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2004 Indian general election in Bihar

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Field	Value
election_name	Indian general election in Bihar, 2004
country	India
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	Indian general election in Bihar, 1999
previous_year	1999
next_election	Indian general election in Bihar, 2009
next_year	2009
election_date	April–May 2004
seats_for_election	40 seats
turnout	58.02%
image1
leader1	Lalu Prasad Yadav
party1	RJD
leaders_seat1	Chhapra (won)
seats_before1	7
seats1	22
seat_change1	15
popular_vote1	8,994,821
percentage1	30.67
swing1	2.38%
image2
leader2	Nitish Kumar
leaders_seat2	Nalanda (won)
party2	JDU
seats_before2	18
seats2	6
seat_change2	12
popular_vote2	6,558,538
percentage2	22.36%
swing2	1.59%
map_image	Bihar in India.png
map_size	200px
map_caption	Bihar
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
before_party	Bharatiya Janata Party
after_election	Manmohan Singh
after_party	Indian National Congress
alliance1	UPA
alliance2	NDA
image3
party3	BJP
leader3	Sushil Kumar Modi
alliance3	NDA
seats_before3	23
seats3	5
seat_change3	18
leaders_seat3	Bhagalpur (won)
popular_vote3	4,272,195
percentage3	14.57%
swing3	8.44%
image4
party4	LJP
leader4	Ram Vilas Paswan
alliance4	UPA
leaders_seat4	Hajipur (won)
seats_before4	-
seats4	4
seat_change4	New
popular_vote4	2,402,603
percentage4	8.19
swing4	New
image5
leader5	Ramjatan Sinha
party5	INC
alliance5	UPA
leaders_seat5	Did not contest
seats_before5	4
seats5	3
seat_change5	1
popular_vote5	1,315,935
percentage5	4.49%
swing5	4.32%

In Bihar the RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, husband of the Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, was able to assemble a broad coalition of anti-NDA parties. It included RJD, Congress, Lok Janshakti, NCP and CPI(M). Congress was sceptical of the coalition, since the party was only allotted four seats by Laloo. The other coalition partners argued that four seats actually reflected the decreasing strength of Congress in the state. Lok Janshakti, a party with strong support amongst 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 Lalu-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.

Schedule

The schedule of the election was announced by the Election Commission of India on 29 February 2004.

Poll event	Phase	1	2
Date of announcement	29 February 2004
Notification date	24 March 2004	31 March 2004	8 April 2004
Last date for filing nomination	31 March 2004	7 April 2004	15 April 2004
Scrutiny of nomination	2 April 2004	8 April 2004	16 April 2004
Last date for withdrawal of nomination	5 April 2004	10 April 2004	19 April 2004
Date of poll	20 April 2004	26 April 2004	5 May 2004
Date of counting of votes	13 May 2004
No. of constituencies	11	17	12

Parties and alliances

{{legend2|{{party color|United Progressive Alliance}}|[[United Progressive Alliance]]}}

Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Rashtriya Janata Dal	[[File:RJD Flag.svg	50px]]	[[File:Indian Election Symbol Hurricane Lamp.png	50px]]	Lalu Prasad Yadav
Lok Janshakti Party	[[File:Lok Janshakti Party Flag.svg	50px]]		Ram Vilas Paswan
Indian National Congress	[[File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	50px]]	[[File:Hand INC.svg	50px]]	Ramjatan Sinha
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	[[File:CPI-M-flag.svg	50px]]	[[File:CPIM election symbol.png	50px]]	Subodh Roy
Nationalist Congress Party	[[File:NCP-flag.svg	85px]]	[[File:Clock symbol of NCP.png	50px]]	Tariq Anwar

{{legend2|{{party color|National Democratic Alliance}}|[[National Democratic Alliance]]}}

Party	Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Dal (United)	[[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG	50px]]	[[File:Indian Election Symbol Arrow.svg	50px]]	Nitish Kumar
	Bharatiya Janata Party	[[File:BJP flag.svg	50px]]	[[File:Lotus flower symbol.svg	50px]]	Sushil Modi

