State board · Lok Sabha

Bihar Lok Sabha 1989

Results board · 54 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateBihar

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 54

Electors

5.22Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

3.09Cr

59.1% of electors

Median turnout

57.3%

Median of 54 seats

JD lead

Above majority · 32 − 28

[01]Seat matrix

54 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 28 of 54JD 32 · +4 above majority

JD 3259.3% Janata Dal

BJP 814.8% Bharatiya Janata Party

CPI 47.4% Communist Party of India

INC 47.4% Indian National Congress

JMM 35.6% Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

CPI(M) 11.9% Communist Party of India (Marxist)

MO 11.9% Marxist Co-Ordination

IPF 11.9% Indian Peoples Front

Not in the source

The source carries no state-level vote share for Bihar 1989.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Khunti was decided by 3,785 votes, the closest of 54 seats; Hajipur had the widest margin, 5,04,448.
min / max of margin over 54 seats with a recorded margin
In SC-reserved seats JD won 7 of 8 (87.5%), against 59.3% of all seats.
7 ÷ 8 = 87.5% · 32 ÷ 54 = 59.3%
Turnout ran from 36.4% in Singhbhum to 74.8% in Hajipur; the median seat polled 57.3%.
min / median / max over 54 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

54 of 54 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 611.1% of seats

50–60 2546.3% of seats

60–70 1629.6% of seats

70–80 713.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestSinghbhum36.4%
HighestHajipur74.8%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

54 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Bihar Lok Sabha 1989, all 54 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	BagahaSC	Mahendra Baitha	Janata Dal	3,90,367	88,032	22.6	44.8
02	Bettiah	Dharmesh Prassad Verma	Janata Dal	5,10,547	48,348	9.5	56.0
03	Motihari	Radha Mohan Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,43,412	78,111	14.4	58.0
04	Gopalganj	Rajmangal Mishra	Janata Dal	6,81,677	1,93,921	28.5	72.2
05	Siwan	Janardan Tiwari	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,52,892	1,58,951	28.8	57.3
06	Maharajganj	Chanrasbekhar	Janata Dal	5,86,049	2,17,318	37.1	57.2
07	Chapra	Laloo Prassad	Janata Dal	6,52,929	1,41,882	21.7	64.6
08	HajipurSCWIDEST	Ram Vilas Paswan	Janata Dal	7,31,592	5,04,448	69.0	74.8
09	Vaishali	Usha Singh	Janata Dal	7,02,557	2,13,217	30.4	72.9
10	Muzaffarpur	George Farnandes	Janata Dal	7,15,437	2,85,010	39.8	72.9
11	Sitamarhi	Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav	Janata Dal	6,47,197	1,70,861	26.4	64.0
12	Sheohar	Hari Kishor Singh	Janata Dal	6,25,670	3,14,475	50.3	65.0
13	Madhubani	Bhogendra Jha	Communist Party of India	5,50,019	1,41,366	25.7	56.1
14	Jhanjharpur	Devandra Prassad Yadav	Janata Dal	5,32,066	1,59,336	30.0	55.5
15	Darbhanga	Shakeeul Rahman	Janata Dal	6,48,822	78,457	12.1	70.4
16	RoseraSC	Dashai Chaudhary	Janata Dal	6,19,742	2,04,487	33.0	64.2
17	Samastipur	Manjai Lal	Janata Dal	6,94,963	2,37,681	34.2	64.6
18	Barh	Nitish Kumar	Janata Dal	6,96,236	78,347	11.3	67.5
19	Balia	Suryanarayan Singh	Communist Party of India	5,11,934	1,61,449	31.5	56.5
20	Saharsa	Surya Nr. Yadav	Janata Dal	7,60,273	2,77,081	36.4	71.8
21	Madhepura	Ramesh Kumar Yadav Ravi	Janata Dal	6,64,005	2,92,948	44.1	68.0
22	ArariaSC	Sukdeo Paswan	Janata Dal	5,57,301	72,655	13.0	60.7
23	Kishanganj	M.J.Akbar	Indian National Congress	5,48,826	25,991	4.7	57.4
24	Purnea	Taslimudin	Janata Dal	5,61,585	54,557	9.7	60.8
25	Katihar	Yuvarj	Janata Dal	6,19,228	1,03,178	16.7	72.4
26	RajmahalST	Simon Marandi	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	4,56,601	1,66,415	36.5	55.1
27	DumkaST	Shibu Sohan	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	4,05,964	1,09,601	27.0	46.7
28	Godda	Janardhan Yadav	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,68,055	1,81,433	31.9	59.2
29	Banka	Pratap Singh	Janata Dal	5,28,470	2,16,615	41.0	55.3
30	Bhagalpur	Chun Chun Prasad Yadav	Janata Dal	6,71,816	4,35,398	64.8	64.2
31	Khagaria	Ram Sharan Yadav	Janata Dal	5,81,926	1,36,522	23.5	61.5
32	Monghyr	Dhanraj Singh	Janata Dal	6,94,723	55,186	7.9	68.4
33	Begusarai	Lalit Vijay Singh	Janata Dal	6,03,707	74,721	12.4	61.2
34	Nalanda	Ram Saroop Prasad	Indian National Congress	6,98,122	11,212	1.6	64.3
35	Patna	Shailendra Nath Srivastava	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,21,326	21,593	3.5	53.0
36	Arrah	Rameshwar Prasad	Indian Peoples Front	5,45,791	16,440	3.0	51.5
37	Buxar	Tej Narain Singh	Communist Party of India	5,46,668	37,322	6.8	55.3
38	SasaramSC	Chhedi Paswan	Janata Dal	5,31,432	1,13,656	21.4	55.0
39	Bikramganj	Ram Parsad Singh	Janata Dal	5,38,328	1,25,993	23.4	54.7
40	Aurangabad	Ram Naresh Singh	Janata Dal	5,65,274	57,082	10.1	58.0
41	Jahanabad	Ramashray Prasad Singh	Communist Party of India	6,89,907	72,901	10.6	65.2
42	NawadaSC	Prem Pardeep	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	6,49,326	1,49,602	23.0	56.4
43	GayaSC	Inswar Chaudhary	Janata Dal	6,65,491	2,52,923	38.0	68.9
44	Chatra	Upender Nath Verma	Janata Dal	4,53,260	77,371	17.1	51.2
45	Kodarma	Ritlal Prasad Verma	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,36,188	1,02,294	19.1	55.6
46	Giridih	Ram Das Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party	4,85,166	8,182	1.7	51.7
47	Dhanbad	A.K.Roy	Marxist Co-Ordination	6,37,021	13,571	2.1	55.1
48	Hazaribagh	Yadunath Pandey	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,29,895	43,419	8.2	52.4
49	Ranchi	Subodh Kant Sahay	Janata Dal	4,66,266	14,986	3.2	50.4
50	Jamshedpur	Shailendra Mahto	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	5,16,270	8,884	1.7	54.2
51	SinghbhumST	Bagua Samburi	Indian National Congress	2,76,427	19,979	7.2	36.4
52	KhuntiSTCLOSEST	Karia Munda	Bharatiya Janata Party	3,33,260	3,785	1.1	44.1
53	LohardagaST	Sumati Oraon	Indian National Congress	3,69,193	39,072	10.6	44.7
54	PalamauSC	Jaorwar Ram	Janata Dal	3,82,294	33,396	8.7	42.0

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 5,04,448 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1989 · Bihar · 54 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database