2019 Indian general election in Bihar

2019 Indian general election in Bihar
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All 40 constituencies from Bihar to the Lok Sabha
Turnout	57.33% ( 1.07%)
Prime Minister before election; Narendra Modi ; BJP	Prime Minister after election; Narendra Modi ; BJP

Last updated January 18, 2026

The 2019 Indian general elections held in India between 11 April and 23 April 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. The election in Bihar took place in 7 phases.

Election schedule
Parties and alliances
National Democratic Alliance
United Progressive Alliance Mahagathbandhan
Candidates
Opinion Poll
Results
Party wise
Results by Alliance or Party
Constituency-wise Results
Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Bihar
By-Polls Held
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties
Notes
References

Election schedule

The constituency-wise election schedule is as follows:

Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies	Voter Turnout (%)
1	11 April	Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Jamui	53.60^[1]
2	18 April	Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Bhagalpur, Banka	62.93^[1]
3	23 April	Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria	61.26^[1]
4	29 April	Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger	59.35^[1]
5	6 May	Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Hajipur	57.19^[1]
6	12 May	Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, Maharajganj	58.65
7	19 May	Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, Jahanabad	51.34

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

	Leader	Seats contested
Bharatiya Janata Party	Nityanand Rai	17
Janata Dal (United)	Nitish Kumar	17
Lok Janshakti Party	Ram Vilas Paswan	6

United Progressive Alliance
Mahagathbandhan

Party		Leader	Seats contested
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	Lalu Prasad Yadav	19
	Indian National Congress	Madan Mohan Jha	9
	Rashtriya Lok Samata Party	Upendra Kushwaha	5
	Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)	Jitan Ram Manjhi	3
	Vikassheel Insaan Party	Mukesh Sahani	3
The Party which was not the part of Mahagathbandhan but it's candidate was supported by the members of UPA Alliance
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	Dipankar Bhattacharya	1

Candidates

Constituency				UPA
Constituency
1	Valmiki Nagar	JD(U)	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		INC	Shashwat Kedar
2	Paschim Champaran	BJP	Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal		RLSP	Brijesh Kumar Kushwaha
3	Purvi Champaran	BJP	Radha Mohan Singh		RLSP	Aakash Prasad Singh
4	Sheohar	BJP	Rama Devi		RJD	Syed Faisal Ali
5	Sitamarhi	JD(U)	Sunil Kumar Pintu		RJD	Arjun Ray
6	Madhubani	BJP	Ashok Kumar Yadav		VIP	Badri Kumar Purbey
7	Jhanjharpur	JD(U)	Ramprit Mandal		RJD	Gulab Yadav
8	Supaul	JD(U)	Dileshwar Kamait		INC	Ranjeet Ranjan
9	Araria	BJP	Pradeep Kumar Singh		RJD	Sarfaraz Alam
10	Kishanganj	JD(U)	Syed Mahmood Ashraf		INC	Mohammad Jawed
11	Katihar	JD(U)	Dulal Chandra Goswami		INC	Tariq Anwar
12	Purnia	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha		INC	Uday Singh
13	Madhepura	JD(U)	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		RJD	Sharad Yadav
14	Darbhanga	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur		RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui
15	Muzaffarpur	BJP	Ajay Nishad		VIP	Raj Bhushan Choudhary
16	Vaishali	LJP	Veena Devi		RJD	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
17	Gopalganj	JD(U)	Alok Kumar Suman		RJD	Surendra Ram
18	Siwan	JD(U)	Kavita Singh		RJD	Hena Shahab
19	Maharajganj	BJP	Janardan Singh Sigriwal		RJD	Randhir Singh
20	Saran	BJP	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		RJD	Chandrika Roy
21	Hajipur	LJP	Pashupati Kumar Paras		RJD	Shiv Chandra Ram
22	Ujiarpur	BJP	Nityanand Rai		RLSP	Upendra Kushwaha
23	Samastipur	LJP	Ram Chandra Paswan		INC	Ashok Kumar
24	Begusarai	BJP	Giriraj Singh		RJD	Tanweer Hassan
25	Khagaria	LJP	Mehboob Ali Kaiser		VIP	Mukesh Sahani
26	Bhagalpur	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal		RJD	Shailesh Kumar (Bulo Mandal)
27	Banka	JD(U)	Giridhari Yadav		RJD	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav
28	Munger	JD(U)	Rajiv Ranjan Singh		INC	Nilam Devi
29	Nalanda	JD(U)	Kaushalendra Kumar		HAM(S)	Ashok Kumar Azad
30	Patna Sahib	BJP	Ravi Shankar Prasad		INC	Shatrughan Sinha
31	Pataliputra	BJP	Ram Kripal Yadav		RJD	Misha Bharti
32	Arrah	BJP	Raj Kumar Singh	^[a]
33	Buxar	BJP	Ashwani Kumar Choubey		RJD	Jagada Nand Singh
34	Sasaram	BJP	Chhedi Paswan		INC	Meira Kumar
35	Karakat	JD(U)	Mahabali Singh		RLSP	Upendra Kushwaha
36	Jahanabad	JD(U)	Chandeshwar Prasad		RJD	Surendra Prasad Yadav
37	Aurangabad	BJP	Sushil Kumar Singh		HAM(S)	Upendra Prasad
38	Gaya	JD(U)	Vijay Manjhi		HAM(S)	Jitan Ram Manjhi
39	Nawada	LJP	Chandan Singh		RJD	Vibha Devi
40	Jamui	LJP	Chirag Paswan		RLSP	Bhudeo Choudhary

