2009 Indian general election in Jharkhand

The 2009 Indian general election in Jharkhand was held for 14 seats in the state.

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Bharatiya Janata Party	File:BJP flag.svg	File:Lotus flower symbol.svg	Arjun Munda	12
Template:Party color cell	Janata Dal (United)	File:Janata Dal (United) Flag.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Arrow.svg	Nitish Kumar	2
Total					14

United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress	File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	File:Hand INC.svg	Sonia Gandhi	9
Template:Party color cell	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	File:Jharkhand Mukti Morcha flag.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Bow And Arrow.svg	Shibu Soren	5 + 3 Template:Efn
Total					14 + 3 Template:Efn

Other Parties

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)		File:Indian Election Symbol Comb.png	Babulal Marandi	14
Template:Party color cell	Rashtriya Janata Dal	File:RJD Flag.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Hurricane Lamp.png	Lalu Prasad Yadav	6
Template:Party color cell	All Jharkhand Students Union	File:Blank.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Banana.svg	Sudesh Mahato	6

List of Candidates

Constituency		colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |	colspan="3" bgcolor="Template:Party color" |
		NDA			UPA			JVM(P)
1	Rajmahal	Template:Party name with colour	Devidhan Besra	Template:Party name with colour	Hemlal Murmu	Template:Party name with colour	Som Marandi
2	Dumka	Template:Party name with colour	Sunil Soren	Template:Party name with colour	Shibu Soren	Template:Party name with colour	Ramesh Hembrom
3	Godda	Template:Party name with colour	Nishikant Dubey	Template:Party name with colour	Durga Soren	Template:Party name with colour	Pradeep Yadav
		Template:Party name with colour		Furqan Ansari
4	Chatra	Template:Party name with colour	Arun Kumar Yadav	Template:Party name with colour	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	Template:Party name with colour	K. P. Sharma
5	Kodarma	Template:Party name with colour	Laxman Swarnkar	Template:Party name with colour	Bishnu Prasad Bhaiya	Template:Party name with colour	Babulal Marandi
		Template:Party name with colour		Tilakdhari Singh
6	Giridih	Template:Party name with colour	Ravindra Kumar Pandey	Template:Party name with colour	Teklal Mahto	Template:Party name with colour	Saba Ahmad
7	Dhanbad	Template:Party name with colour	Pashupati Nath Singh	Template:Party name with colour	Chandrashekhar Dubey	Template:Party name with colour	Phul Chand Mandal
8	Ranchi	Template:Party name with colour	Ram Tahal Choudhary	Template:Party name with colour	Subodh Kant Sahay	Template:Party name with colour	Akhtar Ansari
9	Jamshedpur	Template:Party name with colour	Arjun Munda	Template:Party name with colour	Suman Mahato	Template:Party name with colour	Arvind Kumar Singh
10	Singhbhum	Template:Party name with colour	Barkuwar Gagrai	Template:Party name with colour	Bagun Sumbroi	Template:Party name with colour	Mangal Singh Bobonga
11	Khunti	Template:Party name with colour	Karia Munda	Template:Party name with colour	Neil Tirkey	Template:Party name with colour	Theodore Kiro
12	Lohardaga	Template:Party name with colour	Sudarshan Bhagat	Template:Party name with colour	Rameshwar Oraon	Template:Party name with colour	Bahura Ekka
13	Palamau	Template:Party name with colour	Radha Krishna Kishore	Template:Party name with colour	Kameshwar Baitha	Template:Party name with colour	Prabhat Kumar
14	Hazaribagh	Template:Party name with colour	Yashwant Sinha	Template:Party name with colour	Shivlal Mahto	Template:Party name with colour	Braj Kishore Jaiswal
		Template:Party name with colour		Saurabh Narain Singh

