2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

28 October 2020 (2020-10-28) – 7 November 2020 (2020-11-07)
All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly 122 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	57.29% (0.38%)
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Tejashwi Yadav Sanjay Jaiswal Nitish Kumar Party RJD BJP JD(U) Alliance MGB NDA NDA Leader since 2017 2019 2005 Leader's seat Raghopur (Won) Did Not Contest MLC Last election 80 53 71 Seats won 75 74 43 Seat change 5 21 28 Popular vote 97,38,855 82,02,067 64,85,179 Percentage 23.11% 19.46% 15.39% Swing 4.79% 4.96% 1.44%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Madan Mohan Jha Dipankar Bhattacharya Akhtarul Iman Party INC CPI(ML)L AIMIM Alliance MGB MGB GDSF Leader since 2019 1996 2015 Leader's seat Did not contest Did Not Contest Amour (Won) Last election 27 3 0 Seats won 19 12 5 Seat change 8 9 5 Popular vote 39,95,319 13,33,682 5,23,279 Percentage 9.48% 3.16% 1.24% Swing 2.82% 1.66% 1.03%
Seatwise Result Map of the election
Chief Minister before election Nitish Kumar JD(U) Elected Chief Minister Nitish Kumar JD(U)

The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November to elect members to the Seventeenth Bihar Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 2020.

The election was held in three phases for a total of 243 seats:- the first for 71 seats on 28 October 2020, the second for 94 seats on 3 November 2020, and the third for the remaining 78 seats on 7 November 2020. The counting of votes began on 10 November 2020 and the incumbent National Democratic Alliance emerged as the winner with 125 elected MLAs, whereas the principal opposition coalition of Mahagathbandhan won 110 seats. Other minor coalitions and parties won 7 seats while only 1 newly elected MLA was an independent.

After the elections, the incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar and was sworn in again as Chief Minister, whereas two new deputy Chief Ministers, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi were inducted to the new ministry. On the other side, Tejashwi Yadav was elected Leader of the Opposition, and also leader of the Mahagathbandhan alliance. Later Vijay Kumar Sinha was elected the new Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.

Background

Outlined in Article 168 of the Constitution of India, the Bihar Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Bihar and not a permanent body and subject to dissolution. The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years from the date appointed for its first sitting unless dissolved sooner. Members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected by the people. The Tenure of current Bihar Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 29 November 2020.

In the previous election, an alliance of three Major Parties consisting of Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and Indian National Congress named as Mahagathbandhan won against its primary opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance. However, in 2017, the Janata Dal (United) Chief Minister Nitish Kumar left the Mahagathbandhan and joined the National Democratic Alliance. While Nitish Kumar remained the Chief Minister, Sushil Kumar Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party replaced Tejashwi Yadav as the Deputy Chief Minister.

Issues

The main issue was that of the jobs and the economy. Bihar, for a long time, has been an economically backward state and sends large numbers of migrant laborers to cities across the country. Due to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, thousands of migrant laborers were forced to return to their home states due to lack of work, and Bihar was one of the most affected by the ensuing humanitarian crisis. Many of these workers blamed the current government for not having jobs for them in the first place, and not providing jobs when the lockdown started. There was also a significant anti-incumbency wave against Nitish, who had been CM for 15 years.

The three agriculture bills passed by the Indian Parliament amid nationwide protests was expected to play a key role in the elections.

Issues such as the lack of employment, alleged politicisation of flood relief in the aftermath of the 2019 Bihar floods and alleged inability of the state government to handle the COVID-19 pandemic were expected to be made an election issue by the opposition parties. The limited digital connectivity in Bihar and the migrant crisis were among the issues which may have had an impact on campaigning and poll outcomes.

The death of the former Lok Janshakti Party president and union cabinet minister, Ram Vilas Paswan on 8 October 2020 was also speculated to have an effect on the prospects of the competing parties. It was reported that the BJP accorded special focus on the politically significant Mithila region which comprises 22 of the 38 districts of the state including Darbhanga, Madhubani, Supaul, Araria, Purnia, Katihar and Samastipur.

Schedule

On 25 September, Election Commission of India announced the dates for Bihar Assembly elections.

Poll Event	Phase
	I	II	III
Constituencies	71	94	78
Map of constituencies and their phases
Date of Issue of Notification	1 October 2020	9 October 2020	13 October 2020
Last Date for filling nomination	8 October 2020	16 October 2020	20 October 2020
Scrutiny of nomination	9 October 2020	17 October 2020	21 October 2020
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	12 October 2020	19 October 2020	23 October 2020
Date of Poll	28 October 2020	3 November 2020	7 November 2020
Date of Counting of Votes	10 November 2020
Source: Election Commission of India

Parties and Alliances

National Democratic Alliance

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election NDA Seat Sharing Map

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Janata Dal (United)				Nitish Kumar	115
2.	Bharatiya Janata Party				Sanjay Jaiswal	110
3.	Vikassheel Insaan Party				Mukesh Sahani	11
4.	Hindustani Awam Morcha				Jitan Ram Manjhi	7
Parties part of the National Democratic alliance at the center but not in state
5.	Lok Janshakti Party				Chirag Paswan	134

The National Democratic Alliance in Bihar is the ruling political group headed by the chief minister Nitish Kumar and comprising primarily the Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the legislative assembly.

In the previous election, the alliance was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party alongside three smaller allies namely the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party and the Hindustani Awam Morcha, while the Janata Dal (United) had contested as part of the current opposition Mahagathbandan. In 2017, the Janata Dal (United) switched alliance which caused the Mahagathbandan government to fall and the National Democratic Alliance came to power. In 2018, two of the partners, the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party and the Hindustani Awam Morcha left the alliance.

During the campaigning phase in August 2020, the alliance was re-joined by the Hindustani Awam Morcha which held one seat in the legislature. Later, the alliance was also joined in by the Vikassheel Insaan Party in October 2020. The campaign however faced problems with persistent attacks on the Janata Dal (United) by the Lok Janshakti Party. Chirag Paswan, the leader of the party in the state was called to Delhi to negotiate with the national leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the end the Lok Janshakti Party quit the alliance stating that they would contest all seats against the Janata Dal (United) but not against the Bharatiya Janata Party. Following the development, several notable leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party including the state vice president and 2 sitting legislators joined the Lok Janshakti Party to contest against Janata Dal (United) candidates. Later during the campaigning period in October 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party officially cut ties with the Lok Janshakti Party stating that the National Democratic Alliances in Bihar consisted of the four parties.

According to political analysts the Lok Janshakti Party was unlikely to make any electoral gains but would act as spoilers for the Janata Dal (United) candidates, the development was suggested to have been orchestrated by the Bharatiya Janata Party to gain leverage over the Janata Dal (United) by reducing its final tally. The Bharatiya Janata Party at the time re-asserted that Nitish Kumar would remain the chief ministerial face of the alliance.

Both the Lok Janshakti Party and the Janata Dal (United) are expected to hold sway among certain sections of Scheduled caste voters while the Bharatiya Janta Party are expected to draws its support base from Forward caste voters.

The Janata Dal (United) though relied upon its core voters by giving importance to its Luv-Kush equation in ticket distribution, also gave good representation to the forward castes and EBCs. For 115 seats which it contested 17 forward caste were given party tickets while the Koeri and Kurmi candidates got 17 and 7 seats respectively. The EBCs on the other hand contested on 21 seats out of 115.

Mahagathbandhan

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election Mahagathbandhan Seat Sharing Map

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Rashtriya Janata Dal				Tejashwi Yadav	144
2.	Indian National Congress				Madan Mohan Jha	70
3.	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist)				Dipankar Bhattacharya	19
4.	Communist Party of India				Ram Naresh Pandey	6
5.	Communist Party of India (Marxist)				Awadhesh Kumar	4

The Mahagathbandhan is the main opposition political coalition comprising primarily the United Progressive Alliance members Rashtriya Janata Dal and Indian National Congress along with left–wing parties such as CPI and CPI (M).

In the previous election, the Mahagathbandhan formed and initially comprised the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Janata Dal (United) and the Indian National Congress. It was able to form government following the election but the government fell when the Janata Dal (United) switched sides and joined the National Democratic Alliance. In the opposition, the alliance was joined in by smaller parties like the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party, the Hindustan Awami Morcha and the Vikassheel Insaan Party. The three parties however opted out of the alliance between August–October 2020. In September 2020, the Samajwadi Party which had contested in previous elections in Bihar without success, declared that they would not contest this time and instead support the Rashtriya Janata Dal.

In the meantime, the alliance after negotiations were joined in by the left–wing parties in Bihar; namely the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, the Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The new arrangement was described as an experiment beyond the caste based politics in Bihar with a caste plus class strategy. The communist parties in Bihar had historically held a large presence in the state that was reduced following the Mandal Commission, the Liberation group had retained some of its former base and had emerged as the largest non alliance party in the previous election.

The seat sharing agreement was finalised on 3 October 2020 with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha included in the alliance. On 7 October, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha opted out of the alliance in Bihar over disagreements on seat sharing while maintaining that they will continue to uphold their alliance in the state of Jharkhand.

Grand Democratic Secular Front

In the wake of the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Upendra Kushwaha pulled the party out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal led Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance). The party entered into an alliance with the Uttar Pradesh based Bahujan Samaj Party and the minor Janvadi Party (Socialist); The UDSA consisted of the Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic led by the veteran socialist Devendra Prasad Yadav and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen. On 8 October 2020, the UDSA and the three party front including the Bahujan Samaj Party were merged into a single coalition called the Grand Democratic Secular Front (GDSF), the alliance additionally included the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party. Among the constituent parties, only the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen had representation in the assembly through a single legislator.

No.	Party	Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
1.	Rashtriya Lok Samta Party				Upendra Kushwaha	104
2.	Bahujan Samaj Party				Ramji Gautam	80
3.	Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic				Devendra Prasad Yadav	25
4.	All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen				Akhtarul Iman	19
5.	Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party				Om Prakash Rajbhar	5
6.	Janvadi Party (Socialist)				Dr. Sanjay Singh Chauhan	5

Others

There were a number of other smaller parties and coalitions contesting the election, the prospects and impact of these formations have been noted to be marginal. As of January 2020, there were 120 unrecognised registered parties in Bihar.

On 2 October 2020, there were reportedly four other noteworthy alliances that had emerged; Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA), United Democratic Alliance (UDA). PDA consisted of Pappu Yadav's Jan Adhikar Party, Chandrashekhar Azad's Azad Samaj Party, Social Democratic Party of India and Bahujan Mukti Party. The UDA consisted of a front of 20 parties collectively led by the former Bharatiya Janata Party cabinet minister Yashwant Sinha and other transiently popular mass leaders. The newly formed The Plurals Party (TPP, दप्पा) also contested the election in 2020 on all 243 seats.

