Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren won from Barhait assembly seat with a margin of 39,791 votes defeating BJP's Gamliyel Hembrom. Soren has been representing Barhait constituency since 2014. He won from Dumka seat in 2009 and again in 2019 along with Barhait constituency and gave up the former in 2020. Barhait seat voted in the second phase of Jharkhand polls.