Bihar election outcome LIVE UPDATES
Wailing Nitish Kumar take oath as chief minister a tenth time? Can Tejashwi Yadav lead Mahagathbandhan to victory? Is Prashant Kishor actually the ‘X issue’ this election season? Solutions to all these questions and extra can be revealed as we speak because the battle for Bihar enters its closing leg.
Polling in Bihar was held in two phases (6 and 11 November), with the state witnessing a file voter turnout of 67.13 p.c—highest since 1951.
Although early exit polls predicted an NDA majority, some pollsters have caught their neck out by predicting that the battle for Bihar will go all the way down to the wire.
Bihar has 243 meeting seats, which makes 122 the bulk mark.
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9.15 am: NDA leads in 41 seats—ECI information
Knowledge from the Election Fee of India exhibits NDA leads in 41 seats and the Mahagathbandhan in 12, as of 9.25 am.
9.00 am: NDA leads in early developments
Early developments, in accordance with News18, present the NDA leads in 130 seats and the Mahagathbandhan in 66. Figures based mostly on 201 out of 243 seats, as of 9 am.
8.30 am: BJP’s directive to all leaders
Within the wake of the ten November Pink Fort blast, the Bharatiya Janata Occasion has issued instructions to all leaders to maintain celebrations low-key and to not burst