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Bihar Lok Sabha 2014

Results board · 40 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateBihar
Seats
40
Constituencies
Majority
21
Seats needed of 40
Electors
6.38Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.59Cr
56.3% of electors
Median turnout
56.6%
Median of 40 seats
BJP lead
+1
Above majority · 22 − 21

[01]Seat matrix

40 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 40 seats: BJP 22, LJP 6, RJD 4, RLSP 3, JD(U) 2, INC 2, NCP 1. Majority line at 21 seats. Hemicycle of 40 seats: BJP 22, LJP 6, RJD 4, RLSP 3, JD(U) 2, INC 2, NCP 1. Majority line at 21 seats.
Majority · 21 of 40BJP 22 · +1 above majority
BJP 2255.0% Bharatiya Janata Party
LJP 615.0% Lok Janshakti Party
RJD 410.0% Rashtriya Janata Dal
RLSP 37.5% Rashtriya Lok Samta Party
JD(U) 25.0% Janata Dal (United)
INC 25.0% Indian National Congress
NCP 12.5% Nationalist Congress Party

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
BJP 29.9%22 seats · 55.0%
RJD 20.5%4 seats · 10.0%
JD(U) 16.0%2 seats · 5.0%
INC 8.6%2 seats · 5.0%
LJP 6.5%6 seats · 15.0%
Others 18.5%4 seats · 10.0%

Vote share not published

  • RLSP3 seats
  • NCP1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

NDA 39.4%31 seats
UPA 30.2%7 seats
OTHERS 30.4%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. BJP converted 29.9% of votes into 55.0% of seats, a seat premium of 25.1 pp.

    22 ÷ 40 = 55.0% · 55.0 − 29.9 = +25.1

  2. JD(U) polled 16.0% of votes, the 3rd-highest share, but won 2 seats (5.0%).

    2 ÷ 40 = 5.0% · 5.0 − 16.0 = −11.0

  3. Samastipur was decided by 6,872 votes, the closest of 40 seats; Gopalganj had the widest margin, 2,86,936.

    min / max of margin over 40 seats with a recorded margin

  4. 1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; LJP won 1 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 40 · LJP 1

  5. In SC-reserved seats BJP won 3 of 6 (50.0%), against 55.0% of all seats.

    3 ÷ 6 = 50.0% · 22 ÷ 40 = 55.0%

  6. Turnout ran from 45.3% in Patna Sahib to 67.6% in Katihar; the median seat polled 56.6%.

    min / median / max over 40 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

40 of 40 seats carry a turnout
025507510056.6%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 37.5% of seats
50–60 2562.5% of seats
60–70 1230.0% of seats
70–80 00.0% of seats
≥ 80% 00.0% of seats
  • LowestPatna Sahib45.3%
  • HighestKatihar67.6%
  • NOTASummed over all 40 seats5,81,011

[05]Every seat

40 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 2014, all 40 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Valmiki Nagar Satish Chandra Dubey Bharatiya Janata Party 9,00,114 1,17,793 13.1 61.8
02 Paschim Champaran Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal Bharatiya Janata Party 8,54,800 1,10,254 12.9 60.5
03 Purvi Champaran Radha Mohan Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 8,22,671 1,92,163 23.4 56.6
04 Sheohar Rama Devi Bharatiya Janata Party 8,42,894 1,36,239 16.2 56.6
05 Sitamarhi Ram Kumar Sharma Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 9,00,588 1,47,965 16.4 57.2
06 Madhubani Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 8,60,453 20,535 2.4 52.9
07 Jhanjharpur Birendra Kumar Chaudhary Bharatiya Janata Party 9,41,249 55,408 5.9 57.0
08 Supaul Ranjeet Ranjan Indian National Congress 9,70,528 59,672 6.1 63.6
09 Araria Tasleem Uddin Rashtriya Janata Dal 9,75,811 1,46,504 15.0 61.5
10 Kishanganj Mohammad Asrarul Haque Indian National Congress 9,28,490 1,94,612 21.0 64.5
11 Katihar Tariq Anwar Nationalist Congress Party 9,77,830 1,14,740 11.7 67.6
12 Purnia Santosh Kumar Janata Dal (United) 10,17,732 1,16,669 11.5 64.3
13 Madhepura Rajesh Ranjan @ Pappu Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 10,34,799 56,209 5.4 60.0
14 Darbhanga Kirti Azad Bharatiya Janata Party 8,28,342 35,043 4.2 55.4
15 Muzaffarpur Ajay Nishad Bharatiya Janata Party 9,48,887 2,22,422 23.4 61.2
16 Vaishali Rama Kishore Singh Lok Janshakti Party 9,25,937 99,267 10.7 58.3
17 GopalganjSCWIDEST Janak Ram Bharatiya Janata Party 9,03,583 2,86,936 31.8 54.7
18 Siwan Om Prakash Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 8,84,021 1,13,847 12.9 56.5
19 Maharajganj Janardan Singh Sigriwal Bharatiya Janata Party 8,46,654 38,415 4.5 51.5
20 Saran Rajiv Pratap Rudy Bharatiya Janata Party 8,63,254 40,948 4.7 56.1
21 HajipurSC Ramvilas Paswan Lok Janshakti Party 9,04,753 2,25,500 24.9 54.9
22 Ujiarpur Nityanand Rai Bharatiya Janata Party 8,58,920 60,469 7.0 60.1
23 SamastipurSCCLOSEST Ram Chandra Paswan Lok Janshakti Party 8,63,199 6,872 0.8 57.4
24 Begusarai Bhola Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 10,77,855 58,335 5.4 60.6
25 Khagaria Choudhary Mahboob Ali Kaiser Lok Janshakti Party 8,96,231 76,003 8.5 60.1
26 Bhagalpur Shailesh Kumar Urph Bulo Mandal Rashtriya Janata Dal 9,74,016 9,485 1.0 57.8
27 Banka Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav Rashtriya Janata Dal 8,99,353 10,144 1.1 58.0
28 Munger Veena Devi Lok Janshakti Party 9,14,350 1,09,084 11.9 53.9
29 Nalanda Kaushlendra Kumar Janata Dal (United) 9,21,761 9,627 1.0 47.2
30 Patna Sahib Shatrughana Sinha Bharatiya Janata Party 8,82,262 2,65,805 30.1 45.3
31 Pataliputra Ram Kripal Yadav Bharatiya Janata Party 9,78,649 40,322 4.1 56.4
32 Arrah Raj Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 8,93,213 1,35,870 15.2 48.8
33 Buxar Ashwini Kumar Choubey Bharatiya Janata Party 8,88,204 1,32,338 14.9 54.1
34 SasaramSC Chhedi Paswan Bharatiya Janata Party 8,46,788 63,327 7.5 52.7
35 Karakat Upendra Kushwaha Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 7,89,927 1,05,241 13.3 50.3
36 Jahanabad Dr. Arun Kumar Rashtriya Lok Samta Party 8,11,516 42,340 5.2 57.0
37 Aurangabad Sushil Kumar Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 7,86,274 66,347 8.4 51.2
38 GayaSC Hari Manjhi Bharatiya Janata Party 8,09,378 1,15,504 14.3 53.9
39 Nawada Giriraj Singh Bharatiya Janata Party 8,84,441 1,40,157 15.8 52.8
40 JamuiSC Chirag Kumar Paswan Lok Janshakti Party 7,75,639 85,947 11.1 50.0
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,86,936 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 2014 · Bihar · 40 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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