State · 199640 of 543 seats
Bihar
Bihar elects 40 . JANATA DAL won 22 of 40 seats.
61Out of every 100 voters here, 61 voted. India: 58.
The numbers
Turnout
61.04%
+3.1 pts vs India
Electors
4.36crore
in 40 constituencies
Women MPs
2
of 31 women candidates
Candidates
1,084
31 women · NOTA 0.0%
Who won the 40 seats
one tile per constituency, grouped by party
Votes vs seats
pale = share of votes · solid = share of seats
Share of votesShare of seats
JD35% → 55%
SAP19% → 15%
BJP16% → 15%
CPI6% → 8%
INC12% → 3%
Independent5% → 3%
SP2% → 3%
Vote share
bars: % of valid votes · right: seats
Notable contests
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Constituencies
40 · tap one for the full result
Mahendra Baitha · SAP2,00,46944.1%Bhola Ram Toofani · JD1,44,39731.8%Third · INC31,8287.0%
Turnout 45.8%Electors 10,10,335Candidates 14NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Madan Prasad Jaiswal · BJP3,15,89950.6%Nasim Ahmad · JD2,64,41042.3%Third · INC19,9213.2%
Turnout 57.9%Electors 10,91,777Candidates 20NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Radha Mohan Singh · BJP3,48,38457.0%Abdul Moghani Kaifi · CPI2,20,57536.1%Third · INC11,7521.9%
Turnout 55.4%Electors 11,15,608Candidates 27NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Lal Babu Pd. Yadav · JD2,98,35644.1%Kali Prasad Pandey · INC1,78,86026.5%Third · SAP1,51,41822.4%
Turnout 59.1%Electors 11,59,352Candidates 22NOTA 0 (0.0%)
M. Sahabuddin · JD3,26,35152.6%Janardan Tiwari · BJP1,61,10825.9%Third · CPI(ML)L1,09,35817.6%
Turnout 63.5%Electors 9,92,425Candidates 23NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ram Bahadur Singh · SAP3,25,57754.3%Girija Devi · JD1,72,72328.8%Third · Independent53,4558.9%
Turnout 61.6%Electors 9,85,888Candidates 18NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Rajiv Pratap Rudi · BJP3,39,08647.8%Lal Babu Rai · JD3,23,59045.6%Third · Independent22,9123.2%
Turnout 71.4%Electors 10,01,896Candidates 25NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ram Bilash Paswan · JD3,87,78151.6%Ram Sundar Das · SAP3,41,55045.4%Third · Independent7,1530.9%
Turnout 71.8%Electors 10,58,192Candidates 14NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Raghybansh Prasad Singh · JD3,54,22650.3%Vrishin Patel · SAP2,91,54341.4%Third · INC39,1705.6%
Turnout 67.5%Electors 10,54,819Candidates 56NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Jai Narain Pd. Nishad · JD3,18,50650.0%Harendra Kumar · SAP2,38,43237.4%Third · INC45,5047.1%
Turnout 61.1%Electors 10,56,122Candidates 67NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Nawal Kishore Rai · JD3,22,48343.8%Md. Anvarul Haque · INC2,40,22632.6%Third · BJP1,56,34521.3%
Turnout 67.0%Electors 11,15,473Candidates 30NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Anand Mohan · SAP3,34,99449.4%Ram Chandra Purve · JD2,94,35743.4%Third · INC24,4033.6%
Turnout 63.9%Electors 10,84,065Candidates 28NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Chaturanan Mishra · CPI2,82,19447.1%Hukm Dev Narayan Yadav · BJP2,28,21438.1%Third · INC38,1046.4%
Turnout 54.9%Electors 11,06,232Candidates 25NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Devendra Prasad Yadav · JD3,58,39654.0%Dhanik Lal Mandal(Belha Wale) · INC2,80,24742.2%Third · SP10,1981.5%
Turnout 63.5%Electors 10,57,257Candidates 15NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi · JD3,21,82851.9%Dhirendra Kumar Jha · BJP2,17,80735.1%Third · INC67,30510.8%
Turnout 61.3%Electors 10,25,836Candidates 23NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Pitambar Paswan · JD3,32,37655.5%Upendra Paswan · SAP2,09,44535.0%Third · INC45,0767.5%
Turnout 57.2%Electors 10,59,508Candidates 10NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ajit Kumar Mehta · JD4,00,11755.1%Manjay Lal · SAP2,58,18335.6%Third · INC37,9005.2%
Turnout 60.4%Electors 12,17,114Candidates 30NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Nitish Kumar · SAP3,60,15651.5%Vijay Krishna · JD2,95,30242.2%Third · CPI(ML)L17,2632.5%
Turnout 65.0%Electors 10,88,618Candidates 23NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Shatrughan Prasad Singh · CPI2,67,48250.9%Ram Lakhan Singh · BJP1,79,14834.1%Third · INC44,3808.4%
Turnout 54.1%Electors 9,94,509Candidates 14NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Dinesh Chandera Yadav · JD3,99,80457.1%Surya Narian Yadav · INC2,47,35935.3%Third · Independent28,5074.1%
