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2009 Indian general election in Bihar

2009 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar

Field	Value
election_name	Indian general election in Bihar, 2009
country	India
type	parliamentary
ongoing	no
previous_election	Indian general election in Bihar, 2004
previous_year	2004
next_election	2014 Indian general election in Bihar
next_year	2014
election_date	April–May 2009
seats_for_election	40 seats
turnout	44.47%
image1
leader1	Nitish Kumar
party1	Janata Dal (United)
alliance1	NDA
last_election1	6
leaders_seat1	Did not contest
seats1	20
seat_change1	14
percentage1	24.04%
swing1	1.68%
image2
leader2	Radha Mohan Singh
leaders_seat2	Purvi Champaran (won)
party2	Bharatiya Janata Party
alliance2	NDA
last_election2	5
seats2	12
seat_change2	7
percentage2	13.93%
swing2	0.64%
image3
leader3	Lalu Prasad Yadav
leaders_seat3	Saran (won), Pataliputra (lost)
party3	Rashtriya Janata Dal
alliance3	Fourth Front
last_election3	22
seats3	4
seat_change3	18
percentage3	19.30%
swing3	11.37%
party4	Indian National Congress
alliance4	United Progressive Alliance (India)
image5
leader5	Ram Vilas Paswan
party5	Lok Janshakti Party
leaders_seat5	Hajipur (lost)
last_election5	4
seats5	0
seat_change5	4
map_image	2009 Indian General Election in Bihar Result.png
map_size	300px
map_caption	Bihar
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Manmohan Singh
before_party	Indian National Congress
after_election	Manmohan Singh
after_party	Indian National Congress

The 2009 Indian general election in Bihar were held for 40 seats with the state going to polls in the first four phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Indian National Congress and the Fourth Front. NDA consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) whereas the fourth front consisted of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP).

The results indicated the complete reversal of the last election, where the NDA won this state in a landslide securing 32 out of 40 seats. The victory is mostly credited to the work of Nitish Kumar and JD(U), and this is the only state where the NDA has had the most success since, they were defeated by Congress and allies, in all the other states, leading to their heavy losses for the NDA in the election.

After disagreement with the UPA on seat sharing, Lalu Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal joined hands with Lok Janshakti Party and Ram Vilas Paswan, and joined the Fourth Front, with Samajwadi Party. This move proved to be disastrous, since LJP couldn't win a single seat, and RJD were reduced to 4 seats in the Lok Sabha. After the election Laloo Prasad Yadav, admitted that it was a mistake to leave the UPA, and gave unconditional support to Manmohan Singh and the newly formed UPA government.

Parties and alliances

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

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

[[2009 Indian general election#Fourth Front|Fourth Front]]

Party	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

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

Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested	Total	39 + 1
Indian National Congress	[[File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	50px]]	[[File:Hand INC.svg	50px]]	Anil Kumar Sharma	37
Nationalist Congress Party	[[File:NCP-flag.svg	85px]]	[[File:Clock symbol of NCP.png	50px]]	Tariq Anwar	1 + 1
Independent		[[File:Blank.svg	50px]]		1

