2024 INDIAN GENERAL ELECTION IN BIHAR

2024 Indian general election in Bihar
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All 40 Lok Sabha seats of Bihar
	Opinion polls

The 2024 Indian general election in Bihar will be held in all 7 phases from 19 April to 1 June to elect 40 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, with the results declared on 4 June.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Bihar, along with Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, will be the only states where the 2024 Indian general election will be held in all 7 phases.

Election schedule

Poll event	Phase
Poll event	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
Notification Date	20 March	28 March	12 April	18 April	26 April	29 April	7 May
Last Date for filing nomination	28 March	4 April	19 April	25 April	3 May	6 May	14 May
Scrutiny of nomination	30 March	5 April	20 April	26 April	4 May	7 May	15 May
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	02 March	8 April	22 April	29 April	6 May	9 May	17 May
Date of poll	19 April	26 April	7 May	13 May	20 May	25 May	1 June
Date of counting of votes/Result	4 June 2024
No. of constituencies	4	5	5	5	5	8	8

Constituencies in each phase
Phase	Poll Date	Constituencies^[4]	Voter Turnout (%)
I	19 April	Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Jamui	49.26% ^[5]
II	26 April	Kishanganj, Purnia, Katihar, Bhagalpur, Banka
III	7 May	Jhanjarpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria
IV	13 May	Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger
V	20 May	Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Hajipur
VI	25 May	Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, Maharajganj
VII	1 June	Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram, Karakat, Jahanabad

Parties and alliances

National Democratic Alliance

	Leader	Contesting Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	Samrat Choudhary	17
Janata Dal (United)	Nitish Kumar	16
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	Chirag Paswan	5
Hindustani Awam Morcha	Jitan Ram Manjhi	1
Rashtriya Lok Morcha	Upendra Kushwaha	1
Total		40

Indian National Developmental Inclusive
Alliance

	Leader	Contesting Seats
Rashtriya Janata Dal	Lalu Yadav	23
Indian National Congress	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	9
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	Shyam Chandra Chaudhary	3
Vikassheel Insaan Party	Mukesh Sahani	3
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	Lalan Chaudhary	1
Communist Party of India	Ram Naresh Pandey	1
Total		40

Others

	Leader	Contesting Seats
Bahujan Samaj Party	TBD	TBD
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	Akhtarul Iman	11
Samata Party
Rashtriya Samaj Paksha
All India Forward Bloc
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
Loktantrik Samajwadi Party

Candidates

Constituency
Constituency
1	Valmiki Nagar	JD(U)	Sunil Kumar Kushwaha	RJD	Deepak Yadav
2	Paschim Champaran	BJP	Sanjay Jaiswal	INC	Madan Mohan Tiwari
3	Purvi Champaran	BJP	Radha Mohan Singh	VIP	Rajesh Kushwaha
4	Sheohar	JD(U)	Lovely Anand	RJD	Ritu Jaiswal
5	Sitamarhi	JD(U)	Devesh Chandra Thakur	RJD	Arjun Rai
6	Madhubani	BJP	Ashok Kumar Yadav	RJD	Ali Ashraf Fatmi
7	Jhanjharpur	JD(U)	Ramprit Mandal	VIP	Suman Kumar Mahaseth
8	Supaul	JD(U)	Dileshwar Kamait	RJD	Chandrahas Chaupal
9	Araria	BJP	Pradeep Kumar Singh	RJD	Mohammed Shahnawaz Alam
10	Kishanganj	JD(U)	Mujahid Alam	INC	Mohammad Jawed
11	Katihar	JD(U)	Dulal Chandra Goswami	INC	Tariq Anwar
12	Purnia	JD(U)	Santosh Kumar Kushwaha	RJD	Beema Bharti
13	Madhepura	JD(U)	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	RJD	Professor Kumar Chandradeep
14	Darbhanga	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur	RJD	Lalit Kumar Yadav
15	Muzaffarpur	BJP	Raj Bhushan Nishad	INC	Ajay Nishad
16	Vaishali	LJP(RV)	Veena Devi	RJD	Munna Shukla
17	Gopalganj (SC)	JD(U)	Alok Kumar Suman	VIP	Premnath Chanchal
18	Siwan	JD(U)	Vijay Laxmi Kushwaha	RJD	Awadh Bihari Choudhary
19	Maharajganj	BJP	Janardan Singh Sigriwal	INC	Akash Prasad Singh
20	Saran	BJP	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	RJD	Rohini Acharya
21	Hajipur (SC)	LJP(RV)	Chirag Paswan	RJD	Shiv Chandra Ram
22	Ujiarpur	BJP	Nityanand Rai	RJD	Alok Kumar Mehta
23	Samastipur (SC)	LJP(RV)	Shambhavi Chaudhary	INC	Sunny Hazari
24	Begusarai	BJP	Giriraj Singh	CPI	Awadhesh Kumar Rai
25	Khagaria	LJP(RV)	Rajesh Verma	CPI(M)	Sanjay Kumar Kushwaha
26	Bhagalpur	JD(U)	Ajay Kumar Mandal	INC	Ajeet Sharma
27	Banka	JD(U)	Giridhari Yadav	RJD	Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav
28	Munger	JD(U)	Rajiv Ranjan Singh	RJD	Anita Devi Mahto
29	Nalanda	JD(U)	Kaushalendra Kumar	CPI(ML)L	Sandeep Saurav
30	Patna Sahib	BJP	Ravi Shankar Prasad	INC	Anshul Avijit Kushwaha
31	Pataliputra	BJP	Ram Kripal Yadav	RJD	Misa Bharti
32	Arrah	BJP	R. K. Singh	CPI(ML)L	Sudama Prasad
33	Buxar	BJP	Mithilesh Tiwari	RJD	Sudhakar Singh
34	Sasaram (SC)	BJP	Shivesh Ram	INC	Manoj Kumar
35	Karakat	RLM	Upendra Kushwaha	CPI(ML)L	Raja Ram Singh Kushwaha
36	Jahanabad	JD(U)	Chandeshwar Prasad	RJD	Surendra Prasad Yadav
37	Aurangabad	BJP	Sushil Kumar Singh	RJD	Abhay Kushwaha
38	Gaya (SC)	HAM(S)	Jitan Ram Manjhi	RJD	Kumar Sarvjeet
39	Nawada	BJP	Vivek Thakur	RJD	Shravan Kushwaha
40	Jamui (SC)	LJP(RV)	Arun Bharti	RJD	Archana Ravidas

