Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Ranchi #8GEN
Won
Subodh Kant Sahay
INC Indian National CongressMargin
15,421 2.2 pp
votes
over Ram Tahal Choudhary (BJP)
The contest
Electors13,79,179
Votes polled6,96,342
Turnout50.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors7.33 L53.2% of electorate
Female electors6.46 L46.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
880females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subodh Kant Sahay | INC | 2,84,035 | 40.80% | |
| 2 | Ram Tahal Choudhary | BJP | 2,68,614 | 38.60% | |
| 3 | Bandhu Tirky | IND | 52,380 | 7.50% | |
| 4 | Rajendra Singh Munda | CPIM | 37,688 | 5.40% | |
| 5 | Rajesh Kumar | IND | 11,616 | 1.70% | |
| 6 | Samim Akhtar Kamal | BSP | 7,116 | 1.00% | |
| 7 | Chinta Mani Mahto | IND | 5,450 | 0.80% | |
| 8 | Ali Raja Zaidi | SP | 5,179 | 0.70% | |
| 9 | Khudi Ram Munda | CPIML | 3,787 | 0.50% | |
| 10 | Arun Tiwari | IND | 2,947 | 0.40% | |
| 11 | Sona Ram Munda | IND | 2,326 | 0.30% | |
| 12 | Sanjay Kumar Gupta | IND | 2,256 | 0.30% | |
| 13 | Raja Ram Pandit | NLP | 2,187 | 0.30% | |
| 14 | Anjani Pandey | IND | 2,044 | 0.30% | |
| 15 | Abhay Kumar | IND | 1,869 | 0.30% | |
| 16 | Manoj Kumar | SP | 1,790 | 0.30% | |
| 17 | Maqubool Ahmad | LJSP | 1,592 | 0.20% | |
| 18 | Mukesh Sinha | JPP | 1,449 | 0.20% | |
| 19 | Harihar Singh Munda | IND | 1,429 | 0.20% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 588, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 695,754 · NOTA n/a · published 696,342 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12