Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar

Electoral history

Legislative Assembly election

Year	Legislature	Leader	Seats contested	Seats won	+/-	Votes	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1980	8th Assembly		246	21 / 324	21	18,91,325	8.41%	8.41%	Opposition
1985	9th Assembly		234	16 / 324	5	18,33,275	7.54%	0.87%	Opposition
1990	10th Assembly	Inder Singh Namdhari	237	39 / 324	23	37,21,392	11.61%	4.07%	Outside support to Janata Dal
1995	11th Assembly	Yashwant Sinha	315	41 / 324	2	44,80,363	12.96%	1.35%	Opposition
2000	12th Assembly	Sushil Modi	168	67 / 324	26	54,24,687	14.64%	1.68%	Opposition
2005	13th Assembly	Gopal Narayan Singh	103	37 / 243	30	26,86,290	10.97%	3.67%
2005	14th Assembly	Sushil Modi	102	55 / 243	18	36,86,720	15.65%	4.68%	Government
2010	15th Assembly	Sushil Modi	102	91 / 243	36	47,90,436	16.49%	0.84%	Government, later Opposition
2015	16th Assembly	Sushil Modi	157	53 / 243	38	93,08,015	24.42%	7.93%	Opposition, later Government
2020	17th Assembly	Sanjay Jaiswal	110	74 / 243	21	82,02,067	19.46%	4.96%	Government, later Opposition, later Government

Lok Sabha election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	0 / 54		Opposition
1984	0 / 54		Opposition
1989	8 / 54	8	Outside support to National Front
1991	5 / 54	3	Opposition
1996	18 / 54	13	Government, later Opposition
1998	19 / 54	1	Government
1999	23 / 54	4	Government
2004	5 / 40	18	Opposition
2009	12 / 40	7	Opposition
2014	22 / 40	15	Government
2019	17 / 40	5	Government
2024

Leadership

Deputy Chief Minister

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office		Tenure	Assembly
1		Sushil Kumar Modi	24 November 2005	16 June 2013	10 years, 316 days	14th
						15th
			27 July 2017	16 November 2020		16th
2		Tarkishore Prasad	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days	17th
		Renu Devi
3		Samrat Choudhary	28 January 2024	Incumbent	112 days
		Vijay Kumar Sinha

Leader of the Opposition Legislative Assembly

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Yashwant Sinha	17 April 1995	24 January 1996	282 days	11th	Lalu Prasad Yadav
2		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 March 1996	1 March 2000	8 years, 9 days		Rabri Devi
			15 March 2000	28 March 2004		12th
3		Nand Kishore Yadav	19 June 2013	4 December 2015	2 years, 168 days	15th	Nitish Kumar
4		Prem Kumar	4 December 2015	28 July 2017	1 year, 236 days	16th
5		Vijay Kumar Sinha	24 August 2022	28 January 2024	1 year, 157 days	17th

Leader of the Opposition Legislative Council

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 June 2013	27 July 2017	4 years, 38 days	Nitish Kumar
2		Samrat Chaudhary	24 August 2022	20 August 2023	361 days
3		Hari Sahni	20 August 2023	28 January 2024	161 days

President

#	Portrait	Party leader[3]	Tenure
1		Kailashpati Mishra	1980	1981	1 year
2		Jagadambi Prasad Yadav	1981	1984	3 years
(1)		Kailashpati Mishra	1984	1987	3 years
3		Inder Singh Namdhari	1988	1990	3 years
4		Tarakant Jha	1990	1993	3 years
5		Ashwani Kumar	1994	1996	2 years
6		Yashwant Sinha	1997	1998	1 year
7		Nand Kishore Yadav	1998	2003	5 years
8[4]		Gopal Narayan Singh	16-Oct-2003	31-May-2005	1 year, 227 days
9[5]		Sushil Kumar Modi	31 May 2005	2006	1 year
10		Radha Mohan Singh	2006	24-Apr-2010	4 years
11[6]		C. P. Thakur	24-Apr-2010	18-Jan-2013	2 years, 269 days
12[7]		Mangal Pandey	18-Jan-2013	30-Nov-2016	3 years, 317 days
13[8]		Nityanand Rai	30-Nov-2016	14-Sep-2019	2 years, 288 days
14[9]		Sanjay Jaiswal	14-Sep-2019	23-Mar-2023	3 years, 190 days
15		Samrat Choudhary	24-Mar-2023	Present	1 year, 56 days

See also