The 1999 Indian general election in Bihar were held for 54 seats with the state going to polls in the last three phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress led alliance. NDA, an alliance formed in last election, consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) whereas the Congress led alliance was constituted of the Indian National Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), Communist Party of India and the Marxist Co-ordination Committee.
The results indicated the complete reversal of the last election, NDA secured landslide victory winning 41 out of 54 seats. Bihar emerged as most successful state for NDA, winning most seats in any state, leading to their huge victory under Vajpayee in the election.
The results were huge setbacks for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) limiting their seats to just 7, even RJD Supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav lost his election from Madhepura constituency to Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal (United) in close fight by 30320 votes.
Election schedule The polling schedule for the 1999 General Elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 July 1999. Poll eventPhaseIIIIVVNotification date21 August30 August7 SeptemberLast date for filing nomination28 August6 September14 SeptemberScrutiny of nomination30 August7 September15 SeptemberLast Date for withdrawal of nomination1 September9 September17 SeptemberDate of poll18 September25 September3 OctoberDate of counting of votes/Result6 October 1999No. of constituencies191916
Voting PhasesIII (19 seats)IV (19 seats)V (16 seats)Dumka Godda Sasaram Bikramganj Aurangabad Jahanabad Nawada Gaya Chatra Kodaram Giridh Dhanbad Hazaribagh Ranchi Jamshedpur Singbhum Khunti Lohardagav PalamauBagaha Bettiah Motihari Gopalganj Siwan Maharajganj Chapra Hajipur Vaishali Muzaffarpur Darbhanga Barh Balia Munger Begusarai Nalanda Patna Arrah BuxarSitamarhi Sheohar Madhubani Jhanjharpur Rosera Samastipur Saharsa Madhepura Araria Kishanganj Purnia Katihar Banka Bhagalpur Khagaria Rajmahal
Parties and alliances
PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedBharatiya Janata PartyNand Kishore Yadav29Janata Dal (United)Sharad Yadav23Bihar People's PartyAnand Mohan Singh2
PartyFlagSymbolLeaderSeats contestedRashtriya Janata DalLalu Prasad Yadav 35 + 1Indian National Congress Sadanand Singh 15 + 1Communist Party of India (Marxist)Subodh Roy2Marxist Co-ordination CommitteeA. K. Roy1Communist Party of IndiaIndrajit Gupta1 + 8
Candidates ConstituencyNDAUPA # Name Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Bagaha (SC) Mahendra Baitha Purnmasi Ram2Bettiah Madan Prasad Jaiswal Mataour Rahman Triveni Tiwari 3 Motihari Radha Mohan Singh Rama Devi 4 Gopalganj Raghunath Jha Kali Prasad Pandey 5 Siwan Akhlaq Ahmed Mohammad Shahabuddin 6 Maharajganj Prabhunath Singh Mahachandra Prasad Singh 7 Chapra Rajiv Pratap Rudy Hira Lal Rai 8 Hajipur (SC) Ram Vilas Paswan Ramai Ram 9 Vaishali Lovely Anand Raghuvansh Prasad Singh 10 Muzaffarpur Jai Narain Prasad Nishad Mahendra Sahni 11 Sitamarhi Nawal Kishore Rai Suryadeo Rai 12 Sheohar Anand Mohan Singh Md Anwarul Haque13Madhubani Hukmdev Narayan Yadav Shakeel Ahmad Bhogendra Jha 14 Jhanjharpur Devendra Prasad Yadav Surendra Prasad Yadav 15 Darbhanga Kirti Azad Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi 16 Rosera (SC) Ram Chandra Paswan Pitambar Paswan 17 Samastipur Manjay Lal Ashok Singh 18 Barh Nitish Kumar Vijay Krishna19Balia Ramjivan Singh Ashok Kumar Shatrughan Prasad Singh 20 Saharsa Dinesh Chandra Yadav Surya Narayan Yadav 21 Madhepura Sharad Yadav Lalu