2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

12 October 2015 (2015-10-12) – 5 November 2015 (2015-11-05)
All 243 seats of the Bihar Legislative Assembly 122 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	56.91% (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 Leader since 1997 2005 2005 Leader's seat Did not contest MLC MLC Last election 22 115 91 Seats won 80 71 53 Seat change 58 44 38 Popular vote 69,95,509 64,16,414 93,08,015 Percentage 18.4% 16.8% 24.4% Swing 0.44% 5.81% 7.94%   Fourth party   Leader Ashok Chaudhary Party INC Alliance MGB Last election 4 Seats won 27 Seat change 23 Popular vote 2,539,638 Percentage 6.7% Swing 1.68%
Chief Minister before election Nitish Kumar JD(U) Elected Chief Minister Nitish Kumar JD(U)

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.

In April 2015, the Janata Parivar Alliance 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)) 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. 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 Alliance.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA fought the election alongside the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and Hindustani Awam Morcha.

Six left parties fought jointly, independently from both of the two main blocs.

This election saw the highest voter turnout in Bihar assembly polls since 2000, with a 56.8% voter turnout in this election. The RJD emerged as a single largest party with 80 seats, followed by JD (U) with 71 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%.

Bihar

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. ECIL manufactured VVPATs will be used in 10 assembly constituencies, while BEL manufactured VVPAT will be used in 26 assembly constituencies. The election information was webcast for the first time and voters can locate their polling booth on phones via an app. About 1.5 crore voters would be informed about the voting dates via SMS.

Election Commission used three new software products – Suvidha, Samadhan and Sugam – to facilitate campaigning, public grievance redressal and vehicle management in Bihar. Electoral Roll Management Software helped in addition/deletion/upgradation of rolls. 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. Bihar would be the first state to have photo electoral rolls, with photographs of candidates on EVMs.

Assembly constituencies of Bihar having VVPAT facility with EVMs
Katihar	Purnia	Kishanganj	Saharsa
Samastipur	Forbesganj	Munger	Jamui
Madhubani	Begusarai	Khagaria	Gopalganj
Supaul	Madhepura	Sasaram	Aurangabad
Buxar	Jehanabad	Nawada	Sitamarhi
Bhabhua	Motihari	Bettiah	Hajipur
Gaya Town	Muzaffarpur	Darbhanga	Ara
Biharsarif	Chhapra	Siwan	Kumhrar
Bankipur	Digha	Bhagalpur	Banka

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. It was the first time that NRIs cast their votes semi-electronically from foreign countries. The e-postal ballot system and the existing proxy-voting facility is extended for NRI voters from their place of residence abroad. But this facility is not available to migrant voters within India.

A cross will be NOTA symbol to be used in this and subsequent elections. 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.

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

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. The Election Commission of India decided that Bihar Police personnel would not be deployed at any of the 62,779 polling stations. They would be manned by members of the Central Armed Police Forces.

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. JDU and RJD combine won 10 seats only, while 1 seat was won by an independent candidate.

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. On 25 August, the central government released the religious data of the 2011 census. Hindus constituted 82.7% (8.6 crore people) in Bihar, while Muslims constituted 16.9% (1.7 crore peoples).

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.

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. In July, Nitish Kumar announced a 50 percent quota for OBC, EBC and SC/STs in all government contracts up to Rs 15 lakh. 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$1,800).

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. 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. 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). Opposition parties accused Nitish Kumar government of doing nothing for Manjhi's village Gehlaur.

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.

Caste and religion data

The 2011 national census indicated that Scheduled Castes constituted 16% of Bihar's 10.4 crores population. The census identified 21 of 23 Dalit sub-castes as Mahadalits. 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). Among Dalits in Bihar, Chamars are the largest 31.3%, followed by Paswans (Dusadh) 30.9% and Musahars 13.9%. The Paswan caste was initially left out of the Mahadalit category, to the consternation of Ram Vilas Paswan. Chamars were included later in Mahadalit category. Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) constituted around 1.3% of the Bihari population. They include the Gond, Santhal and Tharu communities. There are about 130 Extremely Backward Castes (EBCs) in Bihar.

Estimated population of castes of Bihar before the caste survey.
Caste	Population (%)	Notes
OBC/EBC	51%	Yadav – 14% Kurmis – 4% Kushwaha (Koeri) – 8% (EBCs – 26% – includes Teli – 3.2%)
Mahadalits*+ Dalits (SCs)	16%	includes Chamar – 5%, Dusadh – 5%, Musahar – 2.8%
Muslims	16.9%	includes Shershahbadi, Surjapuri, Ansari castes
Forward caste	15%	Bhumihar – 6% Brahmin – 5% Rajput – 3% Kayasth – 1%
Adivasis (STs)	1.3%
Others	0.4%	includes Christians, Sikhs, Jains

Schedule

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

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

Party		Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
	Rashtriya Janata Dal				Lalu Prasad Yadav	101
	Janata Dal (United)				Nitish Kumar	101
	Indian National Congress				Ashok Chaudhary	42

On 7 June, Lalu Prasad Yadav announced the RJD was joining in an alliance with the JDU for the election. 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, although Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan pitched for a comprehensive classification of caste data of SECC 2011 before its release, and also said Lalu, Nitish will be worst impacted from the caste data even if its released. 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.

