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2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

January 26, 2023

The Legislative Assembly election was held over five-phases in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015.[1][2]

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
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All 243 seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
122 seats needed for a majority
Turnout56.91% (4.18%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Lalu Prasad Yadav Nitish Kumar Sushil Modi
Party RJD JD(U) BJP
Alliance MGB MGB NDA
Last election 22 115 91
Seats won 80 71 53
Seat change 58 44 38
Popular vote 6,995,509 6,416,414 9,308,015
Percentage 18.4% 16.8% 24.4%
Swing 0.44% 5.81% 7.94%
  Fourth party
 
Leader Ashok Chaudhary
Party Indian National Congress
Alliance MGB
Last election 4
Seats won 27
Seat change 23
Popular vote 2,539,638
Percentage 6.7%
Swing 1.68%

In April 2015, the Janata Parivar group (a group of six parties – Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (Secular), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya))[3][4] announced their intention to fight the election, with Nitish Kumar as their Chief Ministerial candidate. The Janta Parivar was joined by the Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party.[5] This coalition was restructured as Mahagatabandhan when the Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal (Secular), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) departed from the Janata Parivar.

The Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA fought the election alongside the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha.[6][7][8]

Six left parties fought jointly, independently from both of the two main blocs.[9][10]

This election saw the highest voter turnout in Bihar assembly polls since 2000, with a 56.8% voter turnout in this election.[11] The RJD emerged as a single largest party with 81 seats, followed by JD (U) with 70 seats and BJP with 53 seats. In terms of vote share, BJP came first with 24.4%, followed by RJD with 18.4% and JD (U) with 16.8% and Congress got 6.7%.[12]

Background

Main article: 2015 Bihar political crisis

Electoral process changes

 
NOTA symbol

Election Commission of India announced that around 1,000 Voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) machines will be used along with EVM in 36 out of the 243 assembly seats in Bihar elections, spread over 38 districts.[13][14][15][16][17][18] ECIL manufactured VVPATs will be used in 10 assembly constituencies, while BEL manufactured VVPAT will be used in 26 assembly constituencies.[19] The election information was webcast for the first time and voters can locate their polling booth on phones via an app.[20] About 1.5 crore voters would be informed about the voting dates via SMS.[21]

Election Commission used three new software products – Suvidha, Samadhan and Sugam – to facilitate campaigning, public grievance redressal and vehicle management in Bihar.[22] Electoral Roll Management Software helped in addition/deletion/upgradation of rolls.[23] Android based app 'Matdan' helped the commission with poll-day monitoring in Bihar. Election Commission launched a special drive, Systematic Voters' Education And Electoral Participation (SVEEP) for voter awareness and higher voter turn out in Bihar elections.[24][25][26] Bihar would be the first state to have photo electoral rolls, with photographs of candidates on EVMs.[27][28]

Eleven NRI voters registered in the electoral rolls for the first time in Bihar electoral history. They were contacted by election officials through their family members.[30] It was the first time that NRIs cast their votes semi-electronically from foreign countries.[31] The e-postal ballot system and the existing proxy-voting facility is extended for NRI voters from their place of residence abroad.[32][33][34] But this facility is not available to migrant voters within India.[35][36][37]

A cross will be NOTA symbol to be used in this and subsequent elections.[38] The Election Commission introduced the specific symbol for NOTA, a ballot paper with a black cross across it, on 18 September. The symbol is designed by the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.[39][40]

On 31 July, the ECI published the final voters' list for the election,[41] which has an overall population of 10,38,04,637, in accordance with the 2011 Census of India.[42][43]

Final voters list for Bihar Legislative Assembly election 2015
S.No Group of voters Voters population
1 Male 3,56,46,870
2 Female 3,11,77,619
3 third gender 2,169
– Total voters 6,68,26,658

Security

The security used Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) drones, called Netras (eyes) for the election.[44][45] The Election Commission of India decided that Bihar Police personnel would not be deployed at any of the 62,779 polling stations.[46] They would be manned by members of the Central Armed Police Forces.[47]

Bihar Legislative Council election

In July 2015, BJP-led NDA won 13 seats (including 1 independent backed by BJP) out of 24 seats of Bihar Legislative Council election.[48][49] JDU and RJD combine won 10 seats only, while 1 seat was won by an independent candidate.[50][51]

Central government actions

On 19 August, the central government notified 21 Bihar districts, including the capital Patna, as backward areas and unveiled tax rebates for them.[52] On 25 August, the central government released the religious data of the 2011 census.[53][54] Hindus constituted 82.7% (8.6 crore people) in Bihar, while Muslims constituted 16.9% (1.7 crore peoples).[55]

In July 2015, Jitan Ram Manjhi was accorded "Z"-plus security cover by the Union Home Ministry, while Pappu Yadav was accorded "Y" category security by government of India.[56][57]

Other political developments

In May 2015, the JDU government increased the Dearness Allowance (DA) by six percent to 11 percent for provincial government employees and pensioners.[58] In July, Nitish Kumar announced a 50 percent quota for OBC, EBC and SC/STs in all government contracts up to Rs 15 lakh.[59][60] In July, the government issued a notification to give caste certificates to children from upper caste Hindu and Muslim families whose annual income was below ₹1.5 lakh (US$1,900).[61]

In September, the government agreed to the creation of a dedicated fund for fencing off temples and the inclusion of two Extremely Backward Castes (EBCs), Nishad (Mallah) and Nonia, in the SC/ST category.[62][63] The state government also decided to provide grants-in-aid to 609 more madrassas across Bihar from the list of 2,459 registered by Bihar State Madrassa Education Board.[64] The Bihar government gave a tax-exempt status to Manjhi – The Mountain Man, a film based on Dashrath Manjhi, a Dalit who carved a path through a 360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft high hillock in 22 years (1960–1982).[65] Opposition parties accused Nitish Kumar government of doing nothing for Manjhi's village Gehlaur.[citation needed]

In April 2015, Nitish Kumar announced the JDU's decision to include few more castes, including the Teli, in list of Extremely Backward Class, which have 18% reservation in Bihar.[66][67]

Caste and religion data

The 2011 national census indicated that Scheduled Castes constituted 16% of Bihar's 10.4 crores population.[68][69] The census identified 21 of 23 Dalit sub-castes as Mahadalits.[70] The Mahadalit community consists of the following sub-castes: Bantar, Bauri, Bhogta, Bhuiya, Chaupal, Dabgar, Dom (Dhangad), Ghasi, Halalkhor, Hari (Mehtar, Bhangi), Kanjar, Kurariar, Lalbegi, Musahar, Nat, Pan (Swasi), Rajwar, Turi, Dhobi, Chamar and Paswan (Dusadh).[71] Among Dalits in Bihar, Chamars are the largest 31.3%, followed by Paswans (Dusadh) 30.9% and Musahars 13.9%.[72] The Paswan caste was initially left out of the Mahadalit category,[73] to the consternation of Ram Vilas Paswan.[74][75] Chamars were included later in Mahadalit category. Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) constituted around 1.3% of the Bihari population.[76][77][78] They include the Gond, Santhal and Tharu communities.[79][80] There are about 130 Extremely Backward Castes (EBCs) in Bihar.[62][81]

Castes of Bihar[82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90]
Caste Population (%) Notes
OBC/EBC 51% Yadav – 14%
Kurmis – 4%
Kushwaha (Koeri) – 8%
(EBCs – 26%[62][91][92][93][94] – includes,[95][96][97] Teli – 3.2%))
Mahadalits*+ Dalits(SCs) 16%[98][99] includes Chamar – 5%, Dusadh – 5%, Musahar – 2.8%[100]
Muslims 16.9%[55] includes Shershahbadi, Surjapuri, Ansari castes[101][102]
Forward caste 15% [103] Bhumihar – 6%
Brahmin – 5%[104]
Rajput – 3%
Kayasth – 1%
Adivasis(STs) 1.3% [105][106]
Others 0.4% includes Christians, Sikhs, Jains

Schedule

On 9 September, Election Commission of India announced the dates for Bihar Assembly elections.[107]

 
Voting phases.
Phase Date No of constituencies Covering Districts
I 12 October 49 Samastipur, Begusarai, Khagaria, Bhagalpur, Banka, Munger, Lakhisarai, Sheikhpura, Nawada, Jamui
II 16 October 32 Kaimur, Rohtas, Arwal, Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Gaya
III 28 October 50 Saran, Vaishali, Nalanda, Patna, Bhojpur, Buxar
IV 1 November 55 Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Gopalganj, Siwan
V 5 November 57 Madhubani, Supaul, Araria, Kishanganj, Purnia, Katihar, Madhepura, Saharsa, Darbhanga
Counting 8 November 243
Source: Election Commission of India

Parties and alliances

Mahagathbandhan

Main article: Mahagathbandhan (Bihar)

On 7 June, Lalu Prasad Yadav announced the RJD was joining in an alliance with the JDU for the election.[108][109] On 13 July, he led a march demanding that the central government release its findings of the Socio Economic Caste Census 2011 (SECC) on caste,[110][111][112] although Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan pitched for a comprehensive classification of caste data of SECC 2011 before its release,[113] and also said Lalu, Nitish will be worst impacted from the caste data even if its released.[114][115] BJP Leader Sushil Kumar Modi called for rectification of errors in the cases of 1.46 crore people in India, including 1.75 lakh in Bihar, before releasing the caste data.[116]

On 3 August, incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declared that he would not stand in the election.[117][118] On 11 August, he announced the seat-sharing formula, according to which JD(U) and RJD will contest 100 seats each, while Congress will contest 40 seats in Bihar.[119] NCP pulled out of this alliance later.[120] On 23 September, Nitish Kumar announced the list of 242 candidates for the JDU–RJD–INC alliance.[121][122][123] OBCs were most favoured in the alliance ticket distribution plan.[124][125][126] 10% of tickets were allotted to women candidate by the alliance.[127] The Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi assigned the task to shortlist Congress candidates for each of the 40 assembly constituencies to former Governor of Kerala and Nagaland Nikhil Kumar.[128]

Nitish Kumar was the declared chief ministerial candidate for the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance). Kumar started his Har Ghar Dastak (door-to-door) campaign on 2 July.[129][130][131] Initially there were definite political overtures when both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar shared stage together in a public [132] event commemorating former chief minister Satyendra Narain Sinha's birth anniversary that witnessed veiled attacks on each other, the last time [133] they did it in public. Prashant Kishor was a key election strategist for the alliance.[134][135] The Janata Dal-United started 400 audio-visual vans called Jan Bhagidari Manch raths[clarification needed] for the campaign.[136] Kumar is launching 'Bihar Samman Sammelan' in various cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, to connect with the Bihari diaspora.[137]

However, the grand alliance broke on 26 July 2017 as a result of the resignation by Nitish Kumar and on the next day 27 July JD(U) made an alliance with NDA and Nitish Kumar sworn in as the chief minister of Bihar for the 6th time and Sushil Modi was sworn in as the deputy chief minister for the 3rd time.

National Democratic Alliance

See also: National Democratic Alliance (India)

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) used 243 GPS-monitored raths (modified Boleros) and video vans in the election.[138][139][140] The BJP also set up a monitoring headquarters in Patna to track the movement of the GPS-equipped vehicles which will visit 40,000 villages in all 243 constituencies.[141][142] The campaign was kick-started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Muzaffarpur on 25 July, where he also inaugurated the permanent campus of IIT Patna in Bihta.[143][144][145][146] The BJP election exercise also involved three lakh volunteers.[clarification needed][138] Modi held his second election rally in Gaya on 9 August[147][148] and his third rally in Arrah[149][150] and Saharsa on 18 August.[151][152] Modi announced a Rs 1.25 lakh crore package[clarification needed] for Bihar.[153][154] He addressed his fourth rally in Bhagalpur on 1 September.[155] Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan also campaigned for the BJP.[156][157] Modi addressed several rallies after 25 October in several constituencies.[158]

In a rally in Buxar on 26 October, Modi vowed to defend reservation of Dalits, STs, OBCs.[159][160][161] He said of the Mahagathbandhan that it was trying to hatch a conspiracy to carve out a sub-quota on the basis of religion as the Supreme Court of India has said reservation cannot be more than 50%.[162][163][164][165] On 27 October, in Bettiah, he again accused Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav of diluting the share of SC, ST and OBC.[166][167] It promoted the view that an attempt was being made to take the reservation of Dalits and other OBCs and give it to other minorities.[168] Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also agreed with Modi's assertions that the idea of reservations on the basis of religion is fraught with danger.[169][170] On 1 November, Modi repeated the allegations that the two leaders came together in July 2005 to demand a review of the policy to provide for religion-based reservation.[171][172] A video dating from 2005 which was leaked showed Lalu was asking for a quota for Muslims.[173] On 3 July, BJP announced its seventh morcha, the BJP OBC Morcha, reportedly in regards to the election.[174][175][176]

On 11 June, Jitan Ram Manjhi announced his party Hindustani Awam Morcha alliance with the NDA for the election.[177][178]

On 14 September, the NDA announced its seat distribution: BJP got 160 seats, LJP got 40 seats, RLSP got 23 seats and HAM got 20 seats.[179] The NDA did not announce any chief ministerial candidate.[180] BJP announced the names of 154 candidates in three lists.[181][182][183] Caste played a major role in distributing tickets.[184][185] BJP also accommodated five candidates of the Hindustani Awam Morcha.[186] Later, the BJP gave the Imamganj seat to HAM for Majhi is contesting and BJP reduced its seat tally to 159.[187][188] On 1 October, the BJP released its manifesto.[189]

