Bihar Legislative Assembly election, February 2005

Bihar legislative assembly election Feb 2005

243 Legislative Assembly seats   Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Laloo Prasad Yadav Nitish Kumar --- Party RJD JD(U) BJP Alliance NDA NDA Leader since 1997 2005 --- Last election 39 Seats before 103 28 Seats after 75 55 37 Seat change 28 17 2   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Ram Vilas Paswan --- Party LJP INC Alliance --- Leader since 2000 --- Leader's seat --- Seats before NA 14 Seats after 28 10 Seat change 28 -4

District map of Bihar

CM before election Rabri Devi RJD Elected CM President's rule Nonpartisan

Bihar Assembly elections were held twice in year 2005. There was a fractured verdict in February 2005 Assembly Election. Since no government could be formed in Bihar, fresh elections were held in October–November the same year.

Schedule

Poll Event and Place	Phase-I	Phase-II	Phase-III
Announcement	17.12.2004 (Friday)	17.12.2004 (Friday)	17.12.2004 (Friday)
Issue of notification	10.1.2005 (Monday)	20.1.2005 (Thursday)	29.1.2005 (Saturday)
Last Date for making nominations	17.1.2005 (Monday)	27.1.2005 (Thursday)	5.2.2005 (Saturday)
Scrutiny of nominations	18.1.2005 (Tuesday)	28.1.2005 (Friday)	7.2.2005 (Monday)
Last Date for withdrawal of candidature	20.1.2005 (Thursday)	31.1.2005 (Monday)	9.2.2005 (Wednesday)
Counting of Votes	27.2.2005 (Sunday)	27.2.2005 (Sunday)	27.2.2005 (Sunday)
Status	Done	Done	Done
Total No. of Assembly Constituencies			243
Assembly Constituencies reserved for Scheduled Castes			39
No. of Electors			5.27 crores
No. of Polling Booths			Estimated 50,063 Polling Booths.
Source: India Election

Summary of Results

Party	Party Flag	Seats Contested	Seats Won	Seats Change	Efficiency	Vote Share
Rashtriya Janata Dal		210	75	(-)28	35.71%	25.07%
Janata Dal (United)		138	55	(+)17	25.36%	14.55%
Bharatiya Janata Party		103	37	(-) 2	35.92%	10.7%
Lok Janshakti Party		178	29	(+) 29	16.29%	12.62%
Indian National Congress		84	10	(-) 4	11.90%	5.00%
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation		109	7	(+) 1	5.50%	2.49%
Samajwadi Party		142	4	(+) 4		2.69%
Nationalist Congress Party		31	3	(+) 3		0.98%
Communist Party of India		17	3	0		1.58%
Bahujan Samaj Party		238	2	(-) 2		4,41%
Communist Party of India (Marxist)		12	1	(-) 1		0.64%
Independent		1493	17			16.16%

Detailed Result

See also

• Bihar Assembly Election, Oct 2005
• Bihar Assembly Election, 2005
• Bihar Assembly Election, 2000
• Election in Bihar
• Politics in Bihar

References