2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

The Bihar legislative assembly election, 2010 was held in six phases over a period of one month starting from 21 October until 20 November in all 243 constituencies of Bihar, India. The election is conducted to elect the government in Bihar for a five-year term. The votes were scheduled to be counted on 24 November.

2010 Bihar legislative assembly election

21 October 2010 (2010-10-21) – 20 November 2010 (2010-11-20)

All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly
122 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout52.73%(6.88)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Nitish Kumar Sushil Modi Rabri Devi
Party JD(U) BJP RJD
Alliance NDA NDA RJD+
Leader since 2005 2005 1997
Leader's seat MLC MLC Raghopur & Sonpur (both lost)
Last election 88 55 54
Seats won 115 91 22
Seat change 27 36 32
Popular vote 6,561,906 4,790,436 5,475,656
Percentage 22.58% 16.49% 18.84%
Swing 2.12% 0.84% 4.61%

  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Mehboob Ali Kaiser Ram Vilas Paswan
Party INC LJP
Alliance UPA RJD+
Leader since 2010 2000
Leader's seat Simri Bakhtiarpur
(lost)
Did not contest
Last election 9 10
Seats won 4 3
Seat change 5 7
Popular vote 2,431,477 1,957,232
Percentage 8.37% 6.74%
Swing 2.28% 4.36%


Chief Ministers before election

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

Elected Chief Ministers

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

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