The most important thing was that after the coming into existence of a separate state of Jharkhand, this was the first assembly election in which there was no major incident of violence. A record of bumper voting was made in the areas which were affected by Naxalism for decades. This election was also notable in the sense that women set a record for the highest number of votes. In the first phase, women had voted in more numbers than men on 37 out of 43 seats. The same trend followed in the second phase of voting on Wednesday. The seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes have seen more voting than general seats. There were a total of more than 2 crore 26 lakh voters in the state including both the phases.
With this, the fate of a total of 1,211 candidates contesting the elections has been sealed in EVMs. These include Chief Minister Hemant Soren from Barhet seat, former CM Champai Soren from Seraikela, BJP state president and first CM of the state Babulal Marandi from Rajdhanwar seat, Leader of Opposition of Jharkhand Assembly Amar Kumar Bauri from Chandankiyari, Assembly Speaker Ravindranath Mahato from Nala seat, Gandey. JMM’s star campaigner Kalpana Soren from the seat and AJSU party chief Sudesh Mahato from Silli seat are also included. Among the prominent candidates are ten out of 11 ministers of Hemant Soren government, former CM Arjun Munda’s wife Meera Munda, former CM Madhu Koda’s wife Geeta Koda, Hemant Soren’s brother Basant Soren and his sister-in-law Sita Soren.
