Bihar elections: 11 seats where winning margin was less than 1000 in 2020 state polls | Full list

In the Bihar elections 2020, 11 seats witnessed an extremely close fight with a winning margin of less than 1,000. There were 40 seats where the margin of victory was less than 3,500.

In Hilsa, the JD(U) candidate won by just 12 votes, according to the Election Commission website, a result contested by the RJD.

In the 2020 state polls, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 125 seats in the 243-seat Assembly and emerged victorious after 15 hours of counting of votes. The RJD emerged as the single-largest party after winning 76 seats and its vote share of 23.03%, the highest for any single party in the Bihar Assembly election.
The BJP bagged 74 seats with a vote share of 19.46% and the JD(U) won 43 seats with 15.40% vote share.

The Congress managed to win only 19 of the 70 seats it had contested. The Left parties won 16 out of the 29 seats – the CPI(ML), the CPI and the CPI(M) had contested.

AIMIM clinched five seats and its alliance partner in Bihar, Mayawati’s BSP, won one.

Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party contested alone on nearly 150 seats and registered a victory on just one seat.

S.No.	Constituency name	Winner	Party	1st runner up	Party	Margin
1	Kurhani	Anil Kumar Sahni	RJD	Kedar Prasad Gupta	BJP	712
2	Bhorey	Sunil Kumar	JD(U)	Jitendra Paswan	CPI-ML	462
3	Bachhwara	Surendra Mehata	BJP	Abdhesh Kumar Rai	CPI	484
4	Matihani	Raj Kumar Singh	LJP	Narendra Kumar Singh	JD(U)	333
5	Bakhri	Suryakant Paswan	CPI	Ramshankar Paswan	BJP	777
6	Parbatta	Doctor Sanjeev Kumar	JD(U)	Digambar Prasad Tiwary	RJD	951
7	Barbigha	Sudarshan Kumar	JD(U)	Gajanand Shahi	Congress	113
8	Hilsa	Krishnamurari Sharan	JD(U)	Atri Muni	RJD	12
9	Ramgarh	Sudhakar Singh	RJD	Ambika Singh	BSP	189
10	Dehri	Phate Bahadur Singh	RJD	Satyanarayan Singh	BJP	464
11	Chakai	Sumit Kumar Singh	Independent	Savitri Devi	RJD	581