Prasad 22 Araria (SC) Parmanand Rishidev Sukdeo Paswan 23 Kishanganj Syed Shahnawaz Hussain Taslimuddin 24 Purnea Jai Krishna Mandal Abdul Khalil Ahmad 25 Katihar Nikhil Kumar Choudhary Mubarak Hussain 26 Rajmahal (ST) Som Marandi Thomas Hansda 27 Dumka (ST) Babu Lal Marandi Ramesh Hembram28Godda Jagadambi Prasad Yadav Javed Iqbal Ansari Furqan Ansari Sanjay Kumar 29 Banka Digvijay Singh Shakuni Choudhary 30 Bhagalpur Prabhas Chandra Tiwari Subodh Ray31Khagaria Renu Kumari Nayana Rana Satyanarayan Singh 32 Monghyr Brahmanand Mandal Bijoy Kumar Bijoy 33 Begusarai Shyam Sundar Singh Rajo Singh 34 Nalanda George Fernandes Gaya Singh 35 Patna C P Thakur Ram Kripal Yadav 36 Arrah H P Singh Ram Prasad Kushwaha37Buxar Lalmuni Chaubey Shivanand Tiwary Tej Narayan Singh 38 Sasaram (SC) Muni Lall Ram Keshi Bharati 39 Bikramganj Vashisht Narayan Singh Kanti Singh 40 Aurangabad Sushil Kumar Singh Shyama Singh 41 Jahanabad Arun Kumar Surendra Prasad Yadav 42 Nawada (SC) Sanjay Paswan Vijay Kumar Chaudhary 43 Gaya (SC) Ramji Manjhi Rajesh Kumar 44 Chatra Dhirendra Agarwal Nagmani 45 Kodarma Rati Lal Prasad Verma Tilakdhari Singh 46 Giridih Ravindra Kumar Pandey Rajendra Prasad Singh 47 Dhanbad Rita Verma A. K. Roy48Hazaribagh Yashwant Sinha Aklu Ram Mahto Ishwari Ram Paswan Ramendra Kumar 49 Ranchi Ram Tahal Choudhary K. K. Tewary50Jamshedpur Abha Mahato Ghanashyam Mahato Dulal Munshi 51 Singhbhum (ST) Laxman Gilua Vijay Singh Soy 52 Khunti (ST) Kariya Munda Sushila Kerketta 53 Lohardaga (ST) Dukha Bhagat Indra Nath Bhagat 54 Palamu (SC) Braj Mohan Ram Jorawar Ram
Voting and results Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−rowspan="4" NDA BJP 82,04,850 23.01 1.02 29 23 3 JD(U) 74,05,701 20.77 New 23 18 18 BPP 6,07,810 1.70 New 2 0 Total 1,62,18,361 45.48 54 41 rowspan="6" RJD+ RJD 1,00,85,302 28.29 1.71 30 + 6 7 10 INC 31,42,603 8.81 1.54 12 + 4 4 1 CPI(M) 3,50,958 0.98 0.58 2 1 1 CPI 9,59,705 2.69 0.71 1 + 8 0 MCC 3,51,839 0.99 0.28 1 0 Total 1,48,90,407 41.76 46 + 18 12 CPI(M-L)L 8,79,081 2.47 0.35 23 0 JMM 7,27,510 2.04 0.41 13 0 NCP 4,76,004 1.34 New 19 0 BSP 3,38,049 0.95 0.42 30 0 Others 6,40,534 1.80 107 0 IND 14,82,483 4.16 2.19 187 1 1 Total 3,56,52,429 100% - 497 54 -
Constituency Wise Results Constituency Winner Runner Up Margin % # Name Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes %1Bagaha (SC)Mahendra BaithaJD(U)261,49845.86Purnmasi RamRJD206,74736.2554,7519.612BettiahMadan JaiswalBJP343,02749.78Mataour RahmanRJD303,37744.0339,6505.753MotihariRadha Mohan SinghBJP338,69650.02Rama DeviRJD317,02646.8221,6703.204GopalganjRaghunath JhaJD(U)365,10749.22Kali Prasad PandeyRJD328,98344.3536,1244.875SiwanM. SahabuddinRJD385,06954.83Amarnath YadavCPI(ML)255,22936.34129,84018.496MaharajganjPrabhunath SinghJD(U)398,47557.15Mahachandra Ps. SinghINC294,41242.22104,06314.937ChapraRajiv Pratap RudyBJP390,47750.71Hira Lal RaiRJD346,92445.0543,5535.668Hajipur (SC)Ram Vilas PaswanJD(U)434,60955.75Ramai RamRJD329,10542.21105,50413.549VaishaliRaghuvansh SinghRJD308,45843.46Lovely AnandBPP263,06637.0645,3926.4010MuzaffarpurJai Prasad NishadJD(U)363,82050.56Mahendra SahniRJD303,10042.1260,7208.4411SitamarhiNawal Kishore RaiJD(U)410,55755.28Suryadeo RaiRJD309,30041.64101,25713.6412SheoharMd Anwarul HaqueRJD347,27948.51Anand MohanBPP344,74448.152,5350.3613MadhubaniHukmdev YadavBJP328,61646.48Shakil AhmadINC266,00137.6362,6158.8514JhanjharpurDevendra Ps. YadavJD(U)375,85255.73Surendra Prasad YadavRJD248,03836.78127,81418.9515DarbhangaKirti AzadBJP395,54952.16Md Ali Ashraf FatmiRJD340,00144.8455,5487.3216Rosera (SC)Ram Ch. PaswanJD(U)420,56458.11Pitambar