1996 By-elections

Bihar

14 seats contested

By-elections held in Bihar during 1996 — 14 seats were contested, not the full assembly. Results are shown as a table: a map of a handful of seats would leave the rest of the state blank, which reads as "no result" rather than "not contested". Seat shares below are of the seats contested here, not of the assembly.

Seats won by party

JD642.9%
BJP321.4%
SAP321.4%
IND17.1%
SP17.1%

Also polled — no seats won

INC6.1%

CPI(ML)(L)5.0%

JMM1.0%

Vote share of the vote across the seats contested here. Parties below 1% are not shown.

#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes	Share	Margin	Turnout
26	Baikunthpur	Deodat Prasad	JD	64,379	56.1%	16,547	—
32	Ziradei	Sheo Shanker Yadav	JD	39,551	46.7%	2,403	—
37	Masrakh	Tarkeshwer Singh	IND	43,851	53.0%	22,112	—
65	Belsand	Vrishin Patel	SAP	33,381	36.3%	1,783	—
94	Warisnagar	Bhikhar Baitha	JD	29,195	33.4%	1,753	—
132	Jokihat	Sarfaraz	JD	41,932	38.7%	12,630	—
176	Katoria	Bhola Prasad Yadav	JD	46,157	52.4%	31,878	—
200	Harnaut	Arun Kumar Singh	SAP	62,299	55.1%	31,214	—
209	Dinapur	Vijay Singh Yadav	BJP	36,704	49.2%	588	—
213	Paliganj	Janardan Sharma	BJP	34,037	29.4%	3,129	—
223	Piro	Sivanand Tiwari	SAP	37,383	36.5%	6,666	—
236	Nabinagar	Lovely Anand	SP	56,144	48.4%	7,343	—
254	Barachatti	Jeetan Ram Manjhee	JD	41,404	50.9%	13,629	—
306	Ranchi	Chandreshwar Prasad Singh	BJP	46,513	40.3%	6,851	—

Election data: ECI