Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Ranchi #8GEN
Won
Subodh Kant Sahay
INC Indian National CongressMargin
13,350 1.8 pp
votes
over Ram Tahal Choudhary (BJP)
The contest
Electors16,25,148
Votes polled7,23,932
Turnout44.6%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electorsnot recorded
Female electorsnot recorded
Sex ratio
not recorded
Poll date16 Apr 2009
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subodh Kant Sahay | INC | 3,10,499 | 42.90% | |
| 2 | Ram Tahal Choudhary | BJP | 2,97,149 | 41.00% | |
| 3 | Akhtar Ansari | JVMP | 31,567 | 4.40% | |
| 4 | Rajendra Singh Munda | CPIM | 21,996 | 3.00% | |
| 5 | Md. Sarafuddin | BSP | 10,994 | 1.50% | |
| 6 | Keshaw Narayan Bhagat | IND | 8,720 | 1.20% | |
| 7 | Lal Baba Masani | IND | 5,365 | 0.70% | |
| 8 | Arti Behra | IND | 3,959 | 0.50% | |
| 9 | Upendra Pd. Shrivastava | IND | 3,649 | 0.50% | |
| 10 | Aftab Alam | IND | 2,559 | 0.40% | |
| 11 | Jipalal Singh Munda | JPN | 2,515 | 0.30% | |
| 12 | Afsar Imam | JPP | 2,498 | 0.30% | |
| 13 | Anjani Pandey | IND | 2,426 | 0.30% | |
| 14 | Kailash Pahan | IND | 2,262 | 0.30% | |
| 15 | Janardan Tiwary | IND | 2,229 | 0.30% | |
| 16 | Agam Lal Mahto | IND | 2,123 | 0.30% | |
| 17 | Rooshan Prasad | IND | 1,967 | 0.30% | |
| 18 | Md. Azad Ansari | NLP | 1,955 | 0.30% | |
| 19 | Devendra Thakur | IND | 1,594 | 0.20% | |
| 20 | Surendra Kumar Suman | SP | 1,483 | 0.20% | |
| 21 | Rampodo Mahto | IND | 1,315 | 0.20% | |
| 22 | Dayanand Gupta | JVD | 1,215 | 0.20% | |
| 23 | Birsa Hembram | IND | 1,146 | 0.20% | |
| 24 | Jitendra Mahto | IND | 1,103 | 0.20% | |
| 25 | Roshan Lal Mahto | IND | 999 | 0.10% | |
| 26 | Ranjeet Mahto | IND | 819 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -174, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 724,106 · NOTA n/a · published 723,932 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2009
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