Jharkhand rejected BJP's attempts to win elections by ramping up polarising narratives. BJP tried this in 2019 and again in the recent elections. Both times, Jharkhand chose Hemant Soren as their leader.

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.

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

Congress couldn't have imagined a drubbing like the one it got in Maharashtra, where MVA managed only 46 seats - 10 fewer than INDIA bloc's tally in Jharkhand, where the assembly is less than one-third the size of the western state.

NDA stuns MVA with decisive victory in Maharashtra, while Hemant Soren's INDIA Bloc scores a bigger margin in Jharkhand by-polls.

In the Assembly elections held in two states, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance emerged victorious in Maharashtra, while Hemant Soren's JMM retained power in Jharkhand.

The BJP-led Mahayuti gained a sweeping victory in Maharashtra while the Opposition found relief in Jharkhand, reflecting contrasting political outcomes

In a prominent battle, Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar is poised to defeat his relative, Yugendra Shrinivas Pawar, with a lead of 43,619 votes after nine rounds of counting.

The counting of votes in Maharashtra and Jharkhand began at 8 am local time on Saturday (Nov 23). The counting of votes is also on for 48 assembly and two Lok Sabha seats across 15 states.