On 3 August, incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declared that he would not stand in the election. 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. NCP pulled out of this alliance later. On 23 September, Nitish Kumar announced the list of 242 candidates for the JDU–RJD–INC alliance. OBCs were most favoured in the alliance ticket distribution plan. 10% of tickets were allotted to women candidate by the alliance. 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.

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. Initially there were definite political overtures when both Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar shared stage together in a public event commemorating former chief minister Satyendra Narain Sinha's birth anniversary that witnessed veiled attacks on each other, the last time they did it in public. Prashant Kishor was a key election strategist for the alliance. The Janata Dal-United started 400 audio-visual vans called Jan Bhagidari Manch raths for the campaign. Kumar is launching 'Bihar Samman Sammelan' in various cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, to connect with the Bihari diaspora.

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

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election NDA Seat Sharing Map

Party		Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
	Bharatiya Janata Party				Sushil Modi	157
	Lok Janshakti Party				Ram Vilas Paswan	42
	Rashtriya Lok Samta Party				Upendra Kushwaha	23
	Hindustani Awam Morcha				Jitan Ram Manjhi	21

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used 243 GPS-monitored raths (modified Boleros) and video vans in the election. 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. 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. The BJP election exercise also involved three lakh volunteers. Modi held his second election rally in Gaya on 9 August and his third rally in Arrah and Saharsa on 18 August. Modi announced a Rs 1.25 lakh crore package for Bihar. He addressed his fourth rally in Bhagalpur on 1 September. Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan also campaigned for the BJP. Modi addressed several rallies after 25 October in several constituencies.

In a rally in Buxar on 26 October, Modi vowed to defend reservation of Dalits, STs, OBCs. 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%. On 27 October, in Bettiah, he again accused Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav of diluting the share of SC, ST and OBC. 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. 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. 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. A video dating from 2005 which was leaked showed Lalu was asking for a quota for Muslims. On 3 July, BJP announced its seventh morcha, the BJP OBC Morcha, reportedly in regards to the election.

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

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. The NDA did not announce any chief ministerial candidate. BJP announced the names of 154 candidates in three lists. Caste played a major role in distributing tickets. BJP also accommodated five candidates of the Hindustani Awam Morcha. Later, the BJP gave the Imamganj seat to HAM for Majhi is contesting and BJP reduced its seat tally to 159. On 1 October, the BJP released its manifesto.

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. On 15 October, NCP leader Tariq Anwar announced that his party had decided to leave the third front.

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. 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. CPI released its first list of 81 candidates on 16 September 2015.

Others

Muslim parties

At least six Muslim parties contested the election. AIMIM contested six seats.

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

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

Bahujan Samaj Party

In June 2015, the Bahujan Samaj Party said it would contest all 243 seats. 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. National party leader Mayawati planned to campaign for its candidates. BSP's first list has 11 Other Backward Class (OBCs) and 11 Muslims, while they also field Dalits and OBCs from non-reserved seats. 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).

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. 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. 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.

Mayawati officially launched the party's campaign on 9 October from Banka. 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. She further called on the NDA to not allow the reservation policy for OBCs and SC/STs to fall under the RSS' influence. 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.

Minor

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

On 17 September, Shiv Sena announced that it will contest over 150 seats during the election. 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. Former U.K. banker Akshay Verma's Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party contested about 90 seats in the election.

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

Opinion polls

When conducted	Ref	Polling organisation/agency	Sample size
				MGB	NDA	Other
Apr–May 2015		ABP News	NA	127	111	5
Jun–Jul 2015		ABP News – Nielsen	NA	121	118	4
August–September 2015		India Today – Cicero	5,968	106	125	12
August–September 2015		India TV–CVoter poll	10,638	120–128	94–106	17–21
3–7 September 2015		ABP News – Nielsen	4,493	122	118	3
12–13 September 2015		Zee News Survey	31,906	70–103	140–173	0
23 September 2015		Times Now – CVoter	7,786	112	117	14
October 2015		Leadtech – infoelections.com	11,566	73	168
8 October 2015		CNN-IBN–Axis Poll	27500	137	95	11
7 October 2015		ABP News	NA	112	128	3
October 2015		India Today – Cicero poll	NA	122	111	10
October 2015		News Nation	7,000	115–119	120–124	2–4
October 2015		India TV– Cvoter	9,916	108–124	111–127	4–12

Election

The electoral process cost about ₹300 crore (US$36 million) to the Bihar government exchequer.

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.

Exit polls

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

Polling organisation/agency	Ref	Sample size
			MGB	NDA	Other
ABP News – Nielsen		—	130	108	5
CNN–IBN – Axis		—	176	64	3
India Today – Cicero		—	111–123	113–127	4–8
NDTV – Hansa		76,000	110	125	8
India TV–Times Now–CVoter		35,000+	112–132	101–121	6–14
News 24 – Today's Chanakya		—	83	155	5

Results

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

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.

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.

