Elections in Bihar
Assembly election

Elections in Bihar

Section Title: Assembly election
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Year	Election	Total Seat	Winner	Winner's seat	Chief Minister	Deputy Chief Minister	1st Runner up	2nd Runner up

1951	1st Assembly	276	-	239	Sri Krishna Sinha	Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha	Jharkhand(33)	Samajwadi(23)

1957	2nd Assembly	318	-	210	Sri Krishna Sinha Deep Narayan Singh Binodanand Jha	Dr. [Anugrah Narayan Sinha]]	Jharkhand(32)	Praja Samajwadi(31)

1962	3rd Assembly	264	-	185	Binodanand Jha Krishana Ballabh Sahay	Swatantra(50)	Praja Samajwadi(29)

1967	4th Assembly	318	-	128	Mahamaya Prasad Sinha,JKD Satish Prasad Singh,INC B. P. Mandal,INC Bhola Paswan Shashtri,INC(O)	Samyukta Samajwadi party (68)	Jankranti Dal/Jan Sangh (26/26)

1969	5th Assembly	318	none	None	Harihar Singh,INC Bhola Paswan Shashtri,INC(O) President's rule Daroga Prasad Rai,INC Karpuri Thakur,Socialist Party Bhola Paswan Shashtri,	INC	Samyukta Samajwadi party (53)	Jan sangh(34)

1972	6th Assembly	318	-	167	Kedar Pandey Abdul Gafoor Jagannath Mishra	Communist Party(35)	Samajwadi Party(34)

1977	7th Assembly	318	-	214	Karpuri Thakur Ram Sunder Das	Congress (57)	CPI (21)/Independents (25)

1980	8th Assembly	324	-	169	Jagannath Mishra Chandrashekhar Singh	Janta(S) Charan group (42)	CPI (23)

1985	9th Assembly	324	-	196	Bindeshwari Dubey Bhagwat Jha Azad Satyendra Narayan Singh Jagannath Mishra	-	-

1990	10th Assembly	324	-	122	Laloo Prasad Yadav	-	BJP (39)

1995	11th Assembly	324	-	167	Laloo Prasad Yadav Rabri Devi	BJP (41)	-

2000	12th Assembly	243 (Excludes Jharkhand)	-	103	Rabri Devi	BJP (39)	-

2005	13th Assembly	243	None	None	President's rule	NDA (92) JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG JD(U) (55) BJP (37)	-

2005	14th Assembly	243	NDA JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG JD(U) (88) BJP (55)	143	Nitish Kumar	Sushil Kumar Modi	-	-

2010	15th Assembly	243	NDA JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG JD(U) (115) BJP (91)	206	Nitish Kumar Jitan Ram Manjhi	Sushil Kumar Modi	-	-

2015	16th Assembly	243	-	178	Nitish Kumar	Tejaswi Yadav Sushil Kumar Modi	-

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