Candidates

Constituency	UPA	NDA
Bagaha	Hiralal Ram	Kailash Baitha
Bettiah	Raghunath Jha	Madan Prasad Jaiswal
Motihari	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	Radha Mohan Singh
Gopalganj	Sadhu Yadav	Prabhu Dayal Singh
Siwan	Shahabuddin	Om Prakash Yadav
Maharajganj	Jitendra Swami	Prabhunath Singh
Chapra	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Rajiv Pratap Rudy
Hajipur	Ram Vilas Paswan	Chhedi Paswan
Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Dr Harendra Kumar
Muzaffarpur	Bhagwan Lal Sahani	George Fernandes
Sitamarhi	Sitaram Yadav	Nawal Kishore Rai
Sheohar	Sitaram Singh	Md Anwarul Haque
Madhubani	Shakeel Ahmad	Hukum Deo Narayan Yadav
Jhanjharpur	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Jagannath Mishra
Darbhanga	Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Kirti Azad
Rosera	Ram Chandra Paswan	Dashai Chaudhary
Samastipur	Alok Kumar Mehta	Ram Chandra Singh
Barh	Vijay Krishna	Nitish Kumar
Balia	Surajbhan Singh	Ram Jeevan Singh
Saharsa	Ranjeet Ranjan	Dinesh Chandra Yadav
Madhepura	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Sharad Yadav
Araria	Ram Sewak Hazari	Sukdeo Paswan
Kishanganj	Taslimuddin	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
Purnia	Pappu Yadav	Uday Singh
Katihar	Tariq Anwar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary
Banka	Giridhari Yadav	Digvijay Singh
Bhagalpur	Subodh Roy	Sushil Modi
Khagaria	Rabindra Kumar Rana	Renu Kumari
Munger	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav	Monazir Hassan
Begusarai	Krishna Sahi	Lalan Singh
Nalanda	Pushpanjay Kumar	Nitish Kumar
Patna	Ram Kripal Yadav	C. P. Thakur
Arrah	Kanti Singh	Ashok Kumar Verma
Buxar	Shivanand Tiwari	Lalmuni Chaubey
Sasaram	Meira Kumar	Muni Lall
Bikramganj	Ram Prasad Singh	Ajit Kumar Singh
Aurangabad	Nikhil Kumar	Sushil Kumar Singh
Jahanabad	Ganesh Yadav	Arun Kumar
Nawada	Virchandra Paswan	Sanjay Paswan
Gaya	Rajesh Kumar Manjhi	Balbir Chand

Voting and results

Results by alliance or party

Alliance/ Party	Popular vote	Seats	Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
United Progressive Alliance}}		RJD	89,94,821	30.67		26	22	16
	LJP	24,02,603	8.19		8	4	4
	INC	13,15,935	4.49		4	3	1
	NCP	2,86,357	0.98		1	0
	CPI(M)	2,27,298	0.77		1	0	1
National Democratic Alliance}}		JD(U)	65,58,538	22.36		24	6	12
	BJP	42,72,195	14.57		16	5	7
	BSP	10,50,484	3.58		40	0
	CPI(M-L)L	7,05,783	2.41		21	0
	SP	6,84,200	2.33		32	0
	CPI	3,43,926	1.17		6	0
	Others	5,55,749	1.88		83	0
	IND	19,31,555	6.59		200	0

