Patna: The ruling NDA on Friday secured two-thirds majority in the 243-member Bihar Assembly, bagging 168 seats so far, according to the Election Commission.
The BJP emerged as the largest party, winning 79 seats and leading in 10 other constituencies. Its ally JD(U) won 66 seats and was ahead in 19, while LJP(RV) bagged 16 and was ahead in three. HAM (S) won four seats and was leading in one, while the Rashtriya Lok Morcha won three seats and was leading in one, according to the latest results available on the EC website.
The INDIA bloc won only 26 seats so far. The RJD bagged 20 seats and was leading in five other constituencies, while Congress won three seats and was ahead in three other constituencies. CPI(ML) Liberation won two seats and the CPI(M) one.
Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has won five seats: Bahadurganj, Baisi, Jokihat, Kochadhaman and Amour.
NDA wins 125 seats, INDIA bloc 17
The NDA won 125 seats. The BJP emerged as the largest party, winning 64 seats and leading in 26 other constituencies. Its ally JD(U) won 47 seats and was ahead in 37, while LJP(RV) bagged 11 and was ahead in eight. The Rashtriya Lok Morcha won one seat and was leading in three, according to the latest results available on the Election Commission website.
The BJP won 55 seats and was leading in 35 other constituencies, while its ally JD(U) secured 33 seats and was ahead in 51 other constituencies, according to the Election Commission.
The opposition INDIA bloc, on the other hand, won only 17 seats so far. RJD bagged 14 seats and was leading in 11 other constituencies, while Congress won one seat and was ahead in five. CPI(ML) Liberation won one seat and was leading in one other constituency. CPI(M) also won one seat.
Bihar Assembly election results 2025
| Alliance | Leading |
| NDA | 202 |
| MGB | 35 |
| Others | 6 |
Nitish thanks Bihar’s people
Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar thanked people of the state for giving a “landslide” victory for the ruling NDA in the assembly polls.
The ruling alliance was set to achieve a thumping majority in the elections by “demonstrating complete unity”.
In a post on X on Friday, Kumar wrote, “People of the state have expressed their confidence in our government by giving us a landslide mandate in the polls. For this, I bow to all the esteemed voters of the state, and express my heartfelt gratitude and thanks”.
He also expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his continuous support to the NDA government in the state.
“The NDA alliance is set to achieve a massive majority in this election by demonstrating complete unity. For this, thanks and gratitude are also due to all the partners of the NDA alliance – Chirag Paswan Ji, Jitan Ram Manjhi Ji and Upendra Kushwaha Ji. With the support of all of you, Bihar will progress even further and will be included in the category of the most developed states in the country”, he wrote on the social media platform.
Nitish Kumar will remain Bihar CM, says Chirag Paswan
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan said that he firmly believed that Nitish Kumar would continue to remain the state’s chief minister.
Paswan attributed the “arrogance” of the Tejaswai Yadav-Rahul Gandhi-led opposition alliance for its thumping defeat and stated that the people’s “faith in the unity of NDA partners” was the reason behind their convincing win.
“I firmly believe that Nitish Kumar will remain the Bihar chief minister. Arrogance is the cause for the opposition’s humiliating loss and it is the sole factor that led to its downfall,” Paswan told reporters.
“Our overwhelming victory is on account of the strength of the double-engine government which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Centre and our chief minister Nitish Kumar in the state. The people of Bihar have reposed complete faith in the unity of the NDA partners which has led to this win,” he added.
Till reports last received, Paswan’s LJP (RV) had won two and was leading in 17 of the 29 seats it contested, consolidating the party’s position within the NDA. Seventeen of these seats were previously held by the Mahagathbandhan in the 2020 elections, adding fresh gains to the ruling coalition and helping it cross the 200-seat mark.
Bihar Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary wins Tarapur seat
Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary of the BJP won Tarapur assembly seat by a margin of 45,843 votes.
He bagged 1,22,480 votes, while his nearest rival, Arun Kumar of the RJD, secured 76,637 votes.
Santosh Kumar Singh of the Jan Suraaj Party was at the third spot, securing 3,898 votes.
Most winners from NDA camp
Prem Kumar, a senior BJP leader who was the agriculture minister in the outgoing Nitish Kumar government, continued his unbroken run in Gaya Town, a seat he has been winning since 1990. He defeated his Congress rival Akhouri Onkar Nath by a staggering margin of over 26,000 votes.
Hazari, a JD(U) leader who held the Information and Public Relations Department portfolio in the Nitish Kumar government, retained his reserved seat of Kalyanpur where he trounced his nearest CPI(ML) Liberation rival Ranjeet Kumar Ram by a margin of more than 38,000 votes. He has won the seat for a fourth consecutive time.
Saraogi, a Marwari who has made a mark for himself in Bihar’s caste dominated politics, retained Darbhanga for a fifth consecutive time. The BJP leader, who was the minister for revenue and land reforms, defeated Umesh Sahni of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) by a margin of over 24,500 votes.
Other notable winners include Tourism Minister Raju Kumar Singh, who had won the seat in 2020 on a VIP ticket but later joined the BJP. He has retained the seat for the saffron party by defeating Prithwi Nath Ray of RJD by over 13,000 votes.
Other prominent winners include former minister Rana Randhir Singh of BJP (Madhuban) and don-turned-politician Anant Singh who has won Mokama, a seat he won several times and was held by his wife after conviction in a UAPA case led to his disqualification.
Anant Singh, who is in jail in connection with the killing of Dular Chandra Yadav, a Jan Suraaj Party supporter, during election campaign, defeated Veena Devi of RJD, wife of Suraj Bhan Singh, his old rival in local politics as well as the underworld.
Another notable winner was Raju Tiwari, the state president of Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) headed by Union minister Chirag Paswan. Tiwari had won the Govindganj seat in 2015 but lost it five years later when his party fought against the NDA. He has wrested the seat back by defeating nearest Congress rival Shashi Bhushan Rai by an astounding margin of more than 32,000 votes.
In the elections to the 243-member assembly in two phases on November 6 and November 11, Bihar had registered a historic voter turnout of 67.13 per cent. A total of 7.45 crore voters were eligible to decide the electoral fate of 2,616 candidates.
Tejashwi Yadav wins Raghopur
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Mahagathbandhan’s Chief Ministerial face has won Raghopur Assembly constituency by a margin of 11,000 seats. Considered as the Lalu family’s stronghold, the constituency saw a neck-to-neck battle with BJP’s Satish Kumar Yadav and JanSuraj’s Chanchal Kumar.
Raghopur is a bastion for the RJD. Historically, Tejashwi Yadav’s father, Lalu Prasad Yadav, the founder of the RJD, along with his mother, Rabri Devi, have both represented this seat. Tejashwi has been the representative for this constituency since 2015. He won the seat in the 2020 elections with a lead of over 38,000 votes.
With inputs from PTI
