2009 Indian general election in Bihar

Indian general election in Bihar, 2009

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40 seats
Turnout	44.47%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Nitish Kumar Radha Mohan Singh Lalu Prasad Yadav Party JD(U) BJP RJD Alliance NDA NDA Fourth Front Leader's seat Did not contest Purvi Champaran (won) Saran (won), Pataliputra (lost) Last election 6 5 22 Seats won 20 12 4 Seat change 14 7 18 Percentage 24.04% 13.93% 19.30% Swing 1.68% 0.64% 11.37%   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Ram Vilas Paswan Party INC LJP Alliance United Progressive Alliance (India) Leader's seat Hajipur (lost) Last election 4 Seats won 0 Seat change 4
Bihar
Prime Minister before election Manmohan Singh INC Prime Minister after election Manmohan Singh INC

The 2009 Indian general election in Bihar were held for 40 seats with the state going to polls in the first four phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) whereas the fourth front was constituted of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).

The results indicated the complete reversal of the last election, where the NDA won this state in a landslide securing 32 out of 40 seats. The victory is mostly credited to the work of Nitish Kumar and JD(U), and this is the only state where the NDA has had the most success since, they were defeated by Congress and allies, in all the other states, leading to their heavy losses for the NDA in the election.

After disagreement with the UPA on seat sharing, Lalu Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal joined hands with Lok Janshakti Party and Ram Vilas Paswan, and joined the Fourth Front, with Samajwadi Party. This move proved to be disastrous, since LJP couldn't win a single seat, and RJD were reduced to 4 seats in the Lok Sabha. After the election Laloo Prasad Yadav, admitted that it was a mistake to leave the UPA, and gave unconditional support to Manmohan Singh and the newly formed UPA government.

Parties and alliances

   National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Dal (United)			Nitish Kumar	25
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Radha Mohan Singh	15

Fourth Front

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Rashtriya Janata Dal			Lalu Prasad Yadav	28
	Lok Janshakti Party			Ram Vilas Paswan	12

   United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Indian National Congress			Anil Kumar Sharma	37
	Nationalist Congress Party			Tariq Anwar	1 + 1 [a]
	Independent				1
Total					39 + 1 [b]

Candidates

Constituency
		NDA			Fourth Front			UPA
1	Valmiki Nagar		JD(U)	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		RJD	Raghunath Jha		INC	Mohammad Shamim Akhtar
									NCP	Dilip Varma
2	Paschim Champaran		BJP	Sanjay Jaiswal		LJP	Prakash Jha		INC	Sadhu Yadav (Anirudh Prasad)
3	Purvi Champaran		BJP	Radha Mohan Singh		RJD	Akhilesh Prasad Singh		INC	Arvind Kumar Gupta
4	Sheohar		BJP	Rama Devi		RJD	Sitaram Singh		INC	Lovely Anand
5	Sitamarhi		JD(U)	Arjun Rai		RJD	Sitaram Yadav		INC	Samir Kumar Mahaseth
6	Madhubani		BJP	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav		RJD	Abdulbari Siddiki		INC	Dr. Shakeel Ahmad
7	Jhanjharpur		JD(U)	Mangani Lal Mandal		RJD	Devendra Prasad Yadav		INC	Kripanath Pathak
8	Supaul		JD(U)	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		LJP	Surya Narayan Yadav		INC	Ranjeet Ranjan
9	Araria		BJP	Pradeep Kumar Singh		LJP	Zakir Hussain Khan		INC	Dr. Shakeel Ahmad Khan
10	Kishanganj		JD(U)	Syed Mahmood Ashraf		RJD	Taslimuddin		INC	Mohammad Asrarul Haque
11	Katihar		BJP	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary		LJP	Ahmad Ashfaque Karim		NCP	Tariq Anwar
12	Purnia		BJP	Uday Singh		LJP	Shankar Jha		IND	Shanti Priya
13	Madhepura		JD(U)	Sharad Yadav		RJD	Prof. Ravindra Charan Yadav		INC	Dr. Tara Nand Sada
14	Darbhanga		BJP	Kirti Azad		RJD	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi		INC	Ajay Kumar Jalan
15	Muzaffarpur		JD(U)	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad		LJP	Bhagwanlal Sahni		INC	Vinita Vijay
16	Vaishali		JD(U)	Vijay Kumar Shukla		RJD	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		INC	Hind Kesari Yadav
17	Gopalganj		JD(U)	Purnmasi Ram		RJD	Anil Kumar		INC	Ramai Ram
18	Siwan		JD(U)	Brishin Patel		RJD	Hena Shahab		INC	Vijay Shanker Dubey
19	Maharajganj		JD(U)	Prabhu Nath Singh		RJD	Umashanker Singh		INC	Tarkeshwar Singh
20	Saran		BJP	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		RJD	Lalu Prasad Yadav	DNF
21	Hajipur		JD(U)	Ram Sundar Das		LJP	Ram Vilas Paswan		INC	Dasai Choudhary
22	Ujiarpur		JD(U)	Ashwamedh Devi		RJD	Alok Kumar Mehta		INC	Sheel Kumar Roy
23	Samastipur		JD(U)	Maheshwar Hazari		LJP	Ram Chandra Paswan		INC	Dr. Ashok Kumar
24	Begusarai		JD(U)	Monazir Hassan		LJP	Anil Chaudhary		INC	Amita Bhushan
25	Khagaria		JD(U)	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		RJD	Ravindar Kumar Rana		INC	Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser
26	Bhagalpur		BJP	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		RJD	Shakuni Choudhary		INC	Sadanand Singh
27	Banka		JD(U)	Damodar Rawat		RJD	Jai Prakesh Narain Yadav		INC	Giridhari Yadav
28	Munger		JD(U)	Rajiv Ranjan Singh		RJD	Ram Badan Roy		INC	Ram Lakhan Singh
29	Nalanda		JD(U)	Kaushalendra Kumar		LJP	Satish Kumar		INC	Ramswaroop Prasad
30	Patna Sahib		BJP	Shatrughan Sinha		RJD	Vijay Kumar		INC	Shekhar Suman
31	Pataliputra		JD(U)	Ranjan Prasad Yadav		RJD	Lalu Prasad Yadav		INC	Vijay Singh Yadav
32	Arrah		JD(U)	Meena Singh		LJP	Rama Kishore Singh		INC	Haridwar Prasad Singh
33	Buxar		BJP	Lal Muni Chaubey		RJD	Jagada Nand Singh		INC	Kamla Kant Tiwary
34	Sasaram		BJP	Muni Lal		RJD	Lalan Paswan		INC	Meira Kumar
35	Karakat		JD(U)	Mahabali Singh		RJD	Kanti Singh		INC	Awadhesh Kumar Singh
36	Jahanabad		JD(U)	Jagdish Sharma		RJD	Surendra Prasad Yadav		INC	Dr. Arun Kumar
37	Aurangabad		JD(U)	Sushil Kumar Singh		RJD	Shakil Ahmad Khan		INC	Nikhil Kumar
38	Gaya		BJP	Hari Manjhi		RJD	Ramji Manjhi		INC	Sanjiv Prasad Toni
39	Nawada		BJP	Bhola Singh		LJP	Veena Devi		INC	Sunila Devi
40	Jamui		JD(U)	Bhudeo Choudhary		RJD	Shyam Rajak		INC	Ashok Choudhary

