Counting for 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand is underway and early trends, depicting the likely winners and trailing candidates, have started coming in. The pace of declaration of results may be slower this time since the Election Commission will also tally the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) slips with five EVMs per assembly segments.
Lok Sabha election 2019 results live updates
In Jharkhand, voting was held in four phases in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha election 2019. The state recorded 64.97% turnout in fourth phase, 65.99% in fifth phase, 65.42% in sixth phase and 71.16% in seventh phase. Union Minister Jayant Sinha of BJP is contesting against Congress’ Gopal Prasad Sahu in Hazaribagh.
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In Dhanbad, Pashupati Nath Singh of BJP is pitted against Congress’ Kirti Azad. A three- time MP, Azad left the BJP to join Congress in February. In 2014, Azad had won from Darbhanga Lok Sabha seat. In Chatra, there is a three-cornered contest between Sunil Singh of the BJP, Manoj Yadav of the Congress and Subhash Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). In Lohardaga, BJP’s Sudarshan Bhagat is up against Sukhdeo Bhagat of the Congress. In Palamu, the key contest is between V.D. Ram of the BJP and Ghuran Ram of the RJD. Another key contest will be seen in Hazaribagh where Union Minister Jayant Sinha of BJP is contesting against Congress’ Gopal Prasad Sahu.
Stay tuned with Zee News for the live updates on Lok Sabha election results from Jharkhand:
# Trends at 11:50 AM: BJP leading in 10 seats, Congress in 4 seats
# BJP’s Sanjay Seth leading from Ranchi. Congress Subodh Kant Sahay is at second place.
# Jayant Sinha leading from Hazaribagh by 52,696 votes
# Shibu Soren of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is trailing by 14,478 votes in Dumka.
# Congress’ Kirti Azad is trailing by 11,286 votes from Dhanbad.
# BJP leading on 4 seats, Congress on 1
# BJP leading on 3 seats, Congress on 1
# BJP and Congress leading on one seat each in early trends.
Source: Zee News