2004 Indian general election in Jharkhand

The 2004 Indian general election in Jharkhand was held for 14 seats in the state. It was the first election to be held after announcing Jharkhand as a separate state that was carved out from Bihar in November 2000. The 2005 election was the first one being conducted in Jharkhand.

Schedule

The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004.

Poll event	Phase
	1	2
Date of announcement	29 February 2004
Notification date	24 March 2004	31 March 2004
Last date for filing nomination	31 March 2004	7 April 2004
Scrutiny of nomination	2 April 2004	8 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	5 April 2004	10 April 2004
Date of poll	20 April 2004	26 April 2004
Date of counting of votes	13 May 2004
No. of constituencies	6	8

Parties and alliances

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Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Bharatiya Janata Party		File:Lotus flower symbol.svg	Babulal Marandi	14

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Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress	File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	File:Hand INC.svg	Sushila Kerketta	3 + 6
Template:Party color cell	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	File:Jharkhand Mukti Morcha flag.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Bow And Arrow.svg	Shibu Soren	3 + 2
Template:Party color cell	Rashtriya Janata Dal	File:RJD Flag.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Hurricane Lamp.png	Lalu Prasad Yadav	1 + 1
Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India	File:CPI-banner.svg	File:CPI symbol.svg	Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta	1

NOTE:

• Friendly Contest between JMM and INC in 2 PCs: Rajmahal (1) & Kodarma (5)
• Friendly Contest between RJD and INC in Palamu (13)

Results

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
rowspan="5" Template:Party color cell	UPA	Template:Party color cell	INC	20,07,334	21.44	Template:Decrease 2.34	6 + 3	6	Template:Increase 4
Template:Party color cell		JMM	15,23,976	16.28	Template:Increase 6.75	3 + 2	4	Template:Increase 4
Template:Party color cell		RJD	3,28,197	3.51	Template:Decrease 3.97	1 + 1	2	Template:Increase 1
Template:Party color cell		CPI	3,56,058	3.80	Template:Increase 1.19	1	1	Template:Increase 1
Total		42,15,565	45.03	Template:Steady	11 + 6	13	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	NDA	Template:Party color cell	BJP	30,90,365	33.01	Template:Decrease 12.52	14	1	Template:Decrease 10
Template:Party color cell	JD(U)			3,56,106	3.80	Template:Steady	5	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	BSP			2,19,247	2.34	Template:Increase 1.35	14	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	CPI(M-L)L			2,02,343	2.16	Template:Increase 1.20	8	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	AJSU			1,57,930	1.69	Template:Steady	5	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	MCC			1,47,470	1.58	Template:Decrease 3.06	1	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	Others			3,27,640	3.50	Template:Steady	47	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	IND			6,44,647	6.89	Template:Increase 6.30	71	0	Template:Steady
Total				93,61,313	100%	-	182	14	-

• NOTE: Changes in vote share and seat share are calculated using results from 14 constituencies in Bihar in the 1999 Indian general elections.