Socialist Secular Morcha

On 19 September, the leaders of six parties – Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party, Jan Adhikar Party, Samras Samaj Party, National People's Party and Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic – announced the formation of a third front known as the Socialist Secular Morcha. SP and NCP fought on most of the seats. NPP fought on 3 seats. [190] On 15 October, NCP leader Tariq Anwar announced that his party had decided to leave the third front.[191][192]

Left Front

On 24 July, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, the All India Forward Bloc, the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) and the Revolutionary Socialist Party decided to run in all constituencies on a join ticket citing its call for an alternative platform.[10] The CPI will contest 98 seats, while the CPI-ML, CPI(M), SUCI, Forward Bloc, and RSP will contest 98, 43, 10, 9, and 3 seats, respectively.[193] CPI released its first list of 81 candidates on 16 September 2015.[194]

Others

Muslim parties

At least six Muslim parties contested the election.[195] AIMIM contested six seats.[196]

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi addressed a rally in Kishanganj on 16 August.[197][198] Owaisi accused Nitish and Lalu of keeping the Seemanchal region (consisting of 24 seats) as a backward region.[199][200][201] AIMIM is contesting on 6 assembly seats in Seemanchal region where Muslim voters play a major role.[202][203][204] He addressed a public rally in Kishanganj on 4 October in the Sontha village, which is part of the Kochadhaman Assembly constituency.[205][206][207] He held further rallies at many places in Kishanganj and Purnia.[208][209]

On 5 October, AIMIM released its first list of its six candidates for the election.[210]

Bahujan Samaj Party

In June 2015, the Bahujan Samaj Party said it would contest all 243 seats.[211][212] In July, the BSP initially released its first list of 49 candidates, including five women candidates, by Bharat Bind, the president of the BSP Bihar unit.[213] National party leader Mayawati planned to campaign for its candidates.[214] BSP's first list has 11 Other Backward Class (OBCs) and 11 Muslims, while they also field Dalits and OBCs from non-reserved seats.[215] On 6 September, Mayawati said of the central government that it was being "remote-controlled" by the "communal and fascist" organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).[216][217][218]

Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Munquad Ali (Rajya Sabha MP), and Ram Achal Rajbhar were appointed to form a strategy to consolidate the Dalits, Most Backward Castes (MBCs), and Muslim votes.[219] On 9 September, Mayawati questioned the announcement of Dearness Allowance (DA) by the central government just before the election and again accused the RSS and its affiliated Sangh Parivar organizations of using the 2011 national census for fear-mongering against Muslim population growth for sectarian purposes, as well as to divert attention from such issues as the alleged failure of the central government to deliver on its promises. She added that the census also showed positive signs such as the sex ratio among Muslims is 951 females to 1,000 males, which is higher than the national average and indicated a slowing of the Muslim population growth rate.[220] On 10 September, she called for the deployment of central forces in large numbers on electoral duty to assure a free and fair election and further asked the ECI to keep a watch on possible sectarian ploys by the BJP.[221][222]

Mayawati officially launched the party's campaign on 9 October from Banka.[223] On 13 October, addressing a rally in Rohtas and Kaimur districts, she claimed that the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the party leadership had surrendered to the BJP. She claimed that it has fielded candidates after consulting with the BJP.[224][225] She further called on the NDA to not allow the reservation policy for OBCs and SC/STs to fall under the RSS' influence.[226] On 25 October, Mayawati while addressing a rally in Buxar district of Bihar said that Samajwadi Party played in the hands of BJP due to which Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) broke away from it. She also alleged that BJP is working only for the Business class and the Nitish-Lalu governments did nothing for the poor.[227]

Minor

Expelled RJD MP Pappu Yadav created the Jan Adhikar Party before the election and announced to fight against the Lalu-Nitish alliance.[228][229] Yogendra Yadav has announced that Swaraj Abhiyan may extend its support to certain political parties, however it was not clear which one.[230]

On 17 September, Shiv Sena announced that it will contest over 150 seats during the election.[231][232] On 19 September, a third front – Socialist Secular Morcha – announced its seat distribution: SP got 85 seats, Janadhikar Party got 64 seats, NCP got 40 seats, SSP got 28 seats, SJP got 23 seats and NPP got three seats.[233] Former U.K. banker Akshay Verma's Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party contested about 90 seats in the election.[234]

The Aam Aadmi Party and JVM-P decided that they will not contest the election, but will campaign against the NDA.[235][236]

Opinion polls

When conducted Ref Polling organisation/Agency Sample size

JD(U) + RJD
+ INC 		BJP
+ LJP
+ RLSP
+ HAM 		Other
Apr–May 2015 [237] ABP News[238] NA 127 111 5
Jun–Jul 2015 [239] ABP News – Nielsen NA 121 118 4
August–September 2015 [240] India Today – Cicero 5,968 106 125 12
August–September 2015 [241] India TV–CVoter poll 10,638 120–128 94–106 17–21
3–7 September 2015 [242] ABP News – Nielsen 4,493 122 118 3
12–13 September 2015 [243] Zee News Survey 31,906 70–103 140–173 0
23 September 2015 [244] Times Now – CVoter 7,786 112 117 14
October 2015 [245] Leadtech – infoelections.com 11,566 73 168
8 October 2015 [246] CNN-IBN–Axis Poll 27500 137 95 11
7 October 2015 [247] ABP News NA 112 128 3
October 2015 [248] India Today – Cicero poll NA 122 111 10
October 2015 [249] News Nation 7,000 115–119 120–124 2–4
October 2015 [250] India TV– Cvoter 9,916 108–124 111–127 4–12

Election

The electoral process cost about ₹300 crore (US$38 million) to the Bihar government exchequer.[251][252][253]

The electorate in Chandila village of Maker block in Saran district's Amnour Assembly constituency boycotted the election and no votes were cast in protest against the government's failure to bring electricity to their village.[254][255]

Exit polls

The Axis APM polls was not finally aired by its commissioning news channel, CNN–IBN.[256]

Polling organisation/Agency Ref Sample size

JD(U) + RJD
+ INC 		BJP
+ LJP
+ RLSP
+ HAM 		Other
ABP News – Nielsen [257] — 130 108 5
CNN–IBN – Axis [256][258][259][260][261] — 176 64 3
India Today – Cicero [262] — 111–123 113–127 4–8
NDTV – Hansa [263] 76,000 110 125 8
India TV–Times Now–CVoter [264] 35,000+ 112–132 101–121 6–14
News 24 – Today's Chanakya [265] — 83 155 5

Results

The result was announced on 8 November.[266] The counting of EVMs of 14 assembly constituencies of Patna district was done in AN College Patna.[267][268] The NOTA option had nine lakhs, or 2.5%, of popular votes and was the highest it had achieved in Bihar elections.[269][270] The number of Yadav MLAs increased to 61 in the Bihar assembly.[271]

Results showed that, of the 53 seats won by BJP, 27 were urban areas, which signified that BJP had dramatically shrunk back to its traditional urban support base in Bihar. BJP failed to make a big impact in the rural areas of Bihar, which has one of the lowest urbanization rates. Only 11.3% of the population of Bihar lives in urban areas, which is lowest in India after Himachal Pradesh.[272]

According to one analysis, RJD was the biggest beneficiary of this election. RJD increased its seat tally by 59 compared with the previous election. RJD had the best strike rate by winning 81 of the 101 seats contested. RJD became the single largest party in Bihar Assembly. RJD defeated BJP in 36 seats BJP had won in the last election, similarly, it took 25 seats JD (U) had won in the last election.[273]

Summary

↓
178 58 7
Mahagathbandhan NDA Others
 
Map displaying constituencies won by parties
Summary of results of the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election[274][275]
Alliance Political party Votes Vote % Change
in vote % 		Vote % in
Seats Contested 		Seats
Contested 		Won Net change
in seats 		% of
Seats
Mahagathbandhan Rashtriya Janata Dal 6,995,509 18.4  0.44  44.35 101 80  58 32.92
Janata Dal (United) 6,416,414 16.8  5.81  40.65 101 71  44 29.21
Indian National Congress 2,539,638 6.7  1.68  39.49 41 27  23 11.11
NDA Bharatiya Janata Party 9,308,015 24.4  7.94  37.48 157 53  38 21.81
Lok Janshakti Party 1,840,834 4.8  1.95  28.79 42 2  1 0.82
Rashtriya Lok Samata Party 976,787 2.6 - 0.64 23 2  2 0.82
Hindustani Awam Morcha 864,856 2.3 - 26.90 21 1  1 0.41
Left Front Communist Party of India 516,699 1.36  0.29  3.43 98 0  1 0
CPI(ML) Liberation 587,701 1.54  0.29  3.82 98 3  3 1.23
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 232,149 0.61  0.21  3.32 43 0   0
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 11,621 0.03  0.02  0.74 10 0   0
All India Forward Bloc 6,936 0.02  0.00  0.21 9 0   0
Revolutionary Socialist Party 3,045 0.01  0.00  0.64 3 0   0
Socialist
Secular
Morcha 		Samajwadi Party 385,511 1.0  0.45  1.83 85 0   0
Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik) 514,748 1.4 — — 64 0   0
Nationalist Congress Party 185,437 0.5  1.32  2.82 40 0   0
Samras Samaj Party — — — — 28 0   0
Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic — — — — 23 0   0
National People's Party — — — — 3 0   0
Others Bahujan Samaj Party 788,024 2.1  1.11  2.21 243 0   0
Shiv Sena 211,131 0.6  0.21  1.84 150 0   0
Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party 108,851 0.3 — 0.91 90 0   0
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 103,940 0.3  0.31  2.02 — 0   0
Garib Janata Dal (Secular) 92,279 0.2 — 0.66 — 0   0
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 80,248 0.2 — 8.04 6 0   0
Independents 3,580,953 9.4  3.82  9.57 1150 4  2 1.64
NOTA 947,276 2.5 — 2.49 243 — — —
Total 37,673,594 100.00 243
Valid votes 37,673,594 99.94
Invalid votes 23,384 0.06
Votes cast / turnout 37,673,594 56.91
Abstentions 2,85,46,215 43.09
Registered voters 6,62,43,193

Results by District

District Total
MGB NDA Other
West Champaran 9 3 5 1
East Champaran 12 5 7 0
Sheohar 1 1 0 0
Sitamarhi 8 6 2 0
Madhubani 10 8 2 0
Supaul 5 4 1 0
Araria 6 4 2 0
Kishanganj 4 4 0 0
Purnia 7 6 1 0
Katihar 7 4 2 1
Madhepura 4 4 0 0
Saharsa 4 4 0 0
Darbhanga 10 8 2 0
Muzaffarpur 11 6 3 2
Gopalganj 6 4 2 0
Siwan 8 6 1 1
Saran 10 8 2 0
Vaishali 8 6 2 0
Samastipur 10 10 0 0
Begusarai 7 7 0 0
Khagaria 4 4 0 0
Bhagalpur 7 6 1 0
Banka 5 4 1 0
Munger 3 3 0 0
Lakhisarai 2 1 1 0
Sheikhpura 2 2 0 0
Nalanda 7 6 1 0
Patna 14 6 7 1
Bhojpur 7 6 0 1
Buxar 4 4 0 0
Kaimur 4 0 4 0
Rohtas 7 6 1 0
Arwal 2 2 0 0
Jehanabad 3 3 0 0
Aurangabad 6 4 2 0
Gaya 9 6 3 0
Nawada 5 3 2 0
Jamui 4 3 1 0
Total 243 178 58 7

