The JMM, Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and CPI-ML alliance have taken a commanding lead in 57 out of 81 Assembly seats, well past the majority mark of 41.

Saraikella, where Champai Soren won by a margin of 25,000 votes. The party lost two ST seats in Ranchi to JMM.

While Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s imprisonment was seen as an affront to Adivasi pride, the party also won favour for its welfare schemes.

Counting of votes begins and EC trends indicate a likely victory for the JMM-led INDIA bloc. The CM Hemant Soren-led party is the single largest in Jharkhand with lead in 31 assembly seats as of 2 pm today.

All arrangements are in place for counting of votes for Jharkhand assembly polls with both NDA and JMM-led alliance hopeful of victory. While the ruling JMM-led alliance is banking on its work and promises,

In the 2009 Jharkhand elections, BJP's Ramji Lal Sharda narrowly lost the Hatia seat to Congress's Gopal SN Shahdev by just 25 votes

Axis MyIndia was the only one to predict victory for the Congress-JMM alliance in Jharkhand with 53 seats out of 81 as against only 25 for BJP-led NDA and three seats for others.