Bihar Assembly Polls Results 2025: Official leads show that the BJP-led NDAis set to retain power
New Delhi:
The ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, which includes Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JDU, is headed for a landslide win in Bihar and is currently leading in 189 seats, well above the majority mark of 122 seats.
Here are the top 10 points in this big story:
- Official leads show that the NDA is set to retain power, with the BJP currently ahead in 84 seats in the 243-member Bihar assembly, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JDU in 76, Union Minister Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in 22, Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha in five, and Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Morcha in two.
- The opposition, the Mahagathbandhan, is currently ahead in 49 seats, with Tejashwi Yadav's RJD in 34, Congress in six, CPI(ML)(L) in six, and CPM in one.
- Poll strategist Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj, which was leading in four seats in early trends, has now conceded its leads.
- Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM is currently ahead in three seats.
- Tejashwi Yadav, who is the chief ministerial candidate of the Mahagathbandhan, is trailing in the Raghopur assembly. 25-year-old singer Maithili Thakur, who is making her poll debut on a BJP ticket, is leading in Alinagar. Tejashwi's estranged brother, Tej Pratap Yadav, who formed a new party -- Janshakti Janta Dal -- before the elections, is trailing by more than 12,000 votes.
- NDTV's traditional 'poll of exit polls' indicated that the NDA would pick up 146 of 243 seats, 24 over the majority mark. The Mahagathbandhan, which has RJD, Congress, and Left parties as the main constituents, is expected to get only 92 - a far cry from 110 in the last election.
- In 2020, the BJP upset the odds to win more seats than the JDU and become the 'big brother'. That allowed it to dictate terms to the JDU leader.
- The RJD won 75 seats in 2020, one more than the BJP, becoming the single-largest party, but finished 12 short of victory.
- Axis My India indicated 45 per cent of women voters chose the NDA and 90 per cent of Yadavs, the Mahagathbandhan. The opposition alliance is also expected to pick up close to 80 per cent of Muslim votes.
- Bihar voted November 6 and 11 in a two-phase election that followed days of sniping between the two alliances and other key figures, including Kishor, who could still play a key role by cutting vote shares.
