1999 Indian general election in Bihar

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The 1999 Indian general election in Bihar were held for 54 seats with the state going to polls in the last three phases of the general elections. The major contenders in the state were the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress led alliance.^[1] NDA, an alliance formed in last election, consisted of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) whereas the Congress led alliance was constituted of the Indian National Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), Communist Party of India and the Marxist Co-ordination Committee.

The results indicated the complete reversal of the last election, NDA secured landslide victory winning 41 out of 54 seats.^[2] Bihar emerged as most successful state for NDA, winning most seats in any state, leading to their huge victory under Vajpayee in the election.

The results were huge setbacks for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) limiting their seats to just 7, even RJD Supremo Laloo Prasad Yadav lost his election from Madhepura constituency to Sharad Yadav of Janata Dal (United) in close fight by 30320 votes.^[3]

Election schedule

The polling schedule for the 1999 General Elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 July 1999.

Poll event	Phase
Poll event	III	IV	V
Notification date	21 August	30 August	07 September
Last date for filing nomination	28 August	06 September	14 September
Scrutiny of nomination	30 August	07 September	15 September
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination	01 September	09 September	17 September
Date of poll	18 September	25 September	03 October
Date of counting of votes/Result	6 October 1999

Voting Phases
III (19 seats)	IV (19 seats)	V (16 seats)

Dumka Godda Sasaram Bikramganj Aurangabad Jahanabad Nawada Gaya Chatra Kodaram Giridh Dhanbad Hazaribagh Ranchi Jamshedpur Singbhum Khunti Lohardagav Palamau	Bagaha Bettiah Motihari Gopalganj Siwan Maharajganj Chapra Hajipur Vaishali Muzaffarpur Darbhanga Barh Balia Munger Begusarai Nalanda Patna Arrah Buxar	Sitamarhi Sheohar Madhubani Jhanjharpur Rosera Samastipur Saharsa Madhepura Araria Kishanganj Purnia Katihar Banka Bhagalpur Khagaria Rajmahal

Parties and alliances

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Party		Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Bharatiya Janata Party	Nand Kishore Yadav	29
Template:Party color cell	Janata Dal (United)	Sharad Yadav	23
Template:Party color cell	Bihar People's Party	Anand Mohan Singh	2

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Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Seats contested
Template:Party color cell	Rashtriya Janata Dal		Error creating thumbnail:	Lalu Prasad Yadav	35 + 1Template:Efn
Template:Party color cell	Indian National Congress	File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg	File:Hand INC.svg	Sadanand Singh	15 + 1Template:Efn
Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	File:CPI-M-flag.svg	File:Indian Election Symbol Hammer Sickle and Star.png	Subodh Roy	2
Template:Party color cell	Marxist Co-ordination Committee	Error creating thumbnail:	Error creating thumbnail:	A. K. Roy	1
Template:Party color cell	Communist Party of India	File:CPI-banner.svg	File:CPI symbol.svg	Indrajit Gupta	1 + 8Template:Efn

