18th Indian general election election in Bihar
2024 Indian general election in Bihar Opinion polls Turnout 56.19% (pp ) First party Second party Third party Leader Samrat Chaudhary Nitish Kumar Chirag Paswan Party BJP JD(U) LJP(RV) Alliance NDA NDA NDA Leader since 2023 2003 2021 Leader's seat Did not contest Did not contest Hajipur (won) Last election 23.58%, 17 seats 21.81%, 16 seats 15.38%, 0 seats Seats won 12 12 5 Seat change Popular vote 8,885,818 8,020,732 2,803,936 Percentage 20.52% 18.52% 6.47% Swing pp pp pp Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party Leader Tejashwi Yadav Akhilesh Prasad Singh Rajaram Singh and Sudama Prasad Party RJD INC CPI(ML)L Alliance INDIA INDIA INDIA Leader since 2020 2022 2024 Leader's seat Did not contest Did not contest Karakat (won) and Arrah (won) Last election 15.38%, 0 seats 7.70%, 1 seat 1.36%, 0 seats Seats won 4 3 2 Seat change Popular vote 9,588,365 3,983,882 1,293,538 Percentage 22.14% 9.20% 2.99% Swing pp pp pp
Seatwise Result Map of the 2024 general election in Bihar
The 2024 Indian general election was held in Bihar in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 40 members of the 18th Lok Sabha , with the results declared on 4 June.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Bihar, along with Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal , were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.[ 4]
Election schedule Phase wise schedule of 2024 Indian general election in Bihar Poll event Phase I II III IV V VI VII Notification Date 20 March 28 March 12 April 18 April 26 April 29 April 7 May Last Date for filing nomination 28 March 4 April 19 April 25 April 3 May 6 May 14 May Scrutiny of nomination 30 March 5 April 20 April 26 April 4 May 7 May 15 May Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 02 March 8 April 22 April 29 April 6 May 9 May 17 May Date of poll 19 April 26 April 7 May 13 May 20 May 25 May 1 June Date of counting of votes/Result 4 June 2024 No. of constituencies 4 5 5 5 5 8 8
Parties and alliances
Others
Candidates
Campaigns
Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance The Indian National Congress began its Bihar section of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Kishanganj on 28 January 2024. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised chief minister Nitish Kumar for rejoining the NDA and said that the Mahagathbandhan did not need him and that it would keep fighting for social justice.[ 5] Bihar 's Aurangabad , where he promised a financial survey to assess the ground reality if his alliance comes to power.[ 6] Sasaram the next day, where Rashtriya Janata Dal chairperson and former state deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav joined the yatra, touring the state with Gandhi in a jeep.[ 7]
The Rashtriya Janata Dal began its campaign with its Jan Vishwas Yatra ("People's Trust Yatra") on 20 February 2024. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav launched the yatra from Muzaffarpur in Bihar . The yatra will last till 1 March 2024 and will have covered 33 districts.[ 8] [ 9] Siwan on 23 February, Yadav termed the BJP "a dustbin" which takes in other parties that have become "garbage".[ 10] [ 11] Muslim -Yadav support base firmly. The majority of the candidates of Rashtriya Janata Dal on all 23 seats it contested were from Other Backward Class and Extremely Backward Castes. The party fielded 8 Yadav candidates, while the Koeri and Kurmis also got a fair share. It fielded three Koeris, Alok Kumar Mehta from Ujiarpur, Shravan Kushwaha from Nawada and Abhay Kushwaha from Aurangabad constituency. RJD also fielded six women candidates– Ritu Jaiswal (Sheohar), Anita Devi Mahto (Munger), Bima Bharati (Purnea), Archana Ravidas (Jamui), Misa Bharti (Pataliputra) and Rohini Acharya from Saran.[ 12]