Results

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
rowspan="3" Template:Party color cell	NDA	Template:Party color cell	BJP	25,15,265	27.53	Template:Decrease 5.48	12	8	Template:Increase 7
Template:Party color cell		JD(U)	1,10,912	1.21	Template:Decrease 2.59	2	0	Template:Steady
Total		26,26,177	28.74	Template:Steady	14	8	Template:Steady
rowspan="3" Template:Party color cell	UPA	Template:Party color cell	INC	13,72,639	15.02	Template:Decrease 6.42	6 + 3	1	Template:Decrease 5
Template:Party color cell		JMM	10,68,935	11.70	Template:Decrease 4.58	5 + 3	2	Template:Decrease 2
Total		24,41,574	26.72	Template:Steady	11 + 6	3	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	JVM(P)			9,57,084	10.48	New	14	1	Template:Increase 1
Template:Party color cell	RJD			4,86,870	5.33	Template:Increase 1.82	6	0	Template:Decrease 2
Template:Party color cell	BSP			3,21,571	3.52	Template:Increase 1.18	14	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	CPI(ML)L			2,54,455	2.79	Template:Increase 0.63	6	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	AJSU			2,00,523	2.19	Template:Increase 0.50	6	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	JKP			1,25,900	1.38	Template:Increase 0.77	7	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	CPI			1,06,051	1.16	Template:Decrease 2.64	3	0	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	MCO			91,489	1.00	Template:Decrease 0.58	2	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)			49,407	0.54	Template:Increase 0.14	2	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	JKP(N)			43,293	0.47	New	5	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	Others			4,15,325	4.55	Template:Steady	53	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	IND			10,16,099	11.12	Template:Increase 4.23	100	2	Template:Increase 2
Total				91,35,818	100%	-	249	14	-

List of Elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Rajmahal	Devidhan Besra	Template:Party color cell	BJP	168,357	26.12	Hemlal Murmu	Template:Party color cell	JMM	159,374	24.73	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|8,983	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.39
2	Dumka	Shibu Soren	Template:Party color cell	JMM	208,518	33.52	Sunil Soren	Template:Party color cell	BJP	189,706	30.50	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|18,812	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|3.02
3	Godda	Nishikant Dubey	Template:Party color cell	BJP	189,526	23.76	Furkan Ansari	Template:Party color cell	INC	183,119	22.96	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|6,407	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|0.80
4	Chatra	Inder Singh Namdhari	Template:Party color cell	IND	108,336	22.86	Dhiraj Prasad Sahu	Template:Party color cell	INC	92,158	19.44	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|16,178	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|3.42
5	Kodarma	Babulal Marandi	Template:Party color cell	JVM(P)	199,462	25.55	Raj Kumar Yadav	Template:Party color cell	CPI(ML)	150,942	19.34	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|48,520	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|6.21
6	Giridih	Ravindra Kumar Pandey	Template:Party color cell	BJP	233,435	37.70	Tek Lal Mahto	Template:Party color cell	JMM	138,697	22.40	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|94,738	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15.30
7	Dhanbad	Pashupati Nath Singh	Template:Party color cell	BJP	260,521	32.03	Chandrashekhar Dubey	Template:Party color cell	INC	202,474	24.89	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|58,047	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7.14
8	Ranchi	Subodh Kant Sahay	Template:Party color cell	INC	310,499	42.88	Ram Tahal Choudhary	Template:Party color cell	BJP	297,149	41.04	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|13,350	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.84
9	Jamshedpur	Arjun Munda	Template:Party color cell	BJP	319,620	45.30	Suman Mahato	Template:Party color cell	JMM	199,957	28.34	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|119,663	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|16.96
10	Singhbhum	Madhu Kora	Template:Party color cell	IND	256,827	44.29	Barkuwar Gagrai	Template:Party color cell	BJP	167,154	28.82	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|89,673	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:black;"|15.47
11	Khunti	Karia Munda	Template:Party color cell	BJP	210,214	41.19	Neil Tirkey	Template:Party color cell	INC	130,039	25.48	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|80,175	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15.71
12	Lohardaga	Sudarshan Bhagat	Template:Party color cell	BJP	144,628	27.69	Chamra Linda	Template:Party color cell	IND	136,345	26.10	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|8,283	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.59
13	Palamau	Kameshwar Baitha	Template:Party color cell	JMM	167,995	25.80	Ghuran Ram	Template:Party color cell	RJD	144,457	22.18	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|23,538	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|3.62
14	Hazaribagh	Yashwant Sinha	Template:Party color cell	BJP	219,810	31.81	Saurabh Narain Singh	Template:Party color cell	INC	179,646	26.00	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|40,164	style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|5.81

Bye-election

Constituency			Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Date	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%
9	Jamshedpur	2011	Dr. Ajoy Kumar	Template:Party name with colour	276,582	37.38	Dineshanand Goswami	Template:Party name with colour	120,856	16.33	style="background:Template:Party color;Color:black;"|155,726
			The 2011 Jamshedpur Lok Sabha by-poll was held because the sitting MP, Arjun Munda, resigned from his seat to become Chief Minister of Jharkhand

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2009 election)
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Bharatiya Janata Party	39	18
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Indian National Congress	11	14
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	8	18
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik)	6	11
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Rashtriya Janata Dal	3	5
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	All Jharkhand Students Union	1	5
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation	2	1
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Bahujan Samaj Party	2	0
bgcolor="Template:Party color"|	Janata Dal (United)	1	2
	Others	8	7
Total		81