Candidates

Constituency		colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" \|NDA	colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" \|UPA
No.	Name	Party		Candidate	Party	Candidate
1	Bagaha (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Mahendra Baitha	Template:Party name with color	Purnmasi Ram
2	Bettiah	Template:Party name with color	Madan Prasad Jaiswal	Template:Party name with color	Mataour Rahman
2	Bettiah	Template:Party name with color	Madan Prasad Jaiswal	Triveni Tiwari
3	Motihari	Template:Party name with color	Radha Mohan Singh	Template:Party name with color	Rama Devi
4	Gopalganj	Template:Party name with color	Raghunath Jha	Template:Party name with color	Kali Prasad Pandey
5	Siwan	Template:Party name with color	Akhlaq Ahmed	Template:Party name with color	Mohammad Shahabuddin
6	Maharajganj	Template:Party name with color	Prabhunath Singh	Template:Party name with color	Mahachandra Prasad Singh
7	Chapra	Template:Party name with color	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Template:Party name with color	Hira Lal Rai
8	Hajipur (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Ram Vilas Paswan	Template:Party name with color	Ramai Ram
9	Vaishali	Template:Party name with color	Lovely Anand	Template:Party name with color	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh
10	Muzaffarpur	Template:Party name with color	Jai Narain Prasad Nishad	Template:Party name with color	Mahendra Sahni
11	Sitamarhi	Template:Party name with color	Nawal Kishore Rai	Template:Party name with color	Suryadeo Rai
12	Sheohar	Template:Party name with color	Anand Mohan Singh	Template:Party name with color	Md Anwarul Haque
13	Madhubani	Template:Party name with color	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Template:Party name with color	Shakeel Ahmad
13	Madhubani	Template:Party name with color	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Bhogendra Jha
14	Jhanjharpur	Template:Party name with color	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Template:Party name with color	Surendra Prasad Yadav
15	Darbhanga	Template:Party name with color	Kirti Azad	Template:Party name with color	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi
16	Rosera (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Ram Chandra Paswan	Template:Party name with color	Pitambar Paswan
17	Samastipur	Template:Party name with color	Manjay Lal	Template:Party name with color	Ashok Singh
18	Barh	Template:Party name with color	Nitish Kumar	Template:Party name with color	Vijay Krishna
19	Balia	Template:Party name with color	Ramjivan Singh	Template:Party name with color	Ashok Kumar
19	Balia	Template:Party name with color	Ramjivan Singh	Shatrughan Prasad Singh
20	Saharsa	Template:Party name with color	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Template:Party name with color	Surya Narayan Yadav
21	Madhepura	Template:Party name with color	Sharad Yadav	Template:Party name with color	Lalu Prasad
22	Araria (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Parmanand Rishidev	Template:Party name with color	Sukdeo Paswan
23	Kishanganj	Template:Party name with color	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Template:Party name with color	Taslimuddin
24	Purnea	Template:Party name with color	Jai Krishna Mandal	Template:Party name with color	Abdul Khalil Ahmad
25	Katihar	Template:Party name with color	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	Template:Party name with color	Mubarak Hussain