Opinion Poll

Date published	Polling agency			Lead
Date published	Polling agency	NDA	MGB	Lead
6 April 2019	IndiaTV - CNX	29	11	18
5 April 2019	Republic TV - Jan Ki Baat	31	9	22
Jan 2019	ABP News - CVoter Archived 29 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine	35	5	30
Nov 2018	ABP News - CVoter	34	6	28
Oct 2018	ABP News - CSDS	22	18	4
Oct 2018	ABP News - CSDS	31	9	22

Results

Party wise

17	16	6	1
BJP	JD(U)	LJP	INC

Results by Alliance or Party

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
Alliance/ Party				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA		BJP	96,19,458	24.05%	5.82	17	17	5
			JD(U)	89,02,719	22.26%	6.22	17	16	14
			LJP	32,06,979	8.01%	1.51	6	6
		Total		21,729,156	54.32%		40	39
	UPA		RJD	62,70,769	15.68%	4.78	19	0	4
			INC	31,40,797	7.85%	0.71	9	1	1
			RLSP	14,62,518	3.66%	0.66	5	0	3
			VIP	6,60,706	1.66%	New	4	0
			HAM	9,56,501	2.39%	New	3	0
			CPI(ML)L	4,19,195	1.04%		1	0
		Total		12,910,486	32.46%		40	1
	IND			2,227,705	5.57%			0
	NOTA			816,950	2.04%
Total				3,99,89,711	100%			40