RJD also faced opposition from its own party members in constituencies like Nawada, where RJD's sitting legislators Vibha Devi and Prakash Veer were spotted campaigning for independent candidate Vinod Yadav, brother of former RJD legislator, Rajballabh Yadav instead of party's declared candidate Shravan Kushwaha.[ 13] Koeris with 11 candidates were the second largest caste.[ 14]
Events and outcomes During the election, the Karakat Lok Sabha constituency in the Rohtas district of Bihar drew nationwide attention, when Bhojpuri singer and actor Pawan Singh declared that he will contest the Lok Sabha election from there. Earlier, Singh was made a candidate of Bharatiya Janata Party from Asansol Lok Sabha constituency against Shatrughan Sinha , but Singh refused to contest from there. Unable to secure the candidature of National Democratic Alliance from Arrah Lok Sabha constituency , he made the contest in the Karakat triangular. It was speculated that he will cut the major chunk of NDA votes of Rajput caste, the community to which he belonged. In the aftermath of voting process, Singh was able to get over two lakh votes, pushing NDA candidate Upendra Kushwaha to the third spot. He was, however, defeated by Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation by a margin of over one lakh votes. The division in votes of NDA due to Singh led to the victory of CPIML candidate.[ 15] [ 16]
However, the defeat of former union minister Upendra Kushwaha , who was considered as the tallest leader of the Koeri caste in Bihar, sent shockwaves across the state, specially in the Magadh and Shahabad belt. There witnessed a palpable anger amongst the member of Koeri caste on Pawan Singh contesting from the constituency considered as the stronghold of the community against Upendra Kushwaha. As a consequence, the Koeris across the Shahabad voted again the Rajput candidates and the Bharatiya Janata Party as the Rashtriya Janata Dal and its alliance partners like CPIML were successful in conveying the message that Pawan Singh was sent by Bharatiya Janata Party to spoil the votes of Upendra Kushwaha. This led to defeat of veteran Rajput leaders R. K. Singh and Sushil Kumar Singh in the nearby Arrah and Aurangabad constituency. Besides this, NDA also lost Buxar and Sasaram leading to wiping out of BJP from the whole Shahabad region.[ 17] [ 18]
Earlier, BJP had raised Samrat Chaudhary to the post of party's Bihar unit president in a bid to bring Kushwahas within the fold of BJP. However, discontent was seen amongst the Kushwahas on the ground level as Chaudary was not able to field any Kushwaha candidate on the symbol of BJP in 2024 polls. Although, only two out of seven Kushwaha candidates were able to win from the INDIA alliance, the margin of victory of the NDA candidates was drastically reduced on evey seat, where there was a Kushwaha candidate from the side of INDIA bloc. This showed major chunk of Kushwaha voters supporting and voting for INDIA as against NDA.[ 19]
