2009 Indian general election in Bihar

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 consisted 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

colspan="6" National Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Nitish Kumar 25 Radha Mohan Singh15 Total40

Fourth Front PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedRashtriya Janata DalLalu Prasad Yadav28Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas Paswan12

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedIndian National CongressAnil Kumar Sharma38Nationalist Congress PartyTariq Anwar1 + 1 Total 39 + 1

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

Voting and results Source: Election Commission of Indiahttp://eci.nic.in/

Results by Alliance + ↓ 32 4 2 2

Results by Alliance or Party Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="3" NDA JD(U) 58,25,874 24.04 25 20 14 BJP 33,76,109 13.93 15 12 7 Total 92,01,983 37.97 40 32 21 rowspan="3" FFR RJD 46,78,880 19.31 28 4 18 LJP 15,86,404 6.54 12 0 4 Total 62,65,284 25.85 40 4 22 INC 24,87,008 10.26 37 2 1 BSP 10,71,808 4.42 39 0 CPI(M-L)L 4,59,279 1.90 20 0 CPI 3,39,964 1.40 7 0 NCP 2,94,469 1.22 2 0 CPI(M) 1,24,007 0.51 5 0 JMM 1,08,841 0.45 4 0 Others 9,42,733 3.89 175 0 IND 29,37,221 12.12 304 2 Total 2,42,32,597 100% – 672 40 –

Notes: FFR 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 % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1Valmiki NagarBaidyanath Prasad MahtoJD(U)277,69646.40FakhruddinIND94,02115.71183,67530.692Paschim ChamparanSanjay JaiswalBJP198,78138.56Prakash JhaLJP151,43829.3847,3439.183Purvi ChamparanRadha Mohan SinghBJP201,11441.74Akhilesh Prasad SinghRJD121,82425.2879,29016.464SheoharRama DeviBJP233,49940.80Md. Anwarul HaqueBSP107,81518.84125,68421.965SitamarhiArjun RoyJD(U)232,78240.36Samir Kumar MahasethINC122,21621.19110,56619.176MadhubaniHukmdev Narayan YadavBJP164,09429.48Abdul Bari SiddiquiRJD154,16727.709,9271.787JhanjharpurMangani Lal MandalJD(U)265,17543.63Devendra Prasad YadavRJD192,46631.6672,70911.978SupaulVishwa Mohan KumarJD(U)313,67744.96Ranjeet RanjanINC147,60221.16166,07523.809ArariaPradeep Kumar SinghBJP282,74238.71Zakir Hussain KhanLJP260,24035.6322,5023.0810KishanganjMohammad Asrarul HaqueINC239,40538.19Syed Mahmood AshrafJD(U)159,13625.3880,26912.8111KatiharNikhil Kumar ChoudharyBJP269,83437.23Tariq AnwarNCP255,81935.3014,0151.9312PurniaUday SinghBJP362,95251.50Shanti PriyaIND176,72525.08186,22726.4213MadhepuraSharad YadavJD(U)370,58548.99Prof. Ravindra Charan YadavRJD192,96425.51177,62123.4814DarbhangaKirti AzadBJP239,26843.85Ali Ashraf FatmiRJD192,81535.3346,4538.5215MuzaffarpurJai Narain Prasad NishadJD(U)195,09131.37Bhagwanlal SahniLJP147,28223.6947,8097.6816VaishaliRaghuvansh Prasad SinghRJD284,47945.53Vijay Kumar ShuklaJD(U)262,17141.9622,3083.5717GopalganjPurnmasi RamJD(U)200,02439.64Anil KumarRJD157,55231.2242,4728.4218SiwanOm Prakash YadavIND236,19436.80Hena ShahabRJD172,76426.9163,4309.8919MaharajganjUma Shanaker SinghRJD211,61035.30Prabhunath SinghJD(U)208,81334.832,7970.4720SaranLalu Prasad YadavRJD274,20947.21Rajiv Pratap RudyBJP222,39438.2951,8158.9221HajipurRam Sundar DasJD(U)246,71544.44Ram Vilas PaswanLJP208,76137.6137,9546.8322UjiarpurAshwamedh DeviJD(U)180,08231.92Alok Kumar MehtaRJD154,77027.4325,3124.4923SamastipurMaheshwar HazariJD(U)259,45844.37Ram Chandra PaswanLJP155,08226.52104,37617.8524BegusaraiMonazir HassanJD(U)205,68028.64Shatrughan Prasad SinghCPI164,84322.9540,8375.6925KhagariaDinesh Chandra YadavJD(U)266,96442.72Rabindra Kumar RanaRJD128,20920.51138,75522.2126BhagalpurSyed Shahnawaz HussainBJP228,38436.30Shakuni ChoudharyRJD172,57327.4355,8118.8727BankaDigvijay SinghIND185,76228.48Jay Prakash Narayan YadavRJD157,04624.0828,7164.4028MungerLalan SinghJD(U)374,31757.50Ram Badan RoyRJD184,95628.41189,36129.0929NalandaKaushalendra KumarJD(U)299,15552.65Satish Kumar YadavLJP146,47825.78152,67726.8730Patna SahibShatrughan SinhaBJP316,54957.30Vijay KumarRJD149,77927.11166,77030.1931PataliputraRanjan Prasad YadavJD(U)269,29842.86Lalu Prasad YadavRJD245,75739.1223,5413.7432ArrahMeena SinghJD(U)212,72638.24Rama Kishore SinghLJP138,00624.8174,72013.4333BuxarJagada Nand SinghRJD132,61421.27Lalmuni ChaubeyBJP130,37620.912,2380.3634SasaramMeira KumarINC192,21332.09Muni LallBJP149,25924.9242,9547.1735KarakatMahabali SinghJD(U)196,94634.13Kanti SinghRJD176,46330.5820,4833.5536JahanabadJagdish SharmaJD(U)234,76939.18Surendra Prasad YadavRJD213,44235.6221,3273.5637AurangabadSushil Kumar SinghJD(U)260,15343.48Shakeel Ahmad KhanRJD188,09531.4472,05812.0438GayaHari ManjhiBJP246,25543.65Ramji ManjhiRJD183,80232.5862,45311.0739NawadaBhola SinghBJP130,60822.46Veena DeviLJP95,69116.4534,9176.0140JamuiBhudeo ChoudharyJD(U)178,56033.36Shyam RajakRJD148,76327.7929,7975.57

Bye-elections The Banka Lok Sabha bypoll was held because the sitting MP Digvijay Singh died following a brain haemorrhage at a London hospital on 20 June 2010, which caused the seat to fall vacant. The Maharajganj Lok Sabha bypoll was held because the sitting MP Umashankar Singh died on 26 April 2013, resulting in the seat falling vacant.

No. ConstituencyElected M.PParty27 Banka Putul Kumari (Elected in bypoll 2010) Independent19MaharajganjPrabhunath Singh (Elected in bypoll 2013)Rashtriya Janata Dal

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

PartyAssembly segmentsrowspan="3" NDA JD(U) 110BJP 65Total175rowspan="3" Fourth Front RJD 33 LJP 5Total38rowspan="3" UPAINC 10 NCP 3Total13rowspan="6" OthersCPI3BSP2CPI(M)1CPI(ML)L1Independent10Total17Total243

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