Summary

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178	58	7
Mahagathbandhan	NDA	Others

Map displaying constituencies won by parties

Summary of results of the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

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	69,95,509	18.4	0.44	44.35	101	80	58	32.92
			Janata Dal (United)	64,16,414	16.8	5.81	40.65	101	71	44	29.21
			Indian National Congress	25,39,638	6.7	1.68	39.49	41	27	23	11.11
	NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	93,08,015	24.4	7.94	37.48	157	53	38	21.81
			Lok Janshakti Party	18,40,834	4.8	1.95	28.79	42	2	1	0.82
			Rashtriya Lok Samata Party	9,76,787	2.6	-	0.64	23	2	2	0.82
			Hindustani Awam Morcha	8,64,856	2.3	-	26.90	21	1	1	0.41
	Left Front		Communist Party of India	5,16,699	1.36	0.29	3.43	98	0	1	0
			CPI(ML) Liberation	5,87,701	1.54	0.29	3.82	98	3	3	1.23
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,32,149	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	3,85,511	1.0	0.45	1.83	85	0		0
			Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)	5,14,748	1.4	—	—	64	0		0
			Nationalist Congress Party	1,85,437	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	7,88,024	2.1	1.11	2.21	243	0		0
			Shiv Sena	2,11,131	0.6	0.21	1.84	150	0		0
			Sarvajan Kalyan Loktantrik Party	1,08,851	0.3	—	0.91	90	0		0
			Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	1,03,940	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	35,80,953	9.4	3.82	9.57	1150	4	2	1.64
			NOTA	9,47,276	2.5	—	2.49	243	—	—	—
Total			3,76,73,594	100.00			243
Valid votes			3,76,73,594	99.94
Invalid votes			23,384	0.06
Votes cast / turnout			3,76,73,594	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		Ind	66860	Irshad Hussain		INC	33280	33580
2	Ramnagar	Bhagirathi Devi		BJP	82166	Purnmasi Ram		INC	64178	17988
3	Narkatiaganj	Vinay Verma		INC	57212	Renu Devi		BJP	41151	16061
4	Bagaha	Raghaw Sharan Pandey		BJP	74476	Bhishm Sahani		JD(U)	66293	8183
5	Lauriya	Vinay Bihari		BJP	57351	Ran Kaushal Pratap Singh		RJD	39778	17573
6	Nautan	Narayan Prasad		BJP	66697	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		JD(U)	52362	14335
7	Chanpatia	Prakash Rai		BJP	61304	N. N. Sahi		JD(U)	60840	464
8	Bettiah	Madan Mohan Tiwari		INC	66786	Renu Devi		BJP	64466	2320
9	Sikta	Khurshid (Feroz Ahmad)		JD(U)	69870	Dilip Varma		BJP	67035	2835
East Champaran District
10	Raxaul	Ajay Kumar Singh		BJP	64731	Suresh Kumar		RJD	61562	3169
11	Sugauli	Ramchandra Sahani		BJP	62384	Om Prakash Choudhary		RJD	54628	7756
12	Narkatiya	Shamim Ahmad		RJD	75118	Sant Singh Kushwaha		RLSP	55136	19982
13	Harsidhi	Rajendra Kumar		RJD	75203	Krishnanandan Paswan		BJP	64936	10267
14	Govindganj	Raju Tiwari		LJP	74685	Brajesh Kumar		INC	46765	27920
15	Kesaria	Rajesh Kumar		RJD	62902	Rajendra Prasad Gupta		BJP	46955	15947
16	Kalyanpur	Sachindra Prasad Singh		BJP	50060	Razia Khatoon		JD(U)	38572	11488
17	Pipra	Shyambabu Prasad Yadav		BJP	65552	Krishan Chandra		JD(U)	61622	3930
18	Madhuban	Rana Randhir Singh		BJP	61054	Shivajee Rai		JD(U)	44832	16222
19	Motihari	Pramod Kumar		BJP	79947	Binod Kumar Shrivastava		RJD	61430	18517
20	Chiraia	Lal Babu Prasad Gupta		BJP	62831	Laxmi Narayan Prasad Yadav		RJD	58457	4374
21	Dhaka	Faisal Rahman		RJD	87458	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal		BJP	68261	19197
Sheohar District
22	Sheohar	Sharfuddin		JD(U)	44576	Lovely Anand		HAM	44115	461
Sitamarhi District
23	Riga	Amit Kumar Tuna		INC	79217	Moti Lal Prasad		BJP	56361	22856
24	Bathnaha	Dinkar Ram		BJP	74763	Surendra Ram		INC	54597	20166
