Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar

Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar

भारतीय जनता पार्टी– बिहार
Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar भारतीय जनता पार्टी– बिहार
President	Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
General Secretary	Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya
Founded	6 April 1980; (45 years ago)
Headquarters	8, Veerchand Patel Path, Patna, Bihar
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	12 / 40
Seats in Rajya Sabha	4 / 16
Seats in Bihar Legislative Assembly	84 / 243
Seats in Bihar Legislative Council	24 / 75
Election symbol
	Lotus;
Party flag
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Bharatiya Janata Party – Bihar (BJP Bihar) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. Dilip Kumar Jaiswal the current president of the BJP Bihar.^[1]^[2]

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Year	Seats won	Seats contested	+/-	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	21 / 324	246	21	8.41%	8.41%	Opposition
1985	16 / 324	234	5	7.54%	0.87%	Opposition
1990	39 / 324	237	23	11.61%	4.07%	Outside support to Janata Dal
1995	41 / 324	315	2	12.96%	1.35%	Opposition
2000	67 / 324	168	26	14.64%	1.68%	Opposition
2005	37 / 243	103	30	10.97%	3.67%
2005	55 / 243	102	18	15.65%	4.68%	Government
2010	91 / 243	102	36	16.49%	0.84%	Government, later Opposition
2015	53 / 243	157	38	24.42%	7.93%	Opposition, later Government
2020	74 / 243	110	21	19.46%	4.96%	Government

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	0 / 54		Opposition
1984	0 / 54		Opposition
1989	8 / 54	8	Outside support to National Front
1991	5 / 54	3	Opposition
1996	18 / 54	13	Government, later Opposition
1998	19 / 54	1	Government
1999	23 / 54	4	Government
2004	5 / 40	18	Opposition
2009	12 / 40	7	Opposition
2014	22 / 40	15	Government
2019	17 / 40	5	Government
2024	12 / 40	5	Government

#	Name	Term of Office		Tenure	Assembly
1	Sushil Kumar Modi	24 November 2005	16 June 2013	10 years, 316 days	14th
		24 November 2005	16 June 2013		15th
		27 July 2017	16 November 2020		16th
2	Tarkishore Prasad	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days	17th
2	Renu Devi	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days
3	Samrat Choudhary	28 January 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 208 days
3	Vijay Kumar Sinha	28 January 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 208 days

#	Name	Term of Office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1	Yashwant Sinha	17 April 1995	24 January 1996	282 days	11th	Lalu Prasad Yadav
2	Sushil Kumar Modi	19 March 1996	1 March 2000	8 years, 9 days	11th	Rabri Devi
2	Sushil Kumar Modi	15 March 2000	28 March 2004	8 years, 9 days	12th	Rabri Devi
3	Nand Kishore Yadav	19 June 2013	4 December 2015	2 years, 168 days	15th	Nitish Kumar
4	Prem Kumar	4 December 2015	28 July 2017	1 year, 236 days	16th
5	Vijay Kumar Sinha	24 August 2022	28 January 2024	1 year, 157 days	17th

#	Name	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1	Sushil Kumar Modi	19 June 2013	27 July 2017	4 years, 38 days	Nitish Kumar
2	Samrat Chaudhary	24 August 2022	20 August 2023	361 days
3	Hari Sahni	20 August 2023	28 January 2024	161 days

Electoral history

#	Party leader^[3]	Tenure
1	Kailashpati Mishra	1980	1981	1 year
2	Jagadambi Prasad Yadav	1981	1984	3 years
(1)	Kailashpati Mishra	1984	1987	3 years
3	Inder Singh Namdhari	1988	1990	3 years
4	Tarakant Jha	1990	1993	3 years
5	Ashwani Kumar	1994	1996	2 years
6	Yashwant Sinha	1997	1998	1 year
7	Nand Kishore Yadav	1998	2003	5 years
8^[4]	Gopal Narayan Singh	16-Oct-2003	31-May-2005	1 year, 227 days
9^[5]	Sushil Kumar Modi	31 May 2005	2006	1 year
10	Radha Mohan Singh	2006	24-Apr-2010	4 years
11^[6]	C. P. Thakur	24-Apr-2010	18-Jan-2013	2 years, 269 days
12^[7]	Mangal Pandey	18-Jan-2013	30-Nov-2016	3 years, 317 days
13^[8]	Nityanand Rai	30-Nov-2016	14-Sep-2019	2 years, 288 days
14^[9]	Sanjay Jaiswal	14-Sep-2019	23-Mar-2023	3 years, 190 days
15	Samrat Choudhary	24-Mar-2023	25-Jul-2024	1 year, 123 days
16	Dilip Kumar Jaiswal	26-Jul-2024	Present	1 year, 29 days