16th Bihar Assembly

The Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar (Sixteenth Vidhan Sabha of Bihar) was constituted on 20 November 2015 as a result of Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015 held between 12 October to 5 November 2015.^[1] The Legislative Assembly has total of 243 MLAs.

Sixteenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Bihar Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by	15th Bihar Assembly
Succeeded by	17th Bihar Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, JD(U) (2015 To 2020)
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar (2015 - 2020), JD(U)
Deputy Chief Minister	Tejashwi Yadav (2015–2017), RJD Sushil Kumar Modi (2017–2020), BJP
Leader of the Opposition	Prem Kumar (2015–2017), BJP Tejashwi Yadav (2017–2020), RJD
Structure
Seats	243
Political groups	Government (131) NDA (131)   JD(U) (71)   BJP (53)   LJP (2)   HAM (1)   IND (4) Opposition (112) MGB-UPA (111)   RJD (80)   INC (27)   CPI(ML) (3)   IND (1) Others (1)   AIMIM (1) Vacant (0)   Vacant (0)
Length of term	2015–2020
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	2015
Next election	2020

Legislative Assembly

Main article: 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election § Summary

Constituencies

Main article: 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election § Results by constituency