25	Parihar	Gayatri Devi		BJP	66388	Ram Chandra Purve		RJD	62371	4017
26	Sursand	Syed Abu Dojana		RJD	52857	Amit Kumar		Ind	29623	23234
27	Bajpatti	Ranju Geeta		JD(U)	67194	Rekha Kumari		RLSP	50248	16946
28	Sitamarhi	Sunil Kumar		RJD	81557	Sunil Kumar Pintu		BJP	66835	14722
29	Runnisaidpur	Mangita Devi		RJD	55699	Pankaj Kumar Mishra		RLSP	41589	14110
30	Belsand	Sunita Singh Chauhan		JD(U)	33785	Md. Nasir Ahamad		LJP	28210	5575
Madhubani District
31	Harlakhi	Basant Kumar		RLSP	40468	Mohammad Shabbir		INC	36576	3892
32	Benipatti	Bhawana Jha		INC	55978	Vinod Narayan Jha		BJP	51244	4734
33	Khajauli	Sitaram Yadav		RJD	71534	Arun Shankar Prasad		BJP	60831	10703
34	Babubarhi	Kapil Deo Kamat		JD(U)	61486	Binod Kumar Singh		LJP	41219	20267
35	Bisfi	Faiyaz Ahmad		RJD	70975	Manoj Kumar Yadav		RLSP	35650	35325
36	Madhubani	Samir Kumar Mahaseth		RJD	76823	Ramdeo Mahto		BJP	69516	7307
37	Rajnagar	Ram Prit Paswan		BJP	71614	Ramawatar Paswan		RJD	65372	6242
38	Jhanjharpur	Gulab Yadav		RJD	64320	Nitish Mishra		BJP	63486	834
39	Phulparas	Guljar Devi Yadav		JD(U)	64368	Ram Sundar Yadav		BJP	50953	13415
40	Laukaha	Lakshmeshwar Roy		JD(U)	79971	Pramod Kumar Priyedarshi		BJP	56138	23833
Supaul District
41	Nirmali	Aniruddha Prasad Yadav		JD(U)	79600	Ram Kumar Roy		BJP	55649	23951
42	Pipra	Yaduvansh Kumar Yadav		RJD	85944	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		BJP	49575	36369
43	Supaul	Bijendra Prasad Yadav		JD(U)	82295	Kishor Kumar		BJP	44898	37397
44	Triveniganj	Veena Bharti		JD(U)	89869	Anant Kumar Bharti		LJP	37469	52400
45	Chhatapur	Neeraj Kumar Singh		BJP	75697	Jahur Alam		RJD	66405	9292
Araria District
46	Narpatganj	Anil Kumar Yadav		RJD	90250	Janardan Yadav		BJP	64299	25951
47	Raniganj	Achmit Rishidev		JD(U)	77717	Ramjidas Rishidev		BJP	62787	14930
48	Forbesganj	Vidya Sagar Keshri		BJP	85929	Krityanand Biswas		RJD	60691	25238
49	Araria	Avidur Rahman		INC	92667	Ajay Kumar Jha		LJP	52623	40044
50	Jokihat	Sarfaraz Alam		JD(U)	92890	Ranjeet Yadav		Ind	38910	53980
51	Sikti	Vijay Kumar Mandal		BJP	76995	Shatrughan Prasad Suman		JD(U)	68889	8106
Kishanganj District
52	Bahadurganj	Md. Tauseef Alam		INC	53533	Awadh Bihari Singh		BJP	39591	13942
53	Thakurganj	Naushad Alam		JD(U)	74239	Gopal Kumar Agrawal		LJP	66152	8087
54	Kishanganj	Mohammad Jawed		INC	66522	Sweety Singh		BJP	57913	8609
55	Kochadhaman	Mujahid Alam		JD(U)	55929	Akhtarul Iman		AIMIM	37086	18843
Purnia District
56	Amour	Abdul Zalil Mastan		INC	100135	Saba Zafar		BJP	48138	51997
57	Baisi	Abdus Subhan		RJD	67022	Vinod Kumar		Ind	28282	38740
58	Kasba	Md Afaque Alam		INC	81633	Pradip Kumar Das		BJP	79839	1794
59	Banmankhi	Krishna Kumar Rishi		BJP	59053	Sanjiv Kumar Paswan		RJD	58345	708
60	Rupauli	Bima Bharti		JD(U)	50945	Prem Prakash Mandal		BJP	41273	9672
61	Dhamdaha	Leshi Singh		JD(U)	75400	Shiv Shankar Thakur		RLSP	45583	29817
62	Purnia	Vijay Kumar Khemka		BJP	92020	Indu Sinha		INC	59205	32815
Katihar District
63	Katihar	Tarkishore Prasad		BJP	66048	Bijay Singh		JD(U)	51154	14894
64	Kadwa	Shakeel Ahmad Khan		INC	56141	Chander Bhushan Thakur		BJP	50342	5799
65	Balrampur	Mahbub Alam		CPI(ML)L	62513	Barun Kumar Jha		BJP	42094	20419
66	Pranpur	Binod Kumar Singh		BJP	47924	Israt Parween		NCP	39823	8101
67	Manihari	Manohar Prasad Singh		INC	61704	Anil Kumar Oraon		LJP	48024	13680
68	Barari	Neeraj Kumar		RJD	71175	Bibhash Chandra Choudhary		BJP	56839	14336
69	Korha	Punam Paswan		INC	78409	Mahesh Paswan		BJP	72983	5426
Madhepura District
70	Alamnagar	Narendra Narayan Yadav		JD(U)	87962	Chandan Singh		LJP	44086	43876
71	Bihariganj	Niranjan Kumar Mehta		JD(U)	78361	Ravindra Charan Yadav		BJP	49108	29253
