Bihar Election Results 2025: NDA Heads for Landslide Victory, BJP Dominates Vote Count

The Election Commission of India supplied the early trends of the 2025 Bihar Assembly Election. A vote of confidence in favor of the ruling coalition was far-reaching from the conception of the opposition across the 243 seats.

Bihar, India’s third-most populous state and its youngest demographically, has nearly 74 million registered voters. This election has been widely seen as a major test of Modi’s popularity among the state’s large Gen Z electorate.

NDA takes commanding lead

By Friday 5:30pm, the NDA had won two seats and was leading in 204. In contrast, the opposition Mahagathbandhan — comprising the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Indian National Congress — was ahead in just 33 seats.

Among parties outside the two main alliances, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was leading in one seat, while the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) had won or was leading in five.

Seat tally by alliance

NDA performance

BJP: Leading/won in 93 seats; 20.5% vote share

JD(U): Ahead in 83 seats; 19% vote share

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas): Leading in 19 seats

Rashtriya Lok Morcha: Leading in 4 seats

Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular): Leading/won in 5 seats

Opposition alliance

RJD: Leading in 26 seats; 22.8% vote share

Congress: Ahead in 5 seats; 8.7% vote share

CPI(ML)(L): Leading in 1 seat

CPI(M): Leading in 1 seat

Key contests: Tejashwi Yadav and Maithili Thakur

Raghopur, the traditional stronghold of the Yadav family, remained one of the most closely watched seats. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav initially trailed BJP’s Satish Kumar but later gained a lead of around 13,000 votes. A defeat here would mark a historic setback for the RJD, whose top leaders have repeatedly represented the constituency.

In Alinagar, popular folk singer-turned-politician Maithili Thakur of the BJP maintained a solid lead of over 8,500 votes over RJD’s Binod Mishra, signalling a tight race.

What drove the NDA’s strong performance

Surge in female support

Analysts point to the BJP’s targeted outreach to women voters as a key factor. In September, the government transferred ₹10,000 each to 7.5 million women under the Chief Minister’s Women Employment Scheme. The financial assistance aims to support small-scale economic activities such as agriculture, handicrafts, tailoring and weaving.

Women, who make up nearly half of Bihar’s electorate, recorded a turnout of 71.6%, significantly higher than the 62.8% turnout among men.

Voter list controversy

The opposition has criticised the Election Commission for conducting a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, alleging that new ID requirements may have disproportionately affected poor and marginalised voters, including Muslims and backward castes who traditionally support the RJD-Congress alliance.

The ECI removed 4.7 million names from the rolls earlier this year, leaving 74.2 million registered voters. In Seemanchal, a Muslim-majority region, the removal rate was notably higher than the state average.

Why these results matter

Election results also play a significant role in identifying the public assessment of the central government.

Bihar was crucial to the substantial majority of the presumptive third-raising of the premier, 2024. With the NDA in view, Bihar has kept BJP winning in state elections post-national polls, thus giving a strong fillip to its alliance-based governmentality proposition.

A decisiveness of an NDA victory indicated the observants replacing Bihar's BJP alliance for one more term.