Riding on a Narendra Modi wave, the BJP has won 12 of the fourteen Lok Sabha seats.
The saffron party's Pashupati Nath Singh and Bidyut Baran Mahato established their victory in Dhanbad and Jamshedpur seats.
Former chief minister and JMM supremo Shibu Soren, who initially trailed BJP's Sunil Soren, surged ahead by 7,569 votes from Dumka (ST) seat while another ex-CM and Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric s-JVM) Babulal Marandi is trailing at third.
In Ranchi, former union minister and sitting Congress MP, Subodh Kant Sahay is uncomfortably placed in Ranchi, lost against BJP leader Ram Tahal Choudhary.
In Khunti (ST), Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha and BJP candidate Karia Munda is also comfortably won against nearest Jharkhand Party rival and sitting MLA Anosh Ekka.
BJP's Jayant Sinha, son of former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha, has conqurered victory over his nearest three-time Congress MLA Saurabh Narain Singh in Hazaribagh.
Sitting BJP MP Ravindra Pandey is also easily placed and has won against his nearest rival JMM MLA Jagannath Mahto in Giridih. New political entrant Vishnu Dayal Ram, Jharkhand former top cop of Jharkhand and BJP candidate, has won over RJD s Manoj Kumar in Palamau (SC) seat.
Former Chief Minister Madhu Koda s wife, Gita, was trailing by 57,897 votes to BJP's Laxman Gilua in Singhbhum (ST) constituency and finnaly Gilua won.
In Chatra, Sunil Kumar Singh of the BJP is ahead by 43.180 votes over his nearest JVM rival Nilam Devi. In an interesting tussle for Godda seat, Furkan Ansari of the Congress and BJP's Nishikant Dubey won against Ansari by a minor margin. Former union minister and Congress candidate Rameshwar Oraon was earlier leading by 2,595 votes over sitting BJP MP Sudarshan Bhagat in Lohardaga constituency but lost in the end.
BJP's state unit president Ravindra Rai also won over CPI (ML-Liberation's) Raj Kumar Yadav in Kodarma.
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