15th Lok Sabha Elections in Bihar 2009 Verdict

Posted by on May 30, 2009 in India, Indian Politicians, Indian Politics

Bihar has as many as 40 seats in the Lok Sabha. The ruling alliance there consisting of the Janata Dal (U) and the BJP had the lion share of the 40 seats thanks to the development wave created by the charismatic Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

Bihar this time saw the two biggies like Laloo Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan losing bitterly. Laloo Prasad Yadav, the Union Railways Minister and the former Chief Minister of Bihar lost the election himself in Pataliputra. Laloo saved himself from a huge embarassment by just managing to become a MP. This was because he had also contested from Saran where he managed to beat a formidable opponent in Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the BJP. For Ram Vilas Paswan, the election results was a big insult to him as not only he lost the contest at Hajipur, his party – the Lok Janshakti Party failed to capture even a single seat! Laloo’s party on the other hand was silenced with just 4 MPs in hand.

Prior to the elections, Laloo Prasad Yadav and Ram Vilas Paswan had formed a fourth front alliance in Bihar and with Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party in the Uttar Pradesh. The fourth front boasted that the Government at the Centre can only be made with the support of them. In Bihar, they gave just three seats for the Congress to contest which was taken as a humiliating gesture by the Sonia Gandhi led party. The Congress decided to contest on its own in Bihar and could win only 2 seats.

Here is the breakdown of the seats won out of the 40 Lok Sabha Seats by the various parties in Bihar:

  1. Janata Dal (U) (JDU) – 20
  2. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – 12
  3. Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) – 04
  4. Indian National Congress (INC) – 02
  5. Independents – 02

Here is the list of Member of Parliaments (MPs) elected from Bihar :

  1. Valmiki Nagar Constituency MP – Baidyanath Prasad Mahto (JDU)
  2. Paschim Champaran Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP)
  3. Purvi Champaran Constituency MP – Radha Mohan Singh (BJP)
  4. Sheohar Constituency MP – Rama Devi  (BJP)
  5. Sitamarhi Constituency MP – Arjun Roy (JDU)
  6. Madhubani Constituency MP – Hukmadeo Narayan Yadav (BJP)
  7. Jhanjharpur Constituency MP – Mangani Lal Mandal (JDU)
  8. Supaul Constituency MP – Vishwa Mohan Kumar (JDU)
  9. Araria Constituency MP – Pradeep Kumar Singh (BJP)
  10. Kishanganj Constituency MP – Mohammad Asrarul Haque (Indian National Congress)
  11. Katihar Constituency MP – Nikhil Kumar Choudhary (BJP)
  12. Purnia Constituency MP – Uday Singh Alias Pappu Singh (BJP)
  13. Madhepura Constituency MP – Sharad Yadav (JDU)
  14. Darbhanga Constituency MP – Kirti Azad (BJP)
  15. Muzaffarpur Constituency MP – Captain Jai Narayan Prasad Nishad (JDU)
  16. Vaishali Constituency MP – Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (RJD)
  17. Gopalganj Constituency MP – Purnmasi Ram (JDU)
  18. Siwan Constituency MP – Om Prakash Yadav (Independent)
  19. Maharajganj Constituency MP – Uma Shanaker Singh (RJD)
  20. Saran Constituency MP – Lalu Prasad Yadav (RJD)
  21. Hajipur Constituency MP – Ram Sundar Das (JDU)
  22. Ujiarpur Constituency MP – Aswamedh Devi (JDU)
  23. Samastipur Constituency MP – Maheshwar Hazari (JDU)
  24. Begusarai Constituency MP – Dr. Monazir Hassan (JDU)
  25. Khagaria Constituency MP – Dinesh Chandra Yadav (JDU)
  26. Bhagalpur Constituency MP – Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (BJP)
  27. Banka Constituency MP – Digvijay Singh (Independent)
  28. Munger Constituency MP – Rajiv Ranjan Singh Alias Lalan Singh (JDU)
  29. Nalanda Constituency MP – Kaushalendra Kumar (JDU)
  30. Patna Sahib Constituency MP – Shatrughan Sinha (BJP)
  31. Pataliputra Constituency MP – Ranjan Prasad Yadav (JDU)
  32. Arrah Constituency MP – Meena Singh (JDU)
  33. Buxar Constituency MP – Jagada Nand Singh (RJD)
  34. Sasaram Constituency MP – Meira Kumar (Indian National Congress)
  35. Karakat Constituency MP – Mahabali Singh (JDU)
  36. Jahanabad Constituency MP – Jagdish Sharma (JDU)
  37. Aurangabad Constituency MP – Sushil Kumar Singh (JDU)
  38. Gaya Constituency MP – Hari Manjhi (BJP)
  39. Nawada Constituency MP – Bhola Singh (BJP)
  40. Jamui Constituency MP – Bhudeo Choudhary(JDU)

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