In the meantime, the UDA which was the front led by Yashwant Sinha had reportedly fallen apart as various members of the constituent parties had defected to join the mainstream regional and national parties. Other notable parties that contested independent of an alliance, are the Lok Janshakti Party on 134 seats, the Loktantrik Janata Dal on 51 seats, the Shiv Sena on 30–40 seats and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha on 7 seats.

Candidates

Assembly Constituency		NDA			MGB			LJP
#	Name	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate	Party		Candidate
West Champaran District
1	Valmiki Nagar		JD(U)	Dhirendra Pratap Singh		INC	Rajesh Singh		LJP	Mahendra Kumar Bharti
2	Ramnagar (SC)		BJP	Bhagirathi Devi		INC	Rajesh Ram
3	Narkatiaganj		BJP	Rashmi Verma		INC	Vinay Verma		LJP	Naushad Alam
4	Bagaha		BJP	Ram Singh		INC	Jayesh Mangal Singh
5	Lauriya		BJP	Vinay Bihari		RJD	Shambhu Tiwari
6	Nautan		BJP	Narayan Prasad		INC	Sheikh Kamran
7	Chanpatia		BJP	Umakant Singh		INC	Abhishek Ranjan
8	Bettiah		BJP	Renu Devi		INC	Madan Mohan Tiwari
9	Sikta		JD(U)	Khurshid (Feroz Ahmad)		CPI(ML)L	Birendra Prasad Gupta		IND	Dilip Varma
East Champaran District
10	Raxaul		BJP	Pramod Kumar Sinha		INC	Rambabu Yadav
11	Sugauli		VIP	Ramchandra Sahani		RJD	Shashi Bhushan Singh		LJP	Vijay Prasad Gupta
12	Narkatiya		JD(U)	Shyam Bihari Prasad		RJD	Shamim Ahmad		LJP	Sonu Kumar
13	Harsidhi (SC)		BJP	Krishnanandan Paswan		RJD	Kumar Nagendra
14	Govindganj		BJP	Sunil Mani Tiwari		INC	Brajesh Pandey		LJP	Raju Tiwari
15	Kesaria		JD(U)	Shalini Mishra		RJD	Santosh Kushawaha		LJP	Ram Sharan Prasad Yadav
16	Kalyanpur		BJP	Sachindra Prasad Singh		RJD	Manoj Kumar Yadav
17	Pipra		BJP	Shyambabu Prasad Yadav		CPI(M)	Rajmangal Prasad
18	Madhuban		BJP	Rana Randhir Singh		RJD	Madan Prasad
19	Motihari		BJP	Pramod Kumar		RJD	Om Prakash Choudhary
20	Chiraia		BJP	Lal Babu Prasad Gupta		RJD	Acchelal Yadav
21	Dhaka		BJP	Pawan Jaiswal		RJD	Faisal Rahman
Sheohar District
22	Sheohar		JD(U)	Sharfuddin		RJD	Chetan Anand Singh		LJP	Vijay Kumar Pandey
Sitamarhi District
23	Riga		BJP	Moti Lal Prasad		INC	Amit Kumar Tunna
24	Bathnaha (SC)		BJP	Anil Ram		INC	Sanjay Ram
25	Parihar		BJP	Gayatri Devi		RJD	Ritu Jaiswal
26	Sursand		JD(U)	Dilip Ray		RJD	Syed Abu Dojana		LJP	Amit Choudhari
27	Bajpatti		JD(U)	Ranju Geeta		RJD	Mukesh Kumar Yadav		LJP	MD Intakhab Alam
28	Sitamarhi		BJP	Mitilesh Kumar		RJD	Sunil Kumar
29	Runnisaidpur		JD(U)	Pankaj Kumar Mishra		RJD	Mangita Devi		LJP	Guddi Devi
30	Belsand		JD(U)	Sunita Singh Chauhan		RJD	Sanjay Kumar Gupta		LJP	Md Nasir Ahmad
Madhubani District
31	Harlakhi		JD(U)	Sudhanshu Shekhar		CPI	Ram Naresh Pandey		LJP	Vikash Kumar Misra
32	Benipatti		BJP	Vinod Narayan Jha		INC	Bhawana Jha
33	Khajauli		BJP	Arun Shankar Prasad		RJD	Sitaram Yadav
34	Babubarhi		JD(U)	Mina Kumari		RJD	Uma Kant Yadav		LJP	Amar Nath Prasad
35	Bisfi		BJP	Haribhushan Thakur		RJD	Faiyaz Ahmad
36	Madhubani		VIP	Suman Kumar Mahaseth		RJD	Samir Kumar Mahaseth		LJP	Arvind Kumar Purbey
37	Rajnagar (SC)		BJP	Ram Prit Paswan		RJD	Ramawatar Paswan
38	Jhanjharpur		BJP	Nitish Mishra		CPI	Ram Narayan Yadav
39	Phulparas		JD(U)	Sheela Mandal		INC	Kripanath Pathak		LJP	Binod Kumar Singh
40	Laukaha		JD(U)	Laxmeshwar Rai		RJD	Bharat Bhushan Mandal		LJP	Pramod Kumar Priyedarshi
Supaul District
41	Nirmali		JD(U)	Aniruddha Prasad Yadav		RJD	Yaduvansh Kumar Yadav		LJP	Gautam Kumar
42	Pipra		JD(U)	Ram Vilas Kamat		RJD	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		LJP	Shakuntala Prasad
43	Supaul		JD(U)	Bijendra Prasad Yadav		INC	Minnauttallah Rahmani		LJP	Prabhash Chandra Mandal
44	Triveniganj (SC)		JD(U)	Veena Bharti		RJD	Santosh Sardar		LJP	Renu Lata Bharti
45	Chhatapur		BJP	Neeraj Kumar Singh		RJD	Vipin Kumar Nonia
Araria District
46	Narpatganj		BJP	Jai Prakash Yadav		RJD	Anil Kumar Yadav
47	Raniganj (SC)		JD(U)	Achmit Rishidev		RJD	Avinash Mangalam		LJP	Parmanand Rishidev
48	Forbesganj		BJP	Vidya Sagar Keshri		INC	Zakir Hussain
49	Araria		JD(U)	Shagufta Azim		INC	Avidur Rahman		LJP	Chandra Shekhar Singh Baban
50	Jokihat		BJP	Ranjeet Yadav		RJD	Sarfaraz Alam
51	Sikti		BJP	Vijay Mandal		RJD	Shatrughan Mandal
Kishanganj District
52	Bahadurganj		VIP	Lakhan Lal Pandit		INC	Md. Tauseef Alam
53	Thakurganj		JD(U)	Naushad Alam		RJD	Saud Alam		LJP	Mahommad Kalim Uddin
54	Kishanganj		BJP	Sweety Singh		INC	Ijaharul Hussain
55	Kochadhaman		JD(U)	Mujahid Alam		RJD	Shahid Alam		LJP	Habibur Rahman
Purnia District
56	Amour		JD(U)	Saba Zafar		INC	Abdul Jalil Mastan		LJP	Manoj Kumar Nishad
57	Baisi		BJP	Vinod Kumar Yadav		RJD	Abdus Subhan
58	Kasba		HAM(S)	Rajendra Yadav		INC	Md. Afaque Alam		LJP	Pradeep Kumar Das
59	Banmankhi (SC)		BJP	Krishna Kumar Rishi		RJD	Upendra Sharma
60	Rupauli		JD(U)	Bima Bharti		CPI	Vikas Chandra Mandal		LJP	Shankar Singh
61	Dhamdaha		JD(U)	Leshi Singh		RJD	Dilip Kumar Yadav		LJP	Yogendra Kumar
62	Purnia		BJP	Vijay Kumar Khemka		INC	Indu Sinha
Katihar District
63	Katihar		BJP	Tarkishore Prasad		RJD	Ram Prakash Mahto
64	Kadwa		JD(U)	Suraj Prasad Rai		INC	Shakeel Ahmad Khan		LJP	Chandra Bhushan Thakur
65	Balrampur		VIP	Barun Kumar Jha		CPI(ML)L	Mahbub Alam		LJP	Sangita Devi
66	Pranpur		BJP	Nisha Singh		INC	Tauquir Alam
67	Manihari (ST)		JD(U)	Shambhu Suman		INC	Manohar Prasad Singh		LJP	Anil Kumar Oraon
68	Barari		JD(U)	Vijay Singh Nishad		RJD	Neeraj Kumar		LJP	Bibhash Chandra Choudhary
69	Korha (SC)		BJP	Kavita Paswan		INC	Poonam Paswan
Madhepura District
70	Alamnagar		JD(U)	Narendra Narayan Yadav		RJD	Naveen Nishad		LJP	Sunila Devi
71	Bihariganj		JD(U)	Niranjan Kumar Mehta		INC	Subhashini Raj Rao		LJP	Vijay Kumar Singh
72	Singheshwar (SC)		JD(U)	Ramesh Rishidev		RJD	Chandrahas Choupal		LJP	Amit Kumar Bharti
73	Madhepura		JD(U)	Nikhil Mandal		RJD	Chandra Shekhar		LJP	Saakar Suresh Yadav
Saharsa District
74	Sonbarsha (SC)		JD(U)	Ratnesh Sada		INC	Tarni Rishidev		LJP	Sarita Devi
75	Saharsa		BJP	Alok Ranjan Jha		RJD	Lovely Anand
76	Simri Bakhtiarpur		VIP	Mukesh Sahani		RJD	Yusuf Salahuddin		LJP	Sanjay Kumar Singh
77	Mahishi		JD(U)	Gunjeshwar Sah		RJD	Gautam Krishna		LJP	Abdur Razzaque
Darbhanga District
78	Kusheshwar Asthan (SC)		JD(U)	Shashi Bhushan Hajari		INC	Ashok Kumar		LJP	Poonam Kumari
79	Gaura Bauram		VIP	Swarna Singh		RJD	Afzal Ali Khan		LJP	Rajeev Kumar Thakur
80	Benipur		JD(U)	Binay Kumar Choudhary		INC	Mithilesh Chaudhary		LJP	Kamal Ram Vinod Jha
81	Alinagar		VIP	Mishri Lal Yadav		RJD	Binod Mishra		LJP	Raj Kumar Jha
82	Darbhanga Rural		JD(U)	Faraz Fatmi		RJD	Lalit Kumar Yadav		LJP	Pradeep Kumar Thakur
83	Darbhanga		BJP	Sanjay Saraogi		RJD	Amarnath Gami
84	Hayaghat		BJP	Ramchandra Shah		RJD	Bhola Yadav
85	Bahadurpur		JD(U)	Madan Sahni		RJD	Ramesh Chaudhary		LJP	Devendra Kumar Jha
86	Keoti		BJP	Murari Mohan Jha		RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui
87	Jale		BJP	Jibesh Kumar Mishra		INC	Maskoor Usmani
Muzaffarpur District
88	Gaighat		JD(U)	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav		RJD	Niranjan Rai		LJP	Komal Singh
89	Aurai		BJP	Ram Surat Ray		CPI(ML)L	Aftab Alam
90	Minapur		JD(U)	Manoj Kumar		RJD	Rajeev Kumar (Munna Yadav)		LJP	Ajay Kumar
91	Bochahan (SC)		VIP	Musafir Paswan		RJD	Ramai Ram		LJP	Amar Azad
92	Sakra (SC)		JD(U)	Ashok Kumar Choudhary		INC	Umesh Kumar Ram		LJP	Sanjay Paswan
93	Kurhani		BJP	Kedar Gupta		RJD	Anil Kumar Sahni
94	Muzaffarpur		BJP	Suresh Kumar Sharma		INC	Bijender Chaudhary
95	Kanti		JD(U)	Mohammad Jamal		RJD	Mohammad Israil Mansuri		LJP	Bijay Prasad Singh
96	Baruraj		BJP	Arun Kumar Singh		RJD	Nand Kumar Rai
97	Paroo		BJP	Ashok Kumar Singh		INC	Anunay Kumar Singh
98	Sahebganj		VIP	Raju Kumar Singh		RJD	Ram Vichar Ray		LJP	Krishan Kumar Singh
Gopalganj District
99	Baikunthpur		BJP	Mithlesh Tiwari		RJD	Prem Shankar
100	Barauli		BJP	Rampravesh Rai		RJD	Reyazul Haque Raju
101	Gopalganj		BJP	Subash Singh		INC	Asif Gafoor
102	Kuchaikote		JD(U)	Amarendra Kumar Pandey		INC	Kali Prasad Pandey		LJP	Ravi Pandey
103	Bhore (SC)		JD(U)	Sunil Kumar		CPI(ML)L	Jitendra Paswan		LJP	Pushpa Devi
104	Hathua		JD(U)	Ramsewak Singh Kushwaha		RJD	Rajesh Kumar Singh		LJP	Ramdarshan Prasad
Siwan District
105	Siwan		BJP	Om Prakash Yadav		RJD	Awadh Bihari Choudhary
106	Ziradei		JD(U)	Kamla Kushwaha		CPI(ML)L	Amarjeet Kushwaha		LJP	Vinod Tiwari
107	Darauli (SC)		BJP	Ramayan Manjhi		CPI(ML)L	Satyadeo Ram
108	Raghunathpur		JD(U)	Rajeshwar Chouhan		RJD	Hari Shankar Yadav		LJP	Manoj Kumar Singh
109	Daraunda		BJP	Karanjeet Singh		CPI(ML)L	Amarnath Yadav
110	Barharia		JD(U)	Shyam Bahadur Singh		RJD	Bachcha Pandey		LJP	Birabahadur Singh
111	Goriakothi		BJP	Devesh Kant Singh		RJD	Nutan Verma
112	Maharajganj		JD(U)	Hem Narayan Sah		INC	Vijay Shanker Dubey		LJP	Kumar Deo Ranjan Singh
Saran District
113	Ekma		JD(U)	Sita Devi		RJD	Sri Kant Yadav		LJP	Kameshwar Singh
114	Manjhi		JD(U)	Madhvi Singh		CPI(M)	Satyendra Yadav		LJP	Saurabh Kumar Pandey
115	Baniapur		VIP	Virendra Kumar Ojha		RJD	Kedarnath Singh		LJP	Tarkeshwar Singh
116	Taraiya		BJP	Janak Singh		RJD	Sipahilal Mahato
117	Marhaura		JD(U)	Altaf Alam		RJD	Jitendra Kumar Ray		LJP	Vinay Kumar
118	Chapra		BJP	C.N. Gupta		RJD	Randhir Kumar Singh
119	Garkha (SC)		BJP	Gyanchand Manjhi		RJD	Surendra Ram
120	Amnour		BJP	Krishan Kumar Mantoo		RJD	Sunil Kumar Ray
121	Parsa		JD(U)	Chandrika Roy		RJD	Chhote Lal Ray		LJP	Rakesh Kumar Singh