Turnout 62.7%Electors 11,31,004Candidates 18NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Sharad Yadav · JD3,81,19061.9%Anand Mandal · SAP1,44,04623.4%Third · INC63,58810.3%
Turnout 62.5%Electors 9,99,278Candidates 16NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Sukdeo Paswan · JD2,50,26342.8%Ramji Rishideo · BJP2,01,98534.6%Third · INC91,87315.7%
Turnout 56.7%Electors 10,49,489Candidates 21NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Taslimuddin · JD3,81,53055.7%Vishwanath Kejriwal · BJP2,16,94731.7%Third · Independent45,5716.7%
Turnout 61.4%Electors 11,30,883Candidates 15NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Rajesh Ranjan · SP4,43,11166.0%Rajendra Pd. Gupta · BJP1,26,95618.9%Third · CPI(M)65,6789.8%
Turnout 63.2%Electors 10,74,893Candidates 17NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Tariq Anwar · INC2,67,92742.1%Nikhil Kumar Choudhary · BJP1,79,64128.2%Third · JD1,54,57324.3%
Turnout 65.0%Electors 9,95,649Candidates 24NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Giridhari Yadav · JD2,76,21443.9%Digvijay Singh · SAP2,61,49941.5%Third · INC42,0456.7%
Turnout 60.8%Electors 10,53,423Candidates 31NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Chunchun Prasad Yadav · JD2,69,92741.8%Prabhash Chandra Tiwari · BJP2,16,79033.6%Third · INC1,15,10017.8%
Turnout 53.4%Electors 12,27,940Candidates 26NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Anil Kumar Yadav · JD2,92,89243.5%Shakuni Choudhary · SAP2,80,51541.6%Third · INC65,3239.7%
Turnout 66.1%Electors 10,33,568Candidates 19NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Brahmanand Mandal · SAP2,81,09838.3%Upendra Pd. Verma · JD2,59,95235.4%Third · INC1,66,43822.7%
Turnout 65.5%Electors 11,32,807Candidates 28NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ramendra Kumar · Independent2,82,19142.9%Krishna Sahi · INC2,56,26739.0%Third · SAP93,50314.2%
Turnout 60.8%Electors 11,02,549Candidates 16NOTA 0 (0.0%)
George Ferandes · SAP4,86,70355.1%Vijai Kumar Yadav · CPI3,18,83936.1%Third · CPI(ML)L33,1843.8%
Turnout 75.9%Electors 11,73,101Candidates 34NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ramkripal Yadav · JD3,88,51350.2%S.N.Arya · BJP3,49,04645.1%Third · CPI(ML)L15,1762.0%
Turnout 53.8%Electors 14,52,297Candidates 48NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Chandra Deo Prasad Verma · JD1,92,04630.1%Ram Prasad Singh · SAP1,51,00523.7%Third · CPI(ML)L1,46,39823.0%
Turnout 58.5%Electors 11,01,975Candidates 61NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Lal Muni Choubey · BJP2,65,42745.3%Tej Narain Singh · CPI2,01,66334.5%Third · CPI(ML)L61,14810.4%
Turnout 57.8%Electors 10,24,374Candidates 33NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Muni Lal · BJP2,82,07548.2%Chhedi Paswan · JD2,28,44239.0%Third · BSP32,4155.5%
Turnout 52.4%Electors 11,38,941Candidates 19NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Kanti Singh · JD2,76,50842.4%Vashishta Narayan Singh · SAP2,74,08542.0%Third · CPI(ML)L57,1658.8%
Turnout 58.8%Electors 11,21,577Candidates 43NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Virendra Kumar Singh · JD1,85,76134.5%Satyendra Narayan Singh · INC1,62,72930.2%Third · SAP1,05,13519.5%
Turnout 50.2%Electors 10,88,114Candidates 36NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Ramashraya Prasad Singh · CPI2,81,15735.7%Jagdish Sharma · INC1,85,50723.6%Third · SAP1,57,24520.0%
Turnout 72.7%Electors 10,93,022Candidates 44NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Kameshwar Paswan · BJP3,10,19441.7%Premchand Ram · CPI(M)2,13,28028.7%Third · Independent1,14,12015.3%
Turnout 63.8%Electors 11,77,385Candidates 32NOTA 0 (0.0%)
Bhagwati Devi · JD2,94,08446.6%Krishna Kumar Choudhary · BJP2,34,46137.2%Third · INC78,34712.4%
Turnout 59.9%Electors 10,65,862Candidates 19NOTA 0 (0.0%)
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About this data
Source: Election Commission of India, statistical reports for the 1996 Lok Sabha election (detailed results, list of winners, list of parties). Vote shares are of valid votes, excluding NOTA, as ECI reports them. Turnout here is votes counted (including NOTA) divided by electors, so it runs slightly below ECI's official figure, which also counts rejected votes.
Constituencies of today's Telangana (16), Jharkhand (14), Chhattisgarh (11), Uttarakhand (5) are placed there by name; at the time they were part of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and a few boundaries straddled the present state lines.
Map boundaries are approximate and for illustration.