Results by constituency

Results
Assembly Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin
# Name Candidate Party Votes Candidate Party Votes
West Champaran District
1 Valmiki Nagar Dhirendra Pratap Singh Independent 66860 Irshad Hussain Indian National Congress 33280 33580
2 Ramnagar Bhagirathi Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 82166 Purnmasi Ram Indian National Congress 64178 17988
3 Narkatiaganj Vinay Verma Indian National Congress 57212 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 41151 16061
4 Bagaha Raghaw Sharan Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 74476 Bhishm Sahani Janata Dal (United) 66293 8183
5 Lauriya Vinay Bihari Bharatiya Janata Party 57351 Ran Kaushal Pratap Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 39778 17573
6 Nautan Narayan Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 66697 Baidyanath Prasad Mahto Janata Dal (United) 52362 14335
7 Chanpatia Prakash Rai Bharatiya Janata Party 61304 N. N. Sahi Janata Dal (United) 60840 464
8 Bettiah Madan Mohan Tiwari Indian National Congress 66786 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 64466 2320
9 Sikta Khurshid (Feroz Ahmad) Janata Dal (United) 69870 Dilip Varma Bharatiya Janata Party 67035 2835
East Champaran District
10 Raxaul Ajay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 64731 Suresh Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 61562 3169
11 Sugauli Ramchandra Sahani Bharatiya Janata Party 62384 Om Prakash Choudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 54628 7756
12 Narkatiya Shamim Ahmad Rashtriya Janata Dal 75118 Sant Singh Kushwaha Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 55136 19982
13 Harsidhi Rajendra Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 75203 Krishnandan Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 64936 10267
14 Govindganj Raju Tiwari Lok Janshakti Party 74685 Brajesh Kumar Indian National Congress 46765 27920
15 Kesaria Rajesh Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 62902 Rajendra Prasad Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 46955 15947
16 Kalyanpur Sachindra Prasad Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 50060 Razia Khatoon Janata Dal (United) 38572 11488
17 Pipra Shyambabu Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 65552 Krishan Chandra Janata Dal (United) 61622 3930
18 Madhuban Rana Randhir Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 61054 Shivajee Rai Janata Dal (United) 44832 16222
19 Motihari Pramod Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 79947 Binod Kumar Shrivastava Rashtriya Janata Dal 61430 18517
20 Chiraia Lal Babu Prasad Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 62831 Laxmi Narayan Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 58457 4374
21 Dhaka Faisal Rahman Rashtriya Janata Dal 87458 Pawan Kumar Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 68261 19197
Sheohar District
22 Sheohar Sharfuddin Janata Dal (United) 44576 Lovely Anand Hindustani Awam Morcha 44115 461
Sitamarhi District
23 Riga Amit Kumar Tuna Indian National Congress 79217 Moti Lal Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 56361 22856
24 Bathnaha Dinkar Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 74763 Surendra Ram Indian National Congress 54597 20166
25 Parihar Gayatri Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 66388 Ram Chandra Purve Rashtriya Janata Dal 62371 4017
26 Sursand Syed Abu Dojana Rashtriya Janata Dal 52857 Amit Kumar Independent 29623 23234
27 Bajpatti Ranju Geeta Janata Dal (United) 67194 Rekha Kumari Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 50248 16946
28 Sitamarhi Sunil Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 81557 Sunil Kumar Pintu Bharatiya Janata Party 66835 14722
29 Runnisaidpur Mangita Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 55699 Pankaj Kumar Mishra Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 41589 14110
30 Belsand Sunita Singh Chauhan Janata Dal (United) 33785 Md. Nasir Ahamad Lok Janshakti Party 28210 5575
Madhubani District
31 Harlakhi Basant Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 40468 Mohammad Shabbir Indian National Congress 36576 3892
32 Benipatti Bhawana Jha Indian National Congress 55978 Vinod Narayan Jha Bharatiya Janata Party 51244 4734
33 Khajauli Sitaram Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 71534 Arun Shankar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 60831 10703
34 Babubarhi Kapil Deo Kamat Janata Dal (United) 61486 Binod Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 41219 20267
35 Bisfi Faiyaz Ahmad Rashtriya Janata Dal 70975 Manoj Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 35650 35325
36 Madhubani Samir Kumar Mahaseth Rashtriya Janata Dal 76823 Ramdeo Mahto Bharatiya Janata Party 69516 7307
37 Rajnagar Ram Prit Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 71614 Ramawatar Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 65372 6242
38 Jhanjharpur Gulab Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 64320 Nitish Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party 63486 834
39 Phulparas Guljar Devi Yadav Janata Dal (United) 64368 Ram Sundar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 50953 13415
40 Laukaha Lakshmeshwar Roy Janata Dal (United) 79971 Pramod Kumar Priyedarshi Bharatiya Janata Party 56138 23833
Supaul District
41 Nirmali Aniruddha Prasad Yadav Janata Dal (United) 79600 Ram Kumar Roy Bharatiya Janata Party 55649 23951
42 Pipra Yaduvansh Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 85944 Vishwa Mohan Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 49575 36369
43 Supaul Bijendra Prasad Yadav Janata Dal (United) 82295 Kishor Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 44898 37397
44 Triveniganj Veena Bharti Janata Dal (United) 89869 Anant Kumar Bharti Lok Janshakti Party 37469 52400
45 Chhatapur Neeraj Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 75697 Jahur Alam Rashtriya Janata Dal 66405 9292
Araria District
46 Narpatganj Anil Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 90250 Janardan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 64299 25951
47 Raniganj Achmit Rishidev Janata Dal (United) 77717 Ramji Das Rishidev Bharatiya Janata Party 62787 14930
48 Forbesganj Vidya Sagar Keshri Bharatiya Janata Party 85929 Krityanand Biswas Rashtriya Janata Dal 60691 25238
49 Araria Avidur Rahman Indian National Congress 92667 Ajay Kumar Jha Lok Janshakti Party 52623 40044
50 Jokihat Sarfaraz Alam Janata Dal (United) 92890 Ranjeet Yadav Independent 38910 53980
51 Sikti Vijay Kumar Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party 76995 Shatrughan Prasad Suman Janata Dal (United) 68889 8106
Kishanganj District
52 Bahadurganj Md. Tauseef Alam Indian National Congress 53533 Awadh Bihari Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 39591 13942
53 Thakurganj Naushad Alam Janata Dal (United) 74239 Gopal Kumar Agrawal Lok Janshakti Party 66152 8087
54 Kishanganj Mohammad Jawed Indian National Congress 66522 Sweety Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 57913 8609
55 Kochadhaman Mujahid Alam Janata Dal (United) 55929 Akhtarul Iman All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 37086 18843
Purnia District
56 Amour Abdul Jalil Mastan Indian National Congress 100135 Saba Zafar Bharatiya Janata Party 48138 51997
57 Baisi Abdus Subhan Rashtriya Janata Dal 67022 Vinod Kumar Independent 28282 38740
58 Kasba Md. Afaque Alam Indian National Congress 81633 Pradip Kumar Das Bharatiya Janata Party 79839 1794
59 Banmankhi Krishna Kumar Rishi Bharatiya Janata Party 59053 Sanjiv Kumar Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 58345 708
60 Rupauli Bima Bharti Janata Dal (United) 50945 Prem Prakash Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party 41273 9672
61 Dhamdaha Leshi Singh Janata Dal (United) 75400 Shiv Shankar Thakur Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 45583 29817
62 Purnia Vijay Kumar Khemka Bharatiya Janata Party 92020 Indu Sinha Indian National Congress 59205 32815
Katihar District
63 Katihar Tarkishore Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 66048 Bijay Singh Janata Dal (United) 51154 14894
64 Kadwa Shakeel Ahmad Khan Indian National Congress 56141 Chander Bhushan Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 50342 5799
65 Balrampur Mahbub Alam Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) L 62513 Barun Kumar Jha Bharatiya Janata Party 42094 20419
66 Pranpur Binod Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 47924 Israt Parween Nationalist Congress Party 39823 8101
67 Manihari Manohar Prasad Singh Indian National Congress 61704 Anil Kumar Oraon Lok Janshakti Party 48024 13680
68 Barari Neeraj Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 71175 Bibhash Chandra Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 56839 14336
69 Korha Punam Paswan Indian National Congress 78409 Mahesh Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 72983 5426
Madhepura District
70 Alamnagar Narendra Narayan Yadav Janata Dal (United) 87962 Chandan Singh Lok Janshakti Party 44086 43876
71 Bihariganj Niranjan Kumar Mehta Janata Dal (United) 78361 Ravindra Charan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 49108 29253
72 Singheshwar Ramesh Rishidev Janata Dal (United) 83073 Manju Devi Hindustani Awam Morcha 32873 50200
73 Madhepura Chandra Shekhar Rashtriya Janata Dal 90974 Vijay Kumar Bimal Bharatiya Janata Party 53332 37642
Saharsa District
74 Sonbarsha Ratnesh Sada Janata Dal (United) 88789 Sarita Devi Lok Janshakti Party 35026 53763
75 Saharsa Arun Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 102850 Alok Ranjan Bharatiya Janata Party 63644 39206
76 Simri Bakhtiarpur Dinesh Chandra Yadav Janata Dal (United) 78514 Yusuf Salahuddin Lok Janshakti Party 40708 37806
77 Mahishi Abdul Ghafoor Rashtriya Janata Dal 56436 Chandan Kumar Sah Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 30301 26135
Darbhanga District
78 Kusheshwar Asthan Shashi Bhushan Hajari Janata Dal (United) 50062 Dhananjay Kumar Paswan Lok Janshakti Party 30212 19850
79 Gaura Bauram Madan Sahni Janata Dal (United) 51403 Vinod Sahni Lok Janshakti Party 37341 14062
80 Benipur Sunil Choudhary Janata Dal (United) 69511 Gopal Jee Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 43068 26443
81 Alinagar Abdul Bari Siddiqui Rashtriya Janata Dal 67461 Mishri Lal Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 54001 13460
82 Darbhanga Rural Lalit Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 70557 Naushad Ahmad Hindustani Awam Morcha 36066 34491
83 Darbhanga Sanjay Saraogi Bharatiya Janata Party 77776 Om Prakash Kheria Rashtriya Janata Dal 70316 7460
84 Hayaghat Amarnath Gami Janata Dal (United) 65677 Ramesh Choudhary Lok Janshakti Party 32446 33231
85 Bahadurpur Bhola Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 71547 Hari Sahani Bharatiya Janata Party 54558 16989
86 Keoti Faraz Fatmi Rashtriya Janata Dal 68601 Ashok Kumar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 60771 7830
87 Jale Jibesh Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 62059 Rishi Mishra Janata Dal (United) 57439 4620
Muzaffarpur District
88 Gaighat Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 67313 Veena Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 63812 3501
89 Aurai Surendra Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 66958 Ram Surat Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 56133 10825
90 Minapur Rajeev Kumar (Munna Yadav) Rashtriya Janata Dal 80790 Ajay Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 56850 23940
91 Bochahan Baby Kumari Independent 67720 Ramai Ram Janata Dal (United) 43590 24130
92 Sakra Lal Babu Ram Rashtriya Janata Dal 75010 Arjun Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 61998 13012
93 Kurhani Kedar Prasad Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 73227 Manoj Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 61657 11570
94 Muzaffarpur Suresh Kumar Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party 95594 Bijendra Chaudhary Janata Dal (United) 65855 29739
95 Kanti Ashok Kumar Choudhary Independent 58111 Ajit Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 48836 9275
96 Baruraj Nand Kumar Rai Rashtriya Janata Dal 68011 Arun Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 63102 4909
97 Paroo Ashok Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 80445 Shankar Prasad Rashtriya Janata Dal 66906 13539
98 Sahebganj Ram Vichar Ray Rashtriya Janata Dal 70583 Raju Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 59923 10660
Gopalganj District
99 Baikunthpur Mithlesh Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party 56162 Manjeet Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 42047 14115
100 Barauli Md. Nematullah Rashtriya Janata Dal 61690 Rampravesh Rai Bharatiya Janata Party 61186 504
101 Gopalganj Subash Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 78491 Reyazul Haque Raju Rashtriya Janata Dal 73417 5074
102 Kuchaikote Amrendra Kumar Pandey Janata Dal (United) 72224 Kali Prasad Pandey Lok Janshakti Party 68662 3562
103 Bhore Anil Kumar Indian National Congress 74365 Indradev Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 59494 14871
104 Hathua Ramsewak Singh Janata Dal (United) 57917 Mahachandra Prasad Singh Hindustani Awam Morcha 34933 22984
Siwan District
105 Siwan Vyas Deo Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 55156 Bablu Prasad Janata Dal (United) 51622 3534
106 Ziradei Ramesh Singh Kushwaha Janata Dal (United) 40760 Asha Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 34669 6091
107 Darauli Satyadeo Ram Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) L 49576 Ramayan Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 39992 9584
108 Raghunathpur Hari Shankar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 61042 Manoj Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 50420 10622
109 Daraunda Kavita Singh Janata Dal (United) 66255 Jitendra Swami Bharatiya Janata Party 53033 13222
110 Barharia Shyam Bahadur Singh Janata Dal (United) 65168 Bachha Panday Lok Janshakti Party 50585 14583
111 Goriakothi Satyadeo Prasad Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 70965 Devesh Kant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 63314 7651
112 Maharajganj Hem Narayan Sah Janata Dal (United) 68459 Kumar Deo Ranjan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 48167 20292
Saran District
113 Ekma Manoranjan Singh Janata Dal (United) 49508 Kameshwar Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 41382 8126
114 Manjhi Vijay Shanker Dubey Indian National Congress 29558 Keshav Singh Lok Janshakti Party 20692 8866
115 Baniapur Kedar Nath Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 69851 Tarkeshwar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 53900 15951
116 Taraiya Mudrika Prasad Roy Rashtriya Janata Dal 69012 Janak Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 48572 20440
117 Marhaura Jitendra Kumar Ray Rashtriya Janata Dal 66714 Lal Babu Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 49996 16718
118 Chapra C.N. Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 71646 Randhir Kumar Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 60267 11379
119 Garkha Muneshwar Chaudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 89249 Gyanchand Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 49366 39883
120 Amnour Shatrudhan Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party 39134 Krishna Kumar Mantoo Janata Dal (United) 33883 5251
121 Parsa Chandrika Rai Rashtriya Janata Dal 77211 Chhotelal Rai Lok Janshakti Party 34876 42335
122 Sonepur Ramanuj Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 86082 Vinay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 49686 36396
