The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election for all 243 constituencies is scheduled to be held on October or November 2025. It will be conducted by the Election Commission of India.
Background
The previous assembly elections were held in October–November 2020. After the election, National Democratic Alliance formed the state government, with Nitish Kumar becoming Chief Minister. Later, in August 2022 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snapped ties with NDA and formed government with RJD led Mahagathbandhan. Later, In January 2024 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snapped ties with RJD led Mahagathbandhan and again formed government with BJP led NDA.
Schedule
Poll Event | Schedule |
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Notification Date | TBD |
Last Date for filing nomination | TBD |
Scrutiny of nomination | TBD |
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | TBD |
Date of Poll | TBD |
Date of Counting of Votes | TBD |
Parties and Alliances
Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Janata Dal (United) | Nitish Kumar | 100 | ||||
Bharatiya Janata Party | Dilip Kumar Jaiswal | 98 | ||||
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) | Chirag Paswan | 28 | ||||
Hindustani Awam Morcha | Jitan Ram Manjhi | 10 | ||||
Rashtriya Lok Morcha | Upendra Kushwaha | 07 |
Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rashtriya Janata Dal | Tejashwi Yadav | 127 | ||||||
Indian National Congress | Akhilesh Prasad Singh | 63 | ||||||
Left Front | Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | Mahbub Alam | 18 | |||||
Communist Party of India | Ram Naresh Pandey | 04 | ||||||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Ajay Kumar | 04 | ||||||
Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party | Pashupati Kumar Paras | 21 | ||||||
Vikassheel Insaan Party | Mukesh Sahani | 06 |
Others
Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan Suraaj Party | Prashant Kishore | 243 | ||||
The Plurals Party | Pushpam Priya Choudhary | 243 | ||||
Bahujan Samaj Party | Mayawati | 243 | ||||
Aam Aadmi Party[1] | Sushil Kumar | 153 | ||||
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | Akhtarul Iman | 85 | ||||
Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) | Chandrashekhar Azad | 143 |
Candidates
Surveys and polls
Exit polls
Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDA | MGB | Others | |||||
Results
Results by alliance or party
Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
NDA | Janata Dal (United) | ||||||||
Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||||
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) | |||||||||
Hindustani Awam Morcha | |||||||||
Rashtriya Lok Morcha | |||||||||
Total | |||||||||
MGB | Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||||||||
Indian National Congress | |||||||||
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | |||||||||
Communist Party of India | |||||||||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||||||||
Vikassheel Insaan Party | |||||||||
Total | |||||||||
Other parties | |||||||||
Independents | |||||||||
NOTA | |||||||||
Total | 100% | — | 243 | — |
Results by district
District | Seats | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
NDA | MGB | Others | ||
West Champaran | 9 | |||
East Champaran | 12 | |||
Sheohar | 1 | |||
Sitamarhi | 8 | |||
Madhubani | 10 | |||
Supaul | 5 | |||
Araria | 6 | |||
Kishanganj | 4 | |||
Purnia | 7 | |||
Katihar | 7 | |||
Madhepura | 4 | |||
Saharsa | 4 | |||
Darbhanga | 10 | |||
Muzaffarpur | 11 | |||
Gopalganj | 6 | |||
Siwan | 8 | |||
Saran | 10 | |||
Vaishali | 8 | |||
Samastipur | 10 | |||
Begusarai | 7 | |||
Khagaria | 4 | |||
Bhagalpur | 7 | |||
Banka | 5 | |||
Munger | 3 | |||
Lakhisarai | 2 | |||
Sheikhpura | 2 | |||
Nalanda | 7 | |||
Patna | 14 | |||
Bhojpur | 7 | |||
Buxar | 4 | |||
Kaimur | 4 | |||
Rohtas | 7 | |||
Arwal | 2 | |||
Jehanabad | 3 | |||
Aurangabad | 6 | |||
Gaya | 10 | |||
Nawada | 5 | |||
Jamui | 4 | |||
Total | 243 |
Results by constituency
See also
References
- ^ "Another jolt to INDIA bloc? Arvind Kejriwal's AAP to contest Bihar Assembly polls". India Today. 27 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.
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