Bihar assembly election, Feb 2000

324 assembly constituencies in Bihar, 61.65% turnout.

Seats

324

Candidates

3,941

189 women, 19 elected

Turnout

61.65%

3.7 cr of 6.01 cr

Leading party

RJD

124 of 324 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in Bihar

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	124	+124	293	1,05,00,361	28.34%	—
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	67	+26	168	54,24,687	14.64%	+1.68
SAP SAP	34	+27	120	32,05,746	8.65%	+1.59
INC Indian National Congress	23	-6	324	40,96,467	11.06%	-5.21
JD(U)JD(U)	21	+21	87	23,96,677	6.47%	—
IND Independent	20	+8	1482	42,11,341	11.37%	-2.43
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	12	+2	85	13,06,152	3.53%	+1.20
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	6	0	107	9,25,253	2.50%	+0.14
CPI Communist Party of India	5	-21	153	13,34,386	3.60%	-1.16
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	5	+3	249	7,01,936	1.89%	+0.56
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	-4	21	3,38,198	0.91%	-0.53
KSP KSP	2	+2	7	1,32,835	0.36%	+0.36
UGDP UGDP	2	+2	6	96,297	0.26%	—
MCO MCO	1	+1	9	1,04,450	0.28%	—
SP Samajwadi Party	0	-2	122	5,23,694	1.41%	-0.26
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	182	4,99,734	1.35%	—
BPSP Bharatiya Praja Surajya Paksha	0	0	33	4,92,751	1.33%	—
BJCR BJCR	0	0	113	2,30,621	0.62%	—
AJBP AJBP	0	0	88	1,38,980	0.38%	—
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	62	80,650	0.22%	+0.16
SJPR SJPR	0	0	7	76,489	0.21%	-0.52
JKP JKP	0	-1	16	44,187	0.12%	-0.07
FBL All India Forward Bloc	0	0	5	43,654	0.12%	+0.10
JD(S)JD(S)	0	0	10	22,765	0.06%	—
BHJC BHJC	0	0	16	18,717	0.05%	—
RLD Rashtriya Lok Dal	0	0	30	16,455	0.04%	—
AD AD	0	0	29	15,565	0.04%	—
JKPP JKPP	0	0	12	10,082	0.03%	—
BHJVP BHJVP	0	0	20	9,896	0.03%	—
SSD SSD	0	0	14	9,223	0.02%	-0.03
MCPIS MCPIS	0	0	6	8,861	0.02%	—
BMF BMF	0	0	7	6,915	0.02%	—
SWJP SWJP	0	0	10	6,430	0.02%	—
LSWP LSWP	0	0	5	2,703	0.01%	—
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	0	4	2,551	0.01%	+0.01
AMB AMB	0	0	6	2,112	0.01%	0.00
NDPF NDPF	0	0	4	1,432	0.00%	—
KVSB KVSB	0	0	3	1,406	0.00%	—
KMBP KMBP	0	0	3	1,247	0.00%	—
PSSS PSSS	0	0	3	995	0.00%	-0.02

RJD124 (38%)
BJP67 (21%)
SAP34 (10%)
INC23 (7%)
JD(U)21 (6%)
IND20 (6%)
Others35 (11%)

RJD124
BJP67
SAP34
INC23
JD(U)21
IND20
Others35

RJD124
BJP67
SAP34
INC23
JD(U)21
IND20
JMM12
CPI(ML)(L)6
CPI5
BSP5
Others7

Constituency performance

From the 324 results in Bihar

Closest contest

SITAMARHI

won by 35 (0.02%)

Biggest victory

SIWAN

won by 89,237 (65.35%)

Highest turnout

SONEPUR

85.09%

Lowest turnout

LATEHAR

16.67%

Seat change

Against Bihar's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1995), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained44 (14%)
Changed hands280 (86%)

44 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 280 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

Bihar, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 324 seats, alphabetical · showing 101–150 of 324

