2019 Indian general election in Bihar

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 seven phases.

Election schedule The constituency-wise election schedule is as follows: PhasePoll dateConstituenciesVoter turnout (%)111 AprilAurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Jamui53.60218 AprilKishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Bhagalpur, Banka62.93323 AprilJhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria61.26429 AprilDarbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger59.3556 MaySitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Hajipur57.19612 MayValmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, Maharajganj58.65719 MayNalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, Jahanabad51.34

Parties and alliances

colspan="6" National Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Nityanand Rai 17 Nitish Kumar 17 Ram Vilas Paswan 6 Total40

colspan="6" United Progressive Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Lalu Prasad Yadav 19 Madan Mohan Jha 9 Upendra Kushwaha 5 Jitan Ram Manjhi 3 Mukesh Sahani 3 Dipankar Bhattacharya 1 Total40

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

Opinion Poll Date publishedPolling agencyLeadNDAMGB6 April 2019IndiaTV - CNX291118 5 April 2019 Republic TV - Jan Ki Baat31 922 Jan 2019 ABP News - CVoter 35 530 Nov 2018 ABP News - CVoter34 628Oct 2018ABP News - CSDS22 18431 922

Results Party wise 171661BJPJD(U)LJPINC

Results by Alliance or Party Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="4" 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 rowspan="7" 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 % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1Valmiki NagarBaidyanath Prasad MahtoJD(U)602,66058.38Shashwat KedarINC248,04424.03354,61634.352Paschim ChamparanSanjay JaiswalBJP603,70659.57Brijesh Kumar KushwahaRLSP309,80030.57293,90629.003Purvi ChamparanRadha Mohan SinghBJP577,78757.77Aakash Kumar SinghRLSP284,13928.41293,64829.364SheoharRama DeviBJP608,67860.57Syed Faisal AliRJD268,31826.70340,36033.875SitamarhiSunil Kumar PintuJD(U)567,74554.61Arjun RayRJD317,20630.51250,53924.106MadhubaniAshok Kumar YadavBJP595,84361.76Badri Kumar PurbeyVSIP140,90314.61454,94047.157JhanjharpurRamprit MandalJD(U)602,39156.70Gulab YadavRJD279,44026.30322,95130.408SupaulDileshwar KamaitJD(U)597,37753.77Ranjeet RanjanINC330,52429.75266,85324.029ArariaPradeep Kumar SinghBJP618,43452.87Sarfaraz AlamRJD481,19341.14137,24111.7310KishanganjMohammad JawedINC367,01733.32Syed Mahmood AshrafJD(U)332,55130.1934,4663.1311KatiharDulal Chandra GoswamiJD(U)559,42350.02Tariq AnwarINC502,22044.9157,2035.1112PurniaSantosh Kumar KushwahaJD(U)632,92454.85Uday SinghINC369,46332.02263,46122.8313MadhepuraDinesh Chandra YadavJD(U)624,33454.40Sharad YadavRJD322,80728.13301,52726.2714DarbhangaGopal Jee ThakurBJP586,66860.76Abdul Bari SiddiquiRJD318,68933.01267,97927.7515MuzaffarpurAjay NishadBJP666,87863.00Raj Bhushan ChoudharyVSIP256,89024.27409,98838.7316VaishaliVeena DeviLJP568,21552.87Raghuvansh Prasad SinghRJD333,63131.04234,58421.8317GopalganjAlok Kumar SumanJD(U)568,15055.37Surendra RamRJD281,71627.46286,43427.9118SiwanKavita SinghJD(U)448,47345.54Hena ShahabRJD331,51533.66116,95811.8819MaharajganjJanardan Singh SigriwalBJP546,35256.15Randhir Kumar SinghRJD315,58032.43230,77223.7220SaranRajiv Pratap RudyBJP499,98652.99Chandrika RoyRJD361,57538.32138,41114.6721Hajipur (SC)Pashupati Kumar ParasLJP541,31053.72Shiv Chandra RamRJD335,86133.33205,44920.3922UjiarpurNityanand RaiBJP543,90656.08Upendra KushwahaRLSP266,62827.49277,27828.5923Samastipur (SC)Ram Chandra PaswanLJP562,44355.15Dr. Ashok KumarINC310,80030.48251,64324.6724BegusaraiGiriraj SinghBJP692,19356.44Kanhaiya KumarCPI269,97622.01422,21734.4325KhagariaMehboob Ali KaiserLJP510,19352.74Mukesh SahaniVSIP261,62327.04248,57025.7026BhagalpurAjay Kumar MandalJD(U)618,25459.27Shailesh Kumar MandalRJD340,62432.65277,63026.6227BankaGiridhari YadavJD(U)477,78847.98Jay Prakash NarayanRJD277,25627.84200,53220.1428MungerLalan SinghJD(U)528,76251.02Nilam DeviINC360,82534.81167,93716.2129NalandaKaushalendra KumarJD(U)540,88852.42Ashok Kumar AzadHAM(S)284,75127.60256,13724.8230Patna SahibRavi Shankar PrasadBJP607,50661.81Shatrughan SinhaINC322,84932.85284,65728.9631PataliputraRam Kripal YadavBJP509,55747.23Misa BhartiRJD470,23643.5939,3213.6432ArrahR. K. SinghBJP566,48052.33Raju YadavCPI(ML)L419,19538.73147,28513.6033BuxarAshwini ChoubeyBJP473,05347.93Jagada Nand SinghRJD355,44436.01117,60911.9234Sasaram (SC)Chhedi PaswanBJP494,80050.72Meira KumarINC329,05533.73165,74516.9935KarakatMahabali SinghJD(U)398,40845.82Upendra KushwahaRLSP313,86636.1084,5429.7236JahanabadChandeshwar PrasadJD(U)335,58440.81Surendra Prasad YadavRJD333,83340.601,7510.2137AurangabadSushil Kumar SinghBJP427,72145.72Upendra PrasadHAM(S)357,16938.1870,5527.5438Gaya (SC)Vijay Kumar ManjhiJD(U)467,00748.77Jitan Ram ManjhiHAM(S)314,58132.85152,42615.9239NawadaChandan SinghLJP495,68452.47Vibha Devi YadavRJD347,61236.80148,07215.6740Jamui (SC)Chirag PaswanLJP529,13455.72Bhudeo ChoudharyRLSP288,08530.34241,04925.38