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

Results by constituency

Constituency	Winner	Margin	Candidate	Party	Votes	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%	1
Bagaha (SC)	Kailash Baitha	JD(U)	237,989	41.69	Hiralal Ram	LJNSP	172,614	30.24	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	65,375	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	11.45
Bettiah	Raghunath Jha	RJD	211,590	37.13	Madan Prasad Jaiswal	BJP	186,919	32.80	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	24,671	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	4.33
Motihari	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	RJD	348,596	51.33	Radha Mohan Singh	BJP	251,572	37.05	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	97,024	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	14.29
Gopalganj	Sadhu Yadav	RJD	336,016	48.38	Prabhu Dayal Singh	JD(U)	143,097	20.60	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	192,919	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	27.78
Siwan	Mohammad Shahabuddin	RJD	317,511	49.80	Om Prakash Yadav	JD(U)	213,933	33.56	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	103,578	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	16.25
Maharajganj	Prabhunath Singh	JD(U)	283,506	42.67	Jitendra Swami	RJD	237,041	35.68	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	46,465	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	6.99
Chapra	Lalu Prasad Yadav	RJD	228,882	51.31	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	BJP	168,459	37.76	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	60,423	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	13.54
Hajipur (SC)	Ram Vilas Paswan	LJNSP	477,495	61.72	Chhedi Paswan	JD(U)	239,694	30.98	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	237,801	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	30.74
Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	RJD	361,503	48.28	Vijay Kumar Shukla	IND	255,568	34.13	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	105,935	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	14.15
Muzaffarpur	George Fernandes	JD(U)	370,127	47.20	Bhagwan Lal Sahani	RJD	360,434	45.97	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	9,693	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	1.24
Sitamarhi	Sitaram Yadav	RJD	326,165	47.21	Nawal Kishore Rai	JD(U)	228,160	33.03	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	98,005	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	14.19
Sheohar	Sitaram Singh	RJD	303,243	45.50	Md Anwarul Haque	BJP	229,360	34.42	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	73,883	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	11.09
Madhubani	Shakeel Ahmad	INC	328,182	47.21	Hukum Deo Narayan Yadav	BJP	241,103	34.68	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	87,079	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	12.53
Jhanjharpur	Devendra Prasad Yadav	RJD	323,400	45.92	Jagannath Mishra	JD(U)	310,565	44.10	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	12,835	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	1.82
Darbhanga	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	RJD	427,672	56.08	Kirti Azad	BJP	284,209	37.27	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	143,463	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	18.81
Rosera (SC)	Ram Chandra Paswan	LJNSP	394,240	55.23	Dasai Chowdhary	JD(U)	255,829	35.84	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	138,411	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	19.39
Samastipur	Alok Kumar Mehta	RJD	437,457	50.59	Ram Chandra Singh	JD(U)	310,674	35.93	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	126,783	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	14.66
Barh	Vijay Krishna	RJD	426,856	49.40	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)	389,168	45.04	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	37,688	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	4.36
Balia	Suraj Singh	LJNSP	233,869	36.98	Shatrughna Prasad Singh	CPI	157,642	24.93	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	76,227	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	12.05
Saharsa	Ranjeet Ranjan	LJNSP	350,426	47.47	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	JD(U)	319,639	43.30	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	30,787	Lok Janshakti Party}} ; color:white;"	4.17
Madhepura	Lalu Prasad Yadav	RJD	344,301	49.49	Sharad Yadav	JD(U)	274,314	39.43	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	69,987	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	10.06
Araria (SC)	Sukdeo Paswan	BJP	216,677	33.21	Ramjidas Rishidev	SP	188,933	28.96	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	27,744	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	4.25
Kishanganj	Mohammed Taslimuddin	RJD	420,331	51.68	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	BJP	259,834	31.95	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	160,497	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	19.73
Purnea	Uday Singh	BJP	244,426	34.47	Pappu Yadav	LJNSP	231,543	32.66	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	12,883	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	1.82
Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	BJP	288,922	41.01	Tariq Anwar	NCP	286,357	40.65	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	2,565	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	0.36
Banka	Giridhari Yadav	RJD	339,880	47.61	Digvijay Singh	JD(U)	335,211	46.96	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	4,669	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	0.65
Bhagalpur	Sushil Kumar Modi	BJP	345,151	45.58	Subodh Ray	CPI(M)	227,298	30.01	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	117,853	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	15.56
Khagaria	Rabindra Kumar Rana	RJD	322,440	47.70	Renu Kushawaha	JD(U)	255,317	37.77	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	67,123	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	9.93
Monghyr	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav	RJD	453,286	54.08	Monazir Hassan	JD(U)	337,359	40.25	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	115,927	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	13.83
Begusarai	Rajiv Ranjan Singh	JD(U)	301,562	44.43	Krishna Sahi	INC	281,071	41.42	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	20,491	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	3.02
Nalanda	Nitish Kumar	JD(U)	471,310	52.65	Dr. Kumar Pushpanjay	LJNSP	368,914	41.21	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	102,396	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	11.44
Patna	Ram Kripal Yadav	RJD	433,853	48.12	C. P. Thakur	BJP	395,291	43.84	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	38,562	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	4.28
Arrah	Kanti Singh	RJD	299,422	38.03	Ram Naresh Ram	CPI(ML)	149,679	19.01	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	149,743	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	19.02
Buxar	Lalmuni Chaubey	BJP	205,980	31.73	Dadan Singh	IND	151,114	23.28	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	54,866	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	8.45
Sasaram (SC)	Meira Kumar	INC	416,673	59.76	Muni Lall	BJP	158,411	22.72	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	258,262	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	37.04
Bikramganj	Ajit Kumar Singh	JD(U)	305,392	41.61	Ram Prasad Kushwaha	RJD	246,591	33.60	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	58,801	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	8.01
Aurangabad	Nikhil Kumar	INC	290,009	37.80	Sushil Kumar Singh	JD(U)	282,549	36.83	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	7,460	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	0.97
Jahanabad	Ganesh Prasad Singh	RJD	400,063	46.31	Arun Kumar	JD(U)	353,625	40.94	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	46,438	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	5.38
Nawada (SC)	Virchandra Paswan	RJD	489,992	48.51	Sanjay Paswan	BJP	433,986	42.97	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	56,006	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	5.54
Gaya (SC)	Rajesh Kumar Manjhi	RJD	464,829	52.62	Balbir Chand	BJP	361,895	40.97	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	102,934	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	11.65