Surveys and polls
Opinion polls
Exit polls Polling agency Lead NDA INDIA Others India Today Axis My India 29-33 7-10 0 NDA DB Live 14-16 24-26 0 INDIA Jan Ki Baat 33-37 3-7 0 NDA News18 31-34 6-9 0 NDA ABP C-Voter 35-38 3-5 0 NDA 2019 Election Results 39 1 0 NDA Actual Results 30 9 1 NDA
Voter turnout
Phase wise Phase Poll Date Constituencies[ 31] Voter Turnout (%)[ 32] I 19 April 2024 Aurangabad , Gaya , Nawada , Jamui 49.26% II 26 April 2024 Kishanganj , Purnia , Katihar , Bhagalpur , Banka 59.45% III 7 May 2024 Jhanjarpur , Supaul , Araria , Madhepura , Khagaria 59.14% IV 13 May 2024 Darbhanga , Ujiarpur , Samastipur , Begusarai , Munger 58.21% V 20 May 2024 Sitamarhi , Madhubani , Muzaffarpur , Saran , Hajipur 56.76% VI 25 May 2024 Valmiki Nagar , Paschim Champaran , Purvi Champaran , Sheohar , Vaishali , Gopalganj , Siwan , Maharajganj 57.18% VII 1 June 2024 Nalanda , Patna Sahib , Pataliputra , Arrah , Buxar , Sasaram , Karakat , Jahanabad 53.29% Total
Constituency wise
Results
Results by alliance or party Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− NDA BJP 8,885,818 20.52% 17 12 JD(U) 8,020,732 18.52% 16 12 LJP(RV) 2,803,936 6.47% New 5 5 HAM 494,960 1.14% 1 1 RLM 253,876 0.58% New 1 0 Total 20,459,322 47.23% 40 30 INDIA RJD 9,588,365 22.14% 23 4 INC 3,983,882 9.20% 9 3 CPI(ML)L 1,293,538 2.99% 3 2 VIP 1,187,455 3 0 CPI 564,310 1.30% 1 0 CPI(M) 375,988 0.87% 1 0 Total 16,993,538 39.21% 40 9 Others IND 1 NOTA 8,97,323 2.07% Total 100% - 40 -
Results by constituency Constituency Turnout Winner Runner Up Margin Party Alliance Candidate Votes % Party Alliance Candidate Votes % Votes % 1 Valmiki Nagar 60.19% JD(U) NDA Sunil Kumar 5,23,422 47.5% RJD INDIA Deepak Vadav 4,24,747 38.55% 98,675 8.95% 2 Paschim Champaran 61.62% BJP NDA Sanjay Jaiswal 5,80,421 53.43% INC INDIA Madan Mohan Tiwari 4,43,853 40.86% 1,36,568 12.57% 3 Purvi Champaran 59.68% BJP NDA Radha Mohan Singh 5,80,421 50.5% VIP INDIA Rajesh Kumar 4,43,853 42.28% 88,287 8.22% 4 Sheohar 57.40% JD(U) NDA Lovely Anand 5,23,422 45.15% RJD INDIA Ritu Jaiswal 4,24,747 42.39% 29,143 2.76% 5 Sitamarhi 56.21% JD(U) NDA Devesh Chandra Thakur 5,15,719 47.14% RJD INDIA Arjun Ray 4,64,363 42.45% 51,356 4.69% 6 Madhubani 53.04% BJP NDA Ashok Kumar Yadav 5,53,428 53.85% RJD INDIA Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi 4,24,747 39.07% 1,51,945 14.78% 7 Jhanjharpur 54.48% JD(U) NDA Ramprit Mandal 5,33,032 48.73% VIP INDIA Suman Kumar Mahaseth 3,48,863 31.9% 1,84,169 16.83% 8 Supaul 63.55% JD(U) NDA Dileshwar Kamait 5,95,038 48.33% RJD INDIA Chandrahas Chaupal 4,25,235 34.54% 1,69,803 13.79% 9 Araria 61.93% BJP NDA Pradeep Kumar Singh 6,00,146 47.91% RJD INDIA Mohammed Shahnawaz Alam 5,80,052 46.31% 20,094 1.60% 10 Kishanganj 62.84% INC INDIA Mohammad Jawed 4,02,850 35% JD(U) NDA Mujahid Alam 3,43,158 29.81% 59,692 5.19% 11 Katihar 63.76% INC INDIA Tariq Anwar 5,67,092 48.41% JD(U) NDA Dulal Chandra Goswami 5,17,229 44.15% 49,863 4.26% 12 Purnia 63.08% Independent Others Pappu Yadav 5,67,556 47.46% JD(U) NDA Santosh Kumar 5,43,709 45.47% 23,847 1.99% 13 Madhepura 58.29% JD(U) NDA Dinesh Chandra Yadav 6,40,649 52.96% RJD INDIA Da Kumar Chandrareep 4,66,115 38.53% 1,74,534 14.43% 14 Darbhanga 57.37% BJP NDA Gopal Jee Thakur 5,66,630 