2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election

The 2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases from 3 to 23 February 2005 to elect the 81 members of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. It was the first election held in Jharkhand to elect the Second Jharkhand Legislative Assembly; the First/Interim Jharkhand Legislative Assembly was constituted on the basis of the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. Jharkhand was created by carving out the southern districts of Bihar on 15 November 2000. The election resulted in a hung assembly like the first one. No single party or pre election alliance got the majority. The Bharatiya Janata Party become the biggest party by winning 30 seats. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha got 17 seats and the Indian National Congress got nine seats.

2005 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election
3 – 23 February 2005
81 seats in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
41 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Arjun Munda Shibu Soren
Party Bharatiya Janata Party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Leader's seat Kharsawan –
Seats won 30 17

Background

After the formation of Jharkhand on 15 November 2000, the first Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand was constituted by the MLAs elected in the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, whose constituencies were in the newly formed Jharkhand.[1] The 2005 election was the first one being conducted in Jharkhand.[2]

Results
SN Party Seats Contested Seats Won % Votes % Votes in
Seats Contested
1 Bharatiya Janata Party 63 30 23.57 30.19
2 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 49 17 14.29 24.04
3 Indian National Congress 41 9 12.05 22.74
4 Rashtriya Janata Dal 51 7 8.48 13.14
5 Janata Dal (United) 18 6 4.0 18.25
6 Independents 662 3 15.31 15.53
7 All India Forward Bloc 12 2 1.0 6.37
7 United Goans Democratic Party 22 2 1.52 5.92
7 All Jharkhand Students Union 40 2 2.81 5.75
8 Nationalist Congress Party 13 1 0.43 2.35
8 CPI(ML)(L) 28 1 2.46 6.58
8 Jharkhand Party 27 1 0.97 3.14
Total 81
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References
  1. Chaudhuri, Kalyan (1 September 2000). "Jharkhand, at last". Frontline. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  2. "First-ever assembly election in Jharkhand". Rediff. 3 February 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2019.


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