Bihar Election results: NDA crosses 200-mark in landslide win, BJP becomes single-largest party

Bihar Election results: NDA crosses 200-mark in landslide win, BJP becomes single-largest party

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New Delhi, Nov 14, 2025: The ruling BJP-led NDA, which includes Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU, is headed for a landslide win in Bihar, sending the Opposition into a tailspin. The NDA has crossed the majority mark with 202 seats in the 243-member Assembly.

Here are the top 10 points in this big story:

1. Election Commission data shows the BJP currently ahead in 89 seats in the 243-member Bihar assembly, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JDU in 83, Union Minister Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in 21, Union Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha in five, and Rajya Sabha MP Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Morcha in three.

2. The Opposition Mahagathbandhan is ahead in just 35 seats, with Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD in 28, Congress in five and the CPI(ML)(L) in two seats, and the CPM in one.

3. 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 five seats, powered by the Muslim votes from Seemanchal.

4. Tejashwi Yadav, the chief ministerial candidate of the Mahagathbandhan, is locked in a tough combat in his family bastion Raghopur - a contest that was seen as a cakewalk for him. He has been representing the constituency in the state assembly since 2015.

5. 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.

6. The defeat of the Grand alliance is expected to be a shock to it in more ways than one. In 2020, the RJD had won 75 seats and emerged as the single largest party. The Congress too, won 19 seats, which while meagre in comparison had pushed up the Opposition’s total. 

7. The Opposition’s score - falling short of the majority mark by only 12 -- had given it an extra heft in the state and brought hopes of a victory, even if a slim one, this time around. 

8. For the BJP, the trajectory remains on the course set in 2020, when beating the odds, it had won more seats than Nitish Kumar’s JDU and assuming a dominating role in the alliance for the first time. 

9. While both parties contested 101 seats this time and the JDU hugely improved on its 2020 score of 43, it is still trailing the BJP by about 10 seats.  

10. The NDA’s steller performance is being considered as much a result of the huge participation by women voters. The entry of Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj Party was expected to cut into the non-NDA votes, but data shows it has polled fewer votes than NOTA (None Of The Above Option).