Constituency
70. Simdega
Community mirrorJharkhand Assembly Election, 2009
JH-SIMDEGA
BJP 33.2%won by 1.0%INC 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 1.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2005 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.4% between them, down from 74.1% — the field split more ways.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,113 votes (0.96%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,15,975
Margin
1,113
0.96%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJP- 1VIMLA PRADHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,47633.2%
- 2NEIL TIRKEYIndian National Congress · INC37,36332.2%
- 3ANOSH EKKAJan Kalyan Party · JKP18,25215.7%
- 4FUJAMES DUNGDUNGJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM6,1895.3%
- 5ABRAHAM MINJGarvi Gujarat Party · GGP3,8893.4%
- 6BIRANJAN BARAIndependent · IND2,8142.4%
- 7JOHAN AINDIndependent · IND1,3751.2%
- 8SUKHRAM BHAGATBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2141.0%
- 9MAHABIR CHIEK BARAIKRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,2001.0%
- 10JHINGA JOHAN LAKRAIndependent · IND1,1841.0%
- 11AGAPIT SORENGIndependent · IND9640.8%
- 12BAL KISUN BHAGATIndependent · IND8750.8%
- 13BIRJANAND ORAONCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7260.6%
- 14ASIM HERENJIJP · IJP5730.5%
- 15VINOD LOHRALTSD · LTSD5060.4%
- 16SUDHIR KINDOPPIS · PPIS3750.3%
Since 2005
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2005 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +8.9%
- BJP share
- 33.1% → 33.2%
- INC share
- 41.0% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —