Jharkhand: BJP leads in 8 seats, RJD, JMM, Cong in 1 each

 BJP, which had won a single seat in 2004, is leading in 8 out of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand while Congress, JMM and RJD established leads in one constituency each.      

Former chief minister Arjun Munda (Jamshedpur), former union ministers Yashwant Sinha (Hazaribagh) and Karia Munda (Khunti), Sudarshan Bhagat (Lohardaga), Ram Tahal Choudhury (Ranchi), Nishikant Dubey (Godda), Sunil Soren (Dumka) and Ravindra Pandey (Giridih) of BJP are leading over their nearest opponents as per latest reports.     

Congress MLA Chandrasekhar Dubey is leading by 1,738 votes over BSP's Samresh Singh in Dhanbad at the end of first round while RJD's Ghuran Ram has established a lead of 1,671 votes from Palamau constituency at the end of the third round.     

JMM's sitting MLA Hemlal Murmu is leading from Raj Mahal seat by a slender margin of 814 votes over his nearest BJP rival Debi Dhan Besra at the end of third round.     

Former chief minister Madhu Koda(Ind) and ex-assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari(Ind) have established a comfortable lead over their nearest rivals from Singhbhum and Chatra seats.     

Koda is leading by 57,994 votes over BJP's Barkuwar Gagrai at the end of eighth round in Singhbhum, while Namdhari another independent nominee has established a lead of 13,074 votes over his nearest RJD rival Nagmani after the completion of 10th round in Chatra.