Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 1990

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Bihar Legislative Assembly election 1990
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324 seats to the Bihar Legislative Assembly seats
  Majority party Minority party Third party
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Leader Laloo Prasad Yadav Jagannath Mishra
Party Janata Dal INC BJP
Leader since 1990 6 December 1989
Leader's seat None (Bihar Legislative Council) Jhanjharpur
Last election New Party 196 seats, 39.30% 16 seats, 7.54%
Seats won 122 71 39
Seat change Increase 122 Decrease 125 Increase 23
Popular vote 8,212,666 7,946,635 3,721,392
Percentage 25.61% 24.78% 11.61%
Swing New Party Decrease 14.52% Increase 4.07%
Chief Minister before election

Jagannath Mishra
INC

 Elected Chief Minister

Lalu Prasad Yadav
Janata Dal

Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 1990 was held in 1990 to elect members to the Bihar Legislative Assembly.[1] Riding on a pan-India Victory of 1989 during V. P. Singh's wave, the Janta Dal got decisive victory in the state, political manuovres ensured parliamentarian Lalu Prasad Yadav's victory in the chief ministership battle against [2] seasoned Bihar leader Ram Sundar Das who was close to janta party stalwarts like S.N. Sinha and Chandrashekhar.

Results

Party Seats contested Seats Seat change Popular vote Percentage
Janata Dal 276 122 New Party 8,212,666 25.61%
Indian National Congress 323 71 Decrease 125 7,946,635 24.78%
Bharatiya Janata Party 237 39 Increase 23 3,721,392 11.61%
Communist Party of India 109 23 Increase 11 2,112,887 6.59%
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 82 19 Increase 10 1,008,174 3.14%
Indian People's Front 82 7 New Party 889,068 2.77%
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 31 6 Increase 5 427,214 1.33%
Janata Party (JP) 158 3 New Party 494,717 1.54%
Marxist Co-ordination 11 2 New Party 70,365 0.22%
Jharkhand Dal 28 1 New Party 134,827 0.42%
Socialist Party (Lohia) 47 1 New Party 109,871 0.34%
Independents 4320 30 Increase 1 5,907,134 18.42%
Total 6629 324 32,063,793

Source:[3]

References

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