Indian general election, 2004 (Bihar)

Indian general election in Bihar, 2004

April–May 2009

40 seats

	First party	Second party

Party	UPA	NDA

Bihar

In Bihar the RJD leader Laloo Prasad Yadav, husband of the Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, was able to assemble a broad coalition of anti-NDA parties. It included RJD, Congress, Lok Janshakti, NCP and CPI(M). Congress posed larged scepticism towards the coalition, since the party was only allotted four seats by Laloo. The other coalition partners argued that four seats actually reflected the decreasing strength of Congress in the state. Lok Janshakti, a party with strong support amongst Dalit communities, were allotted eight seats. NCP and CPI(M) were allotted one seat each. RJD itself contested 26 seats.

Two large non-NDA parties in the state, CPI and CPI(ML) Liberation, did not join the Laloo-led front but contested individually. CPI(ML)L contested 21 seats and CPI six.

The NDA front consisted of BJP and JD(U). The alliance was threatened at several points, over disagreements on seat-sharing formulas. In the end JD(U) contested 24 seats and BJP 16.

BSP contested all 40 seats and SP 32 on their own, unsuccessfully. Lok Janshakti held sway over Dalit votes and RJD over Yadav votes, thus making it impossible for the Uttar Pradesh-based caste parties to make a breakthrough in the state.

The result was an overwhelming victory for the Laloo-led coalition. It won 29 seats. The rest went to the BJP-JD(U) combine.

Voting in the state was confronted with many irregularities, and repolling was ordered in four constituencies.

Voting and results

Results by Party

Party	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
Bahujan Samaj Party	1,050,484	3.58	+2.6	1	+1
Bharatiya Janata Party	4,272,195	14.57	−8.44	2	−21
Communist Party of India	343,926	1.17	−1.52	0	–
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	227,298	0.77	−0,21	0	−1
Indian National Congress	1,315,935	4.49	−4.23	3	−1
Nationalist Congress Party	286,357	0.98	−0.36	1	+1
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation	705,783	2.41	−0.06	0	–
Janata Dal (Secular)	5,559	0.02	−0.12	0	–
Janata Dal (United)	6,558,538	22.36	+1.59	6	−12
Rashtriya Janata Dal	8,994,821	30.67	+2.38	22	+15
Rashtriya Lok Dal	21,801	0.07	+0.04	0	–
Samajwadi Party	684,200	2.33	–	2	+2
Shiv Sena	23,124	0.08	+0.05	0	–
Lok Janshakti Party	2,402,603	8.19	–	4	+4
Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	32,352	0.11	+0.04	0	–
Other parties	461,712	1.57	–	0	–
Independents	1,931,555	6.59	+2.43	0	−1
Total	29,329,444	–	–	40	–

Note: In 1999, before Jharkhand was created as a separate state, Bihar had 54 constituencies.

