2004 Indian general election in Bihar

Indian general election in Bihar, 2004
40 seats
Turnout	58.02%
	Bihar

In Bihar the RJD leader

Dalit

communities, were allotted eight seats. NCP and CPI(M) were allotted one seat each. RJD itself contested 26 seats.

Two large non-NDA parties in the state, CPI and CPI(ML) Liberation, did not join the Laloo-led front but contested individually. CPI(ML)L contested 21 seats and CPI six.

The NDA front consisted of BJP and JD(U). The alliance was threatened at several points, over disagreements on seat-sharing formulas. In the end JD(U) contested 24 seats and BJP 16.

BSP contested all 40 seats and SP 32 on their own, unsuccessfully. Lok Janshakti held sway over Dalit votes and RJD over

Yadav votes, thus making it impossible for the Uttar Pradesh

-based caste parties to make a breakthrough in the state.

The result was an overwhelming victory for the Laloo-led coalition. It won 29 seats. The rest went to the BJP-JD(U) combine.

Voting in the state was confronted with many irregularities, and repolling was ordered in four constituencies.

Voting and results

Results by Party

Alliance/Party			Seats			Popular Vote
Alliance/Party			Contested	Won	+/-	Votes	%	+/-
	UPA	Rashtriya Janata Dal	26	22	16	89,94,821	30.67	2.28
		Lok Janshakti Party	8	4	4	24,02,603	8.19	New
		Indian National Congress	4	3	1	13,15,935	4.49	4.32
		Communist Party of India (Marxist)	1	0	1	2,27,298	0.77	0.21
		Nationalist Congress Party	1	0		2,86,357	0.98	0.36
	NDA	Janata Dal (United)	24	6	12	65,58,538	22.36	1.59
	NDA	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	16	5	7	42,72,195	14.57	8.44

Note: In 1999, before Jharkhand was created as a separate state, Bihar had 54 constituencies.