26	Rajmahal (ST)	Template:Party name with color	Som Marandi	Template:Party name with color	Thomas Hansda
27	Dumka (ST)	Template:Party name with color	Babu Lal Marandi	Template:Party name with color	Ramesh Hembram
28	Godda	Template:Party name with color	Jagadambi Prasad Yadav	Template:Party name with color	Javed Iqbal Ansari
		Template:Party name with color		Furqan Ansari
		Template:Party name with color		Sanjay Kumar
29	Banka	Template:Party name with color	Digvijay Singh	Template:Party name with color	Shakuni Choudhary
30	Bhagalpur	Template:Party name with color	Prabhas Chandra Tiwari	Template:Party name with color	Subodh Ray
31	Khagaria	Template:Party name with color	Renu Kumari	Template:Party name with color	Nayana Rana
31	Khagaria	Template:Party name with color	Renu Kumari	Satyanarayan Singh
32	Monghyr	Template:Party name with color	Brahmanand Mandal	Template:Party name with color	Bijoy Kumar Bijoy
33	Begusarai	Template:Party name with color	Shyam Sundar Singh	Template:Party name with color	Rajo Singh
34	Nalanda	Template:Party name with color	George Fernandes	Template:Party name with color	Gaya Singh
35	Patna	Template:Party name with color	C P Thakur	Template:Party name with color	Ram Kripal Yadav
36	Arrah	Template:Party name with color	H P Singh	Template:Party name with color	Ram Prasad Kushwaha
37	Buxar	Template:Party name with color	Lalmuni Chaubey	Template:Party name with color	Shivanand Tiwary
37	Buxar	Template:Party name with color	Lalmuni Chaubey	Tej Narayan Singh
38	Sasaram (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Muni Lall	Template:Party name with color	Ram Keshi Bharati
39	Bikramganj	Template:Party name with color	Vashisht Narayan Singh	Template:Party name with color	Kanti Singh
40	Aurangabad	Template:Party name with color	Sushil Kumar Singh	Template:Party name with color	Shyama Singh
41	Jahanabad	Template:Party name with color	Arun Kumar	Template:Party name with color	Surendra Prasad Yadav
42	Nawada (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Sanjay Paswan	Template:Party name with color	Vijay Kumar Chaudhary
43	Gaya (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Ramji Manjhi	Template:Party name with color	Rajesh Kumar
44	Chatra	Template:Party name with color	Dhirendra Agarwal	Template:Party name with color	Nagmani
45	Kodarma	Template:Party name with color	Rati Lal Prasad Verma	Template:Party name with color	Tilakdhari Singh
46	Giridih	Template:Party name with color	Ravindra Kumar Pandey	Template:Party name with color	Rajendra Prasad Singh
47	Dhanbad	Template:Party name with color	Rita Verma	Template:Party name with color	A. K. Roy
48	Hazaribagh	Template:Party name with color	Yashwant Sinha	Template:Party name with color	Aklu Ram Mahto
		Template:Party name with color		Ishwari Ram Paswan
		Template:Party name with color		Ramendra Kumar
49	Ranchi	Template:Party name with color	Ram Tahal Choudhary	Template:Party name with color	K. K. Tewary
50	Jamshedpur	Template:Party name with color	Abha Mahato	Template:Party name with color	Ghanashyam Mahato
50	Jamshedpur	Template:Party name with color	Abha Mahato	Dulal Munshi
51	Singhbhum (ST)	Template:Party name with color	Laxman Gilua	Template:Party name with color	Vijay Singh Soy
52	Khunti (ST)	Template:Party name with color	Kariya Munda	Template:Party name with color	Sushila Kerketta
53	Lohardaga (ST)	Template:Party name with color	Dukha Bhagat	Template:Party name with color	Indra Nath Bhagat
54	Palamu (SC)	Template:Party name with color	Braj Mohan Ram	Template:Party name with color	Jorawar Ram

