Elections in Bihar
Assembly election
Table:
Year

Election

Total Seat[2]

Winner

Winner's seat

Chief Minister

Deputy Chief Minister

1st Runner up

2nd Runner up

1951

1st Assembly

276

INC

239

Sri Krishna Sinha

Dr. Anugrah Narayan Sinha

Jharkhand(33)[3]

Samajwadi(23)

1957

2nd Assembly

318

INC

210

Sri Krishna Sinha
Deep Narayan Singh
Binodanand Jha

Dr. [Anugrah Narayan Sinha]]

Jharkhand(32)

Praja Samajwadi(31)

1962

3rd Assembly

264

INC

185

Binodanand Jha
Krishana Ballabh Sahay

Swatantra(50)

Praja Samajwadi(29)

1967

4th Assembly

318

INC

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

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167

Kedar Pandey
Abdul Gafoor
Jagannath Mishra

Communist Party(35)

Samajwadi Party(34)

1977

7th Assembly

318

Janata Party

214

Karpuri Thakur
Ram Sunder Das

Congress (57)

CPI (21)/Independents (25)

1980

8th Assembly

324

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169

Jagannath Mishra
Chandrashekhar Singh

Janta(S) Charan group (42)

CPI (23)

1985

9th Assembly

324

File:Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg INC

196

Bindeshwari Dubey
Bhagwat Jha Azad
Satyendra Narayan Singh
Jagannath Mishra

Lok Dal (46)

IND (29)

1990

10th Assembly

324

Janata Dal

122

Laloo Prasad Yadav

File:Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg INC (71)

BJP (39)

1995

11th Assembly

324

Janata Dal

167

Laloo Prasad Yadav
Rabri Devi

BJP (41)

File:Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg INC (29)

2000

12th Assembly

243 (Excludes Jharkhand)

RJD

103

Rabri Devi

BJP (39)

SAP (28)

2005

13th Assembly

243

None

None

President's rule

NDA (92)
JD(U) (55)
BJP (37)

RJD (75) with
File:Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg INC (10)

2005

14th Assembly

243

NDA
JD(U) (88)
BJP (55)

143

Nitish Kumar

Sushil Kumar Modi

RJD (54)
File:Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg INC (10)

LJP (10)

2010

15th Assembly

243

NDA
JD(U) (115)
BJP (91)

206

Nitish Kumar
Jitan Ram Manjhi

Sushil Kumar Modi

RJD (22)
LJP(3)

File:Flag of the Indian National Congress.svg INC (4)

2015

16th Assembly

243

JD(U) (71)
RJD (80)
INC (27)

178

Nitish Kumar

Tejaswi Yadav
Sushil Kumar Modi

NDA BJP (53)
LJP(2)

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