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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.
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Janata Dal (United) | ![]() | ![]() | Nitish Kumar | 25 | |
Bharatiya Janata Party | ![]() | ![]() | Radha Mohan Singh | 15 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Rashtriya Janata Dal | ![]() | ![]() | Lalu Prasad Yadav | 28 | |
Lok Janshakti Party | ![]() | Ram Vilas Paswan | 12 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | |
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Indian National Congress | ![]() | ![]() | Anil Kumar Sharma | 37 | |
Nationalist Congress Party | ![]() | ![]() | Tariq Anwar | 1 + 1 [a] | |
Independent | ![]() | 1 | |||
Total | 39 + 1 [b] |
Constituency | ||||||||||
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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 | |||
Source: Election Commission of India [1]
32 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
NDA | Fourth Front | UPA | Others |
NDA | NDA | Fourth Front | SEATS | OTHERS | SEATS |
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JD(U) | 20 | RJD | 4 | INC | 2 |
BJP | 12 | LJP | 0 | IND | 2 |
TOTAL (2009) | 32 | TOTAL (2009) | 4 | TOTAL (2009) | 4 |
TOTAL (2004) | 11 | TOTAL (2004) | 26* | TOTAL (2004) | 3 |
No. | Constituency | Elected M.P | Party | |
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27 | Banka | Putul Kumari (Elected in bypoll 2010) | Independent | |
19 | Maharajganj | Prabhunath Singh (Elected in bypoll 2013) | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
Party | Assembly segments | |||
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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 |