Voting and results

Alliance/ Party				Popular vote			Seats
Alliance/ Party				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
rowspan="4" Template:Party color cell	NDA	Template:Party color cell	BJP	82,04,850	23.01	Template:Decrease 1.02	29	23	Template:Increase 3
Template:Party color cell		JD(U)	74,05,701	20.77	New	23	18	Template:Increase 18
Template:Party color cell		BPP	6,07,810	1.70	New	2	0	Template:Steady
Total		1,62,18,361	45.48	Template:Steady	54	41	Template:Steady
rowspan="6" Template:Party color cell		RJD+	Template:Party color cell	RJD	1,00,85,302	28.29	Template:Increase 1.71	30 + 6	7	Template:Decrease 10
Template:Party color cell	INC		31,42,603	8.81	Template:Increase 1.54	12 + 4	4	Template:Decrease 1
Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)		3,50,958	0.98	Template:Increase 0.58	2	1	Template:Increase 1
Template:Party color cell	CPI		9,59,705	2.69	Template:Decrease 0.71	1 + 8	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	MCC		3,51,839	0.99	Template:Increase 0.28	1	0	Template:Steady
Total			1,48,90,407	41.76	Template:Steady	46 + 18	12	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	CPI(M-L)L			8,79,081	2.47	Template:Increase 0.35	23	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	JMM			7,27,510	2.04	Template:Decrease 0.41	13	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	NCP			4,76,004	1.34	New	19	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	BSP			3,38,049	0.95	Template:Increase 0.42	30	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	Others			6,40,534	1.80	Template:Steady	107	0	Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell	IND			14,82,483	4.16	Template:Increase 2.19	187	1	Template:Increase 1
Total				3,56,52,429	100%	-	497	54	-

