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Lok Sabha elections: While a neck and neck Lok Sabha election results unfolded in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal between the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance and the Congress-led INDIA, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance securied a comfortable win in the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies of Bihar.
Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) won 12 out of the 16 seats they contested while the Bharatiya Janata Party also won as many seats of the 17 seats they contested.
Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), which is part of the NDA fold, had a 100 per cent score card as it won all of its five seats. Former Bihar chief minister and founder of Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) Jitan Ram Manjhi, another alliance partner of NDA, won by a margin of over 100,000 votes in Gaya.
Meanwhile, the opposition’s INDIA bloc, comprising the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) Liberation, has together managed to win nine seats in Bihar.
While the Congress secured three seats including retaining Kishaganj from 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the RJD won four seats including key constituency Patliputra, where Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti contested.
The Election Commission's website showed that party-wise, the RJD bagged the biggest vote share at over 22 per cent by securing more 9.5 million votes. The BJP stood second in the list at 20.52 per cent vote share and over 8.8 million votes.
Bihar's Purnia was the lone seat to be grabbed by an independent candidate, Pappu Yadav, who won by a margin of over 23,000.
The RJD had fielded its candidates on 26 seats out of the 40 constituencies while the Congress on nine seats.
The counting of votes occured at more than 36 centres in the state. Polling was held for those seats in seven phases between April 19 and June 1.
Check constituency wise full list of winners in Bihar Lok Sabha elections 2024:
