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2009 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election
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81 seats of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly 41 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 56.97% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Jharkhand 2009 Assembly elections were seen as a contest between three forces: The Indian National Congress (INC), The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and its major ally Janata Dal (United), and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). The poll result was a shock for the incumbent BJP-JD(U) Alliance as they could muster only a quarter of the state assembly's 81 seats. The JMM emerged as a formidable force and finally turned out to be the kingmaker. The election turned out to be a stalemate as many expected because no major party or group was able to come even close to the 42-seat majority.
The JMM has always been an important factor in the state's political scenario even before the creation of the state. It then served as a rallying point for the people who demanded statehood for Jharkhand from Bihar.
Results[edit]
| Parties and Coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||
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| Vote | % | +/- | Contested | Won | +/- | |||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 2,074,215 | 20.18 | 67 | 18 |  12
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| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 1,562,060 | 15.20 | 78 | 18 |  1
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| Indian National Congress | 1,660,977 | 16.16 | 61 | 14 | 5
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| Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) | 923,671 | 8.99 | 25 | 11 | ||||
| All Jharkhand Students Union | 526,231 | 5.12 | 54 | 5 | ||||
| Rashtriya Janata Dal | 517,324 | 5.03 | 56 | 5 | ||||
| Janata Dal (United) | 285,565 | 2.78 | 14 | 2 | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | 241,436 | 2.35 | 33 | 1 | ||||
| Jharkhand Party | 112,821 | 1.10 | 41 | 1 | ||||
| Marxist Co-ordination Committee | 111,996 | 1.09 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Jai Bharat Samanta Party | 93,280 | 0.91 | 9 | 1 | ||||
| Jharkhand Janadikhar Manch | 74,320 | 0.72 | 9 | 1 | ||||
| Rashtriya Kalyan Paksha | 72,401 | 0.70 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 250,751 | 2.44 | 78 | 0 | ||||
| Nav Jawan Sangharsh Morcha | 54,931 | 0.53 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Independents | 1,091,011 | 10.61 | 647 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 10,279,009 | 100.00 | ±0 | |||||
| Valid votes | 10,279,009 | 99.98 | ||||||
| Invalid votes | 1,993 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Votes cast / turnout | 10,281,002 | 56.97 | ||||||
| Abstentions | 7,764,636 | 43.03 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 18,045,638 | |||||||
Results by constituency[edit]
Government Formation[edit]
A compromise formula was worked out between the BJP-JD(U) Alliance and the JMM. These two groups, with the help of independents and other minor parties, had run the state government, and the president rules the state.
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