JOIN USThe BJP-AJSU party alliance swept the polls in Jharkhand, winning 12 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats, while the Congress and the JMM bagged one each. Riding on the Modi wave for the second successive general elections, the saffron party won 11 seats and its ally emerged the winner in one seat, results made available by the Election Commission said.
The BJP and the AJSU party fought the elections in alliance for the first time. The BJP had won 12 seats on its own in 2014.
The JMM, which contested from four seats, won only the Rajmahal (ST) seat while its Mahagathbandhan ally Congress, which contested from seven seats, wrested the Singhbhum (ST) seat from the BJP.
Two former chief ministers, Shibu Soren and Babulal Marandi, bit the dust with the JMM president losing the Dumka (ST) seat to the BJP's Sunil Soren by 47,590 votes and Marandi facing defeat against the BJP's Annapurna Devi by a margin of 4,55,600 votes from the Koderma constituency.
Shibu Soren has won the Dumka seat eight times.
However, another former chief minister and BJP candidate Arjun Munda won the Khunti (ST) seat, narrowly beating his nearest Congress rival Kalicharan Munda by 1445 votes.
Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation and BJP candidate Jayant Sinha won by a huge margin of 4,78,209 votes to retain the Hazaribagh seat, defeating Gopal Prasad Sahu of the Congress.
Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs and BJP candidate Sudarshan Bhagat defeated his Congress rival Sukhdeo Bhagat by 10,363 votes to retain the Lohardaga (ST) seat.
The AJSU party won the lone Giridih seat with its candidate and Jharkhand Water Resources Minister Chandra Prakash Choudhary, beating the JMM's Jagarnath Mahto by 2,48,347 votes.
In Ranchi, the BJP's Sanjay Seth defeated former Union Minister and Congress candidate Subodh Kant Sahay by 2,83,026 votes.
Sitting BJP MP Nishikant Dubey defeated Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) candidate Pradip Yadav by 1,84,227 votes from the Godda Lok Sabha seat.
In Jamshedpur, sitting BJP MP Bidyut Baran Mahato retained the seat, defeating the JMM's Champai Soren by a big margin of 3,02,090 votes. The BJP's sitting MP and former Jharkhand Police Chief Vishnu Dayal Ram retained his Palamu (SC) seat, defeating his nearest RJD rival Ghuran Ram by 4,75,284 votes. Sitting BJP MP Sunil Kumar Singh also trounced Congress candidate Manoj Kumar Yadav by a margin of 3,77,871 votes to retain the Chatra seat.
Kirti Azad of the Congress lost the Dhanbad seat to the BJP's sitting MP Pashupati Nath Singh by 4,86,194 votes.
Azad was a BJP MP from Darbhanga, Bihar in 2014 before joining the Congress and getting a ticket from Dhanbad as per the pre-poll seat sharing among the "Mahagathbandhan" allies, the Congress, JMM, RJD and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik).
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The JMM's sitting MP Vijay Kumar Hansdak defeated the BJP's Hemlal Murmu by 99,195 votes to retain the Rajmahal (ST) seat.
The Congress nominee and wife of former Chief minister Madhu Koda, Geeta Koda, defeated sitting BJP candidate Laxman Gilua by 72,155 votes from Singhbhum (ST) seat.