In a see-saw battle, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) managed to win 125 seats — three more than it needed to breach the majority mark of 122 in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, but in nearly two dozen constituencies the victory margin was wafer thin.
Of them, the margin of victory in seven seats was less than 500 votes and four seats have victory margin less than 1,000. The JD(U) has won the Hilsa Assembly seat just by 12 votes. In Barbigha, JD(U) candidate Sudarshan Kumar defeated Congress’ Gajanan Shahi by just 113 votes.
JD(U)’s Krishnamurari Sharan, alias Prem Mukhiya, has polled 61,848 votes, while his nearest Atri Muni, alias Shakti Singh Yadav, of the RJD has got 61,836 votes in Hilsa. As per the poll panel data, JD(U)’s Krishnamurari Sharan has got 232 postal votes and the RJD’s Shakti Singh Yadav 233.
Ramgarh, Matihani, Barbigha, Bhorey, Bachwara and Dehri Assembly seats where victory came after a really close fight and victory margin was less than 500 votes. In Barbigha, JD(U) candidate Sudarshan Kumar defeated Congress’ Gajanan Shahi by just 113 votes. In Ramgarh, victory margin was a mere 189 votes. In Matihani, Raj Kumar Singh of LJP defeated Narendra Kumar Singh of JD(U) by just a 333 votes. Bhore victory margin was a mere 462. The RJD’s Fatehbahadur trumped the BJP’s Satya Narayan in Dehri by a mere 464 votes.
Besides, Bakhri, Chakai, Kurhani and Parbatta seats where the margin of victory was less than 1,000. CPI candidate Suryakant Paswan has defeated BJP’s Ramashankar Paswan by a margin of 777 votes. Chakai seat won by independent candidate Sumit Kumar Singh by a margin of 581 votes by defeating RJD’s Savitri Devi.
In Kurhani, Anil Kumar Sahni of RJD defeated Kedar Prasad Gupta of the BJP by 712 votes while CPI candidate SuryaKant Paswan defeated Ramashankar Paswan of BJP by 777 votes in Bakhri.
In Siwan , RJD ‘s Awadh Bihari Choudhary has defeated BJP candidate OP Yadav by a margin of 1,973 votes and Simri Bakhtiyarpur seat was won by RJD candidate Yusuf Salahuddin by a margin of 1759 votes. He has defeated Mukesh Sahni of Vikassheel Insaan Party. Ashok Choudhary of JD(U) has defeated Umesh Ram of the Congress by 1,537 votes in Sakra.
Pratima Kumari of the Congress won Rajapakar seat by a margin of 1,796 votes. He defeated Mahendra Ram of JD(U). Gaytri Devi of the BJP has defeated Ritu Kumar of RJD by a margin of 1,569 votes in Parihar. In Munger, BJP’s Pranav Kumar has defeated Avinash Vidyarthi of the RJD by a margin of 1,244. In Maharajganj, the victory margin was 1,976 while in Mahishi, it was a mere 1,630. The victory margin in Kishanganj was just 1,381 where the Congress candidate defeated BJP’s Sweety Singh. In Jhajha, the victory margin was 1,679 votes. In Kalyanpur, it was 1,193. It was 1,113 in Bhagalpur.