The ruling NDA’s landslide return to energy within the Bihar meeting elections was due particularly to the record-high victory charge of the Janata Dal (United), led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
This 12 months, Bihar’s profitable candidates set new state information for common and median margins (the midpoint of margins recorded in all seats, excluding the affect of outliers that are inclined to skew the common). The common winner acquired 20,940 votes, whereas the median vote depend was 18,510, breaking the earlier document set within the 2015 meeting polls.
(Historic margin of Bihar)For instance, the JD(U) virtually doubled its variety of seats from 43 in 2020 to 85 now, and its common vote margin rose from lower than 12,300 votes to greater than 23,620. The social gathering additionally improved its media vote lead this time from 10,440 votes to 22,550. This turnaround is probably going resulting from Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Celebration (Ram Vilas) returning to the NDA fold after contesting the 2020 elections independently and clinching 32 seats with JD(U) votes.
Among the many two main alliances, the JD(U) had the very best vote share, adopted by the BJP with a mean of 23,000 votes and a median of 21,860 votes, making it the only largest social gathering with 89 seats. The BJP additionally improved its efficiency in 2020 with a mean vote of 19,360 and a median vote of 16,300.
Margins by political social gathering in 2025
LJP(RV)’s efficiency is especially notable for its marked enchancment from 2020, when it received only one seat with a slender margin of 333 votes. This time, the social gathering received 19 of the 28 seats it contested, with a mean vote of 20,930 and a median vote of 20,320.
Nevertheless, within the opposition Mahagathbandhan, Tejashwi Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) suffered a significant setback from 2020, when it emerged as the only largest social gathering with 75 seats. This time, they received simply 25 seats, profitable by a mean margin of 10,190 votes and a median margin of 8,110 votes. By comparability, the social gathering recorded a mean margin of 16,360 votes and a median margin of 13,690 votes within the 2020 polls.
In the meantime, the plight of the parliament, which has declined from 19 seats in 2020 to 6, can be mirrored in its declining vote share. The common variety of votes acquired fell from 13,550 in 2020 to 7,200 this time, however the midpoint rose barely from 6,330 to 7,210.
Nevertheless, among the many events that received seats this time, AIMIM had the very best common variety of votes at 29,350 votes and the very best median variety of votes at 28,730 votes out of the 5 seats it received this time. In 2020, AIMIM received 5 seats, however the common vote share was barely larger at 31,530 seats, and the median vote share was 36,140 seats.
On the particular person seat stage, Kaladar Prasad Mandal of JD(U) from Rupauri recorded the very best margin with 73,572 votes. The JD(U) has received the Rupauli seat in consecutive elections since 2010. In 15 seats (all received by the NDA), the distinction was over 50,000 votes. In truth, the very best vote share within the Mahagathbandhan was secured by RJD’s Shankar Prasad from Palur with 28,827 votes, making him the 63rd highest vote share within the state.
Seats with low revenue margins
Bihar recorded document turnout, with 31 seats the place the distinction between the winner and runner-up was lower than 5,000 votes, and 11 seats the place the distinction was lower than 1,000 votes.
Of those 31 seats with low margins, Mahagathbandhan misplaced 16 seats, NDA misplaced 14 seats and AIMIM misplaced one seat. RJD misplaced probably the most seats with 13 seats, adopted by BJP with six seats, JD(U) with 4 seats, LJP(RV) and CPI(ML)L with three seats every, Hindustani Awam Morcha (secular) and AIMIM with one seat every.
The winners of those 31 seats embrace JD(U) with 9 seats, RJD with eight seats, BJP with 4 seats, LJP(RV) and Congress with three seats every, Rashtriya Lok Morcha, CPI(ML)L, BSP and Indian Inclusive Celebration (IIP) with one seat every. The IP Gupta-led IIP is a part of the Mahagathbandhan.
(low revenue margin seats)Within the Sandesh seat, which was the closest contest on this election, JD(U)’s Radha Charan Sah defeated RJD’s Dipu Singh by a margin of 27 votes. On this seat, Jan Suraaj candidate Rajiv Ranjan Raj secured 6,040 votes and completed third, spoiling the RJD’s prospects. As soon as once more, NOTA acquired a major 4,160 votes. RJD had received this seat in 2020 with a margin of fifty,607 votes.
In one other carefully contested RJD stronghold in Ramgarh in Kaimur district, BSP candidate Satish Yadav secured the one seat by defeating BJP’s Ashok Kumar Singh by a margin of 30 votes. On this seat, RJD’s Ajit Kumar got here third with 41,480 votes, Jan Suraaj’s Anand Kumar Singh got here fourth with 4,426 votes, whereas NOTA obtained 1,154 votes.
Within the SC-held Agyaon seat, Mahesh Paswan of the BJP received by a margin of simply 95 votes over Shiv Prakash Ranjan of the CPI(ML)L. Even NOTA received right here by a large margin with 3,631 votes.
JD(U)’s Chetan Anand defeated RJD’s Amod Kumar Singh and received the Nabinagar seat by a margin of 112 votes.
Within the Dhaka seat, RJD’s Faizal Rehman received in opposition to BJP’s Pawan Kumar Jaiswal by a margin of 178 votes.
Within the Congress, which received simply six seats within the state, Forbesganj candidate Manoj Biswas defeated the BJP’s Vidya Sagar Keshari and received by a margin of 221 votes. In Champatya, Abhishek Ranjan of Congress received by 602 votes over sitting MLA Umakant Singh of Bharatiya Janata Celebration.
In a really shut triangular election in Balrampur, AIMIM spokesperson Mohd Adil Hasan misplaced by a margin of 389 votes whereas LJP(RV) candidate Sangita Devi received. Right here, sitting CPI(ML)L MLA Mahboob Alam completed third.
RJD’s Rahul Kumar defeated JD(U)’s Chandeshwar Prasad and received the Jehanabad seat by a margin of 793 votes.
In Bodh Gaya, an SC-reserved seat, incumbent RJD MLA Kumar Sarbjeet defeated LJP(RV) candidate Shamdev Paswan by a margin of 881 votes and retained his seat.
LJP(RV) candidate Arun Kumar received the Bakhtiarpur seat by defeating RJD’s sitting MLA Anirudh Kumar by a margin of 981 votes.