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Bihar

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department
Lalu Prasad Yadav	Chapra	Cabinet Minister	Railways	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Ram Vilas Paswan	Hajipur (SC)	Chemicals and Fertilizers; Steel	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Vaishali	Rural Development	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Meira Kumar	Sasaram (SC)	Social Justice and Empowerment	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Shakeel Ahmad	Madhubani	Minister of State	Communications and Information Technology; Home Affairs	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Akhilesh Prasad Singh	Motihari	Agriculture; Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Mohammed Taslimuddin	Kishanganj	Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises (Until 25 May 2004); Agriculture; Food and Civil Supplies	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav	Monghyr	Water Resources	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Darbhanga	Human Resource Development	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Kanti Singh	Arrah	Human Resource Development; Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises; Tourism; Culture	23 May
2004	22 May
2009
Raghunath Jha	Bettiah	Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises	6 April
2008	22 May
2009
Prem Chand Gupta	Rajya Sabha
(Bihar)	MoS(I/C)	Ministry of Company Affairs (renamed Corporate Affairs in May 2007)	23 May
2004	22 May
2009

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party	Assembly segments	UPA	RJD
United Progressive Alliance}}	Rashtriya Janata Dal}}"		114
Lok Janshakti Party}}"		28
Indian National Congress}}"		17
Nationalist Congress Party}}"		4
Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"		0
Total	163
National Democratic Alliance}}	Janata Dal (United)}}"		45
Bharatiya Janata Party}}"		28
Total	73
Independent politician}}	Samajwadi Party}}"		3
Bahujan Samaj Party}}"		1
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation}}"		1
Communist Party of India}}"		1
Independent politician}}"		1
Total	7

References

"General Election Schedule 2004".
(11 May 2004). "Counting of votes for AP assembly begins".

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