2010 elections in India

Legislative Assembly elections

Bihar amidst states of India had elections for their legislative assemblies in 2010.

The tenure of the Legislative Assembly of Bihar expired on 26 November. The Election Commission of India (ECI) decided on the dates of the polls.

The Janata Dal (United) was the largest party in the assembly after the 2005 election, and co-ruled with the Bharatiya Janata Party as part of the National Democratic Alliance. The incumbent chief minister was Nitish Kumar.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Party	Seats contested	Seats won	Seat change	Vote share
1	Janata Dal (United)	141	115	+ 27	22.61
2	Bhartiya Janata Party	102	91	+ 36	16.46
3	Rastriya Janata Dal	168	22	- 32	18.84
4	Independents	1342	6	- 4
5	Indian National Congress	243	4	- 5	8.38
6	Lok Janshakti Party	75	3	- 7	6.75
7	Communist Party of India	56	1	- 2	1.69
7	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	41	1	+ 1
	Total		243

S.No	Date	Constituency	State	MP before election	Party before election		Elected MP	Party after election
27	1 November 2010	Banka	Bihar	Digvijay Singh		Independent	Putul Kumari		Independent

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election		Elected MLA
1	27 July 2010	Sirpur	Kaveti Sammaiah	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Kaveti Sammaiah	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
2		Chennur	Nallala Odelu	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Nallala Odelu	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
4		Mancherial	Gaddam Aravinda Reddy	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Gaddam Aravinda Reddy	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
15		Yellareddy	Eanugu Ravinder Reddy	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Eanugu Ravinder Reddy	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
17		Nizamabad Urban	Endela Lakshminarayana	Bharatiya Janata Party	Endela Lakshminarayana	Bharatiya Janata Party
20		Koratla	Kalvakuntla Vidya Sagar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Kalvakuntla Vidya Sagar Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
22		Dharmapuri	Koppula Eshwar	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Koppula Eshwar	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
28		Vemulawada	Chennamaneni Ramesh	Telugu Desam Party	Chennamaneni Ramesh	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
29		Sircilla	K. T. Rama Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	K. T. Rama Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
31		Huzurabad	Etela Rajender	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Etela Rajender	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
33		Siddipet	T. Harish Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	T. Harish Rao	Telangana Rashtra Samithi
105		Warangal West	Dasyam Vinay Bhasker	Telangana Rashtra Samithi	Dasyam Vinay Bhasker	Telangana Rashtra Samithi

S.No	Date	Constituency	MLA before election	Party before election		Elected MLA	Party after election
10	20 January 2010	Chotila

^ "NDA sweeps Bihar, 15-yr Laloo raj over". Expressindia.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
^ "Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Performance in General Election 2009". Indian-electionaffairs.com. 30 July 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2010.