2019 Indian general election in Bihar explained

Election Name:	Indian general election, 2019 in Bihar
Country:	India
Type:	Legislative
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	Indian general election, 2014 (Bihar)
Previous Year:	2014
Next Election:	2024 Indian general election in Bihar
Next Year:	2024
Seats For Election:	All 40 constituencies from Bihar to the Lok Sabha
Election Date:	11, 18, 23, 29 April, 6, 12 and 19 May 2019.
Turnout:	57.33% (1.07%)
Leader1:	Nityanand Rai
Party1:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Alliance1:	National Democratic Alliance (India)
Leaders Seat1:	Ujiarpur (Won)
Last Election1:	22
Seats1:	17
Seat Change1:	5
Percentage1:	23.58
Swing1:	5.82
Leader2:	Nitish Kumar
Party2:	Janata Dal (United)
Alliance2:	National Democratic Alliance (India)
Leaders Seat2:	Did not contest
Last Election2:	2
Seats2:	16
Seat Change2:	14
Percentage2:	21.81
Swing2:	6.01
Leader3:	Ram Vilas Paswan
Party3:	Lok Janshakti Party
Alliance3:	National Democratic Alliance (India)
Leaders Seat3:	Did not contest
Last Election3:	6
Seats3:	6
Percentage3:	7.86
Swing3:	1.46
Leader4:	Madan Mohan Jha
Party4:	Indian National Congress
Alliance4:	Mahagathbandhan (Bihar)
Leaders Seat4:	Did not contest
Last Election4:	2
Seats4:	1
Seat Change4:	1
Percentage4:	7.70
Swing4:	0.7
Leader5:	Lalu Prasad Yadav
Party5:	Rashtriya Janata Dal
Alliance5:	Mahagathbandhan (Bihar)
Leaders Seat5:	Did not contest
Last Election5:	4
Seats5:	0
Seat Change5:	4
Percentage5:	15.36
Swing5:	4.74
Leader6:	Kanhaiya Kumar
Party6:	Communist Party of India
Alliance6:	LF
Leaders Seat6:	Begusarai (lost)
Last Election6:	0
Seats6:	0
Percentage6:	2.21%

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 7 phases.

Election Schedule

The constituency-wise election schedule is as follows:

Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies	Voter Turnout (%)
1	11 April	Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Jamui	53.60^[1]
2	18 April	Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Bhagalpur, Banka	62.93
3	23 April	Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria	61.26
4	29 April	Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger	59.35
5	6 May	Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Hajipur	57.19
6	12 May	Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, Maharajganj	58.65
7	19 May	Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, Jahanabad	51.34

