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).

Indian general election in Bihar, 2009

April–May 2009
40 seats
Turnout	44.47%
First party Second party   Leader Nitish Kumar (JD(U)) Lalu Prasad Yadav Party NDA RJD Seats won 32 4

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[1]

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

Constituency	Winning Candidate		Winning Party
Araria	Pradeep Kumar Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
Arrah	Meena Singh		Janata Dal (United)
Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh		Janata Dal (United)
Banka	Digvijay Singh (Putul Kumari – 2010 mid-term poll)		Independent
Begusarai	Dr.Monazir Hassan		Janata Dal (United)
Bhagalpur	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain		Bharatiya Janata Party
Buxar	Jagada Nand Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
Darbhanga	Kirti Azad		Bharatiya Janata Party
Gaya	Hari Manjhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Gopalganj	Purnmasi Ram		Janata Dal (United)
Hajipur	Ram Sundar Das		Janata Dal (United)
Jahanabad	Jagdish Sharma		Janata Dal (United)
Jamui	Bhudeo Choudhary		Janata Dal (United)
Jhanjharpur	Mangani Lal Mandal		Janata Dal (United)
Karakat	Mahabali Singh		Janata Dal (United)
Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party
Khagaria	Dinesh Chandra Yadav		Janata Dal (United)
Kishanganj	Mohammad Asrarul Haque		Indian National Congress
Madhepura	Sharad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)
Madhubani	Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party
Maharajganj	Prabhunath Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
Munger	Rajiv Ranjan Singh Alias Lallan Singh		Janata Dal (United)
Muzaffarpur	Captain Jai Narayan Prasad Nishad		Janata Dal (United)
Nalanda	Kaushalendra Kumar		Janata Dal (United)
Nawada	Bhola Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
Paschim Champaran	Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal		Bharatiya Janata Party
Pataliputra	Ranjan Prasad Yadav		Janata Dal (United)
Patna Sahib	Shatrughan Sinha		Bharatiya Janata Party
Purnia	Uday Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
Purvi Champaran	Radha Mohan Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party
Samastipur	Maheshwar Hazari		Janata Dal (United)
Saran	Lalu Prasad		Rashtriya Janata Dal
Sasaram	Meira Kumar		Indian National Congress
Sheohar	Rama Devi		Bharatiya Janata Party
Sitamarhi	Arjun Roy		Janata Dal (United)
Siwan	Om Prakash Yadav		Independent
Supaul	Vishwa Mohan Kumar		Janata Dal (United)
Ujiarpur	Aswamedh Devi		Janata Dal (United)
Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh		Rashtriya Janata Dal
Valmiki Nagar	Baidyanath Prasad Mahto		Janata Dal (United)

References

1. http://eci.nic.in/