Candidates

Constituency	National Democratic Alliance}}"	NDA	UNPA	UPA
Valmiki Nagar		Baidyanath Prasad Mahto	Raghunath Jha	Mohammad Shamim Akhtar
	Dilip Varma
Paschim Champaran		Sanjay Jaiswal	Prakash Jha	Sadhu Yadav
Purvi Champaran		Radha Mohan Singh	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	Arvind Kumar Gupta
Sheohar		Rama Devi	Sitaram Singh	Lovely Anand
Sitamarhi		Arjun Rai	Sitaram Yadav	Samir Kumar Mahaseth
Madhubani		Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	Shakeel Ahmad
Jhanjharpur		Mangani Lal Mandal	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Kripanath Pathak
Supaul		Vishwa Mohan Kumar	Surya Narayan Yadav	Ranjeet Ranjan
Araria		Pradeep Kumar Singh	Zakir Hussain Khan	Shakeel Ahmad Khan
Kishanganj		Syed Mahmood Ashraf	Mohammed Taslimuddin	Asrarul Haq Qasmi
Katihar		Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	Ahmad Ashfaque Karim	Tariq Anwar
Purnia		Uday Singh	Shankar Jha	Did not contest
Madhepura		Sharad Yadav	Prof. Ravindra Charan Yadav	Dr. Tara Nand Sada
Darbhanga		Kirti Azad	Mhd. Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Ajay Kumar Jalan
Muzaffarpur		Jai Narain Prasad Nishad	Bhagwanlal Sahni	Vinita Vijay
Vaishali		Vijay Kumar Shukla	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Hind Kesari Yadav
Gopalganj		Purnmasi Ram	Anil Kumar	Ramai Ram
Siwan		Brishin Patel	Hena Shahab	Vijay Shanker Dubey
Maharajganj		Prabhunath Singh	Umashanker Singh	Tarkeshwar Singh
Saran		Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Did not contest
Hajipur		Ram Sundar Das	Ram Vilas Paswan	Dasai Chowdhary
Ujiarpur		Ashwamedh Devi	Alok Kumar Mehta	Sheel Kumar Roy
Samastipur		Maheshwar Hazari	Ram Chandra Paswan	Dr. Ashok Kumar
Begusarai		Monazir Hassan	Anil Chaudhary	Amita Bhushan
Khagaria		Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Rabindra Kumar Rana	Mehboob Ali Kaiser
Bhagalpur		Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Shakuni Choudhary	Sadanand Singh
Banka		Damodar Rawat	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav	Giridhari Yadav
Munger		Rajiv Ranjan Singh	Ram Badan Roy	Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav
Nalanda		Kaushalendra Kumar	Satish Kumar Yadav	Ram Swaroop Prasad
Patna Sahib		Shatrughan Sinha	Vijay Kumar	Shekhar Suman
Pataliputra		Ranjan Prasad Yadav	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Vijay Singh Yadav
Arrah		Meena Singh	Rama Kishore Singh	Haridwar Prasad Singh
Buxar		Lalmuni Chaubey	Jagada Nand Singh	Kamla Kant Tiwary
Sasaram		Muni Lall	Lalan Paswan	Meira Kumar
Karakat		Mahabali Singh	Kanti Singh	Awadhesh Kumar Singh
Jahanabad		Jagdish Sharma	Surendra Prasad Yadav	Dr. Arun Kumar
Aurangabad		Sushil Kumar Singh	Shakeel Ahmad Khan	Nikhil Kumar
Gaya		Hari Manjhi	Ramji Manjhi	Sanjiv Prasad Toni
Nawada		Bhola Singh	Veena Devi	Sunila Devi
Jamui		Bhudeo Choudhary	Shyam Rajak	Ashok Choudhary

Voting and results

Source: Election Commission of India

Results by Alliance

Results by Alliance or Party

Alliance/ Party	Popular vote	Seats	Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
National Democratic Alliance}}		JD(U)	58,25,874	24.04		25	20	14
	BJP	33,76,109	13.93		15	12	7
Rashtriya Janata Dal}}		RJD	46,78,880	19.31		28	4	18
	LJP	15,86,404	6.54		12	0	4
	INC	24,87,008	10.26		37	2	1
	BSP	10,71,808	4.42		39	0
	CPI(M-L)L	4,59,279	1.90		20	0
	CPI	3,39,964	1.40		7	0
	NCP	2,94,469	1.22		2	0
	CPI(M)	1,24,007	0.51		5	0
	JMM	1,08,841	0.45		4	0
	Others	9,42,733	3.89		175	0
	IND	29,37,221	12.12		304	2

Notes:

FFR stands for Fourth Front
Since the Fourth front did not exist in 2004, the results in 2004 represents seats won by RJD and LJP in Fourth Front.