55.33% RJD INDIA Lalit Kumar Yadav 3,88,474 37.93% 1,78,156 17.40% 15 Muzaffarpur 59.47% BJP NDA Raj Bhushan Choudhary 6,19,749 55.71% INC INDIA Ajay Nishad 3,84,822 34.59% 2,34,927 21.12% 16 Vaishali 62.59% LJP(RV) NDA Veena Devi 5,67,043 48.38% RJD INDIA Vijay Kumar Shukla 4,77,409 40.73% 89,634 7.65% 17 Gopalganj (SC) 52.32% JD(U) NDA Alok Kumar Suman 5,11,866 48.15% VIP INDIA Chanchal Paswan 3,84,686 36.19% 1,27,180 11.96% 18 Siwan 52.49% JD(U) NDA Vijaylakshmi Devi 3,86,508 38.73% Independent Others Hena Shahab 2,93,651 29.42% 92,857 9.31% 19 Maharajganj 52.27% BJP NDA Janardan Singh 5,29,533 52.22% INC INDIA Aakash Kumar Singh 4,26,882 42.09% 1,02,651 10.13% 20 Saran 56.73% BJP NDA Rajiv Pratap Rudy 4,71,752 46.18% RJD INDIA Rohini Acharya 4,58,091 44.84% 13,661 1.34% 21 Hajipur (SC) 58.43% LJP(RV) NDA Chirag Paswan 6,15,718 53.29% RJD INDIA Shiv Chandra Ram 4,45,613 38.57% 1,70,105 14.72% 22 Ujiarpur 59.59% BJP NDA Nityanand Rai 5,15,965 49.51% RJD INDIA Alok Kumar Mehta 4,55,863 43.75% 60,102 5.76% 23 Samastipur (SC) 60.11% LJP(RV) NDA Shambhavi Choudhary 5,79,786 52.97% INC INDIA Sunny Hazari 3,92,535 35.86% 1,87,251 17.11% 24 Begusarai 58.70% BJP NDA Giriraj Singh 6,49,331 50.15% CPI INDIA Abdhesh Kumar Roy 5,67,851 43.86% 81,480 6.29% 25 Khagaria 57.48% LJP(RV) NDA Rajesh Verma 5,38,657 50.73% CPI(M) INDIA Sanjay Kumar 3,77,526 35.55% 1,61,131 15.18% 26 Bhagalpur 53.50% JD(U) NDA Ajay Kumar Mandal 5,36,031 50.38% INC INDIA Ajeet Sharma 4,31,163 40.52% 1,04,868 9.86% 27 Banka 54.48% JD(U) NDA Giridhari Yadav 5,06,678 49.96% RJD INDIA Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav 4,02,834 39.72% 1,03,844 10.24% 28 Munger 55.55% JD(U) NDA Lalan Singh 5,50,146 48.3% RJD INDIA Kumari Anita 4,69,276 41.2% 80,870 7.10% 29 Nalanda 49.78% JD(U) NDA Kaushalendra Kumar 5,59,422 48.88% CPI(ML)L INDIA Sandeep Saurav 3,90,308 34.11% 1,69,114 14.77% 30 Patna Sahib 46.85% BJP NDA Ravi Shankar Prasad 5,88,270 54.7% INC INDIA Anshul Avijit 4,34,424 40.39% 1,53,846 14.31% 31 Pataliputra 59.27% RJD INDIA Misha Bharti 6,13,283 49.86% BJP NDA Ram Kripal Yadav 5,28,109 42.93% 85,174 6.93% 32 Arrah 50.27% CPI(ML)L INDIA Sudama Prasad 5,29,382 48.28% BJP NDA Raj Kumar Singh 4,69,574 42.82% 59,808 5.46% 33 Buxar 55.39% RJD INDIA Sudhakar Singh 4,38,345 40.82% BJP NDA Mithilesh Tiwari 4,08,254 38.02% 30,091 2.80% 34 Sasaram (SC) 57.16% INC INDIA Manoj Kumar 5,13,004 46.76% BJP NDA Shivesh Kumar 4,93,847 45.01% 19,157 1.75% 35 Karakat 54.68% CPI(ML)L INDIA Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha 3,80,581 36.89% Independent Others Pawan Singh 2,74,723 26.63% 1,05,858 10.26% 36 Jahanabad 55.09% RJD INDIA Surendra Prasad Yadav 4,43,035 47.88% JD(U) NDA Chandeshwar Prasad 3,00,444 32.47% 1,42,591 15.41% 37 Aurangabad 50.35% RJD INDIA Abhay Kushwaha 4,65,567 49.22% BJP NDA Sushil Kumar Singh 3,86,456 40.86% 79,111 8.36% 38 Gaya (SC) 52.76% HAM(S) NDA Jitan Ram Manjhi 4,94,960 51.36% RJD INDIA Kumar Sarvjeet 3,93,148 40.8% 1,01,812 10.56% 39 Nawada 43.17% BJP NDA Vivek Thakur 4,10,608 47.2% RJD INDIA Shrawan Kumar 3,42,938 39.42% 67,670 7.78% 40 Jamui (SC) 51.25% LJP(RV) NDA Arun Bharti 5,09,046 51.98% RJD INDIA Archana Kumari 4,45,613 40.5% 1,12,482 11.48%
Assembly segments wise lead of Parties 2024 Bihar Lok Sabha Elections Assembly Wise Leads Map
See also
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