2009 Indian general election in Bihar

Indian general election in Bihar, 2009

April–May 2009
40 seats
Turnout	44.47%
First party Second party   Leader Nitish Kumar Lalu Prasad Yadav Party JD(U) RJD Alliance NDA Seats won 20 4 Percentage 37.97% (NDA) 25.86%

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 was constituted 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.

Voting and results

Source: Election Commission of India

Results by Alliance

NDA	NDA	Fourth Front	SEATS	OTHERS	SEATS
JD(U)	20	RJD	4	INC	2
BJP	12	LJP	0	IND	2
TOTAL (2009)	32	TOTAL (2009)	4	TOTAL (2009)	4
TOTAL (2004)		TOTAL (2004)		TOTAL (2004)

List of Elected MPs

No.	Name	Turnout%	Candidate	Party		Margin
1	Valmiki Nagar	46.99	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		Janata Dal (United)	1,83,675
2	Paschim Champaran	42.22	Sanjay Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party	47,343
3	Purvi Champaran	40.61	Radha Mohan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	79,290
4	Sheohar	45.15	Rama Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,25,684
5	Sitamarhi	42.54	Arjun Rai		Janata Dal (United)	1,10,566
6	Madhubani	39.83	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party	9,927
7	Jhanjharpur	42.84	Mangani Lal Mandal		Janata Dal (United)	72,709
8	Supaul	54.52	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		Janata Dal (United)	1,66,075
9	Araria	55.71	Pradeep Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	22,502
10	Kishanganj	52.84	Mohammad Asrarul Haque		Indian National Congress	80,269
11	Katihar	56.95	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party	14,015
12	Purnia	53.99	Uday Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,86,227
13	Madhepura	50.15	Sharad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)	1,77,621
14	Darbhanga	41.75	Kirti Azad		Bharatiya Janata Party	46,453
15	Muzaffarpur	46.41	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad		Janata Dal (United)	47,809
16	Vaishali	48.86	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal	22,308
17	Gopalganj	37.40	Purnmasi Ram		Janata Dal (United)	42,472
18	Siwan	50.05	Om Prakash Yadav		Independent	63,430
19	Maharajganj	45.70	Umashanker Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,797
20	Saran	45.81	Lalu Prasad Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal	51,815
21	Hajipur	41.83	Ram Sundar Das		Janata Dal (United)	37,954
22	Ujiarpur	45.89	Ashwamedh Devi		Janata Dal (United)	25,312
23	Samastipur	44.54	Maheshwar Hazari		Janata Dal (United)	1,04,376
24	Begusarai	48.75	Monazir Hassan		Janata Dal (United)	40,837
25	Khagaria	46.54	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		Janata Dal (United)	1,38,755
26	Bhagalpur	43.89	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		Bharatiya Janata Party	55,811
27	Banka	48.74	Digvijay Singh		Independent	28,716
28	Munger	41.65	Rajiv Ranjan Singh		Janata Dal (United)	1,89,361
29	Nalanda	33.05	Kaushalendra Kumar		Janata Dal (United)	1,52,677
30	Patna Sahib	33.64	Shatrughan Sinha		Bharatiya Janata Party	1,66,770
31	Pataliputra	41.17	Ranjan Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)	23,541
32	Arrah	35.78	Meena Singh		Janata Dal (United)	74,720
33	Buxar	46.51	Jagada Nand Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal	2,238
34	Sasaram	42.70	Meira Kumar		Indian National Congress	42,954
35	Karakat	41.61	Mahabali Singh		Janata Dal (United)	20,483
36	Jahanabad	46.93	Jagdish Sharma		Janata Dal (United)	21,327
37	Aurangabad	43.47	Sushil Kumar Singh		Janata Dal (United)	72,058
38	Gaya	42.45	Hari Manjhi		Bharatiya Janata Party	62,453
39	Nawada	41.62	Bhola Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party	34,917
40	Jamui	38.13	Bhudeo Choudhary		Janata Dal (United)	29,797

Bye-elections

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