Constituency Wise Results

Constituency		Winner					Runner-up					Margin
Constituency		Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Candidate	Party		Votes	%	Votes	%
1	Bagaha (SC)	Mahendra Baitha	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	261,498	45.86	Purnmasi Ram	Template:Party color cell	RJD	206,747	36.25	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|54,751	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|9.61
2	Bettiah	Dr Madan Prasad Jaiswal	Template:Party color cell	BJP	343,027	49.78	Mataour Rahman	Template:Party color cell	RJD	303,377	44.03	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|39,650	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|5.75
3	Motihari	Radha Mohan Singh	Template:Party color cell	BJP	338,696	50.02	Rama Devi	Template:Party color cell	RJD	317,026	46.82	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|21,670	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3.20
4	Gopalganj	Raghunath Jha	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	365,107	49.22	Kali Prasad Pandey	Template:Party color cell	RJD	328,983	44.35	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|36,124	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|4.87
5	Siwan	M. Sahabuddin	Template:Party color cell	RJD	385,069	54.83	Amarnath Yadav	Template:Party color cell	CPI(ML)	255,229	36.34	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|129,840	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|18.49
6	Maharajganj	Prabhunath Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	398,475	57.15	Mahachandra Prasad Singh	Template:Party color cell	INC	294,412	42.22	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|104,063	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|14.93
7	Chapra	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Template:Party color cell	BJP	390,477	50.71	Hira Lal Rai	Template:Party color cell	RJD	346,924	45.05	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|43,553	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|5.66
8	Hajipur (SC)	Ram Vilas Paswan	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	434,609	55.75	Ramai Ram	Template:Party color cell	RJD	329,105	42.21	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|105,504	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|13.54
9	Vaishali	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Template:Party color cell	RJD	308,458	43.46	Lovely Anand	Template:Party color cell	BPP	263,066	37.06	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|45,392	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|6.40
10	Muzaffarpur	Captain Jai N. Prasad Nishad	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	363,820	50.56	Mahendra Sahni	Template:Party color cell	RJD	303,100	42.12	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|60,720	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|8.44
11	Sitamarhi	Nawal Kishore Rai	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	410,557	55.28	Suryadeo Rai	Template:Party color cell	RJD	309,300	41.64	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|101,257	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|13.64
12	Sheohar	Md Anwarul Haque	Template:Party color cell	RJD	347,279	48.51	Anand Mohan	Template:Party color cell	BPP	344,744	48.15	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|2,535	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|0.36
13	Madhubani	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Template:Party color cell	BJP	328,616	46.48	Dr Shakil Ahmad	Template:Party color cell	INC	266,001	37.63	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|62,615	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|8.85
14	Jhanjharpur	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	375,852	55.73	Surendra Prasad Yadav	Template:Party color cell	RJD	248,038	36.78	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|127,814	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|18.95
15	Darbhanga	Kirti Azad	Template:Party color cell	BJP	395,549	52.16	Md Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Template:Party color cell	RJD	340,001	44.84	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|55,548	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|7.32
16	Rosera (SC)	Ram Chandra Paswan	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	420,564	58.11	Pitambar Paswan	Template:Party color cell	RJD	277,648	38.36	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|142,916	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|19.75
17	Samastipur	Manjay Lal	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	368,776	46.62	Ashok Singh	Template:Party color cell	RJD	356,088	45.02	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|12,688	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1.60
18	Barh	Nitish Kumar	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	362,016	48.23	Vijay Krishna	Template:Party color cell	RJD	360,681	48.05	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1,335	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|0.18
19	Balia	Ramjivan Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	169,443	33.93	Ashok Kumar	Template:Party color cell	RJD	157,411	31.52	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|12,032	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|2.41
20	Saharsa	Dinesh Chandra Yadav	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	392,926	54.45	Surya Narayan Yadav	Template:Party color cell	RJD	298,433	41.36	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|94,493	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|13.09
21	Madhepura	Sharad Yadav	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	328,761	50.70	Lalu Prasad Yadav	Template:Party color cell	RJD	298,441	46.02	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|30,320	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|4.68
22	Araria (SC)	Sukdeo Paswan	Template:Party color cell	RJD	308,579	48.32	Parmanand Rishidev	Template:Party color cell	BJP	306,410	47.98	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|2,169	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|0.34
23	Kishanganj	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Template:Party color cell	BJP	258,035	35.96	Taslimuddin	Template:Party color cell	RJD	249,387	34.75	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|8,648	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1.21
24	Purnea	Rajesh Ranjan	Template:Party color cell	IND	438,193	63.17	Jay Krishna Mandal	Template:Party color cell	BJP	185,627	26.76	style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;"\|252,566	style="background:Template:Party color; color:black;"\|36.41
25	Katihar	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	Template:Party color cell	BJP	280,911	43.92	Tariq Anwar	Template:Party color cell	NCP	144,059	22.52	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|136,852	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|21.40
26	Rajmahal (ST)	Thomas Hansda	Template:Party color cell	INC	250,298	44.68	Som Marandi	Template:Party color cell	BJP	188,199	33.59	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|62,099	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|11.09
