Jharkhand Assembly elections: BJP got more votes, so how did Hemant Soren's JMM take the cake?
JMM's voter share was lesser than BJP's. While the Hemant Soren-led party managed to get 23.44 per cent of the total votes polled, the saffron party bagged a considerably higher 33.18 per cent share
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The Jan Mukti Morcha-led INDIA coalition stormed to power for the second time in a row in Jharkhand.
Per the Assembly election results declared on Saturday (November 23), JMM emerged as the single-largest party with 34 seats. BJP won 21 seats out of the 81 that were up for grabs.
That means that JMM managed to secure almost 42 per cent of the seats in the Jharkhand Assembly. For BJP, that number is nearly 26 per cent.
But here’s the interesting part: JMM’s voter share was lesser than BJP’s. While the Hemant Soren-led party managed to get 23.44 per cent of the total votes polled, the saffron party bagged a considerably higher 33.18 per cent share.
The takeaway is that BJP got the biggest voter share of all the parties that were in the fray in Jharkhand, but JMM received the highest number of seats.
So, what explains this discrepancy?
To understand, it’s important to first look at this map of all the constituencies in Jharkhand and which party they voted for.
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