LIVE Bihar Election Results 2019

Bihar has 40 Lok Sabha constituencies - Gaya, Nawada, Jamui, Kishanganj,Katihar, Purnia,Bhagalpur, Banka, Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria, Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger, Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran, Hajipur, Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan, Maharajganj, Nalanda, Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Sasaram,Karakat and Jahanabad.

The Election Commission announced a seven-phase polling in the 40 seats of Bihar.

In 2014, the BJP, Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and RLSP had contested 30, seven and three seats of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. The BJP-led NDA won 31 seats (BJP won 22 seats, the LJP six and RLSP three seats).

This year, the BJP is fighting the Lok Sabha election with Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) or JD(U). The JD(U) and the BJP are contesting 17 seats each while the LJP is contesting six seats.

Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress, partners in the opposition grand alliance, are fighting together in Bihar along with Upendra Kishwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samta Party(RLSP), Hindustani Awam Morcha and Mukesh Nishad.

Bihar's population is 10.41 crore, according to the 2011 census.

There are 7.06 crore voters in Bihar. 15.50 lakh are first-time voters. Bihar has 3.32 crore women voters and 3.73 crore men voters. Upper castes form 15 per cent of Bihar's population.

Among the key candidates in Bihar is Congress's Shatrughan Sinha who is taking on Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Patna Sahib. Former student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar is the Left candidate against the BJP's Giriraj Singh in Begusarai. Other prominent candidates are Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Sharad Yadav, the BJP's Sushil Kumar, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Congress's Ranjeet Ranjan (Supaul) and LJP's Chirag Paswan.