Alliances

	Constituency	Candidates^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6]
1	Valmiki Nagar		Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		Shashwat Kedar
2	Paschim Champaran		Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal		Brajesh Kumar Kushwaha
3	Purvi Champaran		Radha Mohan Singh		Akash Kumar Singh		Prabhakar Jaiswal
4	Sheohar		Rama Devi		Syed Faisal Ali		Devendra Prasad Singh
5	Sitamarhi		Sunil Kumar Pintu		Arjun Rai		Braj Kishor
6	Madhubani		Ashok Kumar Yadav		Badrinath Purve
7	Jhanjharpur		Ramprit Mandal		Gulab Yadav		Surendra Prasad Suman
8	Supaul		Dileshwar Kamait		Ranjeet Ranjan
9	Araria		Pradeep Kumar Singh		Sarfaraz Alam
10	Kishanganj		Mahmood Ashraf		Mohammad Jawed
11	Katihar		Dulal Chandra Goswami		Tariq Anwar
12	Purnia		Santosh Kumar Kushwaha		Uday Singh(aka Pappu Singh)
13	Madhepura		Dinesh Chandra Yadav		Sharad Yadav
14	Darbhanga		Gopal Jee Thakur		Abdul Bari Siddiqui
15	Muzaffarpur		Ajay Nishad		Dr. Rajbhushan Chaudhury Nishad		Anirudh Singh
							Mohamad Idris
16	Vaishali		Veena Devi		Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		Naresh Ram
17	Gopalganj (SC)		Dr. Alok Kumar Suman		Surendra Ram
18	Siwan		Kavita Singh		Hena Shahab		Amar Nath Yadav
19	Maharajganj		Janardan Singh Sigriwal		Randhir Singh
20	Saran		Rajiv Pratap Rudy		Chandrika Rai
21	Hajipur (SC)		Pashupati Kumar Paras		Shiv Chandra Ram		Jibas Paswan
22	Ujiarpur		Nityanand Rai		Upendra Kushwaha		Ajay Kumar
23	Samastipur (SC)		Ram Chandra Paswan		Dr. Ashok Kumar
24	Begusarai		Giriraj Singh		Tanveer Hasan		Kanhaiya Kumar
25	Khagaria		Mehboob Ali Kaiser		Mukesh Sahni
26	Bhagalpur		Ajay Kumar Mandal		Bulo Mandal		Deepak Kumar
27	Banka		Giridhari Yadav		Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav
28	Munger		Lalan Singh		Neelam Devi		Vikash Kumar Arya
29	Nalanda		Kaushalendra Kumar		Ashok Kumar Azad Chandravanshi
30	Patna Sahib		Ravi Shankar Prasad		Shatrughan Sinha		Anamika Kumari
31	Pataliputra		Ram Kripal Yadav		Misa Bharti	Left Front supports RJD
32	Arrah		Raj Kumar Singh	RJD supports CPI(ML)L			Raju Yadav
33	Buxar		Ashwini Kumar Choubey		Jagdanand Singh
34	Sasaram (SC)		Chhedi Paswan		Meira Kumar
35	Karakat		Mahabali Singh		Upendra Kushwaha		Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha
36	Jahanabad		Chandreshwar Prasad Chandravanshi		Surendra Prasad Yadav		Kunti Devi
							Uma Shankar Verma
37	Aurangabad		Sushil Kumar Singh		Upendra Prasad
38	Gaya (SC)		Vijay Kumar Manjhi		Jeetan Ram Manjhi
39	Nawada		Chandan Kumar		Vibha Devi
40	Jamui (SC)		Chirag Paswan		Bhudeo Choudhary		Pankaj Kumar Das

Opinion Poll

Date published	Polling agency			Lead
		NDA	MGB
6 April 2019	IndiaTV - CNX	29	11	18
5 April 2019	Republic TV - Jan Ki Baat	31	9	22
Jan 2019	ABP News - CVoter	35	5	30
Nov 2018	ABP News - CVoter	34	6	28
Oct 2018	ABP News - CSDS	22	18	4
		31	9	22

Results

Party wise

17	16	6	1
BJP	JD(U)	LJP	INC

Alliance/Party				Seats			Popular vote
				Contested	Won	+/−	data-sort-type=number	votes	%	±pp
NDA		Bharatiya Janata Party	17	17	5	96,19,458	24.05%	5.82
	Janata Dal (United)	17	16	14	89,02,719	22.26%	6.22
	Lok Janshakti Party	6	6		32,06,979	8.01%	1.51
	Mahagathbandhan		Rashtriya Janata Dal	19	0	4	62,70,769	15.68%	4.78
	Indian National Congress	9	1	1	31,40,797	7.85%	0.71
	Rashtriya Lok Samta Party	5	0	3	14,62,518	3.66	0.66
	Hindustani Awam Morcha	3	0		9,56,501	2.39	New
	Vikassheel Insaan Party	4	0		6,60,706	1.66	New

Alliance wise

	Alliance	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Seat Change	Votes	Vote %	Swing
	NDA	40	39	9	2,17,29,246	54.32%
	MGB	39	1	6		30.76%
	Left Front	17 (19 candidates)	0		9,02,523	2.21%
	NOTA	style="text-align:right;"	-	style="text-align:right;"	-	style="text-align:right;"	-		2.00%
Total					3,99,89,711
Source:

