2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/2024-jharkhand-legislative-assembly-election

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1. How tall is 2024 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election?56 seats, with a popular vote of 44.37%
2. What is the election period?Voting conducted in three phases from November 13 to November 20, 2024
3. What is the total seats contested?81 seats in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly
4. Who won the most seats in the election?The Mahagathbandhan alliance won the most seats, getting 56 out of 81. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha was the biggest party in that group with 34 seats.
5. How many seats did the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win?The BJP won 21 seats, and together with its allies the National Democratic Alliance got 24 seats in total.

Legislative Assembly: The primary legislative body of a state in India, responsible for making laws and overseeing the state government.
Political Alliance: A coalition formed by multiple political parties to collectively contest elections or govern, pooling resources and voter bases.
First-Past-the-Post: An electoral system where the candidate with the most votes in a constituency wins, regardless of whether they have a majority.
Popular Vote: The total number of individual votes cast for a candidate or party across all constituencies.