Constituency-wise Results

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Valmiki Nagar	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		JD(U)	602,660	58.38	Shashwat Kedar		INC	248,044	24.03	354,616	34.35
2	Paschim Champaran	Sanjay Jaiswal		BJP	603,706	59.57	Brijesh Kumar Kushwaha		RLSP	309,800	30.57	293,906	29.00
3	Purvi Champaran	Radha Mohan Singh		BJP	577,787	57.77	Aakash Kumar Singh		RLSP	284,139	28.41	293,648	29.36
4	Sheohar	Rama Devi		BJP	608,678	60.57	Syed Faisal Ali		RJD	268,318	26.70	340,360	33.87
5	Sitamarhi	Sunil Kumar Pintu		JD(U)	567,745	54.61	Arjun Ray		RJD	317,206	30.51	250,539	24.10
6	Madhubani	Ashok Kumar Yadav		BJP	595,843	61.76	Badri Kumar Purbey		VSIP	140,903	14.61	454,940	47.15
7	Jhanjharpur	Ramprit Mandal		JD(U)	602,391	56.70	Gulab Yadav		RJD	279,440	26.30	322,951	30.40
8	Supaul	Dileshwar Kamait		JD(U)	597,377	53.77	Ranjeet Ranjan		INC	330,524	29.75	266,853	24.02
9	Araria	Pradeep Kumar Singh		BJP	618,434	52.87	Sarfaraz Alam		RJD	481,193	41.14	137,241	11.73
10	Kishanganj	Mohammad Jawed		INC	367,017	33.32	Syed Mahmood Ashraf		JD(U)	332,551	30.19	34,466	3.13
11	Katihar	Dulal Chandra Goswami		JD(U)	559,423	50.02	Tariq Anwar		INC	502,220	44.91	57,203	5.11
12	Purnia	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha		JD(U)	632,924	54.85	Uday Singh		INC	369,463	32.02	263,461	22.83
13	Madhepura	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		JD(U)	624,334	54.40	Sharad Yadav		RJD	322,807	28.13	301,527	26.27
14	Darbhanga	Gopal Jee Thakur		BJP	586,668	60.76	Abdul Bari Siddiqui		RJD	318,689	33.01	267,979	27.75
15	Muzaffarpur	Ajay Nishad		BJP	666,878	63.00	Raj Bhushan Choudhary		VSIP	256,890	24.27	409,988	38.73
16	Vaishali	Veena Devi		LJP	568,215	52.87	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		RJD	333,631	31.04	234,584	21.83
17	Gopalganj	Alok Kumar Suman		JD(U)	568,150	55.37	Surendra Ram		RJD	281,716	27.46	286,434	27.91
18	Siwan	Kavita Singh		JD(U)	448,473	45.54	Hena Shahab		RJD	331,515	33.66	116,958	11.88
19	Maharajganj	Janardan Singh Sigriwal		BJP	546,352	56.15	Randhir Kumar Singh		RJD	315,580	32.43	230,772	23.72
20	Saran	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	499,986	52.99	Chandrika Roy		RJD	361,575	38.32	138,411	14.67
21	Hajipur (SC)	Pashupati Kumar Paras		LJP	541,310	53.72	Shiv Chandra Ram		RJD	335,861	33.33	205,449	20.39
22	Ujiarpur	Nityanand Rai		BJP	543,906	56.08	Upendra Kushwaha		RLSP	266,628	27.49	277,278	28.59
23	Samastipur (SC)	Ram Chandra Paswan		LJP	562,443	55.15	Dr. Ashok Kumar		INC	310,800	30.48	251,643	24.67
24	Begusarai	Giriraj Singh		BJP	692,193	56.44	Kanhaiya Kumar		CPI	269,976	22.01	422,217	34.43
25	Khagaria	Mehboob Ali Kaiser		LJP	510,193	52.74	Mukesh Sahani		VSIP	261,623	27.04	248,570	25.70
26	Bhagalpur	Ajay Kumar Mandal		JD(U)	618,254	59.27	Shailesh Kumar Mandal		RJD	340,624	32.65	277,630	26.62
27	Banka	Giridhari Yadav		JD(U)	477,788	47.98	Jay Prakash Narayan		RJD	277,256	27.84	200,532	20.14
28	Munger	Lalan Singh		JD(U)	528,762	51.02	Nilam Devi		INC	360,825	34.81	167,937	16.21
29	Nalanda	Kaushalendra Kumar		JD(U)	540,888	52.42	Ashok Kumar Azad		HAM(S)	284,751	27.60	256,137	24.82
30	Patna Sahib	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	607,506	61.81	Shatrughan Sinha		INC	322,849	32.85	284,657	28.96
31	Pataliputra	Ram Kripal Yadav		BJP	509,557	47.23	Misa Bharti		RJD	470,236	43.59	39,321	3.64
32	Arrah	R. K. Singh		BJP	566,480	52.33	Raju Yadav		CPI(ML)L	419,195	38.73	147,285	13.60
33	Buxar	Ashwini Choubey		BJP	473,053	47.93	Jagada Nand Singh		RJD	355,444	36.01	117,609	11.92
34	Sasaram (SC)	Chhedi Paswan		BJP	494,800	50.72	Meira Kumar		INC	329,055	33.73	165,745	16.99
35	Karakat	Mahabali Singh		JD(U)	398,408	45.82	Upendra Kushwaha		RLSP	313,866	36.10	84,542	9.72
36	Jahanabad	Chandeshwar Prasad		JD(U)	335,584	40.81	Surendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	333,833	40.60	1,751	0.21
37	Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh		BJP	427,721	45.72	Upendra Prasad		HAM(S)	357,169	38.18	70,552	7.54
38	Gaya (SC)	Vijay Kumar Manjhi		JD(U)	467,007	48.77	Jitan Ram Manjhi		HAM(S)	314,581	32.85	152,426	15.92
39	Nawada	Chandan Singh		LJP	495,684	52.47	Vibha Devi Yadav		RJD	347,612	36.80	148,072	15.67
40	Jamui (SC)	Chirag Paswan		LJP	529,134	55.72	Bhudeo Choudhary		RLSP	288,085	30.34	241,049	25.38

