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PremiumMaharashtra, Jharkhand Election 2024 Dates Announcement Highlights: Voting for the assembly elections in Maharashtra will take place on November 20 and results will be announced on November 23, the Election Commission of India announced on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the voting for the Jharkhand Assembly Elections will take place in two phases – on November 13 and November 20. The results will be declared on November 23. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said India is setting gold standards in every election.
The term of Maharashtra Assembly will end on November 26. The state is currently ruled by the Mahayuti government led by chief minister Eknath Shinde. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP,) Shiv Sena-Eknath Shinde and NCP-Ajit Pawar are part of the ruling alliance in Maharashtra. Maharashtra has 288 seats.
In Jharkhand, the term of the Assembly will end on January 5, 2025. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)- Congress alliance is in power in the state with Hemant Soren as the chief minister. Jharkhand has 81 seats.
The Maharashtra election is expected to witness a two-way fight between the ruling Mahayuti Alliance and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition, of the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP - Sharad Pawar and the Congress. In 2019 the BJP, and undivided Sena, coalition had come to power in the state.
In Jharkhand, the ruling JMM-Congress alliance is up against the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which comprises the BJP, the Janata Dal (United), and the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU). In 2019, Hemant Soren's JMM had won 30 seats while the Congress bagged 16 seats paving way for Soren to be sworn in as chief minister.
The next set of assembly polls in Maharashtra and Jharkhand are being held after the recently-concluded assembly polls in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. The BJP scripted history in Haryana by winning the state for the third record straight term. The National Conference-Congress alliance won the Jammu and Kashmir polls.
Omar Abdullah will be sworn in as CM of Jammu and Kashmir on October 16 while Nayab Singh Saini as chief minister of Haryana on October 17.