Voting and results

Source: Election Commission of India ^[1]

Results by Alliance

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32	4	2	2
NDA	Fourth Front	UPA	Others

Map displaying constituencies won by Alliances

Results by Alliance or Party

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA		JD(U)	5,825,874	24.04%	1.68	25	20	14
			BJP	3,376,109	13.93%	0.63	15	12	7
		Total		9,201,983	37.97%	1.04	40	32	21
	FF		RJD	4,678,880	19.31%	11.36	28	4	18
			LJP	1,586,404	6.55%	1.64	12	0	4
		Total		6,265,284	25.86%	13.00	40	4	22
	INC			2,487,008	10.26%	5.77	37	2	1
	IND			2,937,221	12.12%			2
Total					100%	–		40	–

Notes:

• FF stands for Fourth Front
• Since the Fourth front did not exist in 2004, the results in 2004 represents seats won by RJD and LJP in Fourth Front.

List of Elected MPs

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Valmiki Nagar	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		JD(U)	277,696	46.40	Fakhruddin		IND	94,021	15.71	183,675	30.69
2	Paschim Champaran	Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal		BJP	198,781	38.56	Prakash Jha		LJP	151,438	29.38	47,343	9.18
3	Purvi Champaran	Radha Mohan Singh		BJP	201,114	41.74	Akhilesh Prasad Singh		RJD	121,824	25.28	79,290	16.46
4	Sheohar	Rama Devi		BJP	233,499	40.80	Md. Anwarul Haque		BSP	107,815	18.84	125,684	21.96
5	Sitamarhi	Arjun Roy		JD(U)	232,782	40.36	Samir Kumar Mahaseth		INC	122,216	21.19	110,566	19.17
6	Madhubani	Hukmadeo Narayan Yadav		BJP	164,094	29.48	Abdulbari Siddiki		RJD	154,167	27.70	9,927	1.78
7	Jhanjharpur	Mangani Lal Mandal		JD(U)	265,175	43.63	Devendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	192,466	31.66	72,709	11.97
8	Supaul	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		JD(U)	313,677	44.96	Ranjeet Ranjan		INC	147,602	21.16	166,075	23.80
9	Araria	Pradeep Kumar Singh		BJP	282,742	38.71	Zakir Hussain Khan		LJP	260,240	35.63	22,502	3.08
10	Kishanganj	Mohammad Asrarul Haque		INC	239,405	38.19	Syed Mahmood Ashraf		JD(U)	159,136	25.38	80,269	12.81
11	Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary		BJP	269,834	37.23	Shah Tariq Anwar		NCP	255,819	35.30	14,015	1.93
12	Purnia	Uday Singh Alias Pappu Singh		BJP	362,952	51.50	Shanti Priya		IND	176,725	25.08	186,227	26.42
13	Madhepura	Sharad Yadav		JD(U)	370,585	48.99	Prof. Ravindra Charan Yadav		RJD	192,964	25.51	177,621	23.48
14	Darbhanga	Kirti Azad		BJP	239,268	43.85	Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi		RJD	192,815	35.33	46,453	8.52
15	Muzaffarpur	Captain Jai Narayan Prasad Nishad		JD(U)	195,091	31.37	Bhagwanlal Sahni		LJP	147,282	23.69	47,809	7.68
16	Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		RJD	284,479	45.53	Vijay Kumar Shukla		JD(U)	262,171	41.96	22,308	3.57
17	Gopalganj	Purnmasi Ram		JD(U)	200,024	39.64	Anil Kumar		RJD	157,552	31.22	42,472	8.42
18	Siwan	Om Prakash Yadav		IND	236,194	36.80	Hena Shahab		RJD	172,764	26.91	63,430	9.89
19	Maharajganj	Uma Shanaker Singh		RJD	211,610	35.30	Prabhu Nath Singh		JD(U)	208,813	34.83	2,797	0.47
