New Delhi: 5:00 pm: Maulana Asrarul Haque of Congress wins Kisanganj Lok Sabha seat by a margin of 1,94,612 votes, defeating BJP's Dilip Kumar Jaiswal. Though Akhtarul Iman of JDU announced his withdrawal from the contest after filing nomination, he got 55,822 votes. As many as 17,206 people pressed 'NOTA' button on the seat.
1:45 pm: BJP is ahead in more than 25 seats, Congress is ahead in 11 seats and JDU is ahead in two seats.
11:30 am: Congress leader Meira Kumar is trailing in Sasaram.
UPA ally NCP is leading in Katihar, according to trends available at 10:00 am. In Sasaram (SC) seat, Cheedi Paswan of BJP is leading over Speaker Meira Kumar by 17,279 votes after five rounds of counting.
In Patna Sahib, BJP nominee Shatrughan Sinha is leading over nearest Congress rival and Bhojpuri actor Kunal Singh by 11,577 votes. In Ara, former Union Home Secretary and BJP candidate R K Singh is leading by 9121 votes over nearest RJD rival Bhagan Singh Kushwaha.
In the high-profile Saran seat, Lalu Prasad's wife Rabri Devi is trailing Rajiv Pratap Rudy of BJP by 1349 votes. In Bhagalpur, Shailesh Kumar alias Bullo Mandal is ahead of his nearest BJP rival Shahnawaz Hussain by 5882 votes.
In Hajipur, LJP chief Ramvilas Paswan is leading over his nearest Congress rival Sanjeev Prasad Tony by 3756 votes. JD(U)'s Ramsundar Das is way behind at third position with 1,707 votes in comparison to Paswan's 8114 votes.
In Madhepura, JD(U) President Sharad Yadav is ahead of nearest BJP competitor Vijay Singh by 1853 votes. Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav is at third position. In Patliputra, Lalu Prasad daughter Misa Bharti is leading over 'uncle' Ramkripal Yadav of BJP by 5689 votes.
In Vaishali, LJP candidate Rama Singh is leading over former Union minister Raghubansh Prasad Singh by 3170 votes. In minority-dominated Kisanganj, Congress Maulana Asrarul Haque is ahead of his BJP rival Dilip Jaiswal by 16265 votes.
In Darbhanga, RJD'S MAA Fatmi is ahead of his BJP rival Kirti Azad by 3148 votes. In Jamui (SC) seat, Ramvilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan is ahead of his nearest RJD rival Sudhansu Sekhar Bhaskar.
In Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Nalanda constituency, JD(U)'s Kaushlendra Kumar is leading Satyanand Sharma of LJP by a slander margin of 110 votes. Buxar is throwing a surprise with BSP's Dadan Singh ahead of his nearest BJP rival Ashwani Choubey by 1643 votes.
10:00 am: In the high-profile Saran seat, Lalu Prasad's wife Rabri Devi is trailing Rajiv Pratap Rudy of BJP by 1650 votes. BJP's actor-politician nominee Shatrughan Sinha and RJD's Misa Bharti are ahead of their opponents, Election Commission sources said.
In the Sasaram (SC) seat, Meira Kumar is trailing behind her BJP nominee Chhedi Paswan by 6239 votes after the second round of counting, the sources. In Patliputra seat, Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti is ahead of her uncle and BJP nominee Ramkripal Yadav by 2800 votes.
In the Patna Sahib seat, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha is ahead of his nearest Congress rival and Bhojpuri actor Kunal Singh by 665 votes.
In Bhagalpur, BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain is behind RJD's Shailesh Kumar alias Bullo Mandal by 3000 votes. In Purnia, JD(U)'s Santosh Kushwaha is ahead of his BJP rival Udai Singh by 2000 votes.
In minority-dominated Kisanganj, Congress Maulana Asrarul Haque is ahead of his BJP competitor Dilip Jaiswal by 2618 votes. In Darbhanga, RJD'S M A A Fatmi is ahead of his BJP rival Kirti Azad by 450 votes.
In Jamui (SC) seat, Ramvilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan is ahead of his nearest JD(U) rival and Bihar Assembly Speaker Udai Narayan Choudhary by 3248 votes. Buxar is throwing a surprise with BSP's Dadan Singh ahead of his nearest BJP rival Ashwani Choubey by 328 votes.
9:43 am: BJP is leading in 20 seats.
8:45 am: BJP is ahead in two seats.
8:10 am: The BJP is leading in one seat.
The 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Bihar have been very crucial. As electioneering progressed in the Hindi heartland, the tone and tenor of the leaders slowly changed from development towards caste equations.
2014 elections witnessed a twist in Bihar because of the unprecedented split of JDU from the BJP-led NDA after their alliance of 17 years. The NDA, however, got a timely LJP boost before the election began and on the other side, after much hullabaloo the Congress-RJD fought the Lok Sabha battle together.
Out of the total 40 seats in Bihar, the BJP is expected to cross the half-way mark. The saffron party had won 12 seats in 2009 election.
Major candidates in the fray are:
Prakash Jha - JDU - Pashchim Champaran
Rabri Devi - RJD - Saran
Rajiv Pratap Rudy - BJP - Saran
Ram Vilas Paswan- LJP- Hajipur
Misa Bharti - RJD - Pataliputra
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh - RJD - Vaishali
Meira Kumar - Congress - Sasaram
(With additional inputs from PTI)
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