new delhiNovember 21, 2025 10:07 AM (IST)
Date first printed: November 20, 2025, 12:48 PM IST
NDA as a authorities initiative Mr. Nitish Kumar took oath. The magnitude of Mr. Kumar’s victory in Thursday’s Patna elections, his tenth, is indicated by the strike charge of each the JD(U) and the BJP within the elections.
The 2 events every contested 101 seats out of 243, and gained in 89 and 85 constituencies, respectively. In consequence, the strike charge, or the proportion of seats gained out of all seats, was 88.1% and 84.2%. The JD(U)’s strike charge is the very best within the celebration’s historical past in Bihar, however it was slightly below the 89.2% in 2010, when the BJP gained 92 out of 102 seats. This determine is the very best in Bihar elections since 1951 amongst events that contested a minimum of 10 seats in elections, adopted by the BJP’s second strike charge in 2025 and the third this 12 months’s JD(U). In 2010, the JD(U), as a senior ally of the NDA, recorded the very best variety of seats, 115 out of 141 contested, with a strike charge of 81.6% (fourth highest within the state’s historical past). Nonetheless, when contemplating all state elections held since 1951, none of those victories are within the prime 10 in strike charge.