Vaishali District
123 Hajipur Awadhesh Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 86773 Jagannath Prasad Rai Indian National Congress 74578 12195
124 Lalganj Raj Kumar Sah Lok Janshakti Party 80842 Vijay Kumar Shukla Janata Dal (United) 60549 20293
125 Vaishali Raj Kishore Singh Janata Dal (United) 79286 Brishin Patel Hindustani Awam Morcha 48225 31061
126 Mahua Tej Pratap Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 66927 Ravindra Ray Hindustani Awam Morcha 38772 28155
127 Raja Pakar Shivchandra Ram Rashtriya Janata Dal 61251 Ram Nath Raman Lok Janshakti Party 46096 15155
128 Raghopur Tejashwi Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 91236 Satish Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 68503 22733
129 Mahnar Umesh Singh Kushwaha Janata Dal (United) 69825 Achuta Nand Bharatiya Janata Party 43370 26455
130 Patepur Prema Chaudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 67548 Mahendra Baitha Bharatiya Janata Party 55087 12461
Samastipur District
131 Kalyanpur Maheshwar Hazari Janata Dal (United) 84904 Prince Raj Lok Janshakti Party 47218 37686
132 Warisnagar Ashok Kumar Janata Dal (United) 92687 Chandrashekhar Rai Lok Janshakti Party 34114 58573
133 Samastipur Akhtarul Islam Sahin Rashtriya Janata Dal 82508 Renu Kumari Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 51428 31080
134 Ujiarpur Alok Kumar Mehta Rashtriya Janata Dal 85466 Kumar Anant Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 38006 47460
135 Morwa Vidya Sagar Singh Nishad Janata Dal (United) 59206 Suresh Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 40390 18816
136 Sarairanjan Vijay Kumar Chaudhary Janata Dal (United) 81055 Ranjeet Nirguni Bharatiya Janata Party 47011 34044
137 Mohiuddinnagar Ejya Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 47137 Rajesh Kumar Singh Independent 23706 23431
138 Bibhutipur Ram Balak Singh Janata Dal (United) 57882 Ram Deo Verma Communist Party of India (Marxist) 40647 17235
139 Rosera Ashok Kumar Indian National Congress 85506 Manju Hazari Bharatiya Janata Party 51145 34361
140 Hasanpur Raj Kumar Ray Janata Dal (United) 63094 Vinod Choudhary Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 33494 29600
Begusarai District
141 Cheria-Bariarpur Manju Verma Janata Dal (United) 69795 Anil Kumar Chaudhary Lok Janshakti Party 40059 29736
142 Bachhwara Ramdeo Rai Indian National Congress 73983 Arvind Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 37052 36931
143 Teghra Birendra Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 68975 Ram Lakhan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 53364 15611
144 Matihani Narendra Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 89297 Sarvesh Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 66609 22688
145 Sahebpur Kamal Shreenarayan Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 78225 M.d. Aslam Lok Janshakti Party 32751 45474
146 Begusarai Amita Bhushan Indian National Congress 83521 Surendra Mehta Bharatiya Janata Party 66990 16531
147 Bakhri Upendra Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 72632 Ramanand Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 32376 40256
Khagaria District
148 Alauli Chandan Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 70519 Pashupati Kumar Paras Lok Janshakti Party 46049 24470
149 Khagaria Poonam Devi Yadav Janata Dal (United) 64767 Rajesh Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 39202 25565
150 Beldaur Panna Lal Singh Patel Janata Dal (United) 63216 Mithilesh Kumar Nishad Lok Janshakti Party 49691 13525
151 Parbatta Ramanad Prasad Singh Janata Dal (United) 76248 Ramanuj Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 47324 28924
Bhagalpur District
152 Bihpur Varsha Rani Rashtriya Janata Dal 68963 Kumar Shailendra Bharatiya Janata Party 56247 12716
153 Gopalpur Narendra Kumar Niraj Janata Dal (United) 57403 Anil Kumar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 52234 5169
154 Pirpainti Ram Vilash Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 80058 Lalan Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 74914 5144
155 Kahalgaon Sadanand Singh Indian National Congress 64981 Niraj Kumar Mandal Lok Janshakti Party 43752 21229
156 Bhagalpur Ajeet Sharma Indian National Congress 70514 Arjit Shashwat Choubey Bharatiya Janata Party 59856 10658
157 Sultanganj Subodh Roy Janata Dal (United) 63345 Himanshu Prasad Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 49312 14033
158 Nathnagar Ajay Kumar Mandal Janata Dal (United) 66485 Amar Nath Prasad Lok Janshakti Party 58660 7825
Banka District
159 Amarpur Janardan Manjhi Janata Dal (United) 73707 Mrinal Shekhar Bharatiya Janata Party 61934 11773
160 Dhoraiya Manish Kumar Janata Dal (United) 68858 Bhudeo Choudhary Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 44704 24154
161 Banka Ramnarayan Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party 52379 Zafrul Hoda Rashtriya Janata Dal 48649 3730
162 Katoria Sweety Sima Hembram Rashtriya Janata Dal 54760 Nikki Hembram Bharatiya Janata Party 44423 10337
163 Belhar Giridhari Yadav Janata Dal (United) 70348 Manoj Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 54157 16191
Munger District
164 Tarapur Mewa Lal Choudhary Janata Dal (United) 66411 Sakuni Choudhury Hindustani Awam Morcha 54464 11947
165 Munger Vijay Kumar 'Vijay' Rashtriya Janata Dal 77216 Pranav Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 72851 4365
166 Jamalpur Shailesh Kumar Janata Dal (United) 67273 Himanshu Kunvar Lok Janshakti Party 51797 15476
Lakhisarai District
167 Suryagarha Prahlad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 82490 Prem Ranjan Patel Bharatiya Janata Party 52460 30030
168 Lakhisarai Vijay Kumar Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 75901 Ramanand Mandal Janata Dal (United) 69345 6556
Sheikhpura District
169 Sheikhpura Randhir Kumar Soni Janata Dal (United) 41755 Naresh Saw Hindustani Awam Morcha 28654 13101
170 Barbigha Sudarshan Kumar Indian National Congress 46406 Sheo Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 30689 15717
Nalanda District
171 Asthawan Jitendra Kumar Janata Dal (United) 58908 Chhote Lal Yadav Lok Janshakti Party 48464 10444
172 Biharsharif Sunil Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 76201 Mohammad Asghar Shamim Janata Dal (United) 73861 2340
173 Rajgir Ravi Jyoti Kumar Janata Dal (United) 62009 Satyadev Narayan Arya Bharatiya Janata Party 56619 5390
174 Islampur Chandrasen Prasad Janata Dal (United) 66587 Birendra Gope Bharatiya Janata Party 66587 22602
175 Hilsa Shakti Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 72347 Deepika Kumari Lok Janshakti Party 46271 26076
176 Nalanda Shrawan Kumar Janata Dal (United) 72596 Kaushlendra Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 69600 2996
177 Harnaut Hari Narayan Singh Janata Dal (United) 71933 Arun Kumar Lok Janshakti Party 57638 14295
Patna District
178 Mokama Anant Kumar Singh Independent 54005 Neeraj Kumar Janata Dal (United) 35657 18348
179 Barh Gyanendra Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 63989 Manoj Kumar Janata Dal (United) 55630 8359
180 Bakhtiarpur Ranvijay Singh Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 61496 Aniruddh Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 53594 7902
181 Digha Sanjeev Chaurasiya Bharatiya Janata Party 92671 Rajeev Ranjan Prasad Janata Dal (United) 67892 24779
182 Bankipur Nitin Nabin Bharatiya Janata Party 86759 Kumar Ashish Indian National Congress 46992 39767
183 Kumhrar Arun Kumar Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 87792 Aquil Haider Indian National Congress 50517 37275
184 Patna Sahib Nand Kishore Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 88108 Santosh Mehta Rashtriya Janata Dal 85316 2792
185 Fatuha Rama Nand Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 77210 Satyendra Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 46808 30402
186 Danapur Asha Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 72192 Raj Kishor Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 66983 5209
187 Maner Bhai Virendra Rashtriya Janata Dal 89773 Srikant Nirala Bharatiya Janata Party 66945 22828
188 Phulwari Shyam Rajak Janata Dal (United) 94094 Rajeshwar Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 48381 45713
189 Masaurhi Rekha Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 89657 Nutan Paswan Hindustani Awam Morcha 50471 39186
190 Paliganj Jai Vardhan Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 65932 Ram Janm Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party 41479 24453
191 Bikram Siddharth Indian National Congress 94088 Anil Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 49777 44311
Bhojpur District
192 Sandesh Arun Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 74306 Sanjay Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 48879 25427
193 Barhara Saroj Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 65001 Asha Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 51693 13308
194 Arrah Mohammad Nawaz Alam Rashtriya Janata Dal 70004 Amrendra Pratap Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 69338 666
195 Agiaon Prabhunath Prasad Janata Dal (United) 52276 Shivesh Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 37572 14704
196 Tarari Sudama Prasad Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) L 44050 Gita Pandey Lok Janshakti Party 43778 272
197 Jagdishpur Ram Vishnun Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 49020 Rakesh Raushan Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 38825 10195
198 Shahpur Rahul Tiwary Rashtriya Janata Dal 69315 Visheshwar Ojha Bharatiya Janata Party 54745 14570
Buxar District
199 Brahampur Shambhu Nath Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 94079 Vivek Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 63303 30776
200 Buxar Sanjay Kumar Tiwari Indian National Congress 66527 Pradeep Dubey Bharatiya Janata Party 56346 10181
201 Dumraon Dadan Yadav Janata Dal (United) 81081 Ram Bihari Singh Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 50742 30339
202 Rajpur Santosh Kumar Nirala Janata Dal (United) 84184 Bishawnath Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 51396 32788
Kaimur District
203 Ramgarh Ashok Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 57501 Ambika Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 49490 8011
204 Mohania Niranjan Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 60911 Sanjay Kumar Indian National Congress 53330 7581
205 Bhabua Anand Bhushan Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 50768 Pramod Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 43024 7744
206 Chainpur Brij Kishor Bind Bharatiya Janata Party 58913 Mohammad Zama Khan Bahujan Samaj Party 58242 671
Rohtas District
207 Chenari Lalan Paswan Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 68148 Mangal Ram Indian National Congress 58367 9781
208 Sasaram Ashok Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 82766 Jawahar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 63154 19612
209 Kargahar Bashisht Singh Janata Dal (United) 57018 Birendra Kumar Singh Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 44111 12907
210 Dinara Jai Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 64699 Rajendra Prasad Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 62008 2691
211 Nokha Anita Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 72780 Rameshwar Chaurasiya Bharatiya Janata Party 49782 22998
212 Dehri Mohammad Iliyas Hussain Rashtriya Janata Dal 49402 Jitendra Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 45504 3898
213 Karakat Sanjay Kumar Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 59720 Rajeshwar Raj Bharatiya Janata Party 47601 12119
Arwal District
214 Arwal Ravinder Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 55295 Chitranjan Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 37485 17810
215 Kurtha Satyadeo Singh Janata Dal (United) 43676 Ashok Kumar Verma Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 29557 14119
Jehanabad District
216 Jehanabad Mudrika Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 76458 Praveen Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 46137 30321
217 Ghosi Krishan Nandan Prasad Verma Janata Dal (United) 67248 Rahul Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 45623 21625
218 Makhdumpur Subedar Das Rashtriya Janata Dal 66631 Jitan Ram Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 39854 26777
Aurangabad District
219 Goh Manoj Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 53615 Ranvijay Kumar Janata Dal (United) 45943 7672
220 Obra Birendra Kumar Sinha Rashtriya Janata Dal 56042 Chandra Bhushan Verma Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 44646 11396
221 Nabinagar Virendra Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 42035 Gopal Narayan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 36774 5261
222 Kutumba Rajesh Kumar Indian National Congress 51303 Santosh Suman Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 41205 10098
223 Aurangabad Anand Shankar Singh Indian National Congress 63637 Ramadhar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 45239 18398
224 Rafiganj Ashok Kumar Singh Janata Dal (United) 62897 Pramod Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 53372 9525
Gaya District
225 Gurua Rajiv Nandan Bharatiya Janata Party 56480 Ramchandra Prasad Singh Janata Dal (United) 49965 6515
226 Sherghati Vinod Prasad Yadav Janata Dal (United) 44579 Mukesh Kumar Yadav Hindustani Awam Morcha 39745 4834
227 Imamganj Jitan Ram Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 79389 Uday Narayan Choudhary Janata Dal (United) 49981 29408
228 Barachatti Samta Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 70909 Sudha Devi Lok Janshakti Party 51783 19126
229 Bodh Gaya Kumar Sarvjeet Rashtriya Janata Dal 82656 Shyamdeo Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 52183 30473
230 Gaya Town Prem Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 66891 Priya Ranjan Indian National Congress 44102 22789
231 Tikari Abhay Kumar Sinha Janata Dal (United) 86975 Anil Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 55162 31813
232 Belaganj Surendra Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 71067 Sharim Ali Hindustani Awam Morcha 40726 30341
233 Atri Kunti Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 60687 Arvind Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 46870 13817
234 Wazirganj Awadhesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress 80107 Birendra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 67348 12759
Nawada District
235 Rajauli Prakash Veer Rashtriya Janata Dal 70549 Arjun Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 65934 4615
236 Hisua Anil Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 82493 Kaushal Yadav Janata Dal (United) 70254 12239
237 Nawada Rajballabh Prasad Rashtriya Janata Dal 88235 Indradeo Prasad Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 71509 16726
238 Gobindpur Purnima Yadav Indian National Congress 43016 Fula Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 38617 4399
239 Warsaliganj Aruna Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 85912 Pradip Kumar Janata Dal (United) 66385 19527
Jamui District
240 Sikandra Sudhir Kumar Indian National Congress 59092 Subhash Chandra Bosh Lok Janshakti Party 51102 7990
241 Jamui Vijay Prakash Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 66577 Ajoy Pratap Bharatiya Janata Party 58328 8249
242 Jhajha Rabindra Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 65537 Damodar Rawat Janata Dal (United) 43451 22086
243 Chakai Savitri Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 47064 Sumit Kumar Singh Independent 34951 12113