27	Dumka (ST)	Babulal Marandi	Template:Party color cell	BJP	201,141	36.87	Rupi Soren Kisku	Template:Party color cell	JMM	196,493	36.02	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|4,648	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|0.85
28	Godda	Jagdambi Prasad Yadav	Template:Party color cell	BJP	221,191	34.91	Suraj Mandal	Template:Party color cell	JMM	141,299	22.30	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|79,892	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|12.61
29	Banka	Digvijay Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	233,453	37.28	Giridhari Yadav	Template:Party color cell	IND	212,045	33.86	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|21,408	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3.42
30	Bhagalpur	Subodh Roy	Template:Party color cell	CPI(M)	321,159	47.94	Prabhash Chandra Tiwari	Template:Party color cell	BJP	275,619	41.15	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|45,540	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|6.79
31	Khagaria	Renu Kumari	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	293,412	44.29	Nayana Rana	Template:Party color cell	RJD	261,590	39.49	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|31,822	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|4.80
32	Monghyr	Brahmanand Mandal	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	346,615	49.15	Bijoy Kumar Bijoy	Template:Party color cell	RJD	324,800	46.05	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|21,815	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3.10
33	Begusarai	Rajo Singh	Template:Party color cell	INC	318,244	50.10	Shyam Sundar Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	298,294	46.96	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|19,950	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3.14
34	Nalanda	George Fernandes	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	464,458	53.29	Gaya Singh	Template:Party color cell	CPI	358,637	41.15	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|105,821	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|12.14
35	Patna	C. P. Thakur	Template:Party color cell	BJP	379,370	47.30	Ram Kripal Yadav	Template:Party color cell	RJD	332,478	41.45	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|46,892	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|5.85
36	Arrah	Ram Prasad Singh	Template:Party color cell	RJD	264,140	38.74	H. P. Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	171,858	25.21	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|92,282	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|13.53
37	Buxar	Lal Muni Choubey	Template:Party color cell	BJP	235,968	39.15	Shivanand Tiwari	Template:Party color cell	RJD	224,362	37.22	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|11,606	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1.93
38	Sasaram (SC)	Muni Lall	Template:Party color cell	BJP	257,223	39.37	Ram Keshi Bharati	Template:Party color cell	RJD	238,547	36.51	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|18,676	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|2.86
39	Bikramganj	Kanti Singh	Template:Party color cell	RJD	346,259	47.12	Vashisht Narayan Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	311,491	42.38	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|34,768	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|4.74
40	Aurangabad	Shyama Singh	Template:Party color cell	INC	317,418	47.05	Sushil Kumar Singh	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	247,002	36.61	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|70,416	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|10.44
41	Jahanabad	Arun Kumar	Template:Party color cell	JD(U)	333,332	42.99	Surendra Prasad Yadav	Template:Party color cell	RJD	316,045	40.77	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|17,287	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|2.22
42	Nawada (SC)	Sanjay Paswan	Template:Party color cell	BJP	453,943	53.38	Vijay Kumar Choudhary	Template:Party color cell	RJD	369,858	43.49	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|84,085	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|9.89
43	Gaya (SC)	Ramji Manjhi	Template:Party color cell	BJP	319,530	50.21	Rajesh Kumar	Template:Party color cell	RJD	298,747	46.94	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|20,783	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3.27
44	Chatra	Nagmani	Template:Party color cell	RJD	219,783	52.73	Dhirendra Agrawal	Template:Party color cell	BJP	164,684	39.51	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|55,099	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|13.22
45	Kodarma	Tilakdhari Prasad Singh	Template:Party color cell	INC	273,808	46.02	Ritlal Prasad Verma	Template:Party color cell	BJP	263,630	44.31	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|10,178	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1.71
46	Giridih	Ravindra Kumar Pandey	Template:Party color cell	BJP	248,454	46.70	Rajendra Prasad Singh	Template:Party color cell	INC	228,630	42.97	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|19,824	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3.73
47	Dhanbad	Rita Verma	Template:Party color cell	BJP	366,065	48.07	A. K. Roy	Template:Party color cell	MCC	351,839	46.21	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|14,226	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1.86
48	Hazaribagh	Yashwant Sinha	Template:Party color cell	BJP	283,956	47.98	Akalu Ram Mahto	Template:Party color cell	RJD	101,314	17.12	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|182,642	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|30.86
49	Ranchi	Ram Tahal Choudhary	Template:Party color cell	BJP	379,261	65.72	K. K. Tewari	Template:Party color cell	INC	138,084	23.93	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|241,177	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|41.79
50	Jamshedpur	Abha Mahato	Template:Party color cell	BJP	285,232	45.40	Ghanashyam Mahato	Template:Party color cell	INC	163,744	26.06	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|121,488	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|19.34
51	Singhbhum (ST)	Laxman Gilua	Template:Party color cell	BJP	231,237	49.04	Vijay Singh Soy	Template:Party color cell	INC	148,926	31.59	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|82,311	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|17.45
52	Khunti (ST)	Kariya Munda	Template:Party color cell	BJP	187,484	46.31	Sushila Kerketta	Template:Party color cell	INC	161,222	39.82	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|26,262	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|6.49
53	Lohardaga (ST)	Dukha Bhagat	Template:Party color cell	BJP	163,658	45.02	Indra Nath Bhagat	Template:Party color cell	INC	159,835	43.97	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|3,823	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|1.05
54	Palamu (SC)	Braj Mohan Ram	Template:Party color cell	BJP	271,657	53.37	Jorawar Ram	Template:Party color cell	RJD	186,532	36.65	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|85,125	style="background:Template:Party color; color:white;"\|16.72