122	Sonepur		BJP	Vinay Kumar Singh		RJD	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav
Vaishali District
123	Hajipur		BJP	Awadhesh Singh		RJD	Deo Kumar Chaurasia
124	Lalganj		BJP	Sanjay Kumar Singh		INC	Rakesh Kumar		LJP	Raj Kumar Sah
125	Vaishali		JD(U)	Siddharth Patel		INC	Sanjeev Singh		LJP	Ajay Kumar Kushwaha
126	Mahua		JD(U)	Ashma Parveen		RJD	Mukesh Kumar Raushan		LJP	Sanjay Kumar Singh
127	Raja Pakar (SC)		JD(U)	Mahendra Ram		INC	Pratima Kumari Das		LJP	Dhananjay Kumar Paswan
128	Raghopur		BJP	Satish Kumar Yadav		RJD	Tejashwi Yadav		LJP	Rakesh Raushan
129	Mahnar		JD(U)	Umesh Singh Kushwaha		RJD	Bina Singh		LJP	Rabindra Kumar Singh
130	Patepur (SC)		BJP	Lakhendra Kumar Raushan		RJD	Shivchandra Ram
Samastipur District
131	Kalyanpur (SC)		JD(U)	Maheshwar Hazari		CPI(ML)L	Ranjeet Kumar Ram		LJP	Mona Prasad Sundeshwar Ram
132	Warisnagar		JD(U)	Ashok Kumar Singh		CPI(ML)L	Phoolbabu Singh		LJP	Urmila Sinha
133	Samastipur		JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi		RJD	Akhtarul Islam Shahin		LJP	Mahendra Pradhan
134	Ujiarpur		BJP	Sheel Kumar Roy		RJD	Alok Kumar Mehta
135	Morwa		JD(U)	Vidyasagar Singh Nishad		RJD	Ranvijay Sahu		LJP	Abhay Kumar Singh
136	Sarairanjan		JD(U)	Vijay Kumar Chaudhary		RJD	Arvind Kumar Sahni		LJP	Abhash Kumar Jha
137	Mohiuddinnagar		BJP	Rajesh Singh		RJD	Ejya Yadav
138	Bibhutipur		JD(U)	Ram Balak Singh Kushwaha		CPI(M)	Ajay Kumar Kushwaha		LJP	Chandrabali Thakur
139	Rosera (SC)		BJP	Birendra Paswan		INC	Nagendra Vikal		LJP	Krishan Raj Paswan
140	Hasanpur		JD(U)	Raj Kumar Ray		RJD	Tej Pratap Yadav		LJP	Manish Kumar Sahni
Begusarai District
141	Cheria-Bariarpur		JD(U)	Manju Verma		RJD	Raj Banshi Mahto		LJP	Rakhi Devi
142	Bachhwara		BJP	Surendra Mehta		CPI	Awadhesh Kumar Rai
143	Teghra		JD(U)	Birendra Kumar		CPI	Ram Ratan Singh		LJP	Lalan Kumar
144	Matihani		JD(U)	Narendra Kumar Singh		CPI(M)	Rajendra Prasad Singh		LJP	Raj Kumar Singh
145	Sahebpur Kamal		JD(U)	Shashikant Kumar Shashi		RJD	Sattanand Sambuddha		LJP	Surendra Kumar
146	Begusarai		BJP	Kundan Kumar		INC	Amita Bhushan
147	Bakhri (SC)		BJP	Ramshankar Paswan		CPI	Suryakant Paswan
Khagaria District
148	Alauli (SC)		JD(U)	Sadhna Devi		RJD	Ramvriksh Sada		LJP	Ram Chandra Sada
149	Khagaria		JD(U)	Poonam Devi Yadav		INC	Chatrapati Yadav		LJP	Renu Kumari Singh
150	Beldaur		JD(U)	Panna Lal Singh Patel		INC	Chandan Kumar		LJP	Mithilesh Kumar Nishad
151	Parbatta		JD(U)	Sanjeev Kumar Singh		RJD	Digambar Prasad Tiwary		LJP	Aditya Kumar Shyour
Bhagalpur District
152	Bihpur		BJP	Kumar Shailendra		RJD	Shailesh Kumar Mandal
153	Gopalpur		JD(U)	Narendra Kumar Niraj		RJD	Shailesh Kumar		LJP	Suresh Bhagat
154	Pirpainti (SC)		BJP	Lalan Kumar Paswan		RJD	Ram Vilash Paswan
155	Kahalgaon		BJP	Pawan Kumar Yadav		INC	Shubhanand Mukesh
156	Bhagalpur		BJP	Rohit Pandey		INC	Ajeet Sharma		LJP	Rajesh Verma
157	Sultanganj		JD(U)	Lalit Narayan Mandal		INC	Lalan Kumar		LJP	Nilam Devi
158	Nathnagar		JD(U)	Lakshmikant Mandal		RJD	Ali Ashraf Siddiqui		LJP	Amarnath Prasad
Banka District
159	Amarpur		JD(U)	Jayant Raj Kushwaha		INC	Jitendra Singh		LJP	Mrinal Shekhar
160	Dhoraiya (SC)		JD(U)	Manish Kumar		RJD	Bhudeo Choudhary		LJP	Dipak Kumar Paswan
161	Banka		BJP	Ram Narayan Mandal		RJD	Javed Iqbal Ansari
162	Katoria (ST)		BJP	Nikki Hembrom		RJD	Sweety Sima Hembram
163	Belhar		JD(U)	Manoj Yadav		RJD	Ramdeo Yadav		LJP	Kumari Archana Yadav
Munger District
164	Tarapur		JD(U)	Mewa Lal Choudhary		RJD	Divya Prakash		LJP	Mina Devi
165	Munger		BJP	Pranav Kumar Yadav		RJD	Avinash Kumar Vidyarthi
166	Jamalpur		JD(U)	Shailesh Kumar		INC	Ajay Kumar Singh		LJP	Durgesh Kumar Singh
Lakhisarai District
167	Suryagarha		JD(U)	Ramanand Mandal		RJD	Prahlad Yadav		LJP	Ravishanker Prasad Singh
168	Lakhisarai		BJP	Vijay Kumar Sinha		INC	Amaresh Kumar
Sheikhpura District
169	Sheikhpura		JD(U)	Randhir Kumar Soni		RJD	Vijay Kumar		LJP	Imam Ghazali
170	Barbigha		JD(U)	Sudarshan Kumar		INC	Gajanand Shahi		LJP	Madhukar Kumar
Nalanda District
171	Asthawan		JD(U)	Jitendra Kumar		RJD	Anil Kumar		LJP	Ramesh Kumar
172	Biharsharif		BJP	Sunil Kumar		RJD	Sunil Kumar
173	Rajgir (SC)		JD(U)	Kaushal Kishore		INC	Ravi Jyoti Kumar		LJP	Manju Devi
174	Islampur		JD(U)	Chandrasen Prasad		RJD	Rakesh Kumar Raushan		LJP	Naresh Prasad Singh
175	Hilsa		JD(U)	Krishnamurari Sharan		RJD	Shakti Singh Yadav		LJP	Kumar Suman Singh
176	Nalanda		JD(U)	Shrawan Kumar		INC	Gunjan Patel		LJP	Ram Keshwar Prasad
177	Harnaut		JD(U)	Harinarayan Singh		INC	Kundan Gupta		LJP	Mamta Devi
Patna District
178	Mokama		JD(U)	Rajiv Lochan Narayan Singh		RJD	Anant Kumar Singh		LJP	Suresh Singh Nishad
179	Barh		BJP	Gyanendra Kumar Singh		INC	Satyendra Bahadur
180	Bakhtiarpur		BJP	Ranvijay Singh Yadav		RJD	Aniruddh Kumar Yadav
181	Digha		BJP	Sanjeev Chaurasiya		CPI(ML)L	Shashi Yadav
182	Bankipur		BJP	Nitin Nabin		INC	Luv Sinha
183	Kumhrar		BJP	Arun Kumar Sinha		RJD	Dharamendra Kumar
184	Patna Sahib		BJP	Nand Kishore Yadav		INC	Parveen Khushwaha
185	Fatuha		BJP	Satyendra Kumar Singh		RJD	Rama Nand Yadav
186	Danapur		BJP	Asha Devi Yadav		RJD	Ritlal Yadav
187	Maner		BJP	Nikhil Anand Yadav		RJD	Bhai Virendra
188	Phulwari (SC)		JD(U)	Arun Manjhi		CPI(ML)L	Gopal Ravidas
189	Masaurhi (SC)		JD(U)	Nutan Paswan		RJD	Rekha Devi		LJP	Parshuram Kumar
190	Paliganj		JD(U)	Jai Vardhan Yadav		CPI(ML)L	Sandeep Saurav Yadav		LJP	Usha Vidyarthi
191	Bikram		BJP	Atul Kumar		INC	Siddharth Saurav
Bhojpur District
192	Sandesh		JD(U)	Vijendra Yadav		RJD	Kiran Devi		LJP	Shweta Singh
193	Barhara		BJP	Raghvendra Pratap Singh		RJD	Saroj Yadav
194	Arrah		BJP	Amrendra Pratap Singh		CPI(ML)L	Quyamuddin Ansari
195	Agiaon (SC)		JD(U)	Prabhunath Prasad		CPI(ML)L	Manoj Manzil		LJP	Rajeshwar Paswan
196	Tarari		BJP	Kaushal Kumar Singh		CPI(ML)L	Sudama Prasad
197	Jagdishpur		JD(U)	Shushumlata Kushwaha		RJD	Ram Vishnu Singh		LJP	Sri Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha
198	Shahpur		BJP	Munni Devi		RJD	Rahul Tiwari
Buxar District
199	Brahampur		VIP	Jairaj Chaudhary Bind		RJD	Shambhunath Yadav		LJP	Hulas Pandey
200	Buxar		BJP	Parshuram Chaubey		INC	Sanjay Kumar Tiwari
201	Dumraon		JD(U)	Anjum Ara		CPI(ML)L	Ajit Kumar Singh		LJP	Akhilesh Kumar Singh
202	Rajpur (SC)		JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Nirala		INC	Vishwanath Ram		LJP	Nirbhaya Kumar Nirala
Kaimur District
203	Ramgarh		BJP	Ashok Kumar Singh		RJD	Sudhakar Singh
204	Mohania (SC)		BJP	Niranjan Ram		RJD	Sangita Kumari
205	Bhabua		BJP	Rinki Rani Pandey		RJD	Bharat Bind
206	Chainpur		BJP	Brij Kishor Bind		INC	Prakash Kumar Singh
Rohtas District
207	Chenari (SC)		JD(U)	Lalan Paswan		INC	Murari Prasad Gautam		LJP	Chandra Shekhar Paswan
208	Sasaram		JD(U)	Ashok Kumar		RJD	Rajesh Kumar Gupta		LJP	Rameshwar Chaurasiya
209	Kargahar		JD(U)	Bashist Singh		INC	Santosh Kumar Mishra		BSP	Uday Pratap Singh
210	Dinara		JD(U)	Jai Kumar Singh		RJD	Vijay Kumar Mandal		LJP	Rajendra Prasad Singh
211	Nokha		JD(U)	Nagendra Chandravanshi		RJD	Anita Devi		LJP	Krishna Kabir
212	Dehri		BJP	Satyanarayan Singh Yadav		RJD	Phate Bahadur Singh
213	Karakat		BJP	Rajeshwar Raj		CPI(ML)L	Arun Singh
Arwal District
214	Arwal		BJP	Dipak Kumar Sharma		CPI(ML)L	Maha Nand Singh
215	Kurtha		JD(U)	Satyadeo Singh		RJD	Bagi Kumar Verma		LJP	Bhuwneshwar Pathak
Jehanabad District
216	Jehanabad		JD(U)	Krishnanandan Prasad Verma		RJD	Suday Yadav		LJP	Indu Devi Kashyap
217	Ghosi		JD(U)	Rahul Kumar		CPI(ML)L	Rambali Singh Yadav		LJP	Rakesh Kumar Singh
218	Makhdumpur (SC)		HAM(S)	Devendra Manjhi		RJD	Satish Kumar
Aurangabad District
219	Goh		BJP	Manoj Kumar Sharma		RJD	Bheem Kumar Yadav
220	Obra		JD(U)	Sunil Kumar		RJD	Rishi Kumar		LJP	Prakash Chandra
221	Nabinagar		JD(U)	Virendra Kumar Singh		RJD	Vijay Kumar Singh (Dabloo Singh)		LJP	Vijay Kumar Singh
222	Kutumba		HAM(S)	Shravan Bhuyan		INC	Rajesh Kumar		LJP	Sarun Paswan
223	Aurangabad		BJP	Ramadhar Singh		INC	Anand Shankar Singh
224	Rafiganj		JD(U)	Ashok Kumar Singh		RJD	Mohammad Nehaluddin		LJP	Manoj Kumar Singh
Gaya District
225	Gurua		BJP	Rajiv Nandan Dangi		RJD	Vinay Kumar
226	Sherghati		JD(U)	Vinod Prasad Yadav		RJD	Manju Agrawal		LJP	Mukesh Kumar Yadav
227	Imamganj (SC)		HAM(S)	Jitan Ram Manjhi		RJD	Uday Narayan Choudhary		LJP	Shobha Sinha
228	Barachatti (SC)		HAM(S)	Jyoti Devi		RJD	Samata Devi		LJP	Renuka Devi
229	Bodh Gaya (SC)		BJP	Hari Manjhi		RJD	Kumar Sarvjeet
230	Gaya Town		BJP	Prem Kumar		INC	Akhauri Onkar Nath
231	Tikari		HAM(S)	Anil Kumar		INC	Sumant Kumar		LJP	Kamlesh Sharma
232	Belaganj		JD(U)	Abhay Kumar Sinha		RJD	Surendra Prasad Yadav		LJP	Ramashray Sharma
233	Atri		JD(U)	Manorama Devi		RJD	Ajay Yadav		LJP	Arvind Kumar Singh
234	Wazirganj		BJP	Birendra Singh		INC	Shashi Shekhar Singh
Nawada District
235	Rajauli (SC)		BJP	Kanhaiya Kumar		RJD	Prakash Veer
236	Hisua		BJP	Anil Singh		INC	Nitu Kumari
237	Nawada		JD(U)	Kaushal Yadav		RJD	Vibha Devi		LJP	Shashi Bhusan Kumar
238	Gobindpur		JD(U)	Purnima Yadav		RJD	Mohammed Kamran		LJP	Ranjeet Yadav
239	Warsaliganj		BJP	Aruna Devi		INC	Satish Kumar
Jamui District
240	Sikandra (SC)		HAM(S)	Prafulla Manjhi		INC	Sudhir Kumar		LJP	Ravishankar Paswan
241	Jamui		BJP	Shreyasi Singh		RJD	Vijay Prakash Yadav
242	Jhajha		JD(U)	Damodar Rawat		RJD	Rajendra Yadav		LJP	Rabindra Yadav
243	Chakai		JD(U)	Sanjay Prasad		RJD	Savitri Devi		LJP	Sanjay Kumar Mandal
Source: Election Commission of India