MLA Statistics

- #
SC 38
ST 2
Yadav 61
Muslim 24
Rajput 19
Koeri 19
Bhumihar 17
Kurmi 16
Vaishya 16
Brahmin 10
Kayasta 3
Others 67
Total 243
  • 1 in every 4 new members in Bihar Assembly is a Yadav[276]
  • Elected MLAs caste-wise-2015[277][278][279]
  • ಬಿಹಾರದ ಶಾಸಕರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾದವರು ಶೇ 25ರಷುı!

Government formation

Janata Dal (United) leader Nitish Kumar was sworn in as chief minister for the fifth time on 20 November 2015 after the Mahagathbandhan alliance won a sweeping victory, taking 178 seats.[280] The two sons of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, Tejaswi and Tej Pratap were also sworn in as ministers. Tejaswi Yadav became Deputy Chief Minister. Apart from Nitish Kumar, 12 members each from the Janata Dal (United) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal and four from the Congress were administered the oath of office as ministers.[281]

On 26 July 2017, the Grand Alliance broke and a new coalition government between JD(U) and the BJP was formed.[282]

Voting analysis

A phase-wise analysis of the polling percentages puts the fifth and final phase on the top with a 60% turnout. The polling in this round beats the 58.5% turnout recorded in the fourth phase, as also 53.7% voting in the third phase, 55.5% in the second, and 55.8% in the first phase.