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Bihar #NameConstituencyDesignationDepartmentFromToParty1Giriraj SinghBegusaraiCabinet MinisterMinister of Rural DevelopmentMinister of Panchayati Raj(from July 2021)Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying(until July 2021)31 May20199 June20242R. K. SinghArrahMinister of PowerMinister of New and Renewable Energy(Cabinet rank from July 2021, MoS (I/C) prior)MoS for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship(until July 2021)3Ravi Shankar PrasadPatna SahibMinister of Law and JusticeMinister of CommunicationsMinister of Electronics and Information Technology7 July20214Ashwini Kumar ChoubeyBuxarMoSMinistry 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 June20245Nityanand RaiUjiarpurMinistry of Home Affairs9 June20246Ram Vilas PaswanRajya Sabha(Bihar)Cabinet MinisterMinister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution8 October2020(Died)7Pashupati Kumar ParasHajipur (SC)Minister of Food Processing Industries7 July202119 March2024(Resigned)8Ramchandra Prasad SinghRajya Sabha(Bihar)Minister of Steel6 July2022(Resigned)

By-Polls Held ConstituencyWinnerRunner UpMargin No. Name Date Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %23Samastipur (SC)21 October 2019Prince Raj390,27649.48Ashok Kumar288,18636.54102,090The Samastipur Lok Sabha bypoll was held to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the incumbent MP, Ram Chandra Paswan.1Valmiki Nagar7 November 2020Sunil Kumar Kushwaha403,36038.08Pravesh Kumar Mishra380,82135.9522,539The 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

PartyAssembly segmentsrowspan="4" NDABJP96 JD(U)92 LJP35Total223rowspan="6" MGB RJD9 INC5 HAM(S)2 CPI(ML)L1 RLSP1Total18rowspan="2" OthersAIMIM2Total2Total243

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