On Thursday, Janata Dal (United) (JDU), a Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, announced its final list of candidates in the next state assembly elections, declaring an addition of 44 more names to one. This has helped the party to complete its list of candidates in 101 seats, which is equal to its NDA partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The announcement was made one day after the announcement of the first JDU list of 57 candidates as a result of long discussions on the distribution of seats within the concept of the NDA alliance.
The JDU has also put up new candidates such as Gopal Agarwal of Thakurganj, Saba Zafar of Amour, Kaladhar Mandal of Rupauli, Shubhanand Mukesh of Kahalgaon, Vijay Singh Nishad of Barari, Lalit Narayan Mandal of Sultanganj, and Pappu Kumar Verma of Kurtha, among others.
| Valmikinagar | Dhirendra Pratap Singh |
| Sikata | Samriddha Verma |
| Nirkatiya | Vishal Sah |
| Kesariya | Shalini Mishra |
| Shivhar | Shweta Gupta |
| Sursand | Nagendra Raut |
| Runni Saidpur | Pankaj Mishra |
| Harlakhi | Sudhanshu Shekhar |
| Babubarhi | Meena Kamat |
| Thakurganj | Gopal Agarwal |
| Amarpur | Jayant Raj |
| Nabinagar | Chetan Anand |
| Rafiganj | Pramod Kumar Singh |
| Belaganj | Manorama Devi |
| Nawada | Vibha Devi |
| Jhajja | Damodar Rawat |
| Chakai | Sumit Kumar Singh |
| Dhauriya | Manish Kumar |
| Belhar | Manoj Yadav |
| Chainpur | Jama Khan |
| Kargahar | Vashisht Singh |
| Karakat | Mahabali Singh |
| Nokha | Nagendra Chandrwanshi |
| Kurtha | Pappu Kumar Verma |
| Jehanabad | Chandreshwar Chandravanshi |
| Ghosi | Rituraj Kumar |
| Amaur | Saba Zafar |
| Rupauli | Kaladhar Mandal |
| Dhamdaha | Leshi Singh |
| Kadwa | Dulalchandra Goswami |
| Manihari | Shambhu Suman |
| Barari | Vijay Singh Nishad |
| Gopalpur | Bulp Mandal |
| Sultanganj | Lalit Narayan Mandal |
| Kahalgaon | Shubhanand Mukesh |
| Fulparas | Sheena Mandal |
| Laukha | Satish Sah |
| Nimali | Anirudh Prasad Yadav |
| Pipra | Ram Vilas Kaamat |
| Supaul | Vijendra Prasad Yadav |
| Triveniganj | Sonam Rani Sardar |
| Raniganj | Achmit Rishi Dev |
| Araria | Shagufta Azeem |
| Jokihat | Janab Manzar Alam |
The JDU and BJP will run 101 seats each in the NDA under the seat-sharing deal, whereas the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), led by Chirag Paswan, will run 29 seats. Rashtriya Lok Morcha, with Upendra Kushwaha as its leader, and Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), with its leader being the Union Minister, Jitan Ram Manjhi, will run in six seats respectively.
The state of Bihar will have two phases of elections on November 6 and 11, and the results will be known on November 14. The list completion preconditions the aggressive campaigning throughout the state within the next few weeks.
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