List of Elected MPs

Constituency	Winner	Margin	Candidate	Party	Votes	Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Votes	%	1
Valmiki Nagar	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto	JD(U)	277,696	46.40	Fakhruddin	IND	94,021	15.71	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	183,675	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	30.69
Paschim Champaran	Sanjay Jaiswal	BJP	198,781	38.56	Prakash Jha	LJP	151,438	29.38	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	47,343	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	9.18
Purvi Champaran	Radha Mohan Singh	BJP	201,114	41.74	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	RJD	121,824	25.28	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	79,290	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	16.46
Sheohar	Rama Devi	BJP	233,499	40.80	Md. Anwarul Haque	BSP	107,815	18.84	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	125,684	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	21.96
Sitamarhi	Arjun Roy	JD(U)	232,782	40.36	Samir Kumar Mahaseth	INC	122,216	21.19	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	110,566	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	19.17
Madhubani	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	BJP	164,094	29.48	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	RJD	154,167	27.70	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	9,927	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	1.78
Jhanjharpur	Mangani Lal Mandal	JD(U)	265,175	43.63	Devendra Prasad Yadav	RJD	192,466	31.66	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	72,709	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	11.97
Supaul	Vishwa Mohan Kumar	JD(U)	313,677	44.96	Ranjeet Ranjan	INC	147,602	21.16	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	166,075	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	23.80
Araria	Pradeep Kumar Singh	BJP	282,742	38.71	Zakir Hussain Khan	LJP	260,240	35.63	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	22,502	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	3.08
Kishanganj	Mohammad Asrarul Haque	INC	239,405	38.19	Syed Mahmood Ashraf	JD(U)	159,136	25.38	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	80,269	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	12.81
Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	BJP	269,834	37.23	Tariq Anwar	NCP	255,819	35.30	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	14,015	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	1.93
Purnia	Uday Singh	BJP	362,952	51.50	Shanti Priya	IND	176,725	25.08	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	186,227	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	26.42
Madhepura	Sharad Yadav	JD(U)	370,585	48.99	Prof. Ravindra Charan Yadav	RJD	192,964	25.51	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	177,621	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	23.48
Darbhanga	Kirti Azad	BJP	239,268	43.85	Ali Ashraf Fatmi	RJD	192,815	35.33	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	46,453	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	8.52
Muzaffarpur	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad	JD(U)	195,091	31.37	Bhagwanlal Sahni	LJP	147,282	23.69	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	47,809	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	7.68
Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	RJD	284,479	45.53	Vijay Kumar Shukla	JD(U)	262,171	41.96	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	22,308	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	3.57
Gopalganj	Purnmasi Ram	JD(U)	200,024	39.64	Anil Kumar	RJD	157,552	31.22	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	42,472	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	8.42
Siwan	Om Prakash Yadav	IND	236,194	36.80	Hena Shahab	RJD	172,764	26.91	Independent politician}} ; color:black;"	63,430	Independent politician}} ; color:black;"	9.89
Maharajganj	Uma Shanaker Singh	RJD	211,610	35.30	Prabhunath Singh	JD(U)	208,813	34.83	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	2,797	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	0.47
Saran	Lalu Prasad Yadav	RJD	274,209	47.21	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	BJP	222,394	38.29	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	51,815	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	8.92
Hajipur	Ram Sundar Das	JD(U)	246,715	44.44	Ram Vilas Paswan	LJP	208,761	37.61	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	37,954	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	6.83
Ujiarpur	Ashwamedh Devi	JD(U)	180,082	31.92	Alok Kumar Mehta	RJD	154,770	27.43	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	25,312	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	4.49