72	Singheshwar	Ramesh Rishidev		JD(U)	83073	Manju Devi		HAM	32873	50200
73	Madhepura	Chandra Shekhar		RJD	90974	Vijay Kumar Bimal		BJP	53332	37642
Saharsa District
74	Sonbarsha	Ratnesh Sada		JD(U)	88789	Sarita Devi		LJP	35026	53763
75	Saharsa	Arun Kumar		RJD	102850	Alok Ranjan Jha		BJP	63644	39206
76	Simri Bakhtiarpur	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		JD(U)	78514	Yusuf Salahuddin		LJP	40708	37806
77	Mahishi	Abdul Ghafoor		RJD	56436	Chandan Kumar Sah		RLSP	30301	26135
Darbhanga District
78	Kusheshwar Asthan	Shashi Bhushan Hazari		JD(U)	50062	Dhananjay Kumar Paswan		LJP	30212	19850
79	Gaura Bauram	Madan Sahni		JD(U)	51403	Vinod Sahni		LJP	37341	14062
80	Benipur	Sunil Choudhary		JD(U)	69511	Gopal Jee Thakur		BJP	43068	26443
81	Alinagar	Abdul Bari Siddiqui		RJD	67461	Mishri Lal Yadav		BJP	54001	13460
82	Darbhanga Rural	Lalit Kumar Yadav		RJD	70557	Naushad Ahmad		HAM	36066	34491
83	Darbhanga	Sanjay Saraogi		BJP	77776	Om Prakash Kheria		RJD	70316	7460
84	Hayaghat	Amarnath Gami		JD(U)	65677	Ramesh Choudhary		LJP	32446	33231
85	Bahadurpur	Bhola Yadav		RJD	71547	Hari Sahni		BJP	54558	16989
86	Keoti	Faraz Fatmi		RJD	68601	Ashok Kumar Yadav		BJP	60771	7830
87	Jale	Jibesh Kumar		BJP	62059	Rishi Mishra		JD(U)	57439	4620
Muzaffarpur District
88	Gaighat	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav		RJD	67313	Veena Devi		BJP	63812	3501
89	Aurai	Surendra Kumar		RJD	66958	Ram Surat Kumar		BJP	56133	10825
90	Minapur	Munna Yadav		RJD	80790	Ajay Kumar		BJP	56850	23940
91	Bochahan	Baby Kumari		Ind	67720	Ramai Ram		JD(U)	43590	24130
92	Sakra	Lal Babu Ram		RJD	75010	Arjun Ram		BJP	61998	13012
93	Kurhani	Kedar Prasad Gupta		BJP	73227	Manoj Kumar Singh		JD(U)	61657	11570
94	Muzaffarpur	Suresh Kumar Sharma		BJP	95594	Bijendra Chaudhary		JD(U)	65855	29739
95	Kanti	Ashok Kumar Choudhary		Ind	58111	Ajit Kumar		HAM	48836	9275
96	Baruraj	Nand Kumar Rai		RJD	68011	Arun Kumar Singh		BJP	63102	4909
97	Paroo	Ashok Kumar Singh		BJP	80445	Shankar Prasad		RJD	66906	13539
98	Sahebganj	Ram Vichar Ray		RJD	70583	Raju Kumar Singh		BJP	59923	10660
Gopalganj District
99	Baikunthpur	Mithlesh Tiwari		BJP	56162	Manjeet Kumar Singh		JD(U)	42047	14115
100	Barauli	Md. Nematullah		RJD	61690	Rampravesh Rai		BJP	61186	504
101	Gopalganj	Subhash Singh		BJP	78491	Reyazul Haque Raju		RJD	73417	5074
102	Kuchaikote	Amrendra Kumar Pandey		JD(U)	72224	Kali Prasad Pandey		LJP	68662	3562
103	Bhore	Anil Kumar		INC	74365	Indradev Manjhi		BJP	59494	14871
104	Hathua	Ramsewak Singh		JD(U)	57917	Mahachandra Prasad Singh		HAM	34933	22984
Siwan District
105	Siwan	Vyas Deo Prasad		BJP	55156	Bablu Prasad		JD(U)	51622	3534
106	Ziradei	Ramesh Singh Kushwaha		JD(U)	40760	Asha Devi		BJP	34669	6091
107	Darauli	Satyadeo Ram		CPI(ML)L	49576	Ramayan Manjhi		BJP	39992	9584
108	Raghunathpur	Hari Shankar Yadav		RJD	61042	Manoj Kumar Singh		BJP	50420	10622
109	Daraunda	Kavita Singh		JD(U)	66255	Jitendra Swami		BJP	53033	13222
110	Barharia	Shyam Bahadur Singh		JD(U)	65168	Bachha Panday		LJP	50585	14583
111	Goriakothi	Satyadeo Prasad Singh		RJD	70965	Devesh Kant Singh		BJP	63314	7651
112	Maharajganj	Hem Narayan Sah		JD(U)	68459	Kumar Deo Ranjan Singh		BJP	48167	20292
Saran District
113	Ekma	Manoranjan Singh		JD(U)	49508	Kameshwar Kumar Singh		BJP	41382	8126
114	Manjhi	Vijay Shanker Dubey		INC	29558	Keshav Singh		LJP	20692	8866
115	Baniapur	Kedar Nath Singh		RJD	69851	Tarkeshwar Singh		BJP	53900	15951
116	Taraiya	Mudrika Prasad Rai		RJD	69012	Janak Singh		BJP	48572	20440
