Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar भारतीय जनता पार्टी, बिहार
President	Samrat Chaudhary
General Secretary	Bhikhubhai Dalsaniya
Headquarters	8, Veerchand Patel Path, Patna, Bihar
Colours	Saffron
Alliance	National Democratic Alliance
Seats in Lok Sabha	17 / 40
Seats in Rajya Sabha	4 / 16
Seats in Bihar Legislative Assembly	78 / 243
Seats in Bihar Legislative Council	24 / 75
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Bharatiya Janata Party, Bihar (or BJP Bihar) is a state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar. Samrat Chaudhary is the current president of the BJP Bihar.^[1][2]

Electoral history

Legislative Assembly election

Year	Legislature	Leader	Seats contested	Seats won	+/-	Votes	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Outcome
1980	8th Assembly		246	21 / 324	21	18,91,325	8.41%	8.41%	Opposition
1985	9th Assembly		234	16 / 324	5	18,33,275	7.54%	0.87%	Opposition
1990	10th Assembly	Inder Singh Namdhari	237	39 / 324	23	37,21,392	11.61%	4.07%	Outside support to Janata Dal
1995	11th Assembly	Yashwant Sinha	315	41 / 324	2	44,80,363	12.96%	1.35%	Opposition
2000	12th Assembly	Sushil Modi	168	67 / 324	26	54,24,687	14.64%	1.68%	Opposition
2005	13th Assembly	Gopal Narayan Singh	103	37 / 243	30	26,86,290	10.97%	3.67%
2005	14th Assembly	Sushil Modi	102	55 / 243	18	36,86,720	15.65%	4.68%	Government
2010	15th Assembly	Sushil Modi	102	91 / 243	36	47,90,436	16.49%	0.84%	Government, later Opposition
2015	16th Assembly	Sushil Modi	157	53 / 243	38	93,08,015	24.42%	7.93%	Opposition, later Government
2020	17th Assembly	Sanjay Jaiswal	110	74 / 243	21	82,02,067	19.46%	4.96%	Government, later Opposition, later Government

Lok Sabha election

Year	Seats won	+/-	Outcome
Bharatiya Janata Party
1980	0 / 54		Opposition
1984	0 / 54		Opposition
1989	8 / 54	8	Outside support to National Front
1991	5 / 54	3	Opposition
1996	18 / 54	13	Government, later Opposition
1998	19 / 54	1	Government
1999	23 / 54	4	Government
2004	5 / 40	18	Opposition
2009	12 / 40	7	Opposition
2014	22 / 40	15	Government
2019	17 / 40	5	Government
2024

Leadership

Deputy Chief Minister

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office		Tenure	Assembly
1		Sushil Kumar Modi	24 November 2005	16 June 2013	10 years, 316 days	14th
						15th
			27 July 2017	16 November 2020		16th
2		Tarkishore Prasad	16 November 2020	9 August 2022	1 year, 266 days	17th
		Renu Devi
3		Samrat Choudhary	28 January 2024	Incumbent	49 days
		Vijay Kumar Sinha

Leader of the Opposition Legislative Assembly

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Assembly	Chief Minister
1		Yashwant Sinha	17 April 1995	24 January 1996	282 days	11th	Lalu Prasad Yadav
2		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 March 1996	1 March 2000	8 years, 9 days		Rabri Devi
			15 March 2000	28 March 2004		12th
3		Nand Kishore Yadav	19 June 2013	4 December 2015	2 years, 168 days	15th	Nitish Kumar
4		Prem Kumar	4 December 2015	28 July 2017	1 year, 236 days	16th
5		Vijay Kumar Sinha	24 August 2022	28 January 2024	1 year, 157 days	17th

Leader of the Opposition Legislative Council

#	Portrait	Name	Term of Office			Chief Minister
1		Sushil Kumar Modi	19 June 2013	27 July 2017	4 years, 38 days	Nitish Kumar
2		Samrat Chaudhary	24 August 2022	20 August 2023	361 days
3		Hari Sahni	20 August 2023	28 January 2024	161 days

President

#	Portrait	Party leader[3]	Tenure
1		Kailashpati Mishra	1980	1981	1 year
2		Jagadambi Prasad Yadav	1981	1984	3 years
(1)		Kailashpati Mishra	1984	1987	3 years
3		Inder Singh Namdhari	1988	1990	3 years
4		Tarakant Jha	1990	1993	3 years
5		Ashwani Kumar	1994	1996	2 years
6		Yashwant Sinha	1997	1998	1 year
7		Nand Kishore Yadav	1998	2003	5 years
8[4]		Gopal Narayan Singh	16-Oct-2003	31-May-2005	1 year, 227 days
9[5]		Sushil Kumar Modi	31 May 2005	2006	1 year
10		Radha Mohan Singh	2006	24-Apr-2010	4 years
11[6]		C. P. Thakur	24-Apr-2010	18-Jan-2013	2 years, 269 days
12[7]		Mangal Pandey	18-Jan-2013	30-Nov-2016	3 years, 317 days
13[8]		Nityanand Rai	30-Nov-2016	14-Sep-2019	2 years, 288 days
14[9]		Sanjay Jaiswal	14-Sep-2019	23-Mar-2023	3 years, 190 days
15		Samrat Chaudhary	24-Mar-2023	Present	359 days