Constituency-wise Results

	Constituency	Turnout %	Winner				Runner-up				Margin
			Candidate	Party		data-sort-type=number	Votes	Candidate	Party			data-sort-type=number	Votes
1	Valmiki Nagar	61.98	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		JDU	6,02,660	Shashwat Kedar		INC	2,48,044	3,54,616
2	Paschim Champaran	62.02	Sanjay Jaiswal		BJP	6,03,706	Brijesh Kumar Kushwaha		RLSP	3,09,800	2,93,906
3	Purvi Champaran	60.30	Radha Mohan Singh		BJP	5,77,787	Akash Kumar Singh		RLSP	2,84,139	2,93,648
4	Sheohar	59.60	Rama Devi		BJP	6,08,678	Syed Faisal Ali		RJD	2,68,318	3,40,360
5	Sitamarhi	59.38	Sunil Kumar Pintu		JDU	5,67,745	Arjun Rai		RJD	3,17,206	2,50,539
6	Madhubani	53.81	Ashok Kumar Yadav		BJP	5,95,843	Badri Kumar Purbey		VIP	1,40,903	4,54,940
7	Jhanjharpur	57.35	Ramprit Mandal		JDU	6,02,391	Gulab Yadav		RJD	2,79,440	3,22,951
8	Supaul	65.72	Dileshwar Kamait		JDU	5,97,377	Ranjeet Ranjan		INC	3,30,524	2,66,853
9	Araria	64.79	Pradeep Kumar Singh		BJP	6,18,434	Sarfaraz Alam		RJD	4,81,193	1,37,241
10	Kishanganj	66.38	Mohammad Jawed		INC	3,67,017	Syed Mahmood Ashraf		JDU	3,32,551	34,466
11	Katihar	67.64	Dulal Chandra Goswami		JDU	5,59,423	Tariq Anwar		INC	5,02,220	57,203
12	Purnia	65.37	Santosh Kumar		JDU	6,32,924	Uday Singh		INC	3,69,463	2,63,461
13	Madhepura	60.89	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		JDU	6,24,334	Sharad Yadav		RJD	3,22,807	3,01,527
14	Darbhanga	58.35	Gopal Jee Thakur		BJP	5,86,668	Abdul Bari Siddiqui		RJD	3,18,689	2,67,979
15	Muzaffarpur	61.17	Ajay Nishad		BJP	6,66,878	Raj Bhushan Singh		VIP	2,56,890	4,09,988
16	Vaishali	61.91	Veena Devi		LJP	5,68,215	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		RJD	3,33,631	2,34,584
17	Gopalganj (SC)	55.78	Alok Kumar Suman		JDU	5,68,150	Surendra Ram		RJD	2,81,716	2,86,434
18	Siwan	54.73	Kavita Singh		JDU	4,48,473	Hena Shahab		RJD	3,31,515	1,16,958
19	Maharajganj	53.82	Janardan Singh Sigriwal		BJP	5,46,352	Randhir Kumar Singh		RJD	3,15,580	2,30,772
20	Saran	56.60	Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	4,99,342	Chandrika Roy		RJD	3,60,913	1,38,429
21	Hajipur (SC)	55.26	Pashupati Kumar Paras		LJP	5,41,310	Shiv Chandra Ram		RJD	3,35,861	2,05,449
22	Ujiarpur	60.15	Nityanand Rai		BJP	5,43,906	Upendra Kushwaha		RLSP	2,66,628	2,77,278
23	Samastipur (SC)	60.74	Ram Chandra Paswan		LJP	5,62,443	Ashok Kumar		INC	3,10,800	2,51,643
24	Begusarai	62.63	Giriraj Singh		BJP	6,92,193	Kanhaiya Kumar		CPI	2,69,976	4,22,217
25	Khagaria	57.71	Mehboob Ali Kaiser		LJP	5,10,193	Mukesh Sahani		VIP	2,61,623	2,48,576
26	Bhagalpur	57.20	Ajay Kumar Mandal		JDU	6,18,254	Shailesh Kumar		RJD	3,40,624	2,77,630
27	Banka	58.60	Giridhari Yadav		JDU	4,77,788	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav		RJD	2,77,256	2,00,532
28	Munger	54.90	Lalan Singh		JDU	5,28,762	Nilam Devi		INC	3,60,825	1,67,937
29	Nalanda	54.79	Kaushalendra Kumar		JDU	5,40,888	Ashok Kumar Azad		HAM	2,84,751	2,56,137
30	Patna Sahib	45.80	Ravi Shankar Prasad		BJP	6,07,506	Shatrughan Sinha		INC	3,22,849	2,84,657
31	Pataliputra	56.03	Ram Kripal Yadav		BJP	5,09,557	Misa Bharti		RJD	4,70,236	39,321
32	Arrah	51.81	R. K. Singh		BJP	5,66,480	Raju Yadav		CPIML	4,19,195	1,47,285
33	Buxar	53.95	Ashwini Kumar Choubey		BJP	4,73,053	Jagadanand Singh		RJD	3,55,444	1,17,609
34	Sasaram (SC)	54.57	Chhedi Paswan		BJP	4,94,800	Meira Kumar		INC	3,29,055	1,65,745
35	Karakat	49.09	Mahabali Singh		JDU	3,98,408	Upendra Kushwaha		RLSP	3,13,866	84,542
36	Jahanabad	51.76	Chandreshwar Prasad		JDU	3,35,584	Surendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	3,33,833	1,751
37	Aurangabad	53.67	Sushil Kumar Singh		BJP	4,31,541	Upendra Prasad		HAM	3,58,934	72,607
38	Gaya	56.18	Vijay Kumar Manjhi		JDU	4,67,007	Jitan Ram Manjhi		HAM	3,14,581	1,52,426
39	Nawada	49.73	Chandan Singh		LJP	4,95,684	Vibha Devi		RJD	3,47,612	1,48,072
40	Jamui (SC)	55.25	Chirag Paswan		LJP	5,29,134	Bhudeo Choudhary		RLSP	2,88,085	2,41,049