Campaigns

Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance

The Indian National Congress began its Bihar section of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Kishanganj on 28 January 2024. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticised chief minister Nitish Kumar for rejoining the NDA and said that the Mahagathbandhan did not need him and that it would keep fighting for social justice.^[6] On 15 February, Gandhi resumed his yatra from Bihar's Aurangabad, where he promised a financial survey to assess the ground reality if his alliance comes to power.^[7] The yatra resumed from Sasaram the next day, where Rashtriya Janata Dal chairperson and former state deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav joined the yatra, touring the state with Gandhi in a jeep.^[8]

The Rashtriya Janata Dal began its campaign with its Jan Vishwas Yatra ("People's Trust Yatra") on 20 February 2024. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav launched the yatra from Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The yatra will last till 1 March 2024 and will have covered 33 districts.^[9]^[10] In Siwan on 23 February, Yadav termed the BJP "a dustbin" which takes in other parties that have become "garbage".^[11]^[12] The Rashtriya Janata Dal also worked to expand its social base while holding its core Muslim- Yadav support base firmly. The majority of the candidates of Rashtriya Janata Dal on all 23 seats it contested were from Other Backward Class and Extremely Backward Castes. The party fielded 8 Yadav candidates, while the Koeri and Kurmis also got a fair share. It fielded three Koeris, Alok Kumar Mehta from Ujiarpur, Shravan Kushwaha from Nawada and Abhay Kushwaha from Aurangabad constituency. RJD also fielded six women candidates– Ritu Jaiswal (Sheohar), Anita Devi Mahto (Munger), Bima Bharati (Purnea), Archana Ravidas (Jamui), Misa Bharti (Pataliputra) and Rohini Acharya from Saran.^[13]

RJD also faced opposition from its own party members in constituencies like Nawada, where RJD's sitting legislators Vibha Devi and Prakash Veer were spotted campaigning for independent candidate Vinod Yadav, brother of former RJD legislator, Rajballabh Yadav instead of party's declared candidate Shravan Kushwaha.^[14]

Surveys and polls

Opinion polls

Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error	NDA	INDIA	Others	Lead
Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error				Lead
ABP News- CVoter	April 2024^[15]	±3-5%	33	7	0	NDA
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024^[16]	±5%	32	8	0	NDA
India Today-CVoter	February 2024^[17]	±3-5%	32	8	0	NDA
The JD(U) leaves the INDIA and joins the NDA
ABP News- CVoter	December 2023^[18]	±3-5%	16-18	21-23	0-2	INDIA
Times Now- ETG	December 2023^[19]	±3%	22-24	15-17	0	NDA
India TV-CNX	October 2023^[20]	±3%	24	16	0	NDA
Times Now- ETG	September 2023^[21]	±3%	18-20	20-22	0	INDIA
Times Now- ETG	August 2023^[22]	±3%	22-24	16-18	0	NDA
India Today- CVoter	August 2023^[23]	±3-5%	14	26	0	INDIA

Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error	NDA	INDIA	Others	Lead
Polling agency	Date published	Margin of Error				Lead
ABP News- CVoter	April 2024^[24]	±3-5%	50.8%	39.9%	9.3%	10.9
ABP News-CVoter	March 2024^[16]	±5%	50%	35%	15%	15
India Today-CVoter	February 2024^[17]	±3-5%	52%	38%	10%	14
JD(U) joins NDA
India Today- CVoter	August 2023^[25]	±3-5%	43%	47%	10%	4

Results

Results by alliance or party

Alliance/ Parties				Popular vote			Seats
Alliance/ Parties				Votes	%	± pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA		BJP				17
			JD(U)				16
			LJP(RV)				5
			HAM				1
			RLM				1
		Total					40
	INDIA		RJD				23
			INC				9
			CPI(ML)L				3
			VIP				3
			CPI(M)				1
			CPI				1
		Total					40
	Others
	IND
	NOTA
Total					100%	-		40	-

Results by constituency

Constituency		Winner					Runner Up					Margin
Constituency		Party	Alliance	Candidate	Votes	%	Party	Alliance	Candidate	Votes	%	Margin
1	Valmiki Nagar
2	Paschim Champaran
3	Purvi Champaran
4	Sheohar
5	Sitamarhi
6	Madhubani
7	Jhanjharpur
8	Supaul
9	Araria
10	Kishanganj
11	Katihar
12	Purnia
13	Madhepura
14	Darbhanga
15	Muzaffarpur
16	Vaishali
17	Gopalganj (SC)
18	Siwan
19	Maharajganj
20	Saran
21	Hajipur (SC)
22	Ujiarpur
23	Samastipur (SC)
24	Begusarai
25	Khagaria
26	Bhagalpur
27	Banka
28	Munger
29	Nalanda
30	Patna Sahib
31	Pataliputra
32	Arrah
33	Buxar
34	Sasaram (SC)
35	Karakat
36	Jahanabad
37	Aurangabad
38	Gaya (SC)
39	Nawada
40	Jamui (SC)

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[2] "Opposition will unify for 2024 elections: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar". The Statesman. 3 September 2022.

[3] "नीतीश कुमार 'मिशन 24' की तैयारियों में जुटे, जेडीयू ऑफिस में करेंगे बड़ी बैठक".

[4] "Bihar Lok Sabha election dates 2024: Polling to be held in 7 phases; check schedule, constituency-wise details". Moneycontrol. 16 March 2024. Retrieved 17 March 2024.

[5] "Lok Sabha polls: 62.37% voting takes place in Phase 1; Tripura witnesses highest turnout, Bihar sees lowest". The Times of India. 19 April 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 26 April 2024.

[6] Tewary, Amarnath (30 January 2024). "Nitish Kumar caved under pressure; don't need his support: Rahul Gandhi". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

[7] "After 'Caste Census', Rahul Gandhi Promises 'Financial Survey'". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 16 February 2024.

[8] "Rahul Gandhi tours Bihar in jeep during yatra, Tejashwi Yadav in driver's seat". India Today. Retrieved 16 February 2024.

[9] "Bihar: Tejashwi Yadav to kickstart Jan Vishwas Yatra tomorrow". The Economic Times. 19 February 2024. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 25 February 2024.

[10] Raj, Dev. "Tejashwi Yadav begins Jan Vishwas Yatra, slams Nitish Kumar in kickoff to Lok Sabha campaign". The Telegraph (India). Retrieved 25 February 2024.

[11] Bhelari, Amit (23 February 2024). "Impressive turnout at Tejashwi's Jan Vishwas Yatra in Bihar". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 25 February 2024.

[12] Raj, Dev (23 February 2023). "Tejashwi Yadav slams BJP for giving swords in hands of people, becoming 'dustbin'". The Telegraph (India). Retrieved 25 February 2024.

[13] "OBCs form bulk of RJD's Bihar list; Yadavs, EBCs follow". Indian express. 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.

[14] Bhelari, Amit (9 April 2024). "In an unusual twist, RJD MLAs campaign in support of the Independent candidate in Bihar's Nawada". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 April 2024.

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