20	Saran	Lalu Prasad		RJD	274,209	47.21	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	222,394	38.29	51,815	8.92
21	Hajipur	Ram Sundar Das		JD(U)	246,715	44.44	Ram Vilas Paswan		LJP	208,761	37.61	37,954	6.83
22	Ujiarpur	Aswamedh Devi		JD(U)	180,082	31.92	Alok Kumar Mehta		RJD	154,770	27.43	25,312	4.49
23	Samastipur	Maheshwar Hazari		JD(U)	259,458	44.37	Ram Chandra Paswan		LJP	155,082	26.52	104,376	17.85
24	Begusarai	Dr. Monazir Hassan		JD(U)	205,680	28.64	Shatrughna Prasad Singh		CPI	164,843	22.95	40,837	5.69
25	Khagaria	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		JD(U)	266,964	42.72	Ravindar Kr. Rana		RJD	128,209	20.51	138,755	22.21
26	Bhagalpur	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		BJP	228,384	36.30	Shakuni Choudhary		RJD	172,573	27.43	55,811	8.87
27	Banka	Digvijay Singh		IND	185,762	28.48	Jai Prakesh Narain Yadav		RJD	157,046	24.08	28,716	4.40
28	Munger	Rajiv Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh)		JD(U)	374,317	57.50	Ram Badan Roy		RJD	184,956	28.41	189,361	29.09
29	Nalanda	Kaushalendra Kumar		JD(U)	299,155	52.65	Satish Kumar		LJP	146,478	25.78	152,677	26.87
30	Patna Sahib	Shatrughan Sinha		BJP	316,549	57.30	Vijay Kumar		RJD	149,779	27.11	166,770	30.19
31	Pataliputra	Ranjan Prasad Yadav		JD(U)	269,298	42.86	Lalu Prasad		RJD	245,757	39.12	23,541	3.74
32	Arrah	Meena Singh		JD(U)	212,726	38.24	Rama Kishore Singh		LJP	138,006	24.81	74,720	13.43
33	Buxar	Jagada Nand Singh		RJD	132,614	21.27	Lal Muni Choubey		BJP	130,376	20.91	2,238	0.36
34	Sasaram	Meira Kumar		INC	192,213	32.09	Muni Lal		BJP	149,259	24.92	42,954	7.17
35	Karakat	Mahabali Singh		JD(U)	196,946	34.13	Kanti Singh		RJD	176,463	30.58	20,483	3.55
36	Jahanabad	Jagdish Sharma		JD(U)	234,769	39.18	Surendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	213,442	35.62	21,327	3.56
37	Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh		JD(U)	260,153	43.48	Shakil Ahmad Khan		RJD	188,095	31.44	72,058	12.04
38	Gaya	Hari Manjhi		BJP	246,255	43.65	Ramji Manjhi		RJD	183,802	32.58	62,453	11.07
39	Nawada	Bhola Singh		BJP	130,608	22.46	Veena Devi		LJP	95,691	16.45	34,917	6.01
40	Jamui	Bhudeo Choudhary		JD(U)	178,560	33.36	Shyam Rajak		RJD	148,763	27.79	29,797	5.57

Bye-elections

No.	Constituency	Elected M.P	Party
27	Banka	Putul Kumari (Elected in bypoll 2010)		Independent
19	Maharajganj	Prabhunath Singh (Elected in bypoll 2013)		Rashtriya Janata Dal

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party				Assembly segments
	NDA		JD(U)	110
			BJP	65
		Total		175
	Fourth Front		RJD	33
			LJP	5
		Total		38
	UPA		INC	10
			NCP	3
		Total		13
	Others		CPI	3
			BSP	2
			CPI(M)	1
			CPI(ML)L	1
			Independent	10
		Total		17
Total				243

References

1. http://eci.nic.in/ ^{[ not specific enough to verify ]}

Notes

1. Friendly Contest on Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency between INC and NCP.
2. Friendly Contest on Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency between INC and NCP.