Lok Sabha General Election 1998

Bihar

54 parliamentary constituencies — party tallies, map, and winners.

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Party Wise Results

Bihar — seats, contested & votes

Party	Seats won	Contested	Vote share	Total votes
BJP · Bharatiya Janata Party	20	32	24.03%	8,979,956
RJD · Rashtriya Janata Dal	17	38	26.58%	9,934,389
SAP · Samata Party	10	21	15.74%	5,884,100
INC · Indian National Congress	5	21	7.27%	2,717,204
JD · Janata Dal	1	35	8.72%	3,258,741
AIRJP · All India Rashtriya Janata Party	1	3	0.95%	354,476
CPI · Communist Party of India	0	15	3.40%	1,269,386
JMM · Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	8	2.45%	915,053
CPI(ML)(L) · Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)	0	16	2.12%	792,504
SP · Samajwadi Party	0	19	2.09%	780,380
IND · Independent	0	45	1.97%	734,889
SJP(R) · Samajwadi Janata Party(Rashtriya)	0	2	1.15%	428,376
MCO · Marxist Co-Ordination	0	1	0.71%	263,901
JMM(M) · Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Mardi)	0	3	0.64%	240,897
BJC · Bihar Jana Congress	0	14	0.59%	222,371
BSP · Bahujan Samaj Party	0	3	0.53%	197,236
CPM · Communist Party of India (Marxist)	0	4	0.40%	147,713
JKP · Jharkhand Party	0	2	0.15%	55,210
LS · Lok Shakti	0	9	0.11%	40,434
SSD · Shoshit Samaj Dal	0	3	0.06%	21,762
AJBP · Ajeya Bharat Party	0	8	0.06%	21,186
ABMSD · Akhil Bartiya Manav Seva Dal	0	2	0.06%	20,733
SHS · Shivsena	0	7	0.05%	17,044
Total	54	—	100%	37,374,416

Party Wise Results

Seats won (Doughnut)

Bihar Constituency Map

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Party Wise Vote Share

Votes polled in Bihar (Pie)

Constituencies

Winner · vote share · margin

Constituency	Winner	Vote share	Margin over runner-up
Bagaha #1	Mahendra Baitha Male SAP	43.06%	45,743
Bettiah #2	Dr. Madan Prasad Jaiswal Male BJP	43.66%	41,901
Motihari #3	Rama Devi Female RJD	41.47%	88,074
Gopalganj #4	Abdul Ghafoor Male SAP	45.67%	68,605
Siwan #5	M.Sahabuddin Male RJD	49.24%	120,484
Maharajganj #6	Prabhunath Singh Male SAP	54.24%	205,553
Chapra #7	Heera Lal Rai Male RJD	44.96%	9,327
Hajipur #8	Ram Vilas Paswan Male JD	60.58%	177,561
Vaishali #9	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh Male RJD	43.97%	41,494
Muzaffarpur #10	Captain Jai Na. Pd. Nishad Male RJD	42.95%	21,923
Sitamarhi #11	Sita Ram Yadav Male RJD	36.38%	23,509
Sheohar #12	Anand Mohan Male AIRJP	41.60%	93,144
Madhubani #13	Dr. Shakeel Ahmad Male INC	39.78%	16,485
Jhanjharpur #14	Surendra Prasad Yadav Male RJD	37.55%	37,268
Darbhanga #15	Md. Ali Asharaf Fatmi Male RJD	43.31%	36,108
Rosera #16	Pitambar Paswan Male RJD	38.03%	43,281
Samastipur #17	Ajit Kumar Mehta Male RJD	38.23%	37,654
Barh #18	Nitish Kumar Male SAP	47.73%	15,190
Balia #19	Rajbanshi Mahto Male RJD	39.32%	52,484
Saharsa #20	Anuplal Yadav Male RJD	35.76%	54,168
Madhepura #21	Lalu Prasad RJD	47.19%	51,983
Araria #22	Ramje Das Rishideo Male BJP	45.56%	33,937
Kishanganj #23	Taslim Uddin Male RJD	32.47%	6,488
Purnea #24	Jay Krishna Mandal Male BJP	37.96%	35,817
Katihar #25	Tariq Anawar Male INC	47.87%	20,437
Rajmahal #26	Som Marandi Male BJP	34.03%	9
Dumka #27	Babu Lal Marandi Male BJP	47.01%	12,556
Godda #28	Jagdambi Prasad Yadav Male BJP	47.13%	75,680
Banka #29	Digvijay Singh Male SAP	47.11%	11,291
Bhagalpur #30	Prabhas Chandra Tiwari Male BJP	44.60%	91,847
Khagaria #31	Shakuni Choudhury Male SAP	44.83%	83,187
Monghyr #32	Bijoy Kumar "bijoy" Male RJD	45.19%	4,065
Begusarai #33	Rajo Singh Male INC	43.00%	52,907
Nalanda #34	George Fernandes Male SAP	50.27%	115,670
Patna #35	C.P.Thakur Male BJP	51.55%	52,606
Arrah #36	H.P.Singh Male SAP	39.41%	58,164
Buxar #37	Lalmuni Chaubey Male BJP	41.05%	84,316
Sasaram #38	Muni Lall Male BJP	42.10%	88,728
Bikramganj #39	Bashist Narayan Singh Male SAP	40.40%	7,851
Aurangabad #40	Sushil Kumar Singh Male SAP	42.91%	86,293
Jahanabad #41	Surendra Prasad Yadav Male RJD	42.46%	58,907
Nawada #42	Malti Devi Female RJD	46.68%	14,384
Gaya #43	Krishna Kumar Chaudhary Male BJP	43.50%	37,446
Chatra #44	Dhirendra Agrawal Male BJP	45.06%	33,375
Kodarma #45	Ritlal Prasad Verma Male BJP	42.06%	97,911
Giridih #46	Rabindra Kumar Pandey Male BJP	45.50%	68,791
Dhanbad #47	Rita Verma Female BJP	50.60%	178,689
Hazaribagh #48	Yashwant Sinha Male BJP	46.71%	163,506
Ranchi #49	Ramtahal Choudhary Male BJP	58.12%	143,580
Jamshedpur #50	Abha Mahato Female BJP	41.50%	97,433
Singhbhum #51	Vijay Singh Soy Male INC	36.44%	10,830
Khunti #52	Kariya Munda Male BJP	43.29%	39,949
Lohardaga #53	Indra Nath Bhagat Male INC	45.66%	19,397
Palamu #54	Braj Mohan Ram Male BJP	53.72%	80,827