117	Marhaura	Jitendra Kumar Ray		RJD	66714	Lal Babu Rai		BJP	49996	16718
118	Chapra	C. N. Gupta		BJP	71646	Randhir Kumar Singh		RJD	60267	11379
119	Garkha	Muneshwar Chaudhary		RJD	89249	Gyanchand Manjhi		BJP	49366	39883
120	Amnour	Shatrudhan Tiwari		BJP	39134	Krishna Kumar Mantoo		JD(U)	33883	5251
121	Parsa	Chandrika Rai		RJD	77211	Chhotelal Rai		LJP	34876	42335
122	Sonpur	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav		RJD	86082	Vinay Kumar Singh		BJP	49686	36396
Vaishali District
123	Hajipur	Awadhesh Singh		BJP	86773	Jagannath Prasad Rai		INC	74578	12195
124	Lalganj	Raj Kumar Sah		LJP	80842	Vijay Kumar Shukla		JD(U)	60549	20293
125	Vaishali	Raj Kishore Singh		JD(U)	79286	Brishin Patel		HAM	48225	31061
126	Mahua	Tej Pratap Yadav		RJD	66927	Ravindra Ray		HAM	38772	28155
127	Raja Pakar	Shivchandra Ram		RJD	61251	Ram Nath Raman		LJP	46096	15155
128	Raghopur	Tejashwi Yadav		RJD	91236	Satish Kumar		BJP	68503	22733
129	Mahnar	Umesh Singh Kushwaha		JD(U)	69825	Achuta Nand		BJP	43370	26455
130	Patepur	Prema Chaudhary		RJD	67548	Mahendra Baitha		BJP	55087	12461
Samastipur District
131	Kalyanpur	Maheshwar Hazari		JD(U)	84904	Prince Raj		LJP	47218	37686
132	Warisnagar	Ashok Kumar		JD(U)	92687	Chandrashekhar Rai		LJP	34114	58573
133	Samastipur	Akhtarul Islam Sahin		RJD	82508	Renu Kushawaha		BJP	51428	31080
134	Ujiarpur	Alok Kumar Mehta		RJD	85466	Kumar Anant		RLSP	38006	47460
135	Morwa	Vidya Sagar Singh Nishad		JD(U)	59206	Suresh Ray		BJP	40390	18816
136	Sarairanjan	Vijay Kumar Chaudhary		JD(U)	81055	Ranjeet Nirguni		BJP	47011	34044
137	Mohiuddinnagar	Ejya Yadav		RJD	47137	Rajesh Kumar Singh		Ind	23706	23431
138	Bibhutipur	Ram Balak Singh		JD(U)	57882	Ramdeo Verma		CPI(M)	40647	17235
139	Rosera	Ashok Kumar		INC	85506	Manju Hazari		BJP	51145	34361
140	Hasanpur	Raj Kumar Ray		JD(U)	63094	Vinod Choudhary		RLSP	33494	29600
Begusarai District
141	Cheria-Bariarpur	Manju Verma		JD(U)	69795	Anil Kumar Chaudhary		LJP	40059	29736
142	Bachhwara	Ramdeo Rai		INC	73983	Arvind Kumar Singh		LJP	37052	36931
143	Teghra	Birendra Kumar		RJD	68975	Ram Lakhan Singh		BJP	53364	15611
144	Matihani	Narendra Kumar Singh		JD(U)	89297	Sarvesh Kumar		BJP	66609	22688
145	Sahebpur Kamal	Shreenarayan Yadav		RJD	78225	M.d. Aslam		LJP	32751	45474
146	Begusarai	Amita Bhushan		INC	83521	Surendra Mehata		BJP	66990	16531
147	Bakhri	Upendra Paswan		RJD	72632	Ramanand Ram		BJP	32376	40256
Khagaria District
148	Alauli	Chandan Kumar		RJD	70519	Pashupati Kumar Paras		LJP	46049	24470
149	Khagaria	Poonam Devi Yadav		JD(U)	64767	Rajesh Kumar		HAM	39202	25565
150	Beldaur	Panna Lal Singh Patel		JD(U)	63216	Mithilesh Kumar Nishad		LJP	49691	13525
151	Parbatta	Ramanand Prasad Singh		JD(U)	76248	Ramanuj Choudhary		BJP	47324	28924
Bhagalpur District
152	Bihpur	Varsha Rani		RJD	68963	Kumar Shailendra		BJP	56247	12716
153	Gopalpur	Narendra Kumar Niraj		JD(U)	57403	Anil Kumar Yadav		BJP	52234	5169
154	Pirpainti	Ram Vilash Paswan		RJD	80058	Lalan Kumar		BJP	74914	5144
155	Kahalgaon	Sadanand Singh		INC	64981	Niraj Kumar Mandal		LJP	43752	21229
156	Bhagalpur	Ajeet Sharma		INC	70514	Arjit Shashwat Choubey		BJP	59856	10658
157	Sultanganj	Subodh Roy		JD(U)	63345	Himanshu Prasad		RLSP	49312	14033
158	Nathnagar	Ajay Kumar Mandal		JD(U)	66485	Amar Nath Prasad		LJP	58660	7825
Banka District
159	Amarpur	Janardan Manjhi		JD(U)	73707	Mrinal Shekhar		BJP	61934	11773
160	Dhoraiya	Manish Kumar		JD(U)	68858	Bhudeo Choudhary		RLSP	44704	24154
161	Banka	Ramnarayan Mandal		BJP	52379	Zafrul Hoda		RJD	48649	3730
162	Katoria	Sweety Sima Hembram		RJD	54760	Nikki Hembram		BJP	44423	10337