  • 2015 – 56.9%; 2010 – 52.7%; 2005 – 45.9%; 2000 – 62.6% (Assembly Polls were held twice in 2005 due to a fractured verdict.)[11]

See also

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2015, bihar, legislative, assembly, election, legislative, assembly, election, held, over, five, phases, bihar, through, october, november, 2015, before, tenure, prior, legislative, assembly, bihar, november, 2015, 2010, october, 2015, 2015, november, 2015, 20. The Legislative Assembly election was held over five phases in Bihar through October November 2015 before the end of the tenure of the prior Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29 November 2015 1 2 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election 2010 12 October 2015 2015 10 12 5 November 2015 2015 11 05 2020 All 243 seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly122 seats needed for a majorityTurnout56 91 4 18 Majority party Minority party Third party Leader Lalu Prasad Yadav Nitish Kumar Sushil ModiParty RJD JD U BJPAlliance MGB MGB NDALast election 22 115 91Seats won 80 71 53Seat change 58 44 38Popular vote 6 995 509 6 416 414 9 308 015Percentage 18 4 16 8 24 4 Swing 0 44 5 81 7 94 Fourth party Leader Ashok ChaudharyParty Indian National CongressAlliance MGBLast election 4Seats won 27Seat change 23Popular vote 2 539 638Percentage 6 7 Swing 1 68 Chief Minister before electionNitish KumarJanata Dal United Elected Chief Minister Nitish KumarJanata Dal United In April 2015 the Janata Parivar group a group of six parties Samajwadi Party Janata Dal United Rashtriya Janata Dal Janata Dal Secular Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party Rashtriya 3 4 announced their intention to fight the election with Nitish Kumar as their Chief Ministerial candidate The Janta Parivar was joined by the Indian National Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party 5 This coalition was restructured as Mahagatabandhan when the Samajwadi Party Janata Dal Secular Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party Rashtriya departed from the Janata Parivar The Bharatiya Janata Party led NDA fought the election alongside the Lok Janshakti Party the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha 6 7 8 Six left parties fought jointly independently from both of the two main blocs 9 10 This election saw the highest voter turnout in Bihar assembly polls since 2000 with a 56 8 voter turnout in this election 11 The RJD emerged as a single largest party with 81 seats followed by JD U with 70 seats and BJP with 53 seats In terms of vote share BJP came first with 24 4 followed by RJD with 18 4 and JD U with 16 8 and Congress got 6 7 12 Bihar Contents 1 Background 1 1 Electoral process changes 1 2 Security 1 3 Bihar Legislative Council election 1 4 Central government actions 1 5 Other political developments 1 6 Caste and religion data 2 Schedule 3 Parties and alliances 3 1 Mahagathbandhan 3 2 National Democratic Alliance 3 3 Socialist Secular Morcha 3 4 Left Front 3 5 Others 3 5 1 Muslim parties 3 5 2 Bahujan Samaj Party 3 5 3 Minor 4 Opinion polls 5 Election 6 Exit polls 7 Results 7 1 Summary 7 2 Results by District 7 3 Results by constituency 7 4 MLA Statistics 8 Government formation 9 Voting analysis 10 See also 11 References 12 External linksBackground EditMain article 2015 Bihar political crisis Electoral process changes Edit NOTA symbol Election Commission of India announced that around 1 000 Voter verified paper audit trail VVPAT machines will be used along with EVM in 36 out of the 243 assembly seats in Bihar elections spread over 38 districts 13 14 15 16 17 18 ECIL manufactured VVPATs will be used in 10 assembly constituencies while BEL manufactured VVPAT will be used in 26 assembly constituencies 19 The election information was webcast for the first time and voters can locate their polling booth on phones via an app 20 About 1 5 crore voters would be informed about the voting dates via SMS 21 Election Commission used three new software products Suvidha Samadhan and Sugam to facilitate campaigning public grievance redressal and vehicle management in Bihar 22 Electoral Roll Management Software helped in addition deletion upgradation of rolls 23 Android based app Matdan helped the commission with poll day monitoring in Bihar Election Commission launched a special drive Systematic Voters Education And Electoral Participation SVEEP for voter awareness and higher voter turn out in Bihar elections 24 25 26 Bihar would be the first state to have photo electoral rolls with photographs of candidates on EVMs 27 28 Assembly constituencies of Bihar having VVPAT facility with EVMs 29 Katihar Purnia Kishanganj SaharsaSamastipur Forbesganj Munger JamuiMadhubani Begusarai Khagaria GopalganjSupaul Madhepura Sasaram AurangabadBuxar Jehanabad Nawada SitamarhiBhabhua Motihari Bettiah HajipurGaya Town Muzaffarpur Darbhanga AraBiharsarif Chhapra Siwan KumhrarBankipur Digha Bhagalpur BankaEleven NRI voters registered in the electoral rolls for the first time in Bihar electoral history They were contacted by election officials through their family members 30 It was the first time that NRIs cast their votes semi electronically from foreign countries 31 The e postal ballot system and the existing proxy voting facility is extended for NRI voters from their place of residence abroad 32 33 34 But this facility is not available to migrant voters within India 35 36 37 A cross will be NOTA symbol to be used in this and subsequent elections 38 The Election Commission introduced the specific symbol for NOTA a ballot paper with a black cross across it on 18 September The symbol is designed by the National Institute of Design Ahmedabad 39 40 On 31 July the ECI published the final voters list for the election 41 which has an overall population of 10 38 04 637 in accordance with the 2011 Census of India 42 43 Final voters list for Bihar Legislative Assembly election 2015 S No Group of voters Voters population1 Male 3 56 46 8702 Female 3 11 77 6193 third gender 2 169 Total voters 6 68 26 658Security Edit The security used Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV drones called Netras eyes for the election 44 45 The Election Commission of India decided that Bihar Police personnel would not be deployed at any of the 62 779 polling stations 46 They would be manned by members of the Central Armed Police Forces 47 Bihar Legislative Council election Edit In July 2015 BJP led NDA won 13 seats including 1 independent backed by BJP out of 24 seats of Bihar Legislative Council election 48 49 JDU and RJD combine won 10 seats only while 1 seat was won by an independent candidate 50 51 Central government actions Edit On 19 August the central government notified 21 Bihar districts including the capital Patna as backward areas and unveiled tax rebates for them 52 On 25 August the central government released the religious data of the 2011 census 53 54 Hindus constituted 82 7 8 6 crore people in Bihar while Muslims constituted 16 9 1 7 crore peoples 55 In July 2015 Jitan Ram Manjhi was accorded Z plus security cover by the Union Home Ministry while Pappu Yadav was accorded Y category security by government of India 56 57 Other political developments Edit In May 2015 the JDU government increased the Dearness Allowance DA by six percent to 11 percent for provincial government employees and pensioners 58 In July Nitish Kumar announced a 50 percent quota for OBC EBC and SC STs in all government contracts up to Rs 15 lakh 59 60 In July the government issued a notification to give caste certificates to children from upper caste Hindu and Muslim families whose annual income was below 1 5 lakh US 1 900 61 In September the government agreed to the creation of a dedicated fund for fencing off temples and the inclusion of two Extremely Backward Castes EBCs Nishad Mallah and Nonia in the SC ST category 62 63 The state government also decided to provide grants in aid to 609 more madrassas across Bihar from the list of 2 459 registered by Bihar State Madrassa Education Board 64 The Bihar government gave a tax exempt status to Manjhi The Mountain Man a film based on Dashrath Manjhi a Dalit who carved a path through a 360 ft long 30 ft wide and 25 ft high hillock in 22 years 1960 1982 65 Opposition parties accused Nitish Kumar government of doing nothing for Manjhi s village Gehlaur citation needed In April 2015 Nitish Kumar announced the JDU s decision to include few more castes including the Teli in list of Extremely Backward Class which have 18 reservation in Bihar 66 67 Caste and religion data Edit The 2011 national census indicated that Scheduled Castes constituted 16 of Bihar s 10 4 crores population 68 69 The census identified 21 of 23 Dalit sub castes as Mahadalits 70 The Mahadalit community consists of the following sub castes Bantar Bauri Bhogta Bhuiya Chaupal Dabgar Dom Dhangad Ghasi Halalkhor Hari Mehtar Bhangi Kanjar Kurariar Lalbegi Musahar Nat Pan Swasi Rajwar Turi Dhobi Chamar and Paswan Dusadh 71 Among Dalits in Bihar Chamars are the largest 31 3 followed by Paswans Dusadh 30 9 and Musahars 13 9 72 The Paswan caste was initially left out of the Mahadalit category 73 to the consternation of Ram Vilas Paswan 74 75 Chamars were included later in Mahadalit category Adivasis Scheduled Tribes constituted around 1 3 of the Bihari population 76 77 78 They include the Gond Santhal and Tharu communities 79 80 There are about 130 Extremely Backward Castes EBCs in Bihar 62 81 Castes of Bihar 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Caste Population NotesOBC EBC 51 Yadav 14 Kurmis 4 Kushwaha Koeri 8 EBCs 26 62 91 92 93 94 includes 95 96 97 Teli 3 2 Mahadalits Dalits SCs 16 98 99 includes Chamar 5 Dusadh 5 Musahar 2 8 100 Muslims 16 9 55 includes Shershahbadi Surjapuri Ansari castes 101 102 Forward caste 15 103 Bhumihar 6 Brahmin 5 104 Rajput 3 Kayasth 1 Adivasis STs 1 3 105 106 Others 0 4 includes Christians Sikhs JainsSchedule EditOn 9 September Election Commission of India announced the dates for Bihar Assembly elections 107 Voting phases Phase Date No of constituencies Covering DistrictsI 12 October 49 Samastipur Begusarai Khagaria Bhagalpur Banka Munger Lakhisarai Sheikhpura Nawada JamuiII 16 October 32 Kaimur Rohtas Arwal Jehanabad Aurangabad GayaIII 28 October 50 Saran Vaishali Nalanda Patna Bhojpur BuxarIV 1 November 55 Paschim Champaran Purvi Champaran Sheohar Sitamarhi Muzaffarpur Gopalganj SiwanV 5 November 57 Madhubani Supaul Araria Kishanganj Purnia Katihar Madhepura Saharsa DarbhangaCounting 8 November 243Source Election Commission of IndiaParties and alliances EditMahagathbandhan Edit Main article Mahagathbandhan Bihar On 7 June Lalu Prasad Yadav announced the RJD was joining in an alliance with the JDU for the election 108 109 On 13 July he led a march demanding that the central government release its findings of the Socio Economic Caste Census 2011 SECC on caste 110 111 112 although Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan pitched for a comprehensive classification of caste data of SECC 2011 before its release 113 and also said Lalu Nitish will be worst impacted from the caste data even if its released 114 115 BJP Leader Sushil Kumar Modi called for rectification of errors in the cases of 1 46 crore people in India including 1 75 lakh in Bihar before releasing the caste data 116 On 3 August incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declared that he would not stand in the election 117 118 On 11 August he announced the seat sharing formula according to which JD U and RJD will contest 100 seats each while Congress will contest 40 seats in Bihar 119 NCP pulled out of this alliance later 120 On 23 September Nitish Kumar announced the list of 242 candidates for the JDU RJD INC alliance 121 122 123 OBCs were most favoured in the alliance ticket distribution plan 124 125 126 10 of tickets were allotted to women candidate by the alliance 127 The Congress Vice president Rahul Gandhi assigned the task to shortlist Congress candidates for each of the 40 assembly constituencies to former Governor of Kerala and Nagaland Nikhil Kumar 128 Nitish Kumar was the declared chief ministerial candidate for the Mahagathbandhan Grand Alliance Kumar started his Har Ghar Dastak door to door campaign on 2 July 129 130 131 Initially there were definite political overtures when both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar shared stage together in a public 132 event commemorating former chief minister Satyendra Narain Sinha s birth anniversary that witnessed veiled attacks on each other the last time 133 they did it in public Prashant Kishor was a key election strategist for the alliance 134 135 The Janata Dal United started 400 audio visual vans called Jan Bhagidari Manch raths clarification needed for the campaign 136 Kumar is launching Bihar Samman Sammelan in various cities including Delhi and Mumbai to connect with the Bihari diaspora 137 However the grand alliance broke on 26 July 2017 as a result of the resignation by Nitish Kumar and on the next day 27 July JD U made an alliance with NDA and Nitish Kumar sworn in as the chief minister of Bihar for the 6th time and Sushil Modi was sworn in as the deputy chief minister for the 3rd time National Democratic Alliance Edit See also National Democratic Alliance India Bhartiya Janata Party BJP used 243 GPS monitored raths modified Boleros and video vans in the election 138 139 140 The BJP also set up a monitoring headquarters in Patna to track the movement of the GPS equipped vehicles which will visit 40 000 villages in all 243 constituencies 141 142 The campaign was kick started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Muzaffarpur on 25 July where he also inaugurated the permanent campus of IIT Patna in Bihta 143 144 145 146 The BJP election exercise also involved three lakh volunteers clarification needed 138 Modi held his second election rally in Gaya on 9 August 147 148 and his third rally in Arrah 149 150 and Saharsa on 18 August 151 152 Modi announced a Rs 1 25 lakh crore package clarification needed for Bihar 153 154 He addressed his fourth rally in Bhagalpur on 1 September 155 Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan also campaigned for the BJP 156 157 Modi addressed several rallies after 25 October in several constituencies 158 In a rally in Buxar on 26 October Modi vowed to defend reservation of Dalits STs OBCs 159 160 161 He said of the Mahagathbandhan that it was trying to hatch a conspiracy to carve out a sub quota on the basis of religion as the Supreme Court of India has said reservation cannot be more than 50 162 163 164 165 On 27 October in Bettiah he again accused Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav of diluting the share of SC ST and OBC 166 167 It promoted the view that an attempt was being made to take the reservation of Dalits and other OBCs and give it to other minorities 168 Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also agreed with Modi s assertions that the idea of reservations on the basis of religion is fraught with danger 169 170 On 1 November Modi repeated the allegations that the two leaders came together in July 2005 to demand a review of the policy to provide for religion based reservation 171 172 A video dating from 2005 which was leaked showed Lalu was asking for a quota for Muslims 173 On 3 July BJP announced its seventh morcha the BJP OBC Morcha reportedly in regards to the election 174 175 176 On 11 June Jitan Ram Manjhi announced his party Hindustani Awam Morcha alliance with the NDA for the election 177 178 On 14 September the NDA announced its seat distribution BJP got 160 seats LJP got 40 seats RLSP got 23 seats and HAM got 20 seats 179 The NDA did not announce any chief ministerial candidate 180 BJP announced the names of 154 candidates in three lists 181 182 183 Caste played a major role in distributing tickets 184 185 BJP also accommodated five candidates of the Hindustani Awam Morcha 186 Later the BJP gave the Imamganj seat to HAM for Majhi is contesting and BJP reduced its seat tally to 159 187 188 On 1 October the BJP released its manifesto 189 Socialist Secular Morcha Edit On 19 September the leaders of six parties Samajwadi Party Nationalist Congress Party Jan Adhikar Party Samras Samaj Party National People s Party and Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic announced the formation of a third front known as the Socialist Secular Morcha SP and NCP fought on most of the seats NPP fought on 3 seats 190 On 15 October NCP leader Tariq Anwar announced that his party had decided to leave the third front 191 192 Left Front Edit On 24 July the Communist Party of India the Communist Party of India Marxist the Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist Liberation the All India Forward Bloc the Socialist Unity Centre of India Communist and the Revolutionary Socialist Party decided to run in all constituencies on a join ticket citing its call for an alternative platform 10 The CPI will contest 98 seats while the CPI ML CPI M SUCI Forward Bloc and RSP will contest 98 43 10 9 and 3 seats respectively 193 CPI released its first list of 81 candidates on 16 September 2015 194 Others Edit Muslim parties Edit At least six Muslim parties contested the election 195 AIMIM contested six seats 196 All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi addressed a rally in Kishanganj on 16 August 197 198 Owaisi accused Nitish and Lalu of keeping the Seemanchal region consisting of 24 seats as a backward region 199 200 201 AIMIM is contesting on 6 assembly seats in Seemanchal region where Muslim voters play a major role 202 203 204 He addressed a public rally in Kishanganj on 4 October in the Sontha village which is part of the Kochadhaman Assembly constituency 205 206 207 He held further rallies at many places in Kishanganj and Purnia 208 209 On 5 October AIMIM released its first list of its six candidates for the election 210 Bahujan Samaj Party Edit In June 2015 the Bahujan Samaj Party said it would contest all 243 seats 211 212 In July the BSP initially released its first list of 49 candidates including five women candidates by Bharat Bind the president of the BSP Bihar unit 213 National party leader Mayawati planned to campaign for its candidates 214 BSP s first list has 11 Other Backward Class OBCs and 11 Muslims while they also field Dalits and OBCs from non reserved seats 215 On 6 September Mayawati said of the central government that it was being remote controlled by the communal and fascist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS 216 217 218 Naseemuddin Siddiqui Munquad Ali Rajya Sabha MP and Ram Achal Rajbhar were appointed to form a strategy to consolidate the Dalits Most Backward Castes MBCs and Muslim votes 219 On 9 September Mayawati questioned the announcement of Dearness Allowance DA by the central government just before the election and again accused the RSS and its affiliated Sangh Parivar organizations of using the 2011 national census for fear mongering against Muslim population growth for sectarian purposes as well as to divert attention from such issues as the alleged failure of the central government to deliver on its promises She added that the census also showed positive signs such as the sex ratio among Muslims is 951 females to 1 000 males which is higher than the national average and indicated a slowing of the Muslim population growth rate 220 On 10 September she called for the deployment