Surveys and polls

Seat projections

Polling type	Date	Polling Agency					Majority	Ref
			NDA	MGB	LJP	Others
Exit poll
		Republic-Jan Ki Baat	91-117	118-138	5-8	3-5	HUNG
		Patriotic Voter	129	107	2	5	12
		News 18-Today's Chanakya	55	180	-	8	58
		P-Marq (Politique Marquer	123-135	104-115	0-1	0-10	8-31	[1]
		Times Now-CVoter	116	120	1	6	HUNG
		India Ahead - ETG Research	108-120	114-126	2-5	5-8	HUNG
		India Today/AAJ Tak-Axis My India	69-91	139-161	3-5	3-5	17-39
		ABP News-CVoter	104-128	108-131	1-3	4-8	HUNG
Opinion poll
	23 October 2020	Patriotic Voter	133	102	8		11-21
	24 October 2020	ABP-CVoter	135-159	77-98	5-13		13-37
	20 October 2020	India Today-Lokniti CSDS	133-143	88-98	8-16		11-21
	12 October 2020	Times Now-CVoter	160	76	7		39
	25 September 2020	ABP-CVoter	141-161	64-84	13-23		20–40

Vote Share

Polling type	Date	Polling Agency				Ref
			NDA	MGB	Others
Opinion poll	25 September 2020	ABP-Cvoter	44.8	33.2	22.0
	20 October 2020	India Today-CSDS Lokniti	38	32	30
	24 October 2020	ABP-Cvoter	43	35	22

Election

Polling official administering indelible ink to a voter, at a polling booth, during the first phase of the Bihar Assembly Election, at New Madhya Vidyalaya, in Gaya, Bihar on October 28, 2020.

Voters standing in the queue to cast their votes, at a polling booth, during the first phase of the Bihar Assembly Election, at New Madhya Vidyalaya, in Gaya, Bihar on October 28, 2020.

The Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora, announced on 25 September 2020 that the Bihar assembly election will be held from 28 October 2020, in three phases for 243 constituencies. Per the Election Commission of India, approximately 60 registered parties are to contest in the Bihar elections.

