Jharkhand Election 2024 Full Schedule Announced: Check Polling Date, Nomination, Voting Time, Result Counting;

Jharkhand Election 2024 Full Schedule: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the schedule for the 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly elections on Monday, October 15. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar stated that voting for the 81 assembly seats will be held in two phases-on November 13 and November 20.

Jharkhand, which has 24 districts, includes 44 general seats among its 81 assembly constituencies. According to Kumar, the state has 2.6 crore registered voters, comprising 1.31 crore men and 1.29 crore women. Among them, 11.84 lakh are first-time voters aged between 18-19, and 66.84 lakh are young voters aged between 20-29. There are also 3.67 lakh Persons with Disabilities (PwD) voters and 1,706 voters who are over 100 years old. The election will take place across 29,562 polling stations, with 5,042 in urban areas and 24,520 in rural areas.

The results for the Jharkhand Assembly elections will be declared on November 23. To secure a majority in the 81-seat assembly, a party or coalition needs to win at least 41 seats.

The current term of the Jharkhand State Assembly will conclude on January 5, 2025. The upcoming elections will be held for 44 general, 9 Scheduled Caste (SC), and 28 Scheduled Tribe (ST) seats.

In the 2019 Jharkhand elections, voting took place in five phases from November 30 to December 20, and results were declared on December 23. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) won 30 seats, the Congress secured 16, and the BJP claimed 25 seats. The AJSU Party won two seats, while Babulal Marandi's JVM(P) gained three. Marandi merged his JVM party with the BJP in February 2020, two months after the election.