Bihar got swept away by the "Modi tsunami" as the BJP made a clean sweep in the seats contested by it in the state while allies JD(U) and LJP, headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Ram Vilas Paswan, too rode the tide and came out with stellar performances.
In a state where the total number of seats is 40, the BJP had fought 17 and emerged victorious in all of these while the JD(U) which had contested as many, lost only the Muslim-dominated Kishanganj to the Congress.
The LJP struck gold, winning all the six seats it had contested, maintaining its tally of five years ago and improving on its strike rate compared with that of 2014 when it had fielded candidates in seven seats.
Return to the NDA also helped the JD(U), which had contested separately from the coalition in 2014, boost its tally from a dismal two seats five years ago.
The Congress, which had fought nine, lost all but managed to retain Kishanganj, which was won by late MP Asrarul Haque in 2014 and where Mohd Javed defeated JD(U) by a margin of under 35,000 votes. It was the worst-ever performance by the Grand Old Party in the state in decades.
Constituency | Winner/Leading | Party | Loser/Trailing | Party |
Araria | Pradeep Kumar Singh | BJP |
Sarfaraz Alam |
RJD |
Arrah | R. K. Singh | BJP | Raju Yadav | CPI(M) |
Aurangabad | Sushil Kumar Singh | BJP | Upendra Prasad | HAM(S) |
Banka | Giridhari Yadav | JDU | Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav | RJD |
Begusarai | Giriraj Singh | BJP | Kanhaiya Kumar | CPI |
Bhagalpur | Ajay Kumar Mandal | JDU | Shailesh Kumar | RJD |
Buxar | Ashwini Kumar Choubey | BJP | Jagadanand Singh | RJD |
Gaya | Vijay Kumar | JDU | Jitan Ram Manjhi | HAM(S) |
Darbhanga | Gopal Jee Thakur | BJP | Abdul Bari Siddiqui | RJD |
Gopalganj | Dr. Alok Kumar Suman | JDU | Surendra Ram | RJD |
Hajipur | Pashu Pati Kumar Paras | LJP | Shiv Chandra Ram | RJD |
Jahanabad | Chandeshwar Prasad | JDU | Surendra Prasad Yadav | RJD |
Jamui | Chirag Kumar Paswan | LJP | Bhudeo Choudhary | RJD |
Jhanjharpur | Ramprit Mandal | JDU | Gulab Yadav | RJD |
Karakat | Mahabali Singh | JDU | Upendra Kushwaha | RLSP |
Katihar | Dulal Chandra Goswami | JDU | Tariq Anwar | Congress |
Khagaria | Choudhary Mehboob Ali Kaiser | LJP | Mukesh Sahani | VIP |
Kishanganj | Dr. Mohammad Jawed | Congress | Syed Mahmood Ashraf | JDU |
Madhepura | Dinesh Chandra Yadav | JDU | Sharad Yadav | RJD |
Madhubani | Ashok Kumar Yadav | BJP | Badri Kumar Purbey | VIP |
Maharajganj | Janardan Singh 'Sigriwal' | BJP | Randhir Kumar Singh | RJD |
Munger | Rajiv Ranjan Singh | JDU | Nilam Devi | Congress |
Muzaffarpur | Ajay Nishad | BJP | Raj Bhushan Choudhary | VIP |
Nalanda | Kaushlendra Kumar | JDU | Ashok Kumar Azad | HAM(S) |
Nawada | Chandan Singh | LJP | Vibha Devi | RJD |
Paschim Champaran | Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal | BJP | Brijesh Kumar Kushwaha | RLSP |
Pataliputra | Ram Kripal Yadav | BJP | Misa Bharti | RJD |
Patna Sahib | Ravi Shankar Prasad | BJP | Shatrughan Sinha | Congress |
Purnia | Santosh Kumar | JDU | Pappu Singh | Congress |
Purvi Champaran | Radha Mohan Singh | BJP | Aakash Kumar Singh | RLSP |
Samastipur | Ramchandra Paswan | LJSP | Dr. Ashok Kumar | Congress |
Saran | Rajiv Pratap Rudy | BJP | Chandrika Roy | RJD |
Sasaram | Chhedi Paswan | BJP | Meira Kumar | Congress |
Sheohar | Rama Devi | BJP | Syed Faisal Ali | RJD |
Sitamarhi | Sunil Kumar Pintu | JDU | Arjun Ray | RJD |
Siwan | Kavita Singh | JDU | Hena Shahab | RJD |
Supaul | Dileshwar Kamait | JDU | Ranjeet Ranjan | Congress |
Ujiarpur | Nityanand Rai | BJP | Upendra Kushwaha | RLSP |
Vaishali | Veena Devi | LJP | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh | RJD |
Valmiki Nagar | Baidyanath Prasad Mahto | JDU | Shashwat Kedar | Congress |
Araria |
PRADEEP KUMAR SINGH |
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SARFARAZ ALAM |
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Arrah |
R. K. Singh |
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Raju Yadav |
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Aurangabad |
SUSHIL KUMAR SINGH |
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UPENDRA PRASAD |
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Banka |
GIRIDHARI YADAV |
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JAI PRAKASH NARAYAN YADAV |
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Begusarai |
Giriraj Singh |
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Kanhaiya Kumar |
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Bhagalpur |
AJAY KUMAR MANDAL |
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SHAILESH KUMAR ALIAS VULO MANDAL |
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Buxar |
Ashwini Kumar Choubey |
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Jagadanand Singh |
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Darbhanga |
Gopal Jee Thakur |
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Abdul Bari Siddiqui |
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Gaya (SC) |
Vijay Kumar |
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Jitan Ram Manjhi |
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Gopalganj (SC) |
Dr. Alok Kumar Suman |
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SURENDRA RAM |
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