The elections were conducted amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the necessary guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India. The election will consist of both, virtual and physical campaigns. The authorities also passed the guidelines over limited people to be involved in the rallies. Due to COVID-19, the polling time will be increased by one hour and will now be from 7am to 6pm, except in Naxalite–Maoist insurgency affected areas. As per guidelines, maximum number of voters per polling station was reduced from 1,500 to 1,000. Arrangements were made for 7 lakh units of hand sanitisers, 46 lakh masks, 6 lakh PPE kits, 6.7 lakh face shields, and 23 lakh single use gloves.

Voting

The overall voter turnout in this election has been 57.05%, which is 0.39% more than the 56.66% in 2015 assembly polls. In these elections, 59.58% of females voted compared to a 54.68% voter turnout of males.

Phase 1

A total of 1,066 candidates, including 952 male and 114 female, contested in the first phase of elections from different constituencies. The maximum number of candidates contesting from one constituency in the first phase was being at Gaya Town with 27 candidates and the minimum at Katoria with 5 candidates in Banka district. In the constituencies voting in the first phase of elections, approximately 2.15 crore registered electors were eligible to exercise their vote, out of which around 1.12 crore were male, 1.01 crore were female and 599 were categorised as the third gender.

The first phase of elections recorded a voter turnout of 55.68%. The male and female voter turnout for the first phase was 56.8% and 54.4% respectively. In the previous assembly election in 2015, the voter turnout was 54.94% for these constituencies.

Phase 2

In the second phase of elections, 1463 candidates contested the elections, of which 1315 candidates were male, 147 candidates were female and 1 candidate belonged to the transgender community.

The elections was held on 3 November. Voter turnout for the 2nd phase was over 55.7%.

Phase 3

In the third phase of elections, 1094 male candidates and 110 female candidates contested the elections for 78 Seats, out of a total of 23.5 Million eligible voters for this phase total of 12.3 Million were Male and 11.2 Million were female voters.

The elections were held on 7 November 2020 and the total Voting turnout was recorded 59.94%, which was highest among all three phases.

Incidents

On 27 October 2020 a day before the first phase of the election, three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recovered and diffused from two different places in Imamganj area of Gaya district.

Results

Summary

125	110	8
NDA	MGB	Others

NDA secured a total of 125 seats (37.26% votes) while MGB won 110 seats (37.23% votes). GDSF got 6 seats, LJP & others won a seat each. The results surprised many analysts and polling agencies that predicted MGB to win. Only agency to correctly predict the Bihar election results was Politique Marquer that had predicted a narrow majority for NDA. Rashtriya Janata Dal won in 75 constituencies and became the largest political party in the Legislative Assembly, however its numbers reduced compared to previous election. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 74 seats and was the biggest gainer in terms of number of MLAs elected as it added more than 30% to its seat count compared to the last election. The Janata Dal (United) and Indian National Congress won in 43 and 19 constituencies respectively and dropped the most seats compared to the previous election. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) also made inroads in the state winning 5 seats. All the 5 MLAs of AIMIM were elected from constituencies in the Seemanchal region of the State. The Communist parties also gained in these elections. The Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) (Liberation) won 12 seats, whereas the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India won 2 seats each. The Vikassheel Insaan Party which contested the Assembly elections for the first time won 4 seats. Sumit Kumar Singh was the only Independent candidate to win as a MLA.

Though the LJP could win only one seat (Matihani) on its own, but it caused much harm to the NDA. Of the 54 seats where it dented margins, JD(U) was hurt the most. Data shows that on 25 seats, where JD(U) came second, LJP had more votes than the victory margin.

The constituencies with higher female turnout than male, the NDA was in lead. Out of the 125 seats that NDA won, 99 were constituencies where female turnout was more than their male counterparts. About 20% of the seats, the margin of victory was less than 2.5% of the votes polled. The NDA won 21 seats with a less than 2.5% vote margin, while the Mahagathbandhan won in 22 such seats.

Map displaying constituencies won by parties

Alliance		Party		Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA
			Bharatiya Janata Party	82,02,067	19.46	4.96	110	74	21
			Janata Dal (United)	64,85,179	15.39	1.44	115	43	28
			Vikassheel Insaan Party	6,39,840	1.52	1.52	11	4	4
			Hindustani Awam Morcha	3,75,564	0.89	1.41	7	4	3
	MGB
			Rashtriya Janata Dal	97,38,855	23.11	4.79	144	75	5
			Indian National Congress	39,95,319	9.48	2.82	70	19	9
			Communist Party of India (ML) Liberation	13,33,682	3.16	1.66	19	12	9
			Communist Party of India	3,49,489	0.83	0.57	6	2	2
			Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,74,155	0.65	0.05	4	2	2
	GDSF
			All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	5,23,279	1.24	1.03	20	5	5
			Bahujan Samaj Party	6,28,961	1.49	0.60	78	1	1
			Rashtriya Lok Samta Party	7,44,221	1.77	0.82	99	0	2
None			Lok Janshakti Party	23,83,457	5.66	0.77	135	1	1
			Independents	36,41,362	8.64	0.76	1299	1	3
			NOTA	7,06,252	1.68	0.82
Total				42,142,828	100.00			243
Valid votes				4,21,42,828	99.88
Invalid votes				51,222	0.12
Votes cast / Turnout				4,21,94,050	57.29
Abstentions				3,14,53,610	42.71
Registered voters				7,36,47,660

Results by District Wise

In districts adjoining Uttar Pradesh, the BJP performed better than the Mahagathbandhan, however JDU's seats declined. The NDA won in majority of the constituencies in the Champaran region.

District	Total
		NDA	MGB	GDSF
West Champaran	9	8	1	0
East Champaran	12	9	3	0
Sheohar	1	0	1	0
Sitamarhi	8	6	2	0
Madhubani	10	8	2	0
Supaul	5	5	0	0
Araria	6	4	1	1
Kishanganj	4	0	2	2
Purnia	7	4	1	2
Katihar	7	4	3	0
Madhepura	4	2	2	0
Saharsa	4	3	1	0
Darbhanga	10	9	1	0
Muzaffarpur	11	6	5	0
Gopalganj	6	4	2	0
Siwan	8	2	6	0
Saran	10	3	7	0
Vaishali	8	4	4	0
Samastipur	10	5	5	0
Begusarai	7	2	4	1
Khagaria	4	2	2	0
Bhagalpur	7	5	2	0
Banka	5	4	1	0
Munger	3	2	1	0
Lakhisarai	2	1	1	0
Sheikhpura	2	1	1	0
Nalanda	7	6	1	0
Patna	14	5	9	0
Bhojpur	7	2	5	0
Buxar	4	0	4	0
Kaimur	4	0	3	1
Rohtas	7	0	7	0
Arwal	2	0	2	0
Jehanabad	3	0	3	0
Aurangabad	6	0	6	0
Gaya	10	5	5	0
Nawada	5	1	4	0
Jamui	4	3	0	1
Total	243	125	110	8

