Voting time in Bihar election: Check polling time and full list of seats going to vote today

Voting began for 121 seats in Bihar in the first phase of assembly elections on Thursday morning amid tight security arrangements.

The polling began at 7 am and will continue till 5 pm.

In the first phase, a total of 3.75 crore voters will decide the electoral fate of 1,314 candidates, including top leaders such as the INDIA bloc's chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

List of 121 seats voting today:

1. Alamnagar
2. Bihariganj
3. Singheshwar (SC)
4. Madhepura
5. Sonbarsha (SC)
6. Saharsa
7. Simri Bakhtiarpur
8. Mahishi
9. Kusheshwar Asthan (SC)
10. Gaura Bauram
11. Benipur
12. Alinagar
13. Darbhanga Rural
14. Darbhanga
15. Hayaghat
16. Bahadurpur
17. Keoti
18. Jale
19. Gaighat
20. Aurai
21. Minapur
22. Bochahan (SC)
23. Sakra (SC)
24. Kurhani
25. Muzaffarpur
26. Kanti
27. Baruraj
28. Paroo
29. Sahebganj
30. Baikunthpur
31. Barauli
32. Gopalganj
33. Kuchaikote
34. Bhore (SC)
35. Hathua
36. Siwan
37. Ziradei
38. Darauli (SC)
39. Raghunathpur
40. Daraunda
41. Barharia
42. Goriakothi
43. Maharajganj
44. Ekma
45. Manjhi
46. Baniapur
47. Taraiya
48. Marhaura
49. Chapra
50. Garkha (SC)

• Amnour
• Parsa
• Sonepur
• Hajipur
• Lalganj
• Vaishali
• Mahua
• Raja Pakar (SC)
• Raghopur
• Mahnar
• Patepur (SC)
• Kalyanpur (SC)
• Warisnagar
• Samastipur
• Ujiarpur
• Morwa
• Sarairanjan
• Mohiuddinnagar
• Bibhutipur
• Rosera (SC)
• Hasanpur
• Cheria-Bariarpur
• Bachhwara
• Teghra
• Matihani
• Sahebpur Kamal
• Begusarai
• Bakhri (SC)
• Alauli (SC)
• Khagaria
• Beldaur
• Parbatta
• Tarapur
• Munger
• Jamalpur
• Suryagarha
• Lakhisarai
• Sheikhpura
• Barbigha
• Asthawan
• Biharsharif
• Rajgir (SC)
• Islampur
• Hilsa
• Nalanda
• Harnaut
• Mokama
• Barh
• Bakhtiarpur
• Digha
• Bankipur
• Kumhrar
• Patna Sahib
• Fatuha
• Danapur
• Maner
• Phulwari (SC)
• Masaurhi (SC)
• Paliganj
• Bikram
• Sandesh
• Barhara
• Arrah
• Agiaon (SC)
• Tarari
• Jagdishpur
• Shahpur
• Brahampur
• Buxar
• Dumraon
• Rajpur (SC)

Key contestants of Phase 1

Tejashwi Yadav is in the fray from Raghopur. He has held the seat since 2015 and faces a tough challenge from the BJP's Satish Kumar Yadav, who lost in the 2020 assembly elections.

Tejashwi Yadav's estranged brother, Tej Pratap Yadav, who floated a new party, Janshakti Janta Dal, after leaving the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), has fielded Prem Kumar from the seat. Jan Suraaj Party, led by Prashant Kishor, has fielded Chanchal Singh, and this could alter the dynamics in Raghopur.

Tej Pratap Yadav is in the fray from the Mahua constituency.

Tarapur seat in Munger district is witnessing a contest between BJP's Samrat Choudhary, RJD's Arun Kumar and Jan Suraaj's Santosh Kumar Singh. The seat was won by the JD(U) candidates in the 2010 and 2015 polls.

Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha is contesting from the Lakhisarai seat. He is facing Congress's Amaresh Kumar and Jan Suraaj's Suraj Kumar.

Mokama constituency has been in the headlines after the murder of Dularchand Yadav. Known for clashes between strongmen or 'bahubalis', Mokama will witness a contest between JD(U) candidate Anant Kumar Singh, arrested in connection with the murder, and Veena Devi, wife of former MP and influential leader Surajbhan Singh.

Patna Sahib has been a BJP stronghold, but Nand Kishore Yadav, the Speaker in the outgoing assembly, is not in the fray this time.

The contest for the seat is between relatively new faces. BJP has fielded Ratnesh Kumar, aka Ratnesh Khushwaha, and Congress has given a ticket to Shashant Shekhar.

In Darbhanga, the BJP has fielded folk singer Maithili Thakur, and she is contesting against 63-year-old RJD candidate Binod Mishra.

Maithili Thakur,25, is the youngest candidate and would become the youngest MLA if elected.

There are 122 women candidates in the fray in the first phase of polls.

(With agency inputs)