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Bihar Lok Sabha 2024

Results board · 40 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateBihar

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 40

Electors

7.71Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

4.34Cr

56.4% of electors

Median turnout

57.2%

Median of 40 seats

JD(U) short

−9

Below majority · 12 − 21

[01]Seat matrix

40 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 21 of 40JD(U) 12 · 9 short of majority

JD(U) 1230.0% Janata Dal (United)

BJP 1230.0% Bharatiya Janata Party

LJP(RV) 512.5% Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)

RJD 410.0% Rashtriya Janata Dal

INC 37.5% Indian National Congress

CPI(ML)L 25.0% Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)

IND 12.5% Independents

HAM(S) 12.5% Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)

State level, as published

RJD 22.6%4 seats · 10.0%

BJP 21.0%12 seats · 30.0%

JD(U) 18.9%12 seats · 30.0%

INC 9.4%3 seats · 7.5%

LJP(RV) 6.6%5 seats · 12.5%

Others 21.5%4 seats · 10.0%

Vote share not published

CPI(ML)L2 seats
IND1 seat
HAM(S)1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

NDA 46.3%30 seats

INDIA 37.3%9 seats

OTHERS 16.4%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

JD(U) converted 18.9% of votes into 30.0% of seats, a seat premium of 11.1 pp.
12 ÷ 40 = 30.0% · 30.0 − 18.9 = +11.1
RJD polled 22.6% of votes, the highest share, but won 4 seats (10.0%).
4 ÷ 40 = 10.0% · 10.0 − 22.6 = −12.6
Saran was decided by 13,661 votes, the closest of 40 seats; Muzaffarpur had the widest margin, 2,34,927.
min / max of margin over 40 seats with a recorded margin
In SC-reserved seats JD(U) won 1 of 6 (16.7%), against 30.0% of all seats.
1 ÷ 6 = 16.7% · 12 ÷ 40 = 30.0%
Turnout ran from 43.4% in Nawada to 63.9% in Katihar; the median seat polled 57.2%.
min / median / max over 40 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

40 of 40 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 37.5% of seats

50–60 2767.5% of seats

60–70 1025.0% of seats

70–80 00.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestNawada43.4%
HighestKatihar63.9%
NOTASummed over all 40 seats8,99,616

[05]Every seat

40 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 2024, all 40 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Valmiki Nagar	Sunil Kumar	Janata Dal (United)	11,01,830	98,675	9.0	60.3
02	Paschim Champaran	Dr.Sanjay Jaiswal	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,86,256	1,36,568	12.6	61.9
03	Purvi Champaran	Radha Mohan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,73,688	88,287	8.2	60.0
04	Sheohar	Lovely Anand	Janata Dal (United)	10,55,602	29,143	2.8	57.6
05	Sitamarhi	Devesh Chandra Thakur	Janata Dal (United)	10,93,992	51,356	4.7	56.2
06	Madhubani	Ashok Kumar Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,27,728	1,51,945	14.8	53.1
07	Jhanjharpur	Ramprit Mandal	Janata Dal (United)	10,93,741	1,84,169	16.8	54.6
08	Supaul	Dileshwar Kamait	Janata Dal (United)	12,31,114	1,69,803	13.8	63.9
09	Araria	Pradeep Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	12,52,560	20,094	1.6	62.1
10	Kishanganj	Mohammad Jawed	Indian National Congress	11,51,099	59,692	5.2	62.9
11	Katihar	Tariq Anwar	Indian National Congress	11,71,546	49,863	4.3	63.9
12	Purnia	Rajesh Ranjan Alias Pappu Yadav	Independent	11,95,844	23,847	2.0	63.2
13	Madhepura	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Janata Dal (United)	12,09,695	1,74,534	14.4	58.4
14	Darbhanga	Gopal Jee Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,24,184	1,78,156	17.4	57.5
15	MuzaffarpurWIDEST	Raj Bhushan Choudhary	Bharatiya Janata Party	11,12,460	2,34,927	21.1	59.6
16	Vaishali	Veena Devi	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	11,72,060	89,634	7.6	62.7
17	GopalganjSC	Dr. Alok Kumar Suman	Janata Dal (United)	10,63,027	1,27,180	12.0	52.5
18	Siwan	Vijaylakshmi Devi	Janata Dal (United)	9,98,018	92,857	9.3	52.6
19	Maharajganj	Janardan Singh "sigriwal"	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,14,109	1,02,651	10.1	52.4
20	SaranCLOSEST	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,21,508	13,661	1.3	56.9
21	HajipurSC	Chirag Paswan	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	11,55,324	1,70,105	14.7	58.7
22	Ujiarpur	Nityanand Rai	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,42,068	60,102	5.8	59.7
23	SamastipurSC	Shambhavi	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	10,94,592	1,87,251	17.1	60.2
24	Begusarai	Giriraj Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	12,94,673	81,480	6.3	59.0
25	Khagaria	Rajesh Verma	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	10,61,894	1,61,131	15.2	57.7
26	Bhagalpur	Ajay Kumar Mandal	Janata Dal (United)	10,64,081	1,04,868	9.9	53.7
27	Banka	Giridhari Yadav	Janata Dal (United)	10,14,155	1,03,844	10.2	54.6
28	Munger	Rajiv Ranjan Singh Alias Lalan Singh	Janata Dal (United)	11,39,081	80,870	7.1	55.8
29	Nalanda	Kaushalendra Kumar	Janata Dal (United)	11,44,383	1,69,114	14.8	49.9
30	Patna Sahib	Ravi Shankar Prasad	Bharatiya Janata Party	10,75,496	1,53,846	14.3	46.9
31	Pataliputra	Misha Bharti	Rashtriya Janata Dal	12,30,099	85,174	6.9	59.3
32	Arrah	Sudama Prasad	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)	10,96,561	59,808	5.5	50.6
33	Buxar	Sudhakar Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal	10,73,759	30,091	2.8	55.8
34	SasaramSC	Manoj Kumar	Indian National Congress	10,97,075	19,157	1.7	57.4
35	Karakat	Raja Ram Singh	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)	10,31,618	1,05,858	10.3	53.7
36	Jahanabad	Surendra Prasad Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal	9,25,370	1,42,591	15.4	55.1
37	Aurangabad	Abhay Kumar Sinha	Rashtriya Janata Dal	9,45,880	79,111	8.4	50.5
38	GayaSC	Jitan Ram Manjhi	Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular)	9,63,676	1,01,812	10.6	53.0
39	Nawada	Vivek Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party	8,69,870	67,670	7.8	43.4
40	JamuiSC	Arun Bharti	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	9,79,233	1,12,482	11.5	51.4

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,34,927 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 2024 · Bihar · 40 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database