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		JDU	74906	38.32	Rajesh Singh		INC	53321	27.28	21585
2	Ramnagar (SC)	Bhagirathi Devi		BJP	75423	39.57	Rajesh Ram		INC	59627	31.28	15796
3	Narkatiaganj	Rashmi Verma		BJP	75484	45.85	Vinay Verma		INC	54350	33.02	21134
4	Bagaha	Ram Singh		BJP	90013	49.51	Jayesh Mangalam Singh		INC	59993	33	30020
5	Lauriya	Vinay Bihari		BJP	77927	49.48	Shambhu Tiwari		RJD	48923	31.06	29004
6	Nautan	Narayan Prasad		BJP	78657	46.97	Sheikh Mohammad Kamran		INC	52761	31.51	25896
7	Chanpatia	Umakant Singh		BJP	83828	47.69	Abhishek Ranjan		INC	70359	40.03	13469
8	Bettiah	Renu Devi		BJP	84496	52.83	Madan Mohan Tiwari		INC	66417	41.53	18079
9	Sikta	Birendra Prasad Gupta		CPI(ML)L	49075	28.85	Dilip Varma		IND	46773	27.5	2302
East Champaran District
10	Raxaul	Pramod Kumar Sinha		BJP	80979	45.6	Rambabu Prasad Yadav		INC	44056	24.81	36923
11	Sugauli	Shashi Bhushan Singh		RJD	65267	38.26	Ramchandra Sahani		VIP	61820	36.24	3447
12	Narkatiya	Shamim Ahmad		RJD	85562	46.69	Shyam Bihari Prashad		JDU	57771	31.53	27791
13	Harsidhi (SC)	Krishnanandan Paswan		BJP	84615	49.71	Kumar Nagendra Bihari		RJD	68930	40.5	15685
14	Govindganj	Sunil Mani Tiwari		BJP	65544	43.22	Brajesh Kumar		INC	37620	24.81	27924
15	Kesaria	Shalini Mishra		JDU	40219	26.59	Santosh Kushwha		RJD	30992	20.49	9227
16	Kalyanpur	Manoj Kumar Yadav		RJD	72819	45.35	Sachindra Prasad Singh		BJP	71626	44.61	1193
17	Pipra	Shyambabu Prasad Yadav		BJP	88587	44.18	Rajmangal Prashad		CPM	80410	40.1	8177
18	Madhuban	Rana Randhir Singh		BJP	73179	47.69	Madan Prasad		RJD	67301	43.86	5878
19	Motihari	Pramod Kumar		BJP	92733	49.44	Om Prakash Chaudhary		RJD	78088	41.63	14645
20	Chiraia	Lal Babu Prasad Gupta		BJP	62904	37.62	Achchhelal Prasad		RJD	46030	27.53	16874
21	Dhaka	Pawan Jaiswal		BJP	99792	48.01	Faisal Rahman		RJD	89678	43.15	10114
Sheohar District
22	Sheohar	Chetan Anand Singh		RJD	73143	42.69	Sharfuddin		JDU	36457	21.28	36686
Sitamarhi District
23	Riga	Moti Lal Prasad		BJP	95226	53.07	Amit Kumar		INC	62731	34.96	32495
24	Bathnaha (SC)	Anil Kumar		BJP	92648	54.15	Sanjay Ram		INC	45830	26.79	46818
25	Parihar	Gayatri Devi		BJP	73420	42.52	Ritu Jaiswal		RJD	71851	41.61	1569
26	Sursand	Dilip Kumar Ray		JDU	67193	38.63	Syed Abu Dojana		RJD	58317	33.53	8876
27	Bajpatti	Mukesh Kumar Yadav		RJD	71483	40.21	Ranju Geeta		JDU	68779	38.69	2704
28	Sitamarhi	Mithilesh Kumar		BJP	90236	49.9	Sunil Kumar		RJD	78761	43.55	11475
29	Runnisaidpur	Pankaj Kumar Mishra		JDU	73205	47.96	Mangita Devi		RJD	48576	31.83	24629
30	Belsand	Sanjay Kumar Gupta		RJD	49682	35.71	Sunita Singh Chauhan		JDU	35997	25.87	13685
Madhubani District
31	Harlakhi	Sudhanshu Shekhar		JDU	60393	36.1	Ram Naresh Pandey		CPI	42800	25.58	17593
32	Benipatti	Vinod Narayan Jha		BJP	78862	50.63	Bhawana Jha		INC	46210	29.67	32652
33	Khajauli	Arun Shankar Prasad		BJP	83161	44.51	Sitaram Yadav		RJD	60472	32.37	22689
34	Babubarhi	Mina Kumari		JDU	77367	40.39	Uma Kant Yadav		RJD	65879	34.39	11488
35	Bisfi	Haribhushan Thakur		BJP	86574	48.43	Faiyaz Ahmad		RJD	76333	42.7	10241
36	Madhubani	Samir Kumar Mahaseth		RJD	71332	38	Suman Kumar Mahaseth		VIP	64518	34.37	6814
37	Rajnagar (SC)	Ramprit Paswan		BJP	89459	51.42	Ramawatar Paswan		RJD	70338	40.43	19121
38	Jhanjharpur	Nitish Mishra		BJP	94854	52.47	Ram Narayan Yadav		CPI	53066	29.36	41788
39	Phulparas	Sheela Kumari		JDU	75116	41.26	Kripanath Pathak		INC	64150	35.24	10966
40	Laukaha	Bharat Bhushan Mandal		RJD	78523	37.57	Lakshmeshwar Ray		JDU	68446	32.75	10077
Supaul district
41	Nirmali	Aniruddha Prasad Yadav		JDU	92439	49.33	Yadubansh Kumar Yadav		RJD	48517	25.89	43922
42	Pipra	Rambilash Kamat		JDU	82388	45.35	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		RJD	63143	34.76	19245
43	Supaul	Bijendra Prasad Yadav		JDU	86174	50.2	Minnatullah Rahmani		INC	58075	33.83	28099
44	Triveniganj (SC)	Veena Bharti		JDU	79458	44.84	Santosh Kumar		RJD	76427	43.13	3031
45	Chhatapur	Neeraj Kumar Singh		BJP	93755	46.39	Vipin Kumar Singh		RJD	73120	36.18	20635
Araria District
46	Narpatganj	Jai Prakash Yadav		BJP	98397	49.06	Anil Kumar Yadav		RJD	69787	34.79	28610
47	Raniganj (SC)	Achmit Rishidev		JDU	81901	44.12	Avinash Mangalam		RJD	79597	42.88	2304
48	Forbesganj	Vidya Sagar Keshri		BJP	102212	49.53	Zakir Hussain Khan		INC	82510	39.98	19702
49	Araria	Avidur Rahman		INC	103054	54.84	Shagufta Azim		JDU	55118	29.33	47936
50	Jokihat	Shahnawaz Alam		AIMIM	59596	34.22	Sarfaraz Alam		RJD	52213	29.98	7383
51	Sikti	Vijay Kumar Mandal		BJP	84128	46.92	Shatrughan Prasad Suman		RJD	70518	39.33	13610
Kishanganj District
52	Bahadurganj	Mohammad Anzar Nayeemi		AIMIM	85855	49.77	Lakhan Lal Pandit		VIP	40640	23.56	45215
53	Thakurganj	Saud Alam		RJD	79909	41.48	Gopal Kumar Aggarwal		IND	56022	29.08	23887
54	Kishanganj	Ijaharul Hussain		INC	61078	34.2	Sweety Singh		BJP	59967	33.42	1381
55	Kochadhaman	Muhammad Izhar Asfi		AIMIM	79893	49.45	Mujahid Alam		JDU	43750	27.08	36143
Purnia District
56	Amour	Akhtarul Iman		AIMIM	94459	51.17	Saba Zafar		JDU	41944	22.72	52515
57	Baisi	Syed Ruknuddin Ahmad		AIMIM	68416	38.27	Binod Kumar		BJP	52043	29.11	16373
58	Kasba	Md Afaque Alam		INC	77410	41.12	Pradeep Kumar Das		LJP	60132	31.94	17278
59	Banmankhi (SC)	Krishna Kumar Rishi		BJP	93594	51.74	Upendra Sharma		RJD	65851	36.41	27743
60	Rupauli	Bima Bharti		JDU	64324	34.52	Shankar Singh		LJP	44994	24.15	19330
61	Dhamdaha	Leshi Singh		JDU	97057	48.5	Dilip Kumar Yadav		RJD	63463	31.71	33594
62	Purnia	Vijay Kumar Khemka		BJP	97757	52.78	Indu Sinha		INC	65603	35.42	32154
Katihar District
63	Katihar	Tarkishore Prasad		BJP	82669	48.47	Ram Prakash Mahto		RJD	72150	42.3	10519
64	Kadwa	Shakeel Ahmad Khan		INC	71267	42	Chandra Bhushan Thakur		LJP	38865	22.9	32402
65	Balrampur	Mahbub Alam		CPI(ML)L	104489	51.11	Barun Kumar Jha		VIP	50892	24.89	53597
66	Pranpur	Nisha Singh		BJP	79974	39.97	Tauquir Alam		INC	77002	38.48	2972
67	Manihari (ST)	Manohar Prasad Singh		INC	83032	45.81	Shambhu Kumar Suman		JDU	61823	34.11	21209
68	Barari	Bijay Singh		JDU	81752	41.71	Neeraj Kumar		RJD	71314	39	10438
69	Korha (SC)	Kavita Devi		BJP	104625	53.31	Punam Kumari		INC	75682	38.56	28943
Madhepura District
70	Alamnagar	Narendra Narayan Yadav		JDU	102517	48.17	Nabin Kumar		RJD	73837	34.69	28680
71	Bihariganj	Niranjan Kumar Mehta		JDU	81531	43.63	Subhashini Raj Rao		INC	62820	33.61	18711
72	Singheshwar (SC)	Chandrahas Chaupal		RJD	86181	45.13	Ramesh Rishidev		JDU	80608	42.21	5573
73	Madhepura	Chandrashekhar Yadav		RJD	79839	39.24	Nikhil Mandal		JDU	64767	31.83	15072
Saharsa District
74	Sonbarsha (SC)	Ratnesh Sada		JDU	67678	40.2	Tarni Rishideo		INC	54212	32.2	13466
75	Saharsa	Alok Ranjan Jha		BJP	103538	45.59	Lovely Anand		RJD	83859	36.93	19679
76	Simri Bakhtiarpur	Yusuf Salahuddin		RJD	75684	38.48	Mukesh Sahani		VIP	73925	37.58	1759
77	Mahishi	Gunjeshwar Sah		JDU	66316	37.83	Gautam Krishna		RJD	64686	36.9	1630
Darbhanga District
78	Kusheshwar Asthan (SC)	Shashi Bhushan Hazari		JDU	53980	39.55	Ashok Kumar		INC	46758	34.26	7222
79	Gaura Bauram	Swarna Singh		VIP	59538	41.26	Afzal Ali Khan		RJD	52258	36.21	7280
80	Benipur	Binay Kumar Choudhary		JDU	61416	37.58	Mithilesh Kumar Choudhary		INC	54826	33.55	6590
81	Alinagar	Mishri Lal Yadav		VIP	61082	38.62	Binod Mishra		RJD	57981	36.66	3101
82	Darbhanga Rural	Lalit Kumar Yadav		RJD	64929	41.26	Faraz Fatmi		JDU	62788	39.9	2141
83	Darbhanga	Sanjay Saraogi		BJP	84144	49.32	Amarnath Gami		RJD	73505	43.08	10639
84	Hayaghat	Ram Chandra Prasad		BJP	67030	46.86	Bhola Yadav		RJD	56778	39.69	10252
85	Bahadurpur	Madan Sahni		JDU	68538	38.5	Ramesh Choudhary		RJD	65909	37.03	2629
86	Keoti	Murari Mohan Jha		BJP	76372	46.75	Abdul Bari Siddiqui		RJD	71246	43.61	5126
87	Jale	Jibesh Kumar		BJP	87376	51.66	Maskoor Ahmad Usmani		INC	65580	38.78	21796
Muzaffarpur District
88	Gaighat	Niranjan Roy		RJD	59778	32.92	Maheshwar Pd Yadav		JDU	52212	28.75	7566
89	Aurai	Ram Surat Kumar		BJP	90479	52.33	Md. Aftab Alam		CPI(ML)L	42613	24.65	47866
90	Minapur	Rajeev Kumar		RJD	60018	33.51	Manoj Kumar		JDU	44506	24.85	15512
91	Bochahan (SC)	Musafir Paswan		VIP	77837	42.62	Ramai Ram		RJD	66569	36.45	11268
92	Sakra (SC)	Ashok Kumar Choudhary		JDU	67265	40.25	Umesh Kumar Ram		INC	65728	39.33	1537
93	Kurhani	Anil Kumar Sahani		RJD	78549	40.23	Kedar Prasad Gupta		BJP	77837	39.86	712
94	Muzaffarpur	Bijendra Chaudhary		INC	81871	48.16	Suresh Kumar Sharma		BJP	75545	44.44	6326
95	Kanti	Mohammad Israil Mansuri		RJD	64458	32.89	Ajit Kumar		IND	54144	27.63	10314
96	Baruraj	Arun Kumar Singh		BJP	87407	49.47	Nand Kumar Rai		RJD	43753	24.76	43654
97	Paroo	Ashok Kumar Singh		BJP	77392	40.92	Shankar Prasad		IND	62694	33.15	14698
98	Sahebganj	Raju Kumar Singh		VIP	81203	44.25	Ram Vichar Ray		RJD	65870	35.9	15333
Gopalganj District
99	Baikunthpur	Prem Shankar Prasad		RJD	67807	37.01	Mithlesh Tiwari		BJP	56694	30.95	11113
100	Barauli	Rampravesh Rai		BJP	81956	46.55	Reyazul Haque Raju		RJD	67801	38.51	14155
101	Gopalganj	Subhash Singh		BJP	77791	43.49	Anirudh Prasad		BSP	41039	22.94	36752
102	Kuchaikote	Amrendra Kumar Pandey		JDU	74359	41.19	Kali Prasad Pandey		INC	53729	29.76	20630
103	Bhore (SC)	Sunil Kumar		JDU	74067	40.5	Jitendra Paswan		CPI(ML)L	73605	40.25	462
104	Hathua	Rajesh Kumar Singh		RJD	86731	49.84	Ramsewak Singh		JDU	56204	32.29	30527
Siwan District
105	Siwan	Awadh Bihari Choudhary		RJD	76785	45.3	Om Prakash Yadav		BJP	74812	44.13	1973
106	Ziradei	Amarjeet Kushwaha		CPI(ML)L	69442	48.11	Kamala Singh		JDU	43932	30.44	25510
107	Darauli (SC)	Satyadeo Ram		CPI(ML)L	81067	50.5	Ramayan Manjhi		BJP	68948	42.95	12119
108	Raghunathpur	Hari Shankar Yadav		RJD	67757	42.66	Manoj Kumar Singh		LJP	49792	31.35	17965
109	Daraunda	Karanjeet Singh		BJP	71934	44.09	Amar Nath Yadav		CPI(ML)L	60614	37.15	11320
110	Barharia	Bachcha Pandey		RJD	71793	41.62	Shyam Bahadur Singh		JDU	68234	39.55	3559
111	Goriakothi	Devesh Kant Singh		BJP	87368	45.66	Nutan Devi		RJD	75477	39.45	11891
112	Maharajganj	Vijay Shanker Dubey		INC	48825	30.07	Hem Narayan Sah		JDU	46849	28.86	1976
Saran District
113	Ekma	Srikant Yadav		RJD	53875	35.05	Sita Devi		JDU	39948	25.99	13927
114	Manjhi	Satyendra Yadav		CPM	59324	37.56	Rana Pratap Singh		IND	33938	21.49	25386
115	Baniapur	Kedar Nath Singh		RJD	65194	38.74	Virendra Kumar Ojha		VIP	37405	22.23	27789
116	Taraiya	Janak Singh		BJP	53430	32.15	Sipahi Lal Mahto		RJD	42123	25.35	11307
117	Marhaura	Jitendra Kumar Ray		RJD	59812	39.44	Altaf Alam		JDU	48427	31.93	11385
118	Chapra	C. N. Gupta		BJP	75710	44.97	Randhir Kumar Singh		RJD	68939	40.95	6771
119	Garkha (SC)	Surendra Ram		RJD	83412	47.21	Gyanchand Manjhi		BJP	73475	41.59	9937
120	Amnour	Krishan Kumar Mantoo		BJP	63316	42.29	Sunil Kumar		RJD	59635	39.83	3681
121	Parsa	Chhote Lal Ray		RJD	68316	44.36	Chandrika Roy		JDU	51023	33.13	17293
122	Sonepur	Ramanuj Prasad Yadav		RJD	73247	43.11	Vinay Kumar Singh		BJP	66561	39.18	6686
Vaishali District
