Bihar Elections through the prism of Political alliances

Electoral systems are the practical instruments through which the idea of representation is transformed into reality. Election is a procedure through which votes of the voters are converted into seats in a legislature .India is having a parliamentary democracy and alliance government system is getting special significance at present due to increase in the number of political parties and decrease in the significance of single political parties. The trend of hung parliament has put a question mark on the stability of the government .Efforts on the part of various political parties to establish government has resulted into the formation of pre-poll and post –poll alliances between and among the parties. The trend of pre election alliance is emerging in all Indian states with few exceptions. In the state of Bihar, pre election alliance is most messy deal. The present paper tries to analyze the patterns of election alliance formation in Bihar and the extent to which these alliances affected the outcome of elections. The study will be descriptive in nature. Data collected for the purpose of this study is based on secondary sources as researcher has reviewed the statistical reports of election commission of India and various articles for the purpose of collecting data for the same.