163	Belhar	Giridhari Yadav		JD(U)	70348	Manoj Yadav		BJP	54157	16191
Munger District
164	Tarapur	Mewalal Chaudhary		JD(U)	66411	Shakuni Choudhury		HAM	54464	11947
165	Munger	Vijay Kumar 'Vijay'		RJD	77216	Pranav Kumar		BJP	72851	4365
166	Jamalpur	Shailesh Kumar		JD(U)	67273	Himanshu Kunvar		LJP	51797	15476
Lakhisarai District
167	Suryagarha	Prahlad Yadav		RJD	82490	Prem Ranjan Patel		BJP	52460	30030
168	Lakhisarai	Vijay Kumar Sinha		BJP	75901	Ramanand Mandal		JD(U)	69345	6556
Sheikhpura District
169	Sheikhpura	Randhir Kumar Soni		JD(U)	41755	Naresh Saw		HAM	28654	13101
170	Barbigha	Sudarshan Kumar		INC	46406	Sheo Kumar		RLSP	30689	15717
Nalanda District
171	Asthawan	Jitendra Kumar		JD(U)	58908	Chhote Lal Yadav		LJP	48464	10444
172	Biharsharif	Sunil Kumar		BJP	76201	Mohammad Asghar Shamim		JD(U)	73861	2340
173	Rajgir	Ravi Jyoti Kumar		JD(U)	62009	Satyadev Narayan Arya		BJP	56619	5390
174	Islampur	Chandrasen Prasad		JD(U)	66587	Birendra Gope		BJP	66587	22602
175	Hilsa	Shakti Singh Yadav		RJD	72347	Deepika Kumari		LJP	46271	26076
176	Nalanda	Shrawan Kumar		JD(U)	72596	Kaushlendra Kumar		BJP	69600	2996
177	Harnaut	Hari Narayan Singh		JD(U)	71933	Arun Kumar		LJP	57638	14295
Patna District
178	Mokama	Anant Kumar Singh		Ind	54005	Neeraj Kumar		JD(U)	35657	18348
179	Barh	Gyanendra Kumar Singh		BJP	63989	Manoj Kumar		JD(U)	55630	8359
180	Bakhtiarpur	Ranvijay Singh Yadav		BJP	61496	Aniruddh Kumar Yadav		RJD	53594	7902
181	Digha	Sanjeev Chaurasiya		BJP	92671	Rajeev Ranjan Prasad		JD(U)	67892	24779
182	Bankipur	Nitin Nabin		BJP	86759	Kumar Ashish		INC	46992	39767
183	Kumhrar	Arun Kumar Sinha		BJP	87792	Aquil Haider		INC	50517	37275
184	Patna Sahib	Nand Kishore Yadav		BJP	88108	Santosh Mehta		RJD	85316	2792
185	Fatuha	Rama Nand Yadav		RJD	77210	Satyendra Kumar Singh		LJP	46808	30402
186	Danapur	Asha Devi		BJP	72192	Raj Kishor Yadav		RJD	66983	5209
187	Maner	Bhai Virendra		RJD	89773	Srikant Nirala		BJP	66945	22828
188	Phulwari	Shyam Rajak		JD(U)	94094	Rajeshwar Manjhi		HAM	48381	45713
189	Masaurhi	Rekha Devi		RJD	89657	Nutan Paswan		HAM	50471	39186
190	Paliganj	Jai Vardhan Yadav		RJD	65932	Ram Janm Sharma		BJP	41479	24453
191	Bikram	Siddharth		INC	94088	Anil Kumar		BJP	49777	44311
Bhojpur District
192	Sandesh	Arun Kumar		RJD	74306	Sanjay Singh		BJP	48879	25427
193	Barhara	Saroj Yadav		RJD	65001	Asha Devi		BJP	51693	13308
194	Arrah	Mohammad Nawaz Alam		RJD	70004	Amrendra Pratap Singh		BJP	69338	666
195	Agiaon	Prabhunath Prasad		JD(U)	52276	Shivesh Kumar		BJP	37572	14704
196	Tarari	Sudama Prasad		CPI(ML)L	44050	Gita Pandey		LJP	43778	272
197	Jagdishpur	Ram Vishnun Singh		RJD	49020	Rakesh Raushan		RLSP	38825	10195
198	Shahpur	Rahul Tiwari		RJD	69315	Visheshwar Ojha		BJP	54745	14570
Buxar District
199	Brahampur	Shambhu Nath Yadav		RJD	94079	Vivek Thakur		BJP	63303	30776
200	Buxar	Sanjay Kumar Tiwari		INC	66527	Pradeep Dubey		BJP	56346	10181
201	Dumraon	Dadan Yadav		JD(U)	81081	Ram Bihari Singh		RLSP	50742	30339
202	Rajpur	Santosh Kumar Nirala		JD(U)	84184	Bishawnath Ram		BJP	51396	32788
Kaimur District
203	Ramgarh	Ashok Kumar Singh		BJP	57501	Ambika Singh Yadav		RJD	49490	8011
204	Mohania	Niranjan Ram		BJP	60911	Sanjay Kumar		INC	53330	7581
205	Bhabua	Anand Bhushan Pandey		BJP	50768	Pramod Kumar Singh		JD(U)	43024	7744
206	Chainpur	Brij Kishor Bind		BJP	58913	Mohammad Zama Khan		BSP	58242	671
Rohtas District
207	Chenari	Lalan Paswan		RLSP	68148	Mangal Ram		INC	58367	9781
208	Sasaram	Ashok Kumar		RJD	82766	Jawahar Prasad		BJP	63154	19612
209	Kargahar	Bashisht Singh		JD(U)	57018	Birendra Kumar Singh		RLSP	44111	12907
