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 301–324 of 324

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
SINGHESHWAR	RJDVIJAY KUMAR SINGH	JD(U)UPENDRA NARAYAN YADAV	19,26018.51%	62.6%
SINGHIA	INCDR. ASHOK KUMAR	JD(U)JAGADISH PASWAN	7390.67%	59.8%
SISAI	BJPDINESH ORAON	INCBANDI ORAON	7,76315.02%	31.1%
SITAMARHI	RJDSHAHID ALI KHAN	BJPHARISHANKAR PRASAD	350.02%	67.2%
SIWAN	RJDAWADH BIHARI CHAUDHARY	BJPWASI AHMAD	89,23765.35%	74.5%
SONBARSA	RJDASHOK KUMAR SINGH	INDKISHOR KUMAR SINGH	4,2343.45%	62.4%
SONBARSA	RJDDR. RAMCHANDRA PURVE	INCMD. HIRA KHAN	18,19413.70%	70.4%
SONEPUR	BJPVINAY KUMAR SINGH	RJDPROF. RAMANUJ PRASAD	2,2901.54%	85.1%
SUGAULI	KSPVIJAY PRASAD GUPTA	CPMRAMASHRAY SINGH	5060.42%	64.8%
SULTANGANJ	SAPGANESH PASWAN	RJDPHANINDRA CHOUDHARY	31,51923.82%	59.2%
SUPAUL	JD(U)BIJENDRA PD. YADAV	RJDVINAYAK PRASAD YADAV	2,4482.04%	61.6%
SURAJGARHA	RJDPRAHLAD YADAV	BJPBHAGWAT PD. MEHTA	26,86420.27%	67.3%
SURSAND	JD(U)JAINANDAN PD. YADAV	RJDNAGENDRA PRASAD YADAV	17,38815.13%	63.3%
TAMAR	SAPRAMESH SINGH MUNDA	INCKALICHARAN MUNDA	19,02923.31%	52.5%
TARAIYA	RJDRAM DAS RAY	BJPJANAK SINGH	2650.24%	69.2%
TARAPUR	RJDSHAKUNI CHOUDHARY	SAPRAJIV KUMAR SINGH	29,61725.52%	67.7%
THAKURGANJ	INCDR. MD. JAWAID	INDTARACHAND DHANUKA	6,7105.22%	63.4%
TORPA	BJPKOCHE MUNDA	INDNIRAL ENEM HORO	3,0974.61%	54.6%
TRIBENIGANJ	RJDANUP LAL YADAV	INCBISHWA MOHAN KUMAR	5,8425.66%	67.6%
TUNDI	RJDSABA AHMAD	JMMMATHURA PD. MAHATO	1540.15%	58.4%
VAISHALI	INCVEENA SHAHI	RJDVRISHIN PATEL	12,0289.44%	69.5%
WARISNAGAR	JD(U)RAM SEWAK HAZARI	RJDBHIKHAR BAITHA	13,61013.64%	59.1%
WARSALIGANJ	INDARUNA DEVI	RJDMANILAL PRASAD	44,71328.62%	78.9%
ZIRADEI	RJDM. AZAZUL HAQUE	SAPSHYAM BAHADUR SINGH	44,92037.39%	76.0%

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.