Jharkhand Polls: Deepika Pandey, Mithilesh Thakur and Raja Peter trail in their seats

PINAKI MAJUMDAR

Jamshedpur, Nov 23:  Congress candidate from Mahagama seat (18) Deepika Pandey Singh, JMM’s Mithilesh Thakur from Garhwa (80) and JD(U) ‘s Gopal Krishna Patar, popularly known as Raja Peter from Tamar seat (58) were trailing behind in their respective seats after different rounds of counting.

All three candidates have Jamshedpur connection as they had spent their earlier days here in the steel city.

1) Ashok Kumar (BJP): 44569 votes

2) Deepika Pandey Singh (Congress): 42912 votes.

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*Deepika Pandey trails by 1,657 votes. Counting in Mahagama seat will continue till 23 rounds

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Tamar (58) after 12 rounds

1) Vikas Kumar Munda (JMM): 45,172 votes

2) Gopal Krishna Patar (JDU): 24,248 votes

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*Gopal Krishna Patra trails by 20,924 votes. Counting will continue till 19 rounds

Garhwa (80) after 9 rounds

1) Satyendra Nath Tiwari (BJP): 56,442 votes

2) Mithilesh Kumar Thakur (JMM): 43,036 votes

*Mithilesh Kumar Thakur trails by 13,416 votes. Counting will continue till 23 rounds