2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

6 and 11 November 2025

All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly
122 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered74,355,976 ( 3.5%)
Turnout67.25% ( 9.96 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Samrat Choudhary Nitish Kumar Tejashwi Yadav
Party BJP JD(U) RJD
Alliance NDA NDA MGB
Leader since 2024 2005 2017
Leader's seat Tarapur (Won) MLC (did not contest) Raghopur (Won)
Last election 19.46%, 74 seats 15.39%, 43 seats 23.11%, 75 seats
Seats won 89 85 25
Seat change 15 42 50
Popular vote 10,081,143 9,667,118 11,546,055
Percentage 20.08% 19.25% 23.00%
Swing 0.62 pp 3.86 pp 0.11 pp

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Chirag Paswan Rajesh Kumar Akhtarul Iman
Party LJP(RV) INC AIMIM
Alliance NDA MGB GDA
Leader since 2021 2025 2015
Leader's seat Did not contest Kutumba (lost) Amour (Won)
Last election New Party 9.48%, 19 seats 1.24%, 5 seats
Seats won 19 6 5
Seat change 19 13
Popular vote 2,497,358 4,374,579 930,504
Percentage 4.97% 8.71% 1.85%
Swing 4.97 pp 0.77 pp 0.19 pp



Chief Minister before election

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

Elected Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Bihar from 6 and 11 November 2025, to elect the 243 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 14 November 2025.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a landslide victory securing 202 of the 243 seats in which the election was held, defeating the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan (MGB) which secured just 35 seats. Incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar took the oath for a record tenth time. Incumbent deputy chief ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha took the oath as the deputy chief ministers for the second consecutive time.

For the first time, the BJP became the single largest party in Bihar assembly. The RJD, led by Tejashwi Yadav, fell to third for the first time since 2010, while Kumar's Janata Dal (United) recorded its best result since 2010. The Indian National Congress (INC) fared poorly in the election, while the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha secured seats for the first time.