum	56.6%	Bagun Sumbrai	Indian National Congress	59,196
11	Khunti	54.2%	Sushila Kerketta		51,226
12	Lohardaga	51.5%	Rameshwar Oraon		90,255
13	Palamau	49.8%	Manoj Kumar	Rashtriya Janata Dal	55,144
14	Hazaribagh	59.8%	Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta	Communist Party of India	1,05,328

Bye-elections

No.	Constituency	Name of newly elected M.P.		Elected year
1.	Kodarma	Babulal Marandi	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha	2006
2.	Palamu	Ghuran Ram	Rashtriya Janata Dal	2006
3.	Jamshedpur	Suman Mahato	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	2007

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2005 election)
	Indian National Congress	29	9
	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	22	17
	Bharatiya Janata Party	16	30
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7	7
	Communist Party of India	4	0
	Janata Dal (United)	2	6
	Others	1	12
Total		81

References

^ Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
^ "First-ever assembly election in Jharkhand". Rediff. 3 February 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

[1] Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 4 August 2019.

[2] "First-ever assembly election in Jharkhand". Rediff. 3 February 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2019.

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