Results by constituency

General Election, 2004: Bagaha (SC)
	Candidate	Votes	%
JD(U)	Kailash Baitha	237,989	41.7
LNJSP	Hiralal Ram	172,614	30.2
BSP	Purnamasi Ram	88,458	15.5
CPI(ML) Liberation	Nandji Ram	23,338	4.1
JD(U) hold		Swing
NDA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Bettiah
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Raghunath Jha	211,590	37.1
BJP	Madan Prasad Jaiswal	186,919	32.8
CPI	Ramchandra Sahani	47,841	8.4
Independent	Rajan Tiwari	32,759	5.7
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Motihari
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Akhiles Prasad Singh	348,596	51.3
BJP	Radha Mohan Singh	251,572	37.0
BSP	Raja Ram Singh	55,105	8.1
Shiv Sena	Krishna Mohan Das	6,195	0.9
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Gopalganj
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Anirudh Prasad	336,016	48.4
JD(U)	Prabhu Dayal Singh	143,097	20.6
Independent	Kali Prasad Panday	136,424	19.6
BSP	Chhathu Sah	43,425	6.3
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Siwan
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	RJD	Mohammad Shahabuddin	317,511	49.8
	JD(U)	Om Prakash Yadav	213,933	33.6
	CPI(ML) Liberation	Amar Nath Yadav	72,225	11.3
	GGP	Ramprit God	8,999	1.4
	BSP	Shankar Prasad Yadav	8,043	1.26
	Independent	Prem Chand Tiwari	7,542	1.18
	Independent	Ashok Ram	6,085	0.95
	Independent	Nasir Khan	3,211	0.50
Majority			103,578
Turnout			637,549	60.46
	RJD hold		Swing
	UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Maharajganj
	Candidate	Votes	%
JD(U)	Prabhunath Singh	283,506	42.7
RJD	Jitendra Swami	237,041	35.7
Independent	Dr. Mahachandra Prasad Singh	99,807	15.0
BSP	Kanhaiya Yadav	12,435	1.9
JD(U) hold		Swing
NDA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Chhapra
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Lalu Prasad	228,882	51.3
BJP	Rajeev Pratap Rudy	168,459	37.8
BSP	Abhay Raj Kishor Rai	12,322	2.7
Independent	Brajesh Kumar	10,753	2.4
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Hajipur (SC)
	Candidate	Votes	%
LNJSP	Ram Vilas Paswan	477,495	61.7
JD(U)	Chhedi Paswan	239,694	31.0
CPI	Ramchandra Sahani	47,841	8.4
Independent	Rajan Tiwari	32,759	5.7
LNJSP hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Vaishali
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Raghubansh Prasad Singh	361,503	48.3
Independent	Vijay Kumar Shukla	255,559	34.1
JD(U)	Dr. Harendra Kumar	73,259	9.8
BSP	Jitender Kumar Singh	14,472	1.9
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Muzaffarpur
	Candidate	Votes	%
JD(U)	George Fernandes	370,127	47.2
RJD	Bhagwan Lal Sahani	360,434	46.0
SP	Maheshwar Prasad Yadav	14,895	1.9
Independent	Shyam Kalyan Paswan	7,684	1.0
JD(U) hold		Swing
NDA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Sitamarhi
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Sitaram Yadav	326,165	47.2
JD(U)	Naval Kishore Rai	228,160	33.0
SP	Rajni Ranjan Sahu	87,289	12.6
Samata Party	Nawal Kishor Sahi	11,411	1.7
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Sheohar
	Candidate	Votes	%
RJD	Sitaram Singh	303,243	45.5
BJP	Mohammad Anwarul Haq	229,360	34.4
BPP	Anand Mohan Singh	86,418	13.0
BSP	Ram Ekbal Rai	27,481	4.1
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Madhubani
	Candidate	Votes	%
INC	Dr. Shakeel Ahmad	328,182	47.2
BJP	Hukum Deo Narayan Yadav	241,103	34.7
CPI	Chaturanan Mishra	92,168	13.3
Krantikari Samyavadi Party	Ram Chandra Yadav	6,948	1.0
INC hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Jhanjharpur
	Candidate	Votes
RJD	Devendra Prasad Yadav	323,400
JD(U)	Jagannath Mishra	310,565
SP	Deo Nath Yadav	42,859
Independent	Sanjay Kumar	8,194
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Darbhanga
	Candidate	Votes
RJD	Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi	427,672
BJP	Kirti Azad	284,209
Independent	Safi Ahmad	13,546
CPI(ML)(L)	Baidya Nath Yadav	13,443
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Rosera (SC)
	Candidate	Votes
LNJSP	Ram Chandra Paswan	394,240
JD(U)	Dashai Chaudhary	255,829
CPI(ML) Liberation	Lal Bahadur Sada	18,829
Independent	Halchal Ram	16,820
LNJSP hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Samastipur
	Candidate	Votes
RJD	Alok Kumar Mehta	437,457
JD(U)	Ram Chandra Singh	310,674
Independent	Sheel Kumar Roy	60,191
CPI	Ramachandra Mahto	17,647
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Barh
	Candidate	Votes
RJD	Vijay Krishna	426,856
JD(U)	Nitish Kumar	389,168
BSP	Anandi Mahto	16,240
CPI(ML) Liberation	Mithilesh Yadav	12,940
RJD hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

General Election, 2004: Balia
	Candidate	Votes
LNJSP	Suraj Singh	233,869
CPI	Shatrughna Prasad Singh	157,642
JD(U)	Ramjivan Singh	118,706
SP	Sanjay Kumar	46,925
LNJSP hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

Saharsa

General Election, 2004: Saharsa
	Candidate	Votes
LNJSP	Ranjeet Ranjan	350,426
JD(U)	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	319,639
Independent	Suresh Kumar Azad	15,415
SP	Sanjay Kumar	12,770
LNJSP hold		Swing
UPA hold		Swing

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