of central forces in large numbers on electoral duty to assure a free and fair election and further asked the ECI to keep a watch on possible sectarian ploys by the BJP 221 222 Mayawati officially launched the party s campaign on 9 October from Banka 223 On 13 October addressing a rally in Rohtas and Kaimur districts she claimed that the SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the party leadership had surrendered to the BJP She claimed that it has fielded candidates after consulting with the BJP 224 225 She further called on the NDA to not allow the reservation policy for OBCs and SC STs to fall under the RSS influence 226 On 25 October Mayawati while addressing a rally in Buxar district of Bihar said that Samajwadi Party played in the hands of BJP due to which Nationalist Congress Party NCP broke away from it She also alleged that BJP is working only for the Business class and the Nitish Lalu governments did nothing for the poor 227 Minor Edit Expelled RJD MP Pappu Yadav created the Jan Adhikar Party before the election and announced to fight against the Lalu Nitish alliance 228 229 Yogendra Yadav has announced that Swaraj Abhiyan may extend its support to certain political parties however it was not clear which one 230 On 17 September Shiv Sena announced that it will contest over 150 seats during the election 231 232 On 19 September a third front Socialist Secular Morcha announced its seat distribution SP got 85 seats Janadhikar Party got 64 seats NCP got 40 seats SSP got 28 seats SJP got 23 seats and NPP got three seats 233 Former U K banker Akshay Verma s Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party contested about 90 seats in the election 234 The Aam Aadmi Party and JVM P decided that they will not contest the election but will campaign against the NDA 235 236 Opinion polls EditWhen conducted Ref Polling organisation Agency Sample sizeJD U RJD INC BJP LJP RLSP HAM OtherApr May 2015 237 ABP News 238 NA 127 111 5Jun Jul 2015 239 ABP News Nielsen NA 121 118 4August September 2015 240 India Today Cicero 5 968 106 125 12August September 2015 241 India TV CVoter poll 10 638 120 128 94 106 17 213 7 September 2015 242 ABP News Nielsen 4 493 122 118 312 13 September 2015 243 Zee News Survey 31 906 70 103 140 173 023 September 2015 244 Times Now CVoter 7 786 112 117 14October 2015 245 Leadtech infoelections com 11 566 73 1688 October 2015 246 CNN IBN Axis Poll 27500 137 95 117 October 2015 247 ABP News NA 112 128 3October 2015 248 India Today Cicero poll NA 122 111 10October 2015 249 News Nation 7 000 115 119 120 124 2 4October 2015 250 India TV Cvoter 9 916 108 124 111 127 4 12Election EditThe electoral process cost about 300 crore US 38 million to the Bihar government exchequer 251 252 253 The electorate in Chandila village of Maker block in Saran district s Amnour Assembly constituency boycotted the election and no votes were cast in protest against the government s failure to bring electricity to their village 254 255 Exit polls EditThe Axis APM polls was not finally aired by its commissioning news channel CNN IBN 256 Polling organisation Agency Ref Sample sizeJD U RJD INC BJP LJP RLSP HAM OtherABP News Nielsen 257 130 108 5CNN IBN Axis 256 258 259 260 261 176 64 3India Today Cicero 262 111 123 113 127 4 8NDTV Hansa 263 76 000 110 125 8India TV Times Now CVoter 264 35 000 112 132 101 121 6 14News 24 Today s Chanakya 265 83 155 5Results EditThe result was announced on 8 November 266 The counting of EVMs of 14 assembly constituencies of Patna district was done in AN College Patna 267 268 The NOTA option had nine lakhs or 2 5 of popular votes and was the highest it had achieved in Bihar elections 269 270 The number of Yadav MLAs increased to 61 in the Bihar assembly 271 Results showed that of the 53 seats won by BJP 27 were urban areas which signified that BJP had dramatically shrunk back to its traditional urban support base in Bihar BJP failed to make a big impact in the rural areas of Bihar which has one of the lowest urbanization rates Only 11 3 of the population of Bihar lives in urban areas which is lowest in India after Himachal Pradesh 272 According to one analysis RJD was the biggest beneficiary of this election RJD increased its seat tally by 59 compared with the previous election RJD had the best strike rate by winning 81 of the 101 seats contested RJD became the single largest party in Bihar Assembly RJD defeated BJP in 36 seats BJP had won in the last election similarly it took 25 seats JD U had won in the last election 273 Summary Edit 178 58 7Mahagathbandhan NDA Others Map displaying constituencies won by parties Summary of results of the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election 274 275 Alliance Political party Votes Vote Changein vote Vote inSeats Contested Seats Contested Won Net changein seats of SeatsMahagathbandhan Rashtriya Janata Dal 6 995 509 18 4 0 44 44 35 101 80 58 32 92Janata Dal United 6 416 414 16 8 5 81 40 65 101 71 44 29 21Indian National Congress 2 539 638 6 7 1 68 39 49 41 27 23 11 11NDA Bharatiya Janata Party 9 308 015 24 4 7 94 37 48 157 53 38 21 81Lok Janshakti Party 1 840 834 4 8 1 95 28 79 42 2 1 0 82Rashtriya Lok Samata Party 976 787 2 6 0 64 23 2 2 0 82Hindustani Awam Morcha 864 856 2 3 26 90 21 1 1 0 41Left Front Communist Party of India 516 699 1 36 0 29 3 43 98 0 1 0CPI ML Liberation 587 701 1 54 0 29 3 82 98 3 3 1 23Communist Party of India Marxist 232 149 0 61 0 21 3 32 43 0 0Socialist Unity Centre of India Communist 11 621 0 03 0 02 0 74 10 0 0All India Forward Bloc 6 936 0 02 0 00 0 21 9 0 0Revolutionary Socialist Party 3 045 0 01 0 00 0 64 3 0 0Socialist Secular Morcha Samajwadi Party 385 511 1 0 0 45 1 83 85 0 0Jan Adhikar Party Loktantrik 514 748 1 4 64 0 0Nationalist Congress Party 185 437 0 5 1 32 2 82 40 0 0Samras Samaj Party 28 0 0Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic 23 0 0National People s Party 3 0 0Others Bahujan Samaj Party 788 024 2 1 1 11 2 21 243 0 0Shiv Sena 211 131 0 6 0 21 1 84 150 0 0Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party 108 851 0 3 0 91 90 0 0Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 103 940 0 3 0 31 2 02 0 0Garib Janata Dal Secular 92 279 0 2 0 66 0 0All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen 80 248 0 2 8 04 6 0 0Independents 3 580 953 9 4 3 82 9 57 1150 4 2 1 64NOTA 947 276 2 5 2 49 243 Total 37 673 594 100 00 243Valid votes 37 673 594 99 94Invalid votes 23 384 0 06Votes cast turnout 37 673 594 56 91Abstentions 2 85 46 215 43 09Registered voters 6 62 43 193Results by District Edit District TotalMGB NDA OtherWest Champaran 9 3 5 1East Champaran 12 5 7 0Sheohar 1 1 0 0Sitamarhi 8 6 2 0Madhubani 10 8 2 0Supaul 5 4 1 0Araria 6 4 2 0Kishanganj 4 4 0 0Purnia 7 6 1 0Katihar 7 4 2 1Madhepura 4 4 0 0Saharsa 4 4 0 0Darbhanga 10 8 2 0Muzaffarpur 11 6 3 2Gopalganj 6 4 2 0Siwan 8 6 1 1Saran 10 8 2 0Vaishali 8 6 2 0Samastipur 10 10 0 0Begusarai 7 7 0 0Khagaria 4 4 0 0Bhagalpur 7 6 1 0Banka 5 4 1 0Munger 3 3 0 0Lakhisarai 2 1 1 0Sheikhpura 2 2 0 0Nalanda 7 6 1 0Patna 14 6 7 1Bhojpur 7 6 0 1Buxar 4 4 0 0Kaimur 4 0 4 0Rohtas 7 6 1 0Arwal 2 2 0 0Jehanabad 3 3 0 0Aurangabad 6 4 2 0Gaya 9 6 3 0Nawada 5 3 2 0Jamui 4 3 1 0Total 243 178 58 7Results by constituency Edit Results Assembly Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin Name Candidate Party Votes Candidate Party VotesWest Champaran District1 Valmiki Nagar Dhirendra Pratap Singh Independent 66860 Irshad Hussain Indian National Congress 33280 335802 Ramnagar Bhagirathi Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 82166 Purnmasi Ram Indian National Congress 64178 179883 Narkatiaganj Vinay Verma Indian National Congress 57212 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 41151 160614 Bagaha Raghaw Sharan Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 74476 Bhishm Sahani Janata Dal United 66293 81835 Lauriya Vinay Bihari Bharatiya Janata Party 57351 Ran Kaushal Pratap Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 39778 175736 Nautan Narayan Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 66697 Baidyanath Prasad Mahto Janata Dal United 52362 143357 Chanpatia Prakash Rai Bharatiya Janata Party 61304 N N Sahi Janata Dal United 60840 4648 Bettiah Madan Mohan Tiwari Indian National Congress 66786 Renu Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 64466 23209 Sikta Khurshid Feroz Ahmad Janata Dal United 69870 Dilip Varma Bharatiya Janata Party 67035 2835East Champaran District10 Raxaul Ajay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 64731 Suresh Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 61562 316911 Sugauli Ramchandra Sahani Bharatiya Janata Party 62384 Om Prakash Choudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 54628 775612 Narkatiya Shamim Ahmad Rashtriya Janata Dal 75118 Sant Singh Kushwaha Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 55136 1998213 Harsidhi Rajendra Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 75203 Krishnandan Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 64936 1026714 Govindganj Raju Tiwari Lok Janshakti Party 74685 Brajesh Kumar Indian National Congress 46765 2792015 Kesaria Rajesh Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 62902 Rajendra Prasad Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 46955 1594716 Kalyanpur Sachindra Prasad Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 50060 Razia Khatoon Janata Dal United 38572 1148817 Pipra Shyambabu Prasad Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 65552 Krishan Chandra Janata Dal United 61622 393018 Madhuban Rana Randhir Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 61054 Shivajee Rai Janata Dal United 44832 1622219 Motihari Pramod Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 79947 Binod Kumar Shrivastava Rashtriya Janata Dal 61430 1851720 Chiraia Lal Babu Prasad Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 62831 Laxmi Narayan Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 58457 437421 Dhaka Faisal Rahman Rashtriya Janata Dal 87458 Pawan Kumar Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 68261 19197Sheohar District22 Sheohar Sharfuddin Janata Dal United 44576 Lovely Anand Hindustani Awam Morcha 44115 461Sitamarhi District23 Riga Amit Kumar Tuna Indian National Congress 79217 Moti Lal Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 56361 2285624 Bathnaha Dinkar Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 74763 Surendra Ram Indian National Congress 54597 2016625 Parihar Gayatri Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 66388 Ram Chandra Purve Rashtriya Janata Dal 62371 401726 Sursand Syed Abu Dojana Rashtriya Janata Dal 52857 Amit Kumar Independent 29623 2323427 Bajpatti Ranju Geeta Janata Dal United 67194 Rekha Kumari Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 50248 1694628 Sitamarhi Sunil Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 81557 Sunil Kumar Pintu Bharatiya Janata Party 66835 1472229 Runnisaidpur Mangita Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 55699 Pankaj Kumar Mishra Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 41589 1411030 Belsand Sunita Singh Chauhan Janata Dal United 33785 Md Nasir Ahamad Lok Janshakti Party 28210 5575Madhubani District31 Harlakhi Basant Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 40468 Mohammad Shabbir Indian National Congress 36576 389232 Benipatti Bhawana Jha Indian National Congress 55978 Vinod Narayan Jha Bharatiya Janata Party 51244 473433 Khajauli Sitaram Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 71534 Arun Shankar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 60831 1070334 Babubarhi Kapil Deo Kamat Janata Dal United 61486 Binod Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 41219 2026735 Bisfi Faiyaz Ahmad Rashtriya Janata Dal 70975 Manoj Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 35650 3532536 Madhubani Samir Kumar Mahaseth Rashtriya Janata Dal 76823 Ramdeo Mahto Bharatiya Janata Party 69516 730737 Rajnagar Ram Prit Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 71614 Ramawatar Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 65372 624238 Jhanjharpur Gulab Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 64320 Nitish Mishra Bharatiya Janata Party 63486 83439 Phulparas Guljar Devi Yadav Janata Dal United 64368 Ram Sundar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 50953 1341540 Laukaha Lakshmeshwar Roy Janata Dal United 79971 Pramod Kumar Priyedarshi Bharatiya Janata Party 56138 23833Supaul District41 Nirmali Aniruddha Prasad Yadav Janata Dal United 79600 Ram Kumar Roy Bharatiya Janata Party 55649 2395142 Pipra Yaduvansh Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 85944 Vishwa Mohan Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 49575 3636943 Supaul Bijendra Prasad Yadav Janata Dal United 82295 Kishor Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 44898 3739744 Triveniganj Veena Bharti Janata Dal United 89869 Anant Kumar Bharti Lok Janshakti Party 37469 5240045 Chhatapur Neeraj Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 75697 Jahur Alam Rashtriya Janata Dal 66405 9292Araria District46 Narpatganj Anil Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 90250 Janardan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 64299 2595147 Raniganj Achmit Rishidev Janata Dal United 77717 Ramji Das Rishidev Bharatiya Janata Party 62787 1493048 Forbesganj Vidya Sagar Keshri Bharatiya Janata Party 85929 Krityanand Biswas Rashtriya Janata Dal 60691 2523849 Araria Avidur Rahman Indian National Congress 92667 Ajay Kumar Jha Lok Janshakti Party 52623 4004450 Jokihat Sarfaraz Alam Janata Dal United 92890 Ranjeet Yadav Independent 38910 5398051 Sikti Vijay Kumar Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party 76995 Shatrughan Prasad Suman Janata Dal United 68889 8106Kishanganj District52 Bahadurganj Md Tauseef Alam Indian National Congress 53533 Awadh Bihari Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 39591 1394253 Thakurganj Naushad Alam Janata Dal United 74239 Gopal Kumar Agrawal Lok Janshakti Party 66152 808754 Kishanganj Mohammad Jawed Indian National Congress 66522 Sweety Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 57913 860955 Kochadhaman Mujahid Alam Janata Dal United 55929 Akhtarul Iman All India Majlis e Ittehadul Muslimeen 37086 18843Purnia District56 Amour Abdul Jalil Mastan Indian National Congress 100135 Saba Zafar Bharatiya Janata Party 48138 5199757 Baisi Abdus Subhan Rashtriya Janata Dal 67022 Vinod Kumar Independent 28282 3874058 Kasba Md Afaque Alam Indian National Congress 81633 Pradip Kumar Das Bharatiya Janata Party 79839 179459 Banmankhi Krishna Kumar Rishi Bharatiya Janata Party 59053 Sanjiv Kumar Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 58345 70860 Rupauli Bima Bharti Janata Dal United 50945 Prem Prakash Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party 41273 967261 Dhamdaha Leshi Singh Janata Dal United 75400 Shiv Shankar Thakur Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 45583 2981762 Purnia Vijay Kumar Khemka Bharatiya Janata Party 92020 Indu Sinha Indian National Congress 59205 32815Katihar District63 Katihar Tarkishore Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 66048 Bijay Singh Janata Dal United 51154 1489464 Kadwa Shakeel Ahmad Khan Indian National Congress 56141 Chander Bhushan Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 50342 579965 Balrampur Mahbub Alam Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist L 62513 Barun Kumar Jha Bharatiya Janata Party 42094 2041966 Pranpur Binod Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 47924 Israt Parween Nationalist Congress Party 39823 810167 Manihari Manohar Prasad Singh Indian National Congress 61704 Anil Kumar Oraon Lok Janshakti Party 48024 1368068 Barari Neeraj Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 71175 Bibhash Chandra Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 56839 1433669 Korha Punam Paswan Indian National Congress 78409 Mahesh Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 72983 5426Madhepura District70 Alamnagar Narendra Narayan Yadav Janata Dal United 87962 Chandan Singh Lok Janshakti Party 44086 4387671 Bihariganj Niranjan Kumar Mehta Janata Dal United 78361 Ravindra Charan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 49108 2925372 Singheshwar Ramesh Rishidev Janata Dal United 83073 Manju Devi Hindustani Awam Morcha 32873 5020073 Madhepura Chandra Shekhar Rashtriya Janata Dal 90974 Vijay Kumar Bimal Bharatiya Janata Party 53332 37642Saharsa District74 Sonbarsha Ratnesh Sada Janata Dal United 88789 Sarita Devi Lok Janshakti Party 35026 5376375 Saharsa Arun Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 102850 Alok Ranjan Bharatiya Janata Party 63644 3920676 Simri Bakhtiarpur Dinesh Chandra Yadav Janata Dal United 78514 Yusuf Salahuddin Lok Janshakti Party 40708 3780677 Mahishi Abdul Ghafoor Rashtriya Janata Dal 56436 Chandan Kumar Sah Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 30301 26135Darbhanga District78 Kusheshwar Asthan Shashi Bhushan Hajari Janata Dal United 50062 Dhananjay Kumar Paswan Lok Janshakti Party 30212 1985079 Gaura Bauram Madan Sahni Janata Dal United 51403 Vinod Sahni Lok Janshakti Party 37341 1406280 Benipur Sunil Choudhary Janata Dal United 69511 Gopal Jee Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 43068 2644381 Alinagar Abdul Bari Siddiqui Rashtriya Janata Dal 67461 Mishri Lal Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 54001 1346082 Darbhanga Rural Lalit Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 70557 Naushad Ahmad Hindustani Awam Morcha 36066 3449183 Darbhanga Sanjay Saraogi Bharatiya Janata Party 77776 Om Prakash Kheria Rashtriya Janata Dal 70316 746084 Hayaghat Amarnath Gami Janata Dal United 65677 Ramesh Choudhary Lok Janshakti Party 32446 3323185 Bahadurpur Bhola Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 71547 Hari Sahani Bharatiya Janata Party 54558 1698986 Keoti Faraz Fatmi Rashtriya Janata Dal 68601 Ashok Kumar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 60771 783087 Jale Jibesh Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 62059 Rishi Mishra Janata Dal United 57439 4620Muzaffarpur District88 Gaighat Maheshwar Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 67313 Veena Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 63812 350189 Aurai Surendra Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 66958 Ram Surat Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 56133 1082590 Minapur Rajeev Kumar Munna Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 80790 Ajay Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 56850 2394091 Bochahan Baby Kumari Independent 67720 Ramai Ram Janata Dal United 43590 2413092 Sakra Lal Babu Ram Rashtriya Janata Dal 75010 Arjun Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 61998 1301293 Kurhani Kedar Prasad Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 73227 Manoj Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 61657 1157094 Muzaffarpur Suresh Kumar Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party 95594 Bijendra Chaudhary Janata Dal United 65855 2973995 Kanti Ashok Kumar Choudhary Independent 58111 Ajit Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 48836 927596 Baruraj Nand Kumar Rai Rashtriya Janata Dal 68011 Arun Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 63102 490997 Paroo Ashok Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 80445 Shankar