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%
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

NDA	NDA	Fourth Front	SEATS	OTHERS	SEATS
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

• 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

No.	Name	Turnout%	Candidate	Party		Margin
1	Valmiki Nagar	46.99	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		Janata Dal (United)	1,83,675
2	Paschim Champaran	42.22	Sanjay Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party	47,343
3	Purvi Champaran	40.61	Radha Mohan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	79,290
4	Sheohar	45.15	Rama Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,25,684
5	Sitamarhi	42.54	Arjun Rai		Janata Dal (United)	1,10,566
6	Madhubani	39.83	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party	9,927
7	Jhanjharpur	42.84	Mangani Lal Mandal		Janata Dal (United)	72,709
8	Supaul	54.52	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		Janata Dal (United)	1,66,075
9	Araria	55.71	Pradeep Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	22,502
10	Kishanganj	52.84	Mohammad Asrarul Haque		Indian National Congress	80,269
11	Katihar	56.95	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party	14,015
12	Purnia	53.99	Uday Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,86,227
13	Madhepura	50.15	Sharad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)	1,77,621
14	Darbhanga	41.75	Kirti Azad		Bharatiya Janata Party	46,453
15	Muzaffarpur	46.41	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad		Janata Dal (United)	47,809
16	Vaishali	48.86	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal	22,308
17	Gopalganj (SC)	37.40	Purnmasi Ram		Janata Dal (United)	42,472
18	Siwan	50.05	Om Prakash Yadav		Independent	63,430
19	Maharajganj	45.70	Umashanker Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,797
20	Saran	45.81	Lalu Prasad Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal	51,815
21	Hajipur (SC)	41.83	Ram Sundar Das		Janata Dal (United)	37,954
22	Ujiarpur	45.89	Ashwamedh Devi		Janata Dal (United)	25,312
23	Samastipur (SC)	44.54	Maheshwar Hazari		Janata Dal (United)	1,04,376
24	Begusarai	48.75	Monazir Hassan		Janata Dal (United)	40,837
25	Khagaria	46.54	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		Janata Dal (United)	1,38,755
26	Bhagalpur	43.89	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		Bharatiya Janata Party	55,811
27	Banka	48.74	Digvijay Singh		Independent	28,716
28	Munger	41.65	Rajiv Ranjan Singh		Janata Dal (United)	1,89,361
29	Nalanda	33.05	Kaushalendra Kumar		Janata Dal (United)	1,52,677
30	Patna Sahib	33.64	Shatrughan Sinha		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,66,770
31	Pataliputra	41.17	Ranjan Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)	23,541
32	Arrah	35.78	Meena Singh		Janata Dal (United)	74,720
33	Buxar	46.51	Jagada Nand Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,238
34	Sasaram (SC)	42.70	Meira Kumar		Indian National Congress	42,954
35	Karakat	41.61	Mahabali Singh		Janata Dal (United)	20,483
36	Jahanabad	46.93	Jagdish Sharma		Janata Dal (United)	21,327
37	Aurangabad	43.47	Sushil Kumar Singh		Janata Dal (United)	72,058
38	Gaya (SC)	42.45	Hari Manjhi		Bharatiya Janata Party	62,453
39	Nawada	41.62	Bhola Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	34,917
40	Jamui (SC)	38.13	Bhudeo Choudhary		Janata Dal (United)	29,797

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.