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Bihar

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To
1	Giriraj Singh	Begusarai	Cabinet Minister	Minister of Rural Development Minister of Panchayati Raj (from July 2021) Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (until July 2021)	31 May 2019	9 June 2024	BJP
2	R. K. Singh	Arrah		Minister of Power Minister of New and Renewable Energy (Cabinet rank from July 2021, MoS (I/C) prior) MoS for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (until July 2021)		9 June 2024
3	Ravi Shankar Prasad	Patna Sahib		Minister of Law and Justice Minister of Communications Minister of Electronics and Information Technology		7 July 2021
4	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Buxar	MoS	Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (from July 2021) Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (from July 2021) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (until July 2021)		9 June 2024
5	Nityanand Rai	Ujiarpur	MoS	Ministry of Home Affairs		9 June 2024
6	Ram Vilas Paswan	Rajya Sabha (Bihar)	Cabinet Minister	Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution		8 October 2020 (Died)	LJP
7	Pashupati Kumar Paras	Hajipur (SC)		Minister of Food Processing Industries	7 July 2021	19 March 2024 (Resigned)	RLJP
8	Ramchandra Prasad Singh	Rajya Sabha (Bihar)		Minister of Steel	7 July 2021	6 July 2022 (Resigned)	JD(U)

By-Polls Held

Constituency			Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Date	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Margin
23	Samastipur (SC)	21 October 2019	Prince Raj		LJP	390,276	49.48	Ashok Kumar		INC	288,186	36.54	102,090
23	Samastipur (SC)	21 October 2019	The Samastipur Lok Sabha bypoll was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the incumbent MP, Ram Chandra Paswan.
1	Valmiki Nagar	7 November 2020	Sunil Kumar Kushwaha		JD(U)	403,360	38.08	Pravesh Kumar Mishra		INC	380,821	35.95	22,539
1	Valmiki Nagar	7 November 2020	The Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha bypoll was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the incumbent MP, Baidyanath Prasad Mahto.

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party				Assembly segments
	NDA		BJP	96
			JD(U)	92
			LJP	35
		Total		223
	MGB		RJD	9
			INC	5
			HAM(S)	2
			CPI(ML)L	1
			RLSP	1
		Total		18
	Others		AIMIM	2
	Others	Total		2
Total				243

Notes

↑ RJD supports CPI(ML)L

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Final Voter turnout of Phase 1 to Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

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[:1-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Final Voter turnout of Phase 1 to Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

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