210	Dinara	Jai Kumar Singh		JD(U)	64699	Rajendra Prasad Singh		BJP	62008	2691
211	Nokha	Anita Devi		RJD	72780	Rameshwar Chaurasiya		BJP	49782	22998
212	Dehri	Mohammad Iliyas Hussain		RJD	49402	Jitendra Kumar		RLSP	45504	3898
213	Karakat	Sanjay Kumar Singh		RJD	59720	Rajeshwar Raj		BJP	47601	12119
Arwal District
214	Arwal	Ravindra Singh		RJD	55295	Chitranjan Kumar		BJP	37485	17810
215	Kurtha	Satyadeo Singh		JD(U)	43676	Ashok Kumar Verma		RLSP	29557	14119
Jehanabad District
216	Jehanabad	Mudrika Singh Yadav		RJD	76458	Praveen Kumar		RLSP	46137	30321
217	Ghosi	Krishna Nandan Prasad Verma		JD(U)	67248	Rahul Kumar		HAM	45623	21625
218	Makhdumpur	Subedar Das		RJD	66631	Jitan Ram Manjhi		HAM	39854	26777
Aurangabad District
219	Goh	Manoj Kumar		BJP	53615	Ranvijay Kumar		JD(U)	45943	7672
220	Obra	Birendra Kumar Sinha		RJD	56042	Chandra Bhushan Verma		RLSP	44646	11396
221	Nabinagar	Virendra Kumar Singh		JD(U)	42035	Gopal Narayan Singh		BJP	36774	5261
222	Kutumba	Rajesh Kumar		INC	51303	Santosh Suman Manjhi		HAM	41205	10098
223	Aurangabad	Anand Shankar Singh		INC	63637	Ramadhar Singh		BJP	45239	18398
224	Rafiganj	Ashok Kumar Singh		JD(U)	62897	Pramod Kumar Singh		LJP	53372	9525
Gaya District
225	Gurua	Rajiv Nandan		BJP	56480	Ramchandra Prasad Singh		JD(U)	49965	6515
226	Sherghati	Vinod Prasad Yadav		JD(U)	44579	Mukesh Kumar Yadav		HAM	39745	4834
227	Imamganj	Jitan Ram Manjhi		HAM	79389	Uday Narayan Choudhary		JD(U)	49981	29408
228	Barachatti	Samta Devi		RJD	70909	Sudha Devi		LJP	51783	19126
229	Bodh Gaya	Kumar Sarvjeet		RJD	82656	Shyamdeo Paswan		BJP	52183	30473
230	Gaya Town	Prem Kumar		BJP	66891	Priya Ranjan		INC	44102	22789
231	Tikari	Abhay Kumar Sinha		JD(U)	86975	Anil Kumar		HAM	55162	31813
232	Belaganj	Surendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	71067	Sharim Ali		HAM	40726	30341
233	Atri	Kunti Devi		RJD	60687	Arvind Kumar Singh		LJP	46870	13817
234	Wazirganj	Awadhesh Kumar Singh		INC	80107	Birendra Singh		BJP	67348	12759
Nawada District
235	Rajauli	Prakash Veer		RJD	70549	Arjun Ram		BJP	65934	4615
236	Hisua	Anil Singh		BJP	82493	Kaushal Yadav		JD(U)	70254	12239
237	Nawada	Rajballabh Prasad		RJD	88235	Indradeo Prasad		RLSP	71509	16726
238	Gobindpur	Purnima Yadav		INC	43016	Fula Devi		BJP	38617	4399
239	Warisaliganj	Aruna Devi		BJP	85912	Pradip Kumar		JD(U)	66385	19527
Jamui District
240	Sikandra	Sudhir Kumar		INC	59092	Subhash Chandra Bosh		LJP	51102	7990
241	Jamui	Vijay Prakash Yadav		RJD	66577	Ajoy Pratap		BJP	58328	8249
242	Jhajha	Rabindra Yadav		BJP	65537	Damodar Rawat		JD(U)	43451	22086
243	Chakai	Savitri Devi		RJD	47064	Sumit Kumar Singh		Ind	34951	12113

MLA statistics

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SC	38
ST	2
Yadav	61
Muslim	24
Rajput	19
Koeri	19
Bhumihar	17
Kurmi	16
Vaishya	16
Brahmin	10
Kayasta	3
Total	243

• 1 in every 4 new members in Bihar Assembly is a Yadav
• Elected MLAs caste-wise-2015
• 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. 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.

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

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.)

See also

• 2015 elections in India
• List of Assembly constituencies of Bihar
• Chief Ministers of Bihar
• 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election
• Fifth Nitish Kumar ministry
• Sixth Nitish Kumar ministry

External links

• Bihar Lok Sabha election 2019 results website
• Election Commission of India – Bihar 2015
• Detailed results – Election Commission of India, State Elections, 2015 Legislative Assembly of Bihar