17th Bihar Assembly

Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar
Type
Type	Bicameral
Houses	Bihar Legislative Assembly
History
Preceded by	16th Bihar Assembly
Leadership
Speaker	Vijay Kumar Sinha , BJP
Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Deputy Chief Minister	Tarkishore Prasad (BJP) Renu Devi (BJP)
Leader of the Opposition	Tejashwi Yadav , RJD
Structure
Seats	243
Political groups	Government (128) NDA (128)   BJP (74)   JD(U) (45)   HAM (4)   VIP(4)   IND (1) Opposition (110) MGB-UPA (110)   RJD (75)   INC (19)   CPI(ML) (12)   CPI (2)   CPI(M) (2) Others (5)   AIMIM (5)
Length of term	2020-Incumbent
Elections
Voting system	first-past-the-post
Last election	2020
Next election	2025

The Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Bihar (Seventeenth Vidhan Sabha of Bihar) was constituted on 23 November 2020 as a result of Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2020 held between 28 October 2020 to 7 November 2020.^[1][2]

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections[]

Map displaying constituencies won by parties

Alliance		Party		Popular vote			Seats
				Votes	%	±pp	Contested	Won	+/−
	NDA		BJP	8,201,408	19.46%	4.96%	110	74	21
			JDU	6,484,414	15.39%	1.44%	115	43	28
			VIP	639,840	1.52%	1.52%	11	4	4
			HAM	375,564	0.89%	1.41%	7	4	3
	MGB		RJD	9,736,242	23.11%	4.79%	144	75	5
			INC	3,995,003	9.48%	2.82%	70	19	8
			CPI-ML	1,333,569	3.16%	1.66%	19	12	9
			CPI	349,489	0.83%	0.57%	6	2	2
			CPI(M)	274,155	0.65%	0.05%	4	2	2
	GDSF		AIMIM	523,279	1.24%	1.03%	20	5	5
			BSP	628,944	1.49%	0.60%	80	1	1
			RLSP	744,221	1.77%	0.82%	104	0	2
			SJDD	N/A	N/A	N/A	25	0	N/A
			SBSP	N/A	N/A	N/A	5	0	N/A
			JP-S	N/A	N/A	N/A	5	0	N/A
None			LJP	2,383,457	5.66%	0.77%	134	1	1
			SS	20,195	0.05%	0.51%	23	0	N/A
			NCP	94,835	0.23%	0.26%	145	0	N/A
			JMM	25,213	0.06%	0.22%	7	0	N/A
			IND	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	1	3
			NOTA (NOTA)	706,252	1.68%	0.82%
Total				4,21,37,619	100.00			243
Valid votes				N/A	N/A
Invalid votes				N/A	N/A
Votes cast / turnout				N/A	N/A
Abstentions				N/A	N/A
Registered voters				N/A	N/A

Constituencies[]

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