List of elected members

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Rajmahal (ST)	Hemlal Murmu	Template:Party color cell	JMM	226,411	32.76	Thomas Hansda	Template:Party color cell	INC	223,437	32.33	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2,974	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|0.43
2	Dumka (ST)	Shibu Soren	Template:Party color cell	JMM	339,542	54.32	Sone Lal Hembrom	Template:Party color cell	BJP	224,527	35.92	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|115,015	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|18.40
3	Godda	Furqan Ansari	Template:Party color cell	INC	373,138	44.88	Pradeep Yadav	Template:Party color cell	BJP	346,384	41.66	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|26,754	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|3.22
4	Chatra	Dhirendra Agarwal	Template:Party color cell	RJD	121,464	27.89	Inder Singh Namdhari	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	102,609	23.56	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|18,855	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|4.33
5	Kodarma	Babulal Marandi	Template:Party color cell	BJP	366,656	44.40	Champa Verma	Template:Party color cell	JMM	211,712	25.64	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|154,944	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|18.76
6	Giridih	Tek Lal Mahto	Template:Party color cell	JMM	350,255	49.03	Ravindra Kumar Pandey	Template:Party color cell	BJP	200,461	28.06	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|149,794	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|20.97
7	Dhanbad	Chandra Shekhar Dubey	Template:Party color cell	INC	355,499	37.76	Rita Verma	Template:Party color cell	BJP	236,121	25.08	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|119,378	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|12.68
8	Ranchi	Subodh Kant Sahay	Template:Party color cell	INC	284,035	40.82	Ram Tahal Choudhary	Template:Party color cell	BJP	268,614	38.61	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15,421	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2.22
9	Jamshedpur	Sunil Kumar Mahato	Template:Party color cell	JMM	396,056	51.00	Abha Mahto	Template:Party color cell	BJP	290,423	37.40	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|105,633	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|13.60
10	Singhbhum (ST)	Bagun Sumbrai	Template:Party color cell	INC	221,343	42.55	Laxman Gilua	Template:Party color cell	BJP	162,147	31.17	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|59,196	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|11.38
11	Khunti (ST)	Sushila Kerketta	Template:Party color cell	INC	218,158	44.45	Kariya Munda	Template:Party color cell	BJP	166,932	34.01	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|51,226	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|10.44
12	Lohardaga (ST)	Rameshwar Oraon	Template:Party color cell	INC	223,920	48.00	Dukha Bhagat	Template:Party color cell	BJP	133,665	28.65	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|90,255	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19.35
13	Palamau (SC)	Manoj Kumar	Template:Party color cell	RJD	206,733	32.22	Braj Mohan Ram	Template:Party color cell	BJP	151,589	23.63	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|55,144	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|8.60
14	Hazaribagh	Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta	Template:Party color cell	CPI	356,058	50.47	Yashwant Sinha	Template:Party color cell	BJP	250,730	35.54	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|105,328	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|14.93

Bye-elections

Constituency			Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Date	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
5	Koderma	December 2006	Babu Lal Marandi	Template:Party name with colour	325,871	43.00	Manoj Kumar Yadav	Template:Party name with colour	131,731	17.38	194,140
			The Koderma Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the resignation of the incumbent MP, Babu Lal Marandi.
13	Palamu (SC)	April 2007	Ghuran Ram	Template:Party name with colour	164,202	24.10	Kameshwar Baitha	Template:Party name with colour	141,875	20.83	style="background:Template:Party color;Color:white;"|22,327
			The Palamu Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the cessation of membership of the incumbent MP, Manoj Kumar.
9	Jamshedpur	August 29, 2007	Suman Mahato	Template:Party name with colour	293,003	45.71	Dinesh Kumar Sarangi	Template:Party name with colour	234,189	36.53	style="background:Template:Party color;Color:white;"|58,814
			The Jamshedpur Lok Sabha bypoll was held following the death of the incumbent MP, Sunil Kumar Mehto.

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Jharkhand

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Shibu Soren	Dumka (Lok Sabha)	Cabinet Minister	Minister of Coal and Mines	23 May 2004	24 July 2004	Template:Party name with color
				Minister of Coal	27 November 2004	2 March 2005
					29 January 2006	29 November 2006
2	Subodh Kant Sahay	Ranchi (Lok Sabha)	MoS (I/C)	Ministry of Food Processing Industries	23 May 2004	22 May 2009	Template:Party name with color
3	Rameshwar Oraon	Lohardaga (Lok Sabha)	MoS	Ministry of Tribal Affairs	6 April 2008	22 May 2009

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2005 election)
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Indian National Congress	29	9
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	22	17
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Bharatiya Janata Party	16	30
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Rashtriya Janata Dal	7	7
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Communist Party of India	4	0
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Janata Dal (United)	2	6
	Others	1	12
Total		81