# 2009 Indian general election in Bihar

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

| 32 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| NDA | Fourth Front | UPA | Others |
| 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) | 11 | TOTAL (2004) | 26* | TOTAL (2004) | 3 |
* 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

| 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 (SC) | 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 (SC) | 41.83 | Ram Sundar Das | Janata Dal (United) | 37,954 |
| 22 | Ujiarpur | 45.89 | Ashwamedh Devi | Janata Dal (United) | 25,312 |
| 23 | Samastipur (SC) | 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 (SC) | 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 (SC) | 42.45 | Hari Manjhi | Bharatiya Janata Party | 62,453 |
| 39 | Nawada | 41.62 | Bhola Singh | Bharatiya Janata Party | 34,917 |
| 40 | Jamui (SC) | 38.13 | Bhudeo Choudhary | Janata Dal (United) | 29,797 |

### Bye-elections

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