Results by constituency

Parliamentary Constituency			Turnout	Winner					Runner Up					Margin
No.	Name	Type	Turnout	Candidate	Party		Votes	Vote%	Candidate	Party		Votes	Vote%	Votes	%
1	Bagaha	SC	49.2	Kailash Baitha		JDU	237989		Hiralal Ram		LJP	172614		65,375	11.45
2	Bettiah	GEN	44.59	Raghunath Jha		RJD	2,11,590		Madan Prasad Jaiswal		BJP	1,86,919		24,671	4.33
3	Motihari	GEN	55.59	Akhilesh Prasad Singh		RJD	3,48,596		Radha Mohan Singh		BJP	2,51,572		97,024	14.29
4	Gopalganj	GEN	56.41	Sadhu Yadav		RJD	3,36,016		Prabhu Dayal Singh		JDU	1,86,919		1,92,919	27.78
5	Siwan	GEN	60.46	Shahabuddin		RJD	3,17,511		Om Prakash Yadav		JDU	2,13,933		1,03,578	16.25
6	Maharajganj	GEN	59.61	Prabhunath Singh		JDU	2,83,506		Jitendra Swami		RJD	2,37,041		46,465	6.99
7	Chapra	GEN	38.3	Lalu Prasad Yadav		RJD	2,28,882		Rajiv Pratap Rudy		BJP	1,68,459		60,423	13.54
8	Hajipur	SC	64.0	Ram Vilas Paswan		LJP	4,77,495		Chhedi Paswan		JDU	2,39,694		2,37,801	30.74
9	Vaishali	GEN	62.54	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		RJD	3,61,503		Vijay Kumar Shukla		Independent	2,55,568		1,05,935	14.15
10	Muzaffarpur	GEN	63.37	George Fernandes		JDU	3,70,127		Bhagwan Lal Sahani		RJD	3,60,127		9,693	1.24
11	Sitamarhi	GEN	54.61	Sitaram Yadav		RJD	3,26,165		Naval Kishore Rai		JDU	2,28,160		98,005	14.19
12	Sheohar	GEN	54.87	Sitaram Singh		RJD	3,03,243		Mohammad Anwarul Haq		BJP	2,29,360		73,883	11.09
13	Madhubani	GEN	55.28	Shakeel Ahmad		INC	3,28,182		Hukum Deo Narayan Yadav		BJP	2,41,103		87,079	12.53
14	Jhanjharpur	GEN	60.51	Devendra Prasad Yadav		RJD	3,23,400		Jagannath Mishra		JDU	3,10,565		12,835	1.82
15	Darbhanga	GEN	63.55	Ali Ashraf Fatmi		RJD	4,27,672		Kirti Azad		BJP	2,84,209		1,43,463	12.53
16	Rosera	SC	57.3	Ram Chandra Paswan		LJP	3,94,240		Dashai Chaudhary		JDU	2,55,829		1,38,411	19.39
17	Samastipur	GEN	60.31	Alok Kumar Mehta		RJD	4,37,457		Ram Chandra Singh		JDU	3,10,674		1,26,783	14.66
18	Barh	GEN	69.53	Vijay Krishna		RJD	4,26,856		Nitish Kumar		JDU	3,89,168		37,688	4.36
19	Balia	GEN	53.52	Surajbhan Singh		LJP	2,33,869		Shatrughna Prasad Singh		CPI	3,73,148		76,227	12.05
20	Saharsa	GEN	57.33	Ranjeet Ranjan		LJP	3,50,426		Dinesh Chandra Yadav		JDU	3,19,639		30,787	4.17
21	Madhepura	GEN	58.58	Lalu Prasad Yadav		RJD	3,44,301		Sharad Yadav		JDU	2,74,314		69,987	10.06
22	Araria	SC	55.06	Sukdeo Paswan		BJP	2,16,677		Ramji Das Rishideo		SP	1,88,933		27,744	4.25
23	Kishanganj	GEN	63.62	Taslimuddin		RJD	4,20,331		Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		BJP	2,59,834		1,60,497	19.73
24	Purnia	GEN	60.11	Uday Singh		BJP	2,44,426		Pappu Yadav		LJP	2,31,543		12,883	1.82
25	Katihar	GEN	60.83	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary		BJP	2,88,922		Shah Tariq Anwar		NCP	2,86,357		2,565	0.36
26	Banka	GEN	58.82	Giridhari Yadav		RJD	3,39,880		Digvijay Singh		JDU	3,35,211		4,669	0.65
27	Bhagalpur	GEN	54.56	Sushil Modi		BJP	3,45,151		Subodh Roy		CPI(M)	2,27,298		1,17,853	15.56
28	Khagaria	GEN	56.48	Rabindra Kumar Rana		RJD	3,22,440		Renu Kumari		JDU	2,55,317		67,123	9.93
29	Munger	GEN	63.98	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav		RJD	4,53,286		Monazir Hassan		JDU	3,37,359		1,15,927	13.83
30	Begusarai	GEN	52.98	Lalan Singh		JDU	3,01,562		Krishna Sahi		INC	2,81,071		20,491	3.02
31	Nalanda	GEN	68.23	Nitish Kumar		JDU	4,71,310		Pushpanjay Kumar		LJP	3,68,914		1,02,396	11.44
32	Patna	GEN	51.78	Ram Kripal Yadav		RJD	4,33,853		C. P. Thakur		BJP	3,95,291		38,562	4.28
33	Arrah	GEN	57.9	Kanti Singh		RJD	2,99,422		Ram Naresh Ram		CPI(ML)L	1,49,679		1,49,743	19.02
34	Buxar	GEN	53.12	Lalmuni Chaubey		BJP	2,05,980		Dadan Singh		Independent	1,51,114		54,866	8.45
35	Sasaram	SC	53.98	Meira Kumar		INC	4,16,673		Muni Lall		BJP	1,58,411		2,58,262	37.04
36	Bikramganj	GEN	56.51	Ajit Kumar Singh		JDU	3,05,392		Ram Prasad Singh		RJD	2,46,591		58,801	8.01
37	Aurangabad	GEN	54.73	Nikhil Kumar		INC	2,90,009		Sushil Kumar Singh		JDU	2,82,549		7,460	0.97
38	Jahanabad	GEN	69.29	Ganesh Yadav		RJD	4,00,063		Arun Kumar		JDU	3,53,625		46,438	5.38
39	Nawada	SC	67.09	Virchandra Paswan		RJD	4,89,992		Sanjay Paswan		BJP	4,33,986		56,006	5.54
40	Gaya	SC	61.51	Rajesh Manjhi		RJD	4,64,829		Balbir Chand		BJP	3,61,895		1,02,934	11.65

External links

Thisismyindia – Election results 2005