2024 Indian general election in Bihar Opinion polls Turnout 56.28% ( 1.05 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 7.86%, 0 seats Seats won 12 12 5 Seat change 5 4 Popular vote 8,885,818 8,020,732 2,803,936 Percentage 20.52% 18.52% 6.47% Swing 3.53 pp 3.74 pp 1.39 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 4 2 2 Popular vote 9,588,365 3,983,882 1,293,538 Percentage 22.14% 9.20% 2.99% Swing 6.46 pp 1.35 pp 1.63 pp
Partywise result Alliance wise result
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
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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] On 15 February, Gandhi resumed his yatra from Bihar 's Aurangabad , where he promised a financial survey to assess the ground reality if his alliance comes to power.[ 6] The yatra resumed from 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] In Siwan on 23 February, Yadav termed the BJP "a dustbin" which takes in other parties that have become "garbage".[ 10] [ 11] The Rashtriya Janata Dal also worked to expand its social base while holding its core 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] In overall ticket distribution of the NDA and INDIA bloc, 16 Yadav candidates were made candidates out of 80 candidates from both sides. The 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 in every 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 TV9 Bharatvarsh - People's Insight - Polstrat 29 8 3 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% 3.53 17 12 5 JD(U) 8,020,732 18.52% 3.74 16 12 4 LJP(RV) 2,803,936 6.47% New 5 5 5 HAM 494,960 1.14% 1 1 1 RLM 253,876 0.58% New 1 0 Total 20,459,322 47.23% 40 30 9 INDIA RJD 9,588,365 22.14% 6.46 23 4 4 INC 3,983,882 9.20% 1.35 9 3 2 CPI(ML)L 1,293,538 2.99% 3 2 2 VIP 1,187,455 2.71% 1.05 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 8 Others IND 1 1 NOTA 8,97,323 2.07% Total 100% - 40 -
Results by constituency Constituency Turnout % Winner Runner Up Margin Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes % 1 Valmiki Nagar 60.33 Sunil Kumar JD(U) 5,23,422 47.5% Deepak Vadav RJD 4,24,747 38.55% 98,675 8.95% 2 Paschim Champaran 61.78 Sanjay Jaiswal BJP 5,80,421 53.43% Madan Mohan Tiwari INC 4,43,853 40.86% 1,36,568 12.57% 3 Purvi Champaran 59.90 Radha Mohan Singh BJP 5,80,421 50.5% Rajesh Kumar VIP 4,43,853 42.28% 88,287 8.22% 4 Sheohar 57.56 Lovely Anand JD(U) 476,612 45.15% Ritu Jaiswal RJD 4,47,469 42.39% 29,143 2.76% 5 Sitamarhi 56.25 Devesh Chandra Thakur JD(U) 5,15,719 47.14% Arjun Ray RJD 4,64,363 42.45% 51,356 4.69% 6 Madhubani 53.08 Ashok Kumar Yadav BJP 5,53,428 53.85% Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi RJD 4,24,747 39.07% 1,51,945 14.78% 7 Jhanjharpur 54.48% Ramprit Mandal JD(U) 5,33,032 48.73% Suman Kumar Mahaseth VIP 3,48,863 31.9% 1,84,169 16.83% 8 Supaul 63.55% Dileshwar Kamait JD(U) 5,95,038 48.33% Chandrahas Chaupal RJD 4,25,235 34.54% 1,69,803 13.79% 9 Araria 61.93% Pradeep Kumar Singh BJP 6,00,146 47.91% Mohammed Shahnawaz Alam RJD 5,80,052 46.31% 20,094 1.60% 10 Kishanganj 62.84% Mohammad Jawed INC 4,02,850 35% Mujahid Alam JD(U) 3,43,158 29.81% 59,692 5.19% 11 Katihar 63.76% Tariq Anwar INC 5,67,092 48.41% Dulal Chandra Goswami JD(U) 5,17,229 44.15% 49,863 4.26% 12 Purnia 