123	Hajipur	Awadhesh Singh		BJP	85552	44.55	Deo Kumar Chaurasia		RJD	82562	42.99	2990
124	Lalganj	Sanjay Kumar Singh		BJP	70750	36.88	Rakesh Kumar		INC	44451	23.17	26299
125	Vaishali	Siddharth Patel		JDU	69780	35.96	Sanjeev Singh		INC	62367	32.14	7413
126	Mahua	Mukesh Kumar Raushan		RJD	62580	36.45	Ashma Parveen		JDU	48893	28.48	13687
127	Raja Pakar (SC)	Pratima Kumari Das		INC	54299	35.67	Mahendra Ram		JDU	52503	34.49	1796
128	Raghopur	Tejashwi Yadav		RJD	97404	48.74	Satish Kumar		BJP	59230	29.64	38174
129	Mahnar	Bina Singh		RJD	61721	37.34	Umesh Kushwaha		JDU	53774	32.54	7947
130	Patepur (SC)	Lakhendra Kumar Raushan		BJP	86509	52.15	Shiv Chandra Ram		RJD	60670	36.57	25839
Samastipur District
131	Kalyanpur (SC)	Maheshwar Hazari		JDU	72279	38.46	Ranjeet Kumar Ram		CPI(ML)L	62028	33	10251
132	Warisnagar	Ashok Kumar		JDU	68356	35.97	Phoolbabu Singh		CPI(ML)L	54555	28.71	13801
133	Samastipur	Akhtarul Islam Sahin		RJD	68507	41.21	Ashwamedh Devi		JDU	63793	38.37	4714
134	Ujiarpur	Alok Kumar Mehta		RJD	90601	48.81	Sheel Kumar Roy		BJP	67333	36.27	23268
135	Morwa	Ranvijay Sahu		RJD	59554	37.06	Vidyasagar Singh Nishad		JDU	48883	30.42	10671
136	Sarairanjan	Vijay Kumar Chaudhary		JDU	72666	42.48	Arvind Kumar Sahni		RJD	69042	40.36	3624
137	Mohiuddinnagar	Rajesh Kumar Singh		BJP	70385	47.51	Ejya Yadav		RJD	55271	37.31	15114
138	Bibhutipur	Ajay Kumar		CPM	73822	45	Ram Balak Singh		JDU	33326	20.31	40496
139	Rosera (SC)	Birendra Kumar		BJP	87163	47.93	Nagendra Kumar Vikal		INC	51419	28.27	35744
140	Hasanpur	Tej Pratap Yadav		RJD	80991	47.27	Raj Kumar Ray		JDU	59852	34.93	21139
Begusarai District
141	Cheria-Bariarpur	Raj Banshi Mahto		RJD	68635	45.22	Manju Verma		JDU	27738	18.27	40897
142	Bachhwara	Surendra Mehata		BJP	54738	30.21	Abdhesh Kumar Rai		CPI	54254	29.94	484
143	Teghra	Ram Ratan Singh		CPI	85229	49.8	Birendra Kumar		JDU	37250	21.77	47979
144	Matihani	Rajkumar Singh		LJP	61364	29.64	Narendra Kumar Singh		JDU	61031	29.48	333
145	Sahebpur Kamal	Satanand Sambuddha		RJD	64888	41.45	Shashikant Kumar Shashi		JDU	50663	32.36	14225
146	Begusarai	Kundan Kumar		BJP	74217	39.66	Amita Bhushan		INC	69663	37.23	4554
147	Bakhri (SC)	Suryakant Paswan		CPI	72177	44.14	Ramshankar Paswan		BJP	71400	43.67	777
Khagaria District
148	Alauli (SC)	Ramvrikish Sada		RJD	47183	32.69	Sadhna Devi		JDU	44410	30.77	2773
149	Khagaria	Chhatrapati Yadav		INC	46980	31.14	Poonam Devi Yadav		JDU	43980	29.15	3000
150	Beldaur	Panna Lal Singh Patel		JDU	56541	31.95	Chandan Kumar		INC	51433	29.06	5108
151	Parbatta	Sanjeev Kumar		JDU	77226	41.61	Digambar Prasad Tiwary		RJD	76275	41.1	951
Bhagalpur District
152	Bihpur	Kumar Shailendra		BJP	72938	48.53	Shailesh Kumar Mandal		RJD	66809	44.45	6129
153	Gopalpur	Narendra Kumar Niraj		JDU	75533	46.39	Shailesh Kumar		RJD	51072	31.37	24461
154	Pirpainti (SC)	Lalan Kumar		BJP	96229	48.54	Ram Vilash Paswan		RJD	69210	34.91	27019
155	Kahalgaon	Pawan Kumar Yadav		BJP	115538	56.23	Shubhanand Mukesh		INC	72645	35.36	42893
156	Bhagalpur	Ajeet Sharma		INC	65502	40.52	Rohit Pandey		BJP	64389	39.83	1113
157	Sultanganj	Lalit Narayan Mandal		JDU	72823	42.58	Lalan Kumar		INC	61258	35.82	11565
158	Nathnagar	Ali Ashraf Siddiqui		RJD	78832	40.41	Lakshmikant Mandal		JDU	71076	36.44	7756
Banka District
159	Amarpur	Jayant Raj Kushwaha		JDU	54308	33.13	Jitendra Singh		INC	51194	31.23	3114
160	Dhoraiya (SC)	Bhudeo Choudhary		RJD	78646	43.74	Manish Kumar		JDU	75959	42.24	2687
161	Banka	Ramnarayan Mandal		BJP	69762	43.8	Javed Iqbal Ansari		RJD	52934	33.24	16828
162	Katoria (ST)	Nikki Hembrom		BJP	74785	47.01	Sweety Sima Hembram		RJD	68364	42.98	6421
163	Belhar	Manoj Yadav		JDU	73589	40.16	Ramdeo Yadav		RJD	71116	38.81	2473
Munger District
164	Tarapur	Mewalal Chaudhary		JDU	64468	36.93	Divya Prakash		RJD	57243	32.8	7225
165	Munger	Pranav Kumar Yadav		BJP	75573	45.74	Avinash Kumar Vidhyarthi		RJD	74329	44.99	1244
166	Jamalpur	Ajay Kumar Singh		INC	57196	37.65	Shailesh Kumar		JDU	52764	34.73	4432
Lakhisarai District
167	Surajgarha	Prahlad Yadav		RJD	62306	32.82	Ramanand Mandal		JDU	52717	27.77	9589
168	Lakhisarai	Vijay Kumar Sinha		BJP	74212	38.2	Amaresh Kumar		INC	63729	32.8	10483
Sheikhpura District
169	Sheikhpura	Vijay Kumar		RJD	56365	39.02	Randhir Kumar Soni		JDU	50249	34.78	6116
170	Barbigha	Sudarshan Kumar		JDU	39878	33.19	Gajanand Shahi		INC	39765	33.09	113
Nalanda District
171	Asthawan	Jitendra Kumar		JDU	51525	35.75	Anil Kumar		RJD	39925	27.7	11600
172	Biharsharif	Sunil Kumar		BJP	81888	44.55	Sunil Kumar		RJD	66786	36.34	15102
173	Rajgir (SC)	Kaushal Kishore		JDU	67191	42.58	Ravi Jyoti Kumar		INC	51143	32.41	16048
174	Islampur	Rakesh Kumar Roushan		RJD	68088	41.65	Chandra Sen Prasad		JDU	64390	39.39	3698
175	Hilsa	Krishna Murari Sharan		JDU	61848	37.35	Shakti Singh Yadav		RJD	61836	37.35	12
176	Nalanda	Shrawan Kumar		JDU	66066	38.97	Kaushalendra Kumar		JVP	49989	29.48	16077
177	Harnaut	Hari Narayan Singh		JDU	65404	41.24	Mamata Devi		LJP	38163	24.06	27241
Patna District
178	Mokama	Anant Kumar Singh		RJD	78721	52.99	Rajeev Lochan Narayan Singh		JDU	42964	28.92	35757
179	Barh	Gyanendra Kumar Singh		BJP	49327	32.94	Satyendra Bahadur Singh		INC	39087	26.1	10240
180	Bakhtiarpur	Aniruddh Kumar Yadav		RJD	89483	52.17	Ranvijay Singh Yadav		BJP	68811	40.12	20672
181	Digha	Sanjeev Chaurasiya		BJP	97044	57.09	Shashi Yadav		CPI(ML)L	50971	29.98	46073
182	Bankipur	Nitin Nabin		BJP	83068	59.05	Luv Sinha		INC	44032	31.3	39036
183	Kumhrar	Arun Kumar Sinha		BJP	81400	54	Dharamendra Kumar		RJD	54937	36.44	26463
184	Patna Sahib	Nand Kishore Yadav		BJP	97692	51.91	Pravin Singh		INC	79392	42.19	18300
185	Fatuha	Rama Nand Yadav		RJD	85769	50.87	Satyendra Kumar Singh		BJP	66399	39.38	19370
186	Danapur	Ritlal Yadav		RJD	89895	48.44	Asha Devi Yadav		BJP	73971	39.86	15924
187	Maner	Bhai Virendra		RJD	94223	47.44	Nikhil Anand		BJP	61306	30.86	32917
188	Phulwari (SC)	Gopal Ravidas		CPI(ML)L	91124	43.57	Arun Manjhi		JDU	77267	36.95	13857
189	Masaurhi (SC)	Rekha Devi		RJD	98696	50.21	Nutan Paswan		JDU	66469	33.81	32227
190	Paliganj	Sandeep Saurav		CPI(ML)L	67917	43.73	Jai Vardhan Yadav		JDU	37002	23.83	30915
191	Bikram	Siddharth Saurav Singh		INC	86177	47.71	Anil Kumar Singh		IND	50717	28.08	35460
Bhojpur District
192	Sandesh	Kiran Devi Yadav		RJD	79599	51.54	Vijayendra Yadav		JDU	28992	18.77	50607
193	Barhara	Raghvendra Pratap Singh		BJP	76182	46.15	Saroj Yadav		RJD	71209	43.13	4973
194	Arrah	Amrendra Pratap Singh		BJP	71781	45.05	Quyamuddin Ansari		CPI(ML)L	68779	43.17	3002
195	Agiaon (SC)	Manoj Manzil		CPI(ML)L	86327	61.39	Prabhunath Prasad		JDU	37777	26.87	48550
196	Tarari	Sudama Prasad		CPI(ML)L	73945	43.53	Narendra Kumar Pandey		IND	62930	37.05	11015
197	Jagdishpur	Ram Vishnun Singh		RJD	66632	39.68	Shri Bhagwan Singh Kushwaha		LJP	44525	26.51	22107
198	Shahpur	Rahul Tiwari		RJD	64393	41.14	Shobha Devi		IND	41510	26.52	22883
Buxar District
199	Brahampur	Shambhu Nath Singh Yadav		RJD	90176	48.64	Hulas Pandey		LJP	39035	21.05	51141
200	Buxar	Sanjay Kumar Tiwari		INC	59417	36.38	Parshuram Chaubey		BJP	55525	33.99	3892
201	Dumraon	Ajit Kushwaha		CPI(ML)L	71320	40.76	Anjum Ara		JDU	46905	26.81	24415
202	Rajpur (SC)	Vishwanath Ram		INC	67871	36.76	Santosh Kumar Nirala		JDU	46667	25.28	21204
Kaimur District
203	Ramgarh	Sudhakar Singh		RJD	58083	32.4	Ambika Singh Yadav		BSP	57894	32.3	189
204	Mohania (SC)	Sangita Kumari		RJD	61235	37.84	Niranjan Ram		BJP	49181	30.39	12054
205	Bhabua	Bharat Bind		RJD	57561	32.98	Rinki Rani Pandey		BJP	47516	27.22	10045
206	Chainpur	Mohd Zama Khan		BSP	95245	46.24	Brij Kishor Bind		BJP	70951	34.45	24294
Rohtas District
207	Chenari (SC)	Murari Prasad Gautam		INC	71701	41.25	Lalan Paswan		JDU	53698	30.89	18003
208	Sasaram	Rajesh Kumar Gupta		RJD	83303	46.54	Ashok Kumar		JDU	56880	31.78	26423
209	Kargahar	Santosh Kumar Mishra		INC	47321	30.76	Uday Pratap Singh		JDU	55680	28.66	4083
210	Dinara	Vijay Mandal		RJD	59541	34.97	Rajendra Prasad Singh		LJP	51313	30.13	8228
211	Nokha	Anita Devi		RJD	65690	44.15	Nagendra Chandrawansi		JDU	48018	32.27	17672
212	Dehri	Fateh Bahadur Kushwaha		RJD	64567	41.57	Satyanarayan Yadav		BJP	64103	41.27	464
213	Karakat	Arun Kushwaha		CPI(ML)L	82700	48.19	Rajeshwar Raj		BJP	64511	37.59	18189
Arwal District
214	Arwal	Maha Nand Singh		CPI(ML)L	68286	47.18	Dipak Kumar Sharma		BJP	48336	33.4	19950
215	Kurtha	Bagi Kumar Verma		RJD	54227	39.54	Satyadev Kushwaha		JDU	26417	19.26	27810
Jehanabad District
216	Jehanabad	Suday Yadav		RJD	75030	47.03	Krishannandan Prasad Verma		JDU	41128	25.78	33902
217	Ghosi	Ram Bali Singh Yadav		CPI(ML)L	74712	49.07	Rahul Kumar		JDU	57379	37.68	17333
218	Makhdumpur (SC)	Satish Kumar		RJD	71571	52.01	Devendra Kumar		HAM	49006	35.62	22565
Aurangabad District
219	Goh	Bheem Kumar Yadav		RJD	81410	44.07	Manoj Kumar Sharma		BJP	45792	24.79	35618
220	Obra	Rishi Kumar		RJD	63662	36.24	Prakash Chandra		LJP	40994	23.34	22668
221	Nabinagar	Vijay Kumar Singh		RJD	64943	40.68	Virendra Kumar Singh		JDU	44822	28.07	20121
222	Kutumba (SC)	Rajesh Kumar		INC	50822	36.61	Sharwan Bhuinya		HAM	34169	24.61	16653
223	Aurangabad	Anand Shankar Singh		INC	70018	41.27	Ramadhar Singh		BJP	67775	39.95	2243
224	Rafiganj	Mohammad Nehaluddin		RJD	63325	34.22	Pramod Kumar Singh		IND	53896	29.12	9429
Gaya District
225	Gurua	Vinay Yadav		RJD	70761	39.55	Rajiv Nandan Dangi		BJP	64162	35.86	6599
226	Sherghati	Manju Agrawal		RJD	61804	35.74	Vinod Prasad Yadav		JDU	45114	26.09	16690
227	Imamganj (SC)	Jitan Ram Manjhi		HAM	78762	45.36	Uday Narayan Choudhary		RJD	62728	36.12	16034
228	Barachatti (SC)	Jyoti Devi		HAM	72491	39.21	Samata Devi		RJD	66173	35.79	6318
229	Bodh Gaya (SC)	Kumar Sarvjeet		RJD	80926	41.84	Hari Manjhi		BJP	76218	39.4	4708
230	Gaya Town	Prem Kumar		BJP	66932	49.89	Akhauri Onkar Nath		INC	55034	41.02	11898
231	Tikari	Anil Kumar		HAM	70359	37.69	Sumant Kumar		INC	67729	36.28	2630
232	Belaganj	Surendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	79708	46.91	Abhay Kushwaha		JDU	55745	32.81	23963
233	Atri	Ajay Yadav		RJD	62658	36.55	Manorama Devi		JDU	54727	31.93	7931
234	Wazirganj	Birendra Singh		BJP	70713	40.23	Shashi Shekhar Singh		INC	48283	27.47	22430
Nawada District
235	Rajauli (SC)	Prakash Veer		RJD	69984	41.72	Kanhaiya Kumar		BJP	57391	34.22	12593
236	Hisua	Nitu Kumari		INC	94930	49.81	Anil Singh		BJP	77839	40.84	17091
237	Nawada	Vibha Devi Yadav		RJD	72345	40.06	Sharwan Kumar		IND	46125	25.51	26220
238	Gobindpur	Mohammed Kamran		RJD	79557	49.21	Purnima Yadav		JDU	46483	28.75	33074
239	Warisaliganj	Aruna Devi		BJP	62451	36.49	Satish Kumar		INC	53421	31.22	9030
Jamui District
240	Sikandra (SC)	Prafull Kumar Manjhi		HAM	47061	30.67	Sudhir Kumar		INC	41556	27.09	5505
241	Jamui	Shreyasi Singh		BJP	79603	43.89	Vijay Prakash Yadav		RJD	38554	21.26	41049
242	Jhajha	Damodar Rawat		JDU	76972	39.55	Rajendra Prasad		RJD	75293	38.69	1679
243	Chakai	Sumit Kumar Singh		IND	45548	24.02	Savitri Devi		RJD	44967	23.71	581