Samastipur	Maheshwar Hazari	JD(U)	259,458	44.37	Ram Chandra Paswan	LJP	155,082	26.52	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	104,376	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	17.85
Begusarai	Monazir Hassan	JD(U)	205,680	28.64	Shatrughan Prasad Singh	CPI	164,843	22.95	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	40,837	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	5.69
Khagaria	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	JD(U)	266,964	42.72	Rabindra Kumar Rana	RJD	128,209	20.51	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	138,755	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	22.21
Bhagalpur	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	BJP	228,384	36.30	Shakuni Choudhary	RJD	172,573	27.43	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	55,811	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	8.87
Banka	Digvijay Singh	IND	185,762	28.48	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav	RJD	157,046	24.08	Independent politician}} ; color:black;"	28,716	Independent politician}} ; color:black;"	4.40
Munger	Lalan Singh	JD(U)	374,317	57.50	Ram Badan Roy	RJD	184,956	28.41	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	189,361	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	29.09
Nalanda	Kaushalendra Kumar	JD(U)	299,155	52.65	Satish Kumar Yadav	LJP	146,478	25.78	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	152,677	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	26.87
Patna Sahib	Shatrughan Sinha	BJP	316,549	57.30	Vijay Kumar	RJD	149,779	27.11	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	166,770	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	30.19
Pataliputra	Ranjan Prasad Yadav	JD(U)	269,298	42.86	Lalu Prasad Yadav	RJD	245,757	39.12	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	23,541	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	3.74
Arrah	Meena Singh	JD(U)	212,726	38.24	Rama Kishore Singh	LJP	138,006	24.81	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	74,720	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	13.43
Buxar	Jagada Nand Singh	RJD	132,614	21.27	Lalmuni Chaubey	BJP	130,376	20.91	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	2,238	Rashtriya Janata Dal}} ; color:white;"	0.36
Sasaram	Meira Kumar	INC	192,213	32.09	Muni Lall	BJP	149,259	24.92	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	42,954	Indian National Congress}} ; color:white;"	7.17
Karakat	Mahabali Singh	JD(U)	196,946	34.13	Kanti Singh	RJD	176,463	30.58	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	20,483	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	3.55
Jahanabad	Jagdish Sharma	JD(U)	234,769	39.18	Surendra Prasad Yadav	RJD	213,442	35.62	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	21,327	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	3.56
Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh	JD(U)	260,153	43.48	Shakeel Ahmad Khan	RJD	188,095	31.44	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	72,058	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	12.04
Gaya	Hari Manjhi	BJP	246,255	43.65	Ramji Manjhi	RJD	183,802	32.58	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	62,453	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	11.07
Nawada	Bhola Singh	BJP	130,608	22.46	Veena Devi	LJP	95,691	16.45	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	34,917	Bharatiya Janata Party}} ; color:white;"	6.01
Jamui	Bhudeo Choudhary	JD(U)	178,560	33.36	Shyam Rajak	RJD	148,763	27.79	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	29,797	Janata Dal (United)}} ; color:white;"	5.57

Bye-elections

The Banka Lok Sabha bypoll was held because the sitting MP Digvijay Singh died following a brain haemorrhage at a London hospital on 20 June 2010, which caused the seat to fall vacant.
The Maharajganj Lok Sabha bypoll was held because the sitting MP Umashankar Singh died on 26 April 2013, resulting in the seat falling vacant.

No.	Constituency	Elected M.P	Party
27	Banka	Putul Kumari (Elected in bypoll 2010)
19	Maharajganj	Prabhunath Singh (Elected in bypoll 2013)

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Party	Assembly segments	NDA	JD(U)
National Democratic Alliance}}	Janata Dal (United)}}"		110
Bharatiya Janata Party}}"		65
Total	175
Rashtriya Janata Dal}}	Rashtriya Janata Dal}}"		33
Lok Janshakti Party}}"		5
Total	38
United Progressive Alliance}}	Indian National Congress}}"		10
Nationalist Congress Party}}"		3
Total	13
Independent politician}}	Communist Party of India}}"		3
Bahujan Samaj Party}}"		2
Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"		1
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation}}"		1
Independent politician}}"		10
Total	17

References

Notes

References

http://eci.nic.in/ {{nonspecific. (October 2022)

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