Assembly Segment wise lead

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2000 election)
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Bharatiya Janata Party	107	67
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Janata Dal (United)	89	21
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Rashtriya Janata Dal	70	124
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Indian National Congress	23	23
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	6	12
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India	5	5
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	4	2
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation	3	6
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Marxist Co-ordination Committee	3	1
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Bihar People's Party	3	0
bgcolor="Template:Party color"\|	Nationalist Congress Party	2	0
	Others	9	63
Total		324

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Bihar (and Jharkhand)

Bihar

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	George Fernandes	Nalanda	Cabinet Minister	Defence	13 October 1999	16 March 2001	Template:Party name with color
1	George Fernandes	Nalanda	Cabinet Minister	Defence	15 October 2001	22 May 2004	Template:Party name with color
2	Nitish Kumar	Barh	Cabinet Minister	Surface Transport	13 October 1999	22 November 1999	Template:Party name with color
				Agriculture	22 November 1999	3 March 2001
				Agriculture	27 May 2001	22 July 2001
				Railways	20 March 2001	22 May 2004	Template:Party name with color
3	Ram Vilas Paswan	Hajipur (SC)	Cabinet Minister	Communications	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	Template:Party name with color
				Coal	1 September 2001	29 April 2002
				Mines	1 September 2001	29 April 2002
4	Sharad Yadav	Madhepura	Cabinet Minister	Civil Aviation	13 October 1999	1 September 2001	Template:Party name with color
				Labour	1 September 2001	1 July 2002
				Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	Template:Party name with color
5	C. P. Thakur	Patna	Cabinet Minister	Water Resources	22 November 1999	27 May 2000	Template:Party name with color
				Health and Family Welfare	27 May 2000	1 July 2002
				Small Scale Industries	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
				Development of North Eastern Region	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
6	Shatrughan Sinha	Rajya Sabha (Bihar)	Cabinet Minister	Health and Family Welfare	1 July 2002	29 January 2003
6	Shatrughan Sinha	Rajya Sabha (Bihar)	Cabinet Minister	Shipping	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
7	Syed Shahnawaz Hussain	Kishanganj	MoS	Food Processing Industries	13 October 1999	27 May 2000
				Youth Affairs and Sports	27 May 2000	30 September 2000
				Human Resource Development	30 September 2000	8 February 2001
			MoS (I/C)	Coal	8 February 2001	1 September 2001
			Cabinet Minister	Civil Aviation	1 September 2001	24 May 2003
			Cabinet Minister	Textiles	24 May 2003	22 May 2004
8	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Chapra	MoS	Commerce and Industry	1 September 2002	24 May 2003
8	Rajiv Pratap Rudy	Chapra	MoS (I/C)	Civil Aviation	24 May 2003	22 May 2004
9	Digvijay Singh	Banka	MoS	Railways	13 October 1999	22 July 2001	Template:Party name with color
				Commerce and Industry	22 July 2001	1 September 2001	Template:Party name with color
				Railways	1 August 2001	1 July 2002	Template:Party name with color
				External Affairs	1 July 2002	22 May 2004	Template:Party name with color
10	Muni Lall	Sasaram (SC)	MoS	Labour	13 October 1999	1 July 2002	Template:Party name with color
11	Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Madhubani	MoS	Agriculture	13 October 1999	27 May 2000
				Surface Transport	27 May 2000	2 November 2001
				Shipping	7 November 2000	2 November 2001
				Agriculture	2 November 2001	22 May 2004
12	Ravi Shankar Prasad	Rajya Sabha (Bihar)	MoS	Mines	1 September 2001	29 January 2003
				Coal	1 September 2001	29 January 2003
				Law and Justice	1 July 2002	29 January 2003
			MoS (I/C)	Information and Broadcasting	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
13	Sanjay Paswan	Nawada (SC)	MoS	Communications and Information Technology	1 July 2002	29 January 2003
				Social Justice and Empowerment	29 January 2003	24 May 2003
				Human Resource Development	24 May 2003	22 May 2004
14	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary	Katihar	MoS	Agro and Rural Industries	1 July 2002	29 January 2003

Jharkhand

#	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Yashwant Sinha	Hazaribagh	Cabinet Minister	Finance	13 October 1999	1 July 2002	Template:Party name with color
1	Yashwant Sinha	Hazaribagh	Cabinet Minister	External Affairs	1 July 2002	22 May 2004
2	Kariya Munda	Khunti (ST)	Cabinet Minister	Agro and Rural Industries	1 September 2001	29 January 2003
				Coal	29 January 2003	9 January 2004
				Non-Conventional Energy Sources	9 January 2004	22 May 2004
3	Babulal Marandi	Dumka (ST)	MoS	Environment and Forests	13 October 1999	7 November 2000
4	Rita Verma	Dhanbad	MoS	Mines and Minerals	13 October 1999	30 September 2000
				Health and Family Welfare	27 May 2000	30 September 2000
				Rural Development	30 September 2000	1 September 2001
				Human Resource Development	1 September 2001	29 January 2003
5	Nagmani	Chatra	MoS	Social Justice and Empowerment	24 May 2003	22 May 2004

NOTE: Babulal Marandi: Resigned in November 2000 to become the first Chief Minister of Jharkhand.

References

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Notes

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[1] IndiaVotes | India's largest election database.

[2] With Modi becoming BJP's darling, will JDU's Nitish Kumar leave alliance?(30 November 1999).

[3] Madhepura: Twice beaten by Lalu, Sharad now RJD nominee.

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