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
DUMKA	JMMSTEPHEN MARANDI	BJPSATISH SOREN	11,22211.86%	55.5%
DUMRAON	INDDADAN SINGH	SAPRAM BIHARI SINGH	7,8717.35%	60.5%
DUMRI	JD(U)LAL CHAND MAHTO	SAPJAGARNATH MAHTO	6,7258.46%	46.0%
FATEHPUR	RJDSHYAMDEO PASWAN	JD(U)TAPESHWAR PRASAD	25,70225.03%	56.1%
FATWA	RJDDINESH CHOUDHARY	JD(U)PUNEET ROY	6,9536.06%	58.7%
FORBESGANJ	BSPZAKIR HUSSAIN KHAN	INDLAXMI NARAYAN MEHTA	6,5485.15%	66.9%
GAIGHATTI	JD(U)VEERENDRA KUMAR SINGH	RJDDEVENDRA PD. YADAV	4,9964.29%	72.7%
GANDEY	JMMSALKHAN SOREN	BJPLAXAMAN SWARNKAR	8,9187.98%	67.0%
GARHWA	RJDGIRINATH SINGH	BJPSHYAM NARAYAN DUBEY	12,18212.03%	53.7%
GARKHA	RJDMUNESHWAR CHAUDHARY	SAPAMRIT CHAUDHARY	7,4166.59%	68.3%
GAYA MUFASSIL	RJDVINOD KUMAR YADVENDU	INCAWADHESH KUMAR SINGH	5,7614.93%	67.1%
GAYA TOWN	BJPPREM KUMAR	CPIMASAUD MANJAR	4,0593.76%	49.6%
GHANSHYAMPUR	RJDMAHAVIR PRASAD	JD(U)IZHAR AHMAD	16,44111.09%	73.5%
GHATSILA	INCPRADEEP KUMAR BALMUCHU	BJPBAIJU MURMU	31,87631.04%	58.7%
GHORASAHAN	JD(U)LAXMI NA. PRASAD YADAV	RJDLAL VAVU PRASAD	21,03120.08%	59.1%
GHOSI	INDJAGDISH SHARMA	CPI(ML)(L)MITHILESH YADAV	27,52418.32%	79.8%
GIRIDIH	BJPCHANDRA MOHAN PRASAD	RJDNIRBHAY KUMAR	1,0251.15%	48.5%
GOBINDGANJ	INDRAJAN TIWARI	SAPBHUPENDRA NATH DUBEY	3,2633.00%	56.4%
GOBINDPUR	RJDGAYATRI DEVI	SAPMOHAN SINGH	8,9196.73%	71.5%
GODDA	RJDSANJAY PRASAD YADAV	BJPDUKH MOCHAN CHOUDHARY	7,1115.39%	64.6%
GOH	SAPDEO KUMAR SHARMA	RJDAYODHYA SINGH	6,6595.27%	69.5%
GOMIA	INDMADHAV LAL SINGH	BJPCHHATRU RAM MAHATO	12,14212.69%	52.4%
GOPALGANJ	RJDANIRUDH PD. ALIAS SADHU YADAV	BPSPSUBASH SINGH	10,87610.29%	52.2%
GOPALPUR	RJDRABINDRA KR. RANA	SAPNARENDAR KR. NIRAJ	17,96513.46%	68.9%
GOREAKOTHI	RJDINDRADEO PRASAD	INDAJIT KUMAR SINGH	20,12617.33%	69.4%
GUMLA	BJPSUDARSHAN BHAGAT	JMMBERNARD MINJ	6,6778.34%	52.3%
GURUA	RJDSHAKEEL AHMAD KHA	BPSPAMRENDRA KUMAR SINGH	21,58319.45%	65.8%
HAJIPUR	BJPNITYANAND RAI	RJDRAJENDRA RAI	52,83636.72%	71.8%
HARLAKHI	RJDSITARAM YADAV	CPIRAM NARESH PANDEY	5340.50%	60.8%
HARNAUT	SAPVISHVAMOHAN CHOUDHARY	RJDSUNIL KUMAR	7,7576.58%	69.9%
HARSIDHI	SAPMAHESHWAR SINGH	RJDAWADHESH PD. KUSH.	12,71810.31%	70.3%
HASANPUR	JD(U)GAJENDRA PRASAD HIMANSU	RJDRAJENDRA YADAV	3,1282.88%	61.6%
HATIA	BJPRAMJI LAL SHARDA	RJDABHAY KUMAR SINGH	21,85619.64%	51.2%
HAYAGHAT	INDUMADHAR PD.SINGH	RJDHARI NANDAN YADAV	7,8637.42%	65.5%
HAZARIBAGH	BJPDEO DAYAL	INCLAMBODAR PATHAK	13,91213.26%	49.3%
HILSA	SAPRAMCHARITRA PRASAD SINGH	RJDBAIJU PRASAD	10,8497.37%	77.7%
HISUA	INDADITYA SINGH	CPMGANESH SHANKAR VIDYARTHI	3,9203.94%	57.2%
HUSSAINABAD	RJDSANJAY KUMAR SINGH YADAV	SAPDASHRATH KUMAR SINGH	5,9726.83%	53.4%
ICHAGARH	BJPARVIND KUMAR SINGH	JMMSUDHIR MAHATO	12,76411.97%	63.0%
IMAMGANJ	SAPUDAY NARAYAN CHAUDHARY	RJDRAMSWAROOP PASWAN	12,50114.13%	54.1%
ISLAMPUR	SAPRAMSWAROOP PRASAD	RJDNARESH YADAV	48,31030.24%	77.8%
JAGANATHPUR	BJPMADHU KORA	INCSONARAM BIRUA	7,4249.78%	60.2%
JAGDISHPUR	SAPSRIBHAGWAN SINGH	RJDHARINARAYAN SINGH	10,2309.63%	58.7%
JAHANABAD	RJDMUNI LAL YADAV	SAPSYED ASGHAR HUSSAIN	18,94112.74%	78.5%
JALALPUR	INDJANARDAN SINGH SIGRIWAL	SJPRRAMJAN ALI	1,6081.38%	64.7%
JALE	BJPVIJAY KUMAR MISHRA	RJDRAM NIWAS PRASAD	30,61724.30%	68.8%
JAMA	JMMDURGA SOREN	BJPRABINDRA MARANDI	15,98619.01%	56.8%
JAMALPUR	RJDUPENDRA PRASAD VERMA	INDSHAILESH KUMAR	1,3711.22%	58.5%
JAMSHEDPUR EAST	BJPRAGHUBAR DAS	INCK.P. SINGH	47,96343.56%	50.0%
JAMSHEDPUR WEST	BJPMRIGENDRA PRATAP SINGH	INCSHAMSUDIN KHAN	26,74424.42%	46.9%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in Bihar alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.

Frequently asked

Straight answers to the questions this result page exists to answer.

Who won the Bihar assembly election, Feb 2000?

Rashtriya Janata Dal won 124 of 324 seats in Bihar, short of a majority on its own.

What was the voter turnout in the Bihar assembly election, Feb 2000?

Turnout was 61.65% — 3.7 cr of 6.01 cr registered electors voted.

How many assembly seats does Bihar have?

Bihar has 324 assembly seats.