NDA distribution of 125 seats for a majority in 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election.

  BJP-74 (59.2%)

  JDU-43 (34.4%)

  HAM-4 (3.2%)

  VIP-4 (3.2%)

Aftermath

Government formation

Main article: Seventh Nitish Kumar ministry

After the election process concluded, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar tendered his resignation to the Governor on 13 November 2020. The National Democratic Alliance members met at around 12:30 pm IST, on 15 November to formally announce and elect the new Chief Minister. Nitish Kumar was elected leader of the NDA and Chief Minister in the meeting. After being elected as the NDA leader in Bihar, Nitish said that he did not want to become the chief minister of the state and wanted someone from the BJP party to become the next chief minister. However he accepted the designation on the insistence of the BJP. Soon after, Nitish visited the Governor to stake claim to form the new government.

Reactions and analysis

After the election results were announced, the incumbent Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar thanked the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi for his contribution and support to the National Democratic Alliance in the election campaign. Narendra Modi himself declared victory and quoted “Democracy has once again won in Bihar.”

Following the results, Tejashwi claimed to have "won 130 seats" and that "the mandate was in our favour, but the Election Commission’s results were declared in favour of NDA". He claimed, that the MGB "lost about 20 seats" because of "irregularities" in counting of postal ballots and threatened to move to court. The Election Commission termed the claims unfounded, adding that, according to procedure, the postal ballots including the invalid ones were re-verified where the margin of victory was less than the number of rejected ballots. Tejashwi also claimed that NDA won by "money, muscle power and deceit". Later the Election Commission claimed that it had counted random voter-verified paper audit trail which matched the EVM count.

The Time magazine called the victory as a triumph for Modi's "Hindu Nationalist Message". According to analysts BJP has become more significant in the state than before. The 14th Dalai Lama congratulated Nitish on his election victory.

Bye-election

2021 bye-election was necessitated by the death of sitting MLAs of Kusheshwar Asthan and Tarapur assembly constituencies. JDU was successful in holding on to both the seats.

2022 bye election: RJD gained Bochahan seat of Muzzafarpur district.

BJP gained Kudhni seat of Muzaffarpur district.

See also

• 2020 elections in India

External links

• Official Election Commission - Bihar
• Bihar Election Results ECI