PaswanRJD277,64838.36142,91619.7517SamastipurManjay LalJD(U)368,77646.62Ashok SinghRJD356,08845.0212,6881.6018BarhNitish KumarJD(U)362,01648.23Vijay KrishnaRJD360,68148.051,3350.1819BaliaRamjivan SinghJD(U)169,44333.93Ashok KumarRJD157,41131.5212,0322.4120SaharsaDinesh Chandra YadavJD(U)392,92654.45Surya Narayan YadavRJD298,43341.3694,49313.0921MadhepuraSharad YadavJD(U)328,76150.70Lalu Prasad YadavRJD298,44146.0230,3204.6822Araria (SC)Sukdeo PaswanRJD308,57948.32Parmanand RishidevBJP306,41047.982,1690.3423KishanganjShahnawaz HussainBJP258,03535.96TaslimuddinRJD249,38734.758,6481.2124PurneaRajesh RanjanIND438,19363.17Jay Krishna MandalBJP185,62726.76252,56636.4125KatiharNikhil Kumar ChoudharyBJP280,91143.92Tariq AnwarNCP144,05922.52136,85221.4026Rajmahal (ST)Thomas HansdaINC250,29844.68Som MarandiBJP188,19933.5962,09911.0927Dumka (ST)Babulal MarandiBJP201,14136.87Rupi Soren KiskuJMM196,49336.024,6480.8528GoddaJagdambi Prasad YadavBJP221,19134.91Suraj MandalJMM141,29922.3079,89212.6129BankaDigvijay SinghJD(U)233,45337.28Giridhari YadavIND212,04533.8621,4083.4230BhagalpurSubodh RoyCPI(M)321,15947.94Prabhas TiwariBJP275,61941.1545,5406.7931KhagariaRenu KumariJD(U)293,41244.29Nayana RanaRJD261,59039.4931,8224.8032MonghyrBrahmanand MandalJD(U)346,61549.15Bijoy Kumar BijoyRJD324,80046.0521,8153.1033BegusaraiRajo SinghINC318,24450.10Shyam Sundar SinghJD(U)298,29446.9619,9503.1434NalandaGeorge FernandesJD(U)464,45853.29Gaya SinghCPI358,63741.15105,82112.1435PatnaC. P. ThakurBJP379,37047.30Ram Kripal YadavRJD332,47841.4546,8925.8536ArrahRam Prasad SinghRJD264,14038.74H. P. SinghJD(U)171,85825.2192,28213.5337BuxarLal Muni ChoubeyBJP235,96839.15Shivanand TiwariRJD224,36237.2211,6061.9338Sasaram (SC)Muni LallBJP257,22339.37Ram Keshi BharatiRJD238,54736.5118,6762.8639BikramganjKanti SinghRJD346,25947.12Vashisht Narayan SinghJD(U)311,49142.3834,7684.7440AurangabadShyama SinghINC317,41847.05Sushil Kumar SinghJD(U)247,00236.6170,41610.4441JahanabadArun KumarJD(U)333,33242.99Surendra Prasad YadavRJD316,04540.7717,2872.2242Nawada (SC)Sanjay PaswanBJP453,94353.38Vijay Kumar ChoudharyRJD369,85843.4984,0859.8943Gaya (SC)Ramji ManjhiBJP319,53050.21Rajesh KumarRJD298,74746.9420,7833.2744ChatraNagmaniRJD219,78352.73Dhirendra AgrawalBJP164,68439.5155,09913.2245KodarmaTilakdhari Prasad SinghINC273,80846.02Ritlal Prasad VermaBJP263,63044.3110,1781.7146GiridihRavindra Kumar PandeyBJP248,45446.70Rajendra Prasad SinghINC228,63042.9719,8243.7347DhanbadRita VermaBJP366,06548.07A. K. RoyMCC351,83946.2114,2261.8648HazaribaghYashwant SinhaBJP283,95647.98Akalu Ram MahtoRJD101,31417.12182,64230.8649RanchiRam Tahal ChoudharyBJP379,26165.72K. K. TewariINC138,08423.93241,17741.7950JamshedpurAbha MahatoBJP285,23245.40Ghanashyam MahatoINC163,74426.06121,48819.3451Singhbhum (ST)Laxman GiluaBJP231,23749.04Vijay Singh SoyINC148,92631.5982,31117.4552Khunti (ST)Kariya MundaBJP187,48446.31Sushila KerkettaINC161,22239.8226,2626.4953Lohardaga (ST)Dukha BhagatBJP163,65845.02Indra Nath BhagatINC159,83543.973,8231.0554Palamu (SC)Braj Mohan RamBJP271,65753.37Jorawar RamRJD186,53236.6585,12516.72
Assembly Segment wise lead PartyAssembly segmentsPosition in Assembly (as of 2000 election) Bharatiya Janata Party10767 Janata Dal (United)8921 Rashtriya Janata Dal70124 Indian National Congress2323 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha612 Communist Party of India55 Communist Party of India (Marxist)42 Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation36 Marxist Co-ordination Committee31 Bihar People's Party30 Nationalist Congress Party20 Others963Total324
Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Bihar (and Jharkhand) Bihar