The present disclosure provides an LED light strip and a backlight module having the same. The LED light strip includes a circuit board; the circuit board has a board body and a support structure disposed on a surface of the board body; a plurality of LED light emitting elements are disposed on the support structure, the plurality of the LED light emitting elements are arranged in a plurality of rows and face to a first direction parallel to the board body; the arrangement direction of each row of the LED light emitting elements is a second direction that is parallel to the board body and perpendicular to the first direction; and the orthographic projections of the LED light emitting elements on a plane that is parallel to the second direction and perpendicular to the first direction are staggered from each other.