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2020 election)
bgcolor=		Bharatiya Janata Party	96	74 (18 LS Seats)
	Janata Dal (United)	92	43(10 LS Seats)
	Lok Janshakti Party	35	01(2 LS Seats)
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	9	75(19 LS Seats)
	Indian National Congress	5	19
		2	4
		2	5(1 LS Seats)
		1	12
		1	0
Total		243

Notes and References

1. Web site: Final Voter turnout of Phase 1 to Phase 5 of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019. Election Commission of India. en-IN. 2019-05-20.
2. Web site: बिहार NDA उम्मीदवारों की लिस्ट: 39 उम्मीदवारों के नाम का ऐलान, बेगूसराय से चुनाव लडे़ंगे गिरिराज सिंह. hindi.timesnownews.com. hi. 2019-03-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20190328190809/https://hindi.timesnownews.com/elections/article/bihar-nda-candidate-list-lok-sabha-chunav-2019-bjp-jdu-ljp-giriraj-singh-shatrughan-sinha/387339. 28 March 2019. live.
3. News 18. CPI(ML) Reciprocates RJDs Gesture; Gives up Misa Bharti’s Pataliputra
4. NDTV. Kanhaiya Kumar Is Left Candidate From Begusarai After Coalition Snub
5. The Wire. 'Mahagathbandhan' Announces Seat-Sharing Formula in Bihar, Left Parties Left Out
6. News: Left parties to contest eight seats in Bihar. Tewary. Amarnath. 2019-04-06. The Hindu. 2019-05-02. en-IN. 0971-751X.