63.08% Pappu Yadav Independent 5,67,556 47.46% Santosh Kumar JD(U) 5,43,709 45.47% 23,847 1.99% 13 Madhepura 58.29% Dinesh Chandra Yadav JD(U) 6,40,649 52.96% Da Kumar Chandrareep RJD 4,66,115 38.53% 1,74,534 14.43% 14 Darbhanga 57.37% Gopal Jee Thakur BJP 5,66,630 55.33% Lalit Kumar Yadav RJD 3,88,474 37.93% 1,78,156 17.40% 15 Muzaffarpur 59.47% Raj Bhushan Choudhary BJP 6,19,749 55.71% Ajay Nishad INC 3,84,822 34.59% 2,34,927 21.12% 16 Vaishali 62.59% Veena Devi LJP(RV) 5,67,043 48.38% Vijay Kumar Shukla RJD 4,77,409 40.73% 89,634 7.65% 17 Gopalganj (SC) 52.32% Alok Kumar Suman JD(U) 5,11,866 48.15% Chanchal Paswan VIP 3,84,686 36.19% 1,27,180 11.96% 18 Siwan 52.49% Vijaylakshmi Devi JD(U) 3,86,508 38.73% Hena Shahab Independent 2,93,651 29.42% 92,857 9.31% 19 Maharajganj 52.27% Janardan Singh BJP 5,29,533 52.22% Aakash Kumar Singh INC 4,26,882 42.09% 1,02,651 10.13% 20 Saran 56.73% Rajiv Pratap Rudy BJP 4,71,752 46.18% Rohini Acharya RJD 4,58,091 44.84% 13,661 1.34% 21 Hajipur (SC) 58.43% Chirag Paswan LJP(RV) 6,15,718 53.29% Shiv Chandra Ram RJD 4,45,613 38.57% 1,70,105 14.72% 22 Ujiarpur 59.59% Nityanand Rai BJP 5,15,965 49.51% Alok Kumar Mehta RJD 4,55,863 43.75% 60,102 5.76% 23 Samastipur (SC) 60.11% Shambhavi Choudhary LJP(RV) 5,79,786 52.97% Sunny Hazari INC 3,92,535 35.86% 1,87,251 17.11% 24 Begusarai 58.70% Giriraj Singh BJP 6,49,331 50.15% Abdhesh Kumar Roy CPI 5,67,851 43.86% 81,480 6.29% 25 Khagaria 57.48% Rajesh Verma LJP(RV) 5,38,657 50.73% Sanjay Kumar CPI(M) 3,77,526 35.55% 1,61,131 15.18% 26 Bhagalpur 53.50% Ajay Kumar Mandal JD(U) 5,36,031 50.38% Ajeet Sharma INC 4,31,163 40.52% 1,04,868 9.86% 27 Banka 54.48% Giridhari Yadav JD(U) 5,06,678 49.96% Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav RJD 4,02,834 39.72% 1,03,844 10.24% 28 Munger 55.55% Lalan Singh JD(U) 5,50,146 48.3% Kumari Anita RJD 4,69,276 41.2% 80,870 7.10% 29 Nalanda 49.78% Kaushalendra Kumar JD(U) 5,59,422 48.88% Sandeep Saurav CPI(ML)L 3,90,308 34.11% 1,69,114 14.77% 30 Patna Sahib 46.85% Ravi Shankar Prasad BJP 5,88,270 54.7% Anshul Avijit INC 4,34,424 40.39% 1,53,846 14.31% 31 Pataliputra 59.27% Misha Bharti RJD 6,13,283 49.86% Ram Kripal Yadav BJP 5,28,109 42.93% 85,174 6.93% 32 Arrah 50.27% Sudama Prasad CPI(ML)L 5,29,382 48.28% Raj Kumar Singh BJP 4,69,574 42.82% 59,808 5.46% 33 Buxar 55.39% Sudhakar Singh RJD 4,38,345 40.82% Mithilesh Tiwari BJP 4,08,254 38.02% 30,091 2.80% 34 Sasaram (SC) 57.16% Manoj Kumar INC 5,13,004 46.76% Shivesh Kumar BJP 4,93,847 45.01% 19,157 1.75% 35 Karakat 54.68% Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha CPI(ML)L 3,80,581 36.89% Pawan Singh Independent 2,74,723 26.63% 1,05,858 10.26% 36 Jahanabad 55.09% Surendra Prasad Yadav RJD 4,43,035 47.88% Chandeshwar Prasad JD(U) 3,00,444 32.47% 1,42,591 15.41% 37 Aurangabad 50.35% Abhay Kushwaha RJD 4,65,567 49.22% Sushil Kumar Singh BJP 3,86,456 40.86% 79,111 8.36% 38 Gaya (SC) 52.76% Jitan Ram Manjhi HAM(S) 4,94,960 51.36% Kumar Sarvjeet RJD 3,93,148 40.8% 1,01,812 10.56% 39 Nawada 43.17% Vivek Thakur BJP 4,10,608 47.2% Shrawan Kumar RJD 3,42,938 39.42% 67,670 7.78% 40 Jamui (SC) 51.25% Arun Bharti LJP(RV) 5,09,046 51.98% Archana Kumari RJD 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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