In Jharkhand's polls, the NDA's seats dropped from 51 to 24, as the JMM-led INDIA bloc won 56, aided by effective campaigning and tribal-Muslim unity.

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

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.