The document summarizes the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election which was held over five phases in October-November 2015. It discusses the various political alliances and candidates in the election. The key alliances were the Mahagathbandhan of JDU, RJD, and Congress, and the NDA of BJP and LJP. Other parties contesting included the BSP and left parties. Nitish Kumar was declared the Mahagathbandhan's chief ministerial candidate. The results were announced on November 8, with the RJD emerging as the single largest party, increasing its seats significantly. The Mahagathbandhan defeated the BJP and JD(U) in many seats.

2.  The Legislative Assembly election was held over five-phases
in Bihar through October–November 2015 before the end of the
tenure of the current Legislative Assembly of Bihar on 29
November 2011.
 In April 2015, the Janata Parivar group (a group of six parties --
Samajwadi Party Janata Dal (United),Rashtriya Janata
Dal, Janata Dal (Secular), Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi
Janata Party (Rashtriya)) announced our intention to fight the
election, with Nitish Kumar as their Chief Ministerial candidate.
The Janta Parivar was joined by the Indian National
Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party .This coalition was
restructured asMahagatabandhan Awam Morcha.

3.  In July 2015, BJP-led NDA won 13 seats (including 1 independent backed
by BJP) out of 24 seats of Bihar Legislative Councilelection.JDU and RJD
combine won 10 seats only, while 1 seat was won by an independent
candidate.
 On 19 August, the central government notified 21 Bihar districts,
including the capital Patna, as backward areas and unveiled tax rebates
for them.On 25 August, the central government released the religious
data of the 2011 census.Hindus constituted 82.7% (8.6 crore people) in
Bihar, while Muslims constituted 16.9% (1.7 crore peoples).
 In May 2015, the JDU government increased the Dearness Allowance
(DA) by six percent to 11 percent for provincial government employees
and pensioners. In July, Nitish Kumar announced a 50 percent quota for
OBC, EBC and SC/STs in all government contracts up to Rs 15 lakh.[In
July, the government issued a notification to give caste cetificates to
children from upper caste Hindu and Muslim families whose annual
income was below 1.5 lakh(US$2,200).
 In April, Nitish Kumar announced the JDU's decision to include few
more castes, including the Teli, in list of Extremely Backward Class.

5. Final voters list for Bihar Legislative Assembly election 2015
S.No Group of voters Voters population
1 Male 3,56,46,870
2 Female 3,11,77,619
3 third gender 2,169
- Total voters 6,68,26,658
Castes of Bihar
Caste
Population
(%)
Notes
OBC/EBC 51%
Yadavs -14%
kushwaha(koer
i)-14%
Kurmis -4%
EBCs -
18%includes[ T
eli-3.2%))
Mahadalits*+
Dalits(SCs)
16%
includes Dusad
h5%, Musahar2
.8%
Muslims 16.9 %
Forward caste 15%
Rajput- 6%
Brahmin-5%
Bhumihar -3%
Kayasth- 1%
Adivasis(STs) 1.3%
Others 0.4%
includes
Christians,Sikh
s,Jains

6.  On 7 June, Lalu Prasad Yadav announced the RJD was joining in an
alliance with the JDU for the election.On 13 July, he led a march
demanding that the central government release its findings of
the Socio Economic Caste Census 2011(SECC) on caste,although Union
Minister Ram Vilas Paswan pitched for a comprehensive classification
of caste data of SECC 2011 before its release,and also said Lalu, Nitish
will be worst impacted from the caste data even if its released.
 On 3 August, incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar declared that he
would not stand in the election.On 11 August, he announced the seat-
sharing forumula, according to which JD(U) and RJD will contest an 100
seats each, while Congress will contest 40 seats in Bihar.NCP pulled out
of this alliance later.On 23 September, Nitish Kumar announced the list
of 242 candidates for the JDU-RJD-INC alliance.
 Nitish kumar was declared chief ministerial candidate for
mahagathbandhan .

7.  On 19 September, the leaders of six parties—SP, NCP, Janadhikar
Party, Samras Samaj Party (SSP), (National People's Party) and
Samajwadi Janata Party (SJP) -- announced the formation of a third
front known as the Socialist Secular Morcha.On 15 October, NCP
leader Tariq Anwar announced that his party had decided to leave
the third front.
 On 24 July, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist
Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Liberation, the All India Forward Bloc, the Socialist Unity Centre of
India (Communist) and the Revolutionary Socialist Party decided to
run in all constituencies on a join ticket citing its call for an
alternative platform. The CPI will contest 91 seats, while the CPI—
ML, CPI(M), SUCI, Forward Bloc and RSP will contest 78, 38, 6, 5 and
3 seats, respectively. CPI released its first list of 81 candidates on 16
September 2015.

8.  In June 2015, the Bahujan Samaj Party said it would contest all 243 seats.In July, the
BSP initially released its first list of 49 candidates, including five women candidates,
by Bharat Bind, the president of the BSP Bihar unit.National party
leader Mayawatiplanned to campaign for its candidates.BSP's first list has 11 Other
Backward Class (OBCs) and 11 Muslims, while they also field Dalits and OBCs from
non-reserved seats. On 6 September, Mayawati said of the central government that
it was being "remote-controlled" by the "communal and fascist"
organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
 Mayawati officially launched the party's campaign on 9 October from Banka.On 13
October, addressing a rally in Rohtas and Kaimur districts, she claimed that the SP
chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the party leadership had surrendered to the BJP.
She claimed that it has fielded candidates after consulting with the BJP.She further
called on the NDA to not allow the reservation policy for OBCs and SC/STs to fall
under the RSS' influence.On 25 October, Mayawati while addressing a rally in Buxar
district of Bihar said thatSamajwadi Party played in the hands of BJP due to
which Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) broke away from it. She also alleged that BJP
is working only for Business class and Nitish-Lalu governments did nothing for poor.
Bahujan Samaj Party

9.  The result was announced on 8 November.The counting of EVMs
of 14 assembly constituencies of Patna district was done inAN
College Patna.The NOTA option had nine lakhs, or 2.5%, of popular
votes and was the highest it had achieved in Bihari elections. The
number of Yadav MLAs increased to 61 in the Bihari assembly.
 According to one analysis, RJD was the biggest benefitiary of this
election. RJD increased its seats tally by 58 compared with
previous election. RJD had the best strike rate by winning 80 of
the 101 seats contested. RJD became the single largest party in
Bihar Assembly. RJD defeated BJP in 36 seats BJP had won in the
last election, similarly RJD took 24 seats JD (U) had won in the last
election.[266]
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