2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

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All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly
122 seats needed for a majority
Turnout57.29% (Increase0.38%)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Tejashwi Yadav Sanjay Jaiswal Nitish Kumar
Party RJD BJP JD(U)
Alliance MGB NDA NDA
Leader since 2017 2019 2005
Leader's seat Raghopur
(Won)
Did Not Contest MLC
Last election 80 53 71
Seats won 75 74 43
Seat change Decrease5 Increase21 Decrease28
Popular vote 97,38,855 82,02,067 64,85,179
Percentage 23.11% 19.46% 15.39%
Swing Increase 4.79% Decrease 4.96% Decrease 1.44%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Madan Mohan Jha Dipankar Bhattacharya Akhtarul Iman
Party INC CPI(ML)L AIMIM
Alliance MGB MGB GDSF
Leader since 2019 1996 2015
Leader's seat Did not contest Did Not Contest Amour
(Won)
Last election 27 3 0
Seats won 19 12 5
Seat change Decrease8 Increase9 Increase5
Popular vote 39,95,319 13,33,682 5,23,279
Percentage 9.48% 3.16% 1.24%
Swing Increase 2.82% Increase 1.66% Increase 1.03%

Seatwise Result Map of the election


Chief Minister before election

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

Elected Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

The Bihar Legislative Assembly election was held in three phases through October–November to elect members to the Seventeenth Bihar Legislative Assembly. The term of the previous Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar ended on 29 November 2020.

The election was held in three phases for a total of 243 seats:- the first for 71 seats on 28 October 2020, the second for 94 seats on 3 November 2020, and the third for the remaining 78 seats on 7 November 2020. The counting of votes began on 10 November 2020 and the incumbent National Democratic Alliance emerged as the winner with 125 elected MLAs, whereas the principal opposition coalition of Mahagathbandhan won 110 seats.[1] Other minor coalitions and parties won 7 seats while only 1 newly elected MLA was an independent.[2]

After the elections, the incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was elected as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance in Bihar and was sworn in again as Chief Minister, whereas two new deputy Chief Ministers, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi were inducted to the new ministry.[3] On the other side, Tejashwi Yadav was elected Leader of the Opposition, and also leader of the Mahagathbandhan alliance. Later Vijay Kumar Sinha was elected the new Speaker of the Bihar Legislative Assembly.[4]

  1. ^ "Bihar election: India's BJP coalition wins key state election". BBC News. 11 November 2020. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Archived from the original on 10 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  3. ^ Tewary, Amarnath (16 November 2020). "Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar CM again". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. ^ Tewary, Amarnath (25 November 2020). "NDA nominee Vijay Kumar Sinha elected Bihar Assembly Speaker". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.