The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Champai Soren won the Jharkhand Assembly polls from the Seraikela constituency on Saturday by 20,447 votes. The former chief minister has served five terms as the MLA from Seraikela. He secured 1,19,379 of the total votes counted.

Four key ministers in the JMM-led Hemant Soren government faced crushing defeat in Jharkhand assembly polls despite a stellar performance by the coalition which retained power for the second consecutive term.

The Soren family consolidates its political power with three victories in the 2024 assembly elections. Sita Soren, who contested on a BJP ticket, is the only family member to face defeat.

Incumbent CM Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren is surprisingly trailing from Gandey seat behind BJP candidate Muniya Devi as counting progresses of the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Saturday (November 23).

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sita Soren on Saturday lost the Jharkhand Assembly election from Jamtara to the Congress’ Irfan Ansari by a margin of 43,676 votes, according to Election Commission data. Sita Soren secured 89,590 of the votes counted.

I feel that we should wait for a few more hours. I want to say that the people of Jharkhand, our elders, our brothers, our grandfathers, our mothers and sisters have done this. Our young colleagues have chosen the path of development and somewhere this time Maya is winning,

The Barhait Assembly constituency covers areas from both Sahebganj and Godda districts and is reserved for Scheduled Tribes. This constituency falls under the Rajmahal Lok Sabha constituency. Barhait has been a stronghold of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) in the Santhal Pargana division as the party has registered victory since 1990.