Prasad Rashtriya Janata Dal 66906 1353998 Sahebganj Ram Vichar Ray Rashtriya Janata Dal 70583 Raju Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 59923 10660Gopalganj District99 Baikunthpur Mithlesh Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party 56162 Manjeet Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 42047 14115100 Barauli Md Nematullah Rashtriya Janata Dal 61690 Rampravesh Rai Bharatiya Janata Party 61186 504101 Gopalganj Subash Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 78491 Reyazul Haque Raju Rashtriya Janata Dal 73417 5074102 Kuchaikote Amrendra Kumar Pandey Janata Dal United 72224 Kali Prasad Pandey Lok Janshakti Party 68662 3562103 Bhore Anil Kumar Indian National Congress 74365 Indradev Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 59494 14871104 Hathua Ramsewak Singh Janata Dal United 57917 Mahachandra Prasad Singh Hindustani Awam Morcha 34933 22984Siwan District105 Siwan Vyas Deo Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 55156 Bablu Prasad Janata Dal United 51622 3534106 Ziradei Ramesh Singh Kushwaha Janata Dal United 40760 Asha Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 34669 6091107 Darauli Satyadeo Ram Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist L 49576 Ramayan Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 39992 9584108 Raghunathpur Hari Shankar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 61042 Manoj Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 50420 10622109 Daraunda Kavita Singh Janata Dal United 66255 Jitendra Swami Bharatiya Janata Party 53033 13222110 Barharia Shyam Bahadur Singh Janata Dal United 65168 Bachha Panday Lok Janshakti Party 50585 14583111 Goriakothi Satyadeo Prasad Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 70965 Devesh Kant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 63314 7651112 Maharajganj Hem Narayan Sah Janata Dal United 68459 Kumar Deo Ranjan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 48167 20292Saran District113 Ekma Manoranjan Singh Janata Dal United 49508 Kameshwar Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 41382 8126114 Manjhi Vijay Shanker Dubey Indian National Congress 29558 Keshav Singh Lok Janshakti Party 20692 8866115 Baniapur Kedar Nath Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 69851 Tarkeshwar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 53900 15951116 Taraiya Mudrika Prasad Roy Rashtriya Janata Dal 69012 Janak Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 48572 20440117 Marhaura Jitendra Kumar Ray Rashtriya Janata Dal 66714 Lal Babu Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 49996 16718118 Chapra C N Gupta Bharatiya Janata Party 71646 Randhir Kumar Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 60267 11379119 Garkha Muneshwar Chaudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 89249 Gyanchand Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 49366 39883120 Amnour Shatrudhan Tiwari Bharatiya Janata Party 39134 Krishna Kumar Mantoo Janata Dal United 33883 5251121 Parsa Chandrika Rai Rashtriya Janata Dal 77211 Chhotelal Rai Lok Janshakti Party 34876 42335122 Sonepur Ramanuj Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 86082 Vinay Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 49686 36396Vaishali District123 Hajipur Awadhesh Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 86773 Jagannath Prasad Rai Indian National Congress 74578 12195124 Lalganj Raj Kumar Sah Lok Janshakti Party 80842 Vijay Kumar Shukla Janata Dal United 60549 20293125 Vaishali Raj Kishore Singh Janata Dal United 79286 Brishin Patel Hindustani Awam Morcha 48225 31061126 Mahua Tej Pratap Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 66927 Ravindra Ray Hindustani Awam Morcha 38772 28155127 Raja Pakar Shivchandra Ram Rashtriya Janata Dal 61251 Ram Nath Raman Lok Janshakti Party 46096 15155128 Raghopur Tejashwi Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 91236 Satish Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 68503 22733129 Mahnar Umesh Singh Kushwaha Janata Dal United 69825 Achuta Nand Bharatiya Janata Party 43370 26455130 Patepur Prema Chaudhary Rashtriya Janata Dal 67548 Mahendra Baitha Bharatiya Janata Party 55087 12461Samastipur District131 Kalyanpur Maheshwar Hazari Janata Dal United 84904 Prince Raj Lok Janshakti Party 47218 37686132 Warisnagar Ashok Kumar Janata Dal United 92687 Chandrashekhar Rai Lok Janshakti Party 34114 58573133 Samastipur Akhtarul Islam Sahin Rashtriya Janata Dal 82508 Renu Kumari Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 51428 31080134 Ujiarpur Alok Kumar Mehta Rashtriya Janata Dal 85466 Kumar Anant Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 38006 47460135 Morwa Vidya Sagar Singh Nishad Janata Dal United 59206 Suresh Ray Bharatiya Janata Party 40390 18816136 Sarairanjan Vijay Kumar Chaudhary Janata Dal United 81055 Ranjeet Nirguni Bharatiya Janata Party 47011 34044137 Mohiuddinnagar Ejya Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 47137 Rajesh Kumar Singh Independent 23706 23431138 Bibhutipur Ram Balak Singh Janata Dal United 57882 Ram Deo Verma Communist Party of India Marxist 40647 17235139 Rosera Ashok Kumar Indian National Congress 85506 Manju Hazari Bharatiya Janata Party 51145 34361140 Hasanpur Raj Kumar Ray Janata Dal United 63094 Vinod Choudhary Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 33494 29600Begusarai District141 Cheria Bariarpur Manju Verma Janata Dal United 69795 Anil Kumar Chaudhary Lok Janshakti Party 40059 29736142 Bachhwara Ramdeo Rai Indian National Congress 73983 Arvind Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 37052 36931143 Teghra Birendra Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 68975 Ram Lakhan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 53364 15611144 Matihani Narendra Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 89297 Sarvesh Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 66609 22688145 Sahebpur Kamal Shreenarayan Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 78225 M d Aslam Lok Janshakti Party 32751 45474146 Begusarai Amita Bhushan Indian National Congress 83521 Surendra Mehta Bharatiya Janata Party 66990 16531147 Bakhri Upendra Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 72632 Ramanand Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 32376 40256Khagaria District148 Alauli Chandan Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 70519 Pashupati Kumar Paras Lok Janshakti Party 46049 24470149 Khagaria Poonam Devi Yadav Janata Dal United 64767 Rajesh Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 39202 25565150 Beldaur Panna Lal Singh Patel Janata Dal United 63216 Mithilesh Kumar Nishad Lok Janshakti Party 49691 13525151 Parbatta Ramanad Prasad Singh Janata Dal United 76248 Ramanuj Choudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 47324 28924Bhagalpur District152 Bihpur Varsha Rani Rashtriya Janata Dal 68963 Kumar Shailendra Bharatiya Janata Party 56247 12716153 Gopalpur Narendra Kumar Niraj Janata Dal United 57403 Anil Kumar Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 52234 5169154 Pirpainti Ram Vilash Paswan Rashtriya Janata Dal 80058 Lalan Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 74914 5144155 Kahalgaon Sadanand Singh Indian National Congress 64981 Niraj Kumar Mandal Lok Janshakti Party 43752 21229156 Bhagalpur Ajeet Sharma Indian National Congress 70514 Arjit Shashwat Choubey Bharatiya Janata Party 59856 10658157 Sultanganj Subodh Roy Janata Dal United 63345 Himanshu Prasad Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 49312 14033158 Nathnagar Ajay Kumar Mandal Janata Dal United 66485 Amar Nath Prasad Lok Janshakti Party 58660 7825Banka District159 Amarpur Janardan Manjhi Janata Dal United 73707 Mrinal Shekhar Bharatiya Janata Party 61934 11773160 Dhoraiya Manish Kumar Janata Dal United 68858 Bhudeo Choudhary Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 44704 24154161 Banka Ramnarayan Mandal Bharatiya Janata Party 52379 Zafrul Hoda Rashtriya Janata Dal 48649 3730162 Katoria Sweety Sima Hembram Rashtriya Janata Dal 54760 Nikki Hembram Bharatiya Janata Party 44423 10337163 Belhar Giridhari Yadav Janata Dal United 70348 Manoj Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 54157 16191Munger District164 Tarapur Mewa Lal Choudhary Janata Dal United 66411 Sakuni Choudhury Hindustani Awam Morcha 54464 11947165 Munger Vijay Kumar Vijay Rashtriya Janata Dal 77216 Pranav Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 72851 4365166 Jamalpur Shailesh Kumar Janata Dal United 67273 Himanshu Kunvar Lok Janshakti Party 51797 15476Lakhisarai District167 Suryagarha Prahlad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 82490 Prem Ranjan Patel Bharatiya Janata Party 52460 30030168 Lakhisarai Vijay Kumar Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 75901 Ramanand Mandal Janata Dal United 69345 6556Sheikhpura District169 Sheikhpura Randhir Kumar Soni Janata Dal United 41755 Naresh Saw Hindustani Awam Morcha 28654 13101170 Barbigha Sudarshan Kumar Indian National Congress 46406 Sheo Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 30689 15717Nalanda District171 Asthawan Jitendra Kumar Janata Dal United 58908 Chhote Lal Yadav Lok Janshakti Party 48464 10444172 Biharsharif Sunil Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 76201 Mohammad Asghar Shamim Janata Dal United 73861 2340173 Rajgir Ravi Jyoti Kumar Janata Dal United 62009 Satyadev Narayan Arya Bharatiya Janata Party 56619 5390174 Islampur Chandrasen Prasad Janata Dal United 66587 Birendra Gope Bharatiya Janata Party 66587 22602175 Hilsa Shakti Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 72347 Deepika Kumari Lok Janshakti Party 46271 26076176 Nalanda Shrawan Kumar Janata Dal United 72596 Kaushlendra Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 69600 2996177 Harnaut Hari Narayan Singh Janata Dal United 71933 Arun Kumar Lok Janshakti Party 57638 14295Patna District178 Mokama Anant Kumar Singh Independent 54005 Neeraj Kumar Janata Dal United 35657 18348179 Barh Gyanendra Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 63989 Manoj Kumar Janata Dal United 55630 8359180 Bakhtiarpur Ranvijay Singh Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 61496 Aniruddh Kumar Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 53594 7902181 Digha Sanjeev Chaurasiya Bharatiya Janata Party 92671 Rajeev Ranjan Prasad Janata Dal United 67892 24779182 Bankipur Nitin Nabin Bharatiya Janata Party 86759 Kumar Ashish Indian National Congress 46992 39767183 Kumhrar Arun Kumar Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 87792 Aquil Haider Indian National Congress 50517 37275184 Patna Sahib Nand Kishore Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 88108 Santosh Mehta Rashtriya Janata Dal 85316 2792185 Fatuha Rama Nand Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 77210 Satyendra Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 46808 30402186 Danapur Asha Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 72192 Raj Kishor Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 66983 5209187 Maner Bhai Virendra Rashtriya Janata Dal 89773 Srikant Nirala Bharatiya Janata Party 66945 22828188 Phulwari Shyam Rajak Janata Dal United 94094 Rajeshwar Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 48381 45713189 Masaurhi Rekha Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 89657 Nutan Paswan Hindustani Awam Morcha 50471 39186190 Paliganj Jai Vardhan Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 65932 Ram Janm Sharma Bharatiya Janata Party 41479 24453191 Bikram Siddharth Indian National Congress 94088 Anil Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 49777 44311Bhojpur District192 Sandesh Arun Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 74306 Sanjay Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 48879 25427193 Barhara Saroj Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 65001 Asha Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 51693 13308194 Arrah Mohammad Nawaz Alam Rashtriya Janata Dal 70004 Amrendra Pratap Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 69338 666195 Agiaon Prabhunath Prasad Janata Dal United 52276 Shivesh Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 37572 14704196 Tarari Sudama Prasad Communist Party of India Marxist Leninist L 44050 Gita Pandey Lok Janshakti Party 43778 272197 Jagdishpur Ram Vishnun Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 49020 Rakesh Raushan Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 38825 10195198 Shahpur Rahul Tiwary Rashtriya Janata Dal 69315 Visheshwar Ojha Bharatiya Janata Party 54745 14570Buxar District199 Brahampur Shambhu Nath Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 94079 Vivek Thakur Bharatiya Janata Party 63303 30776200 Buxar Sanjay Kumar Tiwari Indian National Congress 66527 Pradeep Dubey Bharatiya Janata Party 56346 10181201 Dumraon Dadan Yadav Janata Dal United 81081 Ram Bihari Singh Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 50742 30339202 Rajpur Santosh Kumar Nirala Janata Dal United 84184 Bishawnath Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 51396 32788Kaimur District203 Ramgarh Ashok Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 57501 Ambika Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 49490 8011204 Mohania Niranjan Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 60911 Sanjay Kumar Indian National Congress 53330 7581205 Bhabua Anand Bhushan Pandey Bharatiya Janata Party 50768 Pramod Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 43024 7744206 Chainpur Brij Kishor Bind Bharatiya Janata Party 58913 Mohammad Zama Khan Bahujan Samaj Party 58242 671Rohtas District207 Chenari Lalan Paswan Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 68148 Mangal Ram Indian National Congress 58367 9781208 Sasaram Ashok Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal 82766 Jawahar Prasad Bharatiya Janata Party 63154 19612209 Kargahar Bashisht Singh Janata Dal United 57018 Birendra Kumar Singh Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 44111 12907210 Dinara Jai Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 64699 Rajendra Prasad Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 62008 2691211 Nokha Anita Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 72780 Rameshwar Chaurasiya Bharatiya Janata Party 49782 22998212 Dehri Mohammad Iliyas Hussain Rashtriya Janata Dal 49402 Jitendra Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 45504 3898213 Karakat Sanjay Kumar Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 59720 Rajeshwar Raj Bharatiya Janata Party 47601 12119Arwal District214 Arwal Ravinder Singh Rashtriya Janata Dal 55295 Chitranjan Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 37485 17810215 Kurtha Satyadeo Singh Janata Dal United 43676 Ashok Kumar Verma Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 29557 14119Jehanabad District216 Jehanabad Mudrika Singh Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 76458 Praveen Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 46137 30321217 Ghosi Krishan Nandan Prasad Verma Janata Dal United 67248 Rahul Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 45623 21625218 Makhdumpur Subedar Das Rashtriya Janata Dal 66631 Jitan Ram Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 39854 26777Aurangabad District219 Goh Manoj Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 53615 Ranvijay Kumar Janata Dal United 45943 7672220 Obra Birendra Kumar Sinha Rashtriya Janata Dal 56042 Chandra Bhushan Verma Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 44646 11396221 Nabinagar Virendra Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 42035 Gopal Narayan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 36774 5261222 Kutumba Rajesh Kumar Indian National Congress 51303 Santosh Suman Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 41205 10098223 Aurangabad Anand Shankar Singh Indian National Congress 63637 Ramadhar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 45239 18398224 Rafiganj Ashok Kumar Singh Janata Dal United 62897 Pramod Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 53372 9525Gaya District225 Gurua Rajiv Nandan Bharatiya Janata Party 56480 Ramchandra Prasad Singh Janata Dal United 49965 6515226 Sherghati Vinod Prasad Yadav Janata Dal United 44579 Mukesh Kumar Yadav Hindustani Awam Morcha 39745 4834227 Imamganj Jitan Ram Manjhi Hindustani Awam Morcha 79389 Uday Narayan Choudhary Janata Dal United 49981 29408228 Barachatti Samta Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 70909 Sudha Devi Lok Janshakti Party 51783 19126229 Bodh Gaya Kumar Sarvjeet Rashtriya Janata Dal 82656 Shyamdeo Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 52183 30473230 Gaya Town Prem Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 66891 Priya Ranjan Indian National Congress 44102 22789231 Tikari Abhay Kumar Sinha Janata Dal United 86975 Anil Kumar Hindustani Awam Morcha 55162 31813232 Belaganj Surendra Prasad Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 71067 Sharim Ali Hindustani Awam Morcha 40726 30341233 Atri Kunti Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 60687 Arvind Kumar Singh Lok Janshakti Party 46870 13817234 Wazirganj Awadhesh Kumar Singh Indian National Congress 80107 Birendra Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 67348 12759Nawada District235 Rajauli Prakash Veer Rashtriya Janata Dal 70549 Arjun Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 65934 4615236 Hisua Anil Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 82493 Kaushal Yadav Janata Dal United 70254 12239237 Nawada Rajballabh Prasad Rashtriya Janata Dal 88235 Indradeo Prasad Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 71509 16726238 Gobindpur Purnima Yadav Indian National Congress 43016 Fula Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 38617 4399239 Warsaliganj Aruna Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 85912 Pradip Kumar Janata Dal United 66385 19527Jamui District240 Sikandra Sudhir Kumar Indian National Congress 59092 Subhash Chandra Bosh Lok Janshakti Party 51102 7990241 Jamui Vijay Prakash Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 66577 Ajoy Pratap Bharatiya Janata Party 58328 8249242 Jhajha Rabindra Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 65537 Damodar Rawat Janata Dal United 43451 22086243 Chakai Savitri Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal 47064 Sumit Kumar Singh Independent 34951 12113MLA Statistics Edit SC 38ST 2Yadav 61Muslim 24Rajput 19Koeri 19Bhumihar 17Kurmi 16Vaishya 16Brahmin 10Kayasta 3Others 67Total 2431 in every 4 new members in Bihar Assembly is a Yadav 276 Elected MLAs caste wise 2015 277 278 279 ಬ ಹ ರದ ಶ ಸಕರಲ ಲ ಯ ದವರ ಶ 25ರಷ i Government formation EditJanata Dal United leader Nitish Kumar was sworn in as chief minister for the fifth time on 20 November 2015 after the Mahagathbandhan alliance won a sweeping victory taking 178 seats 280 The two sons of RJD chief Lalu Prasad Tejaswi and Tej Pratap were also sworn in as ministers Tejaswi Yadav became Deputy Chief Minister Apart from Nitish Kumar 12 members each from the Janata Dal United and the Rashtriya Janata Dal and four from the Congress were administered the oath of office as ministers 281 On 26 July 2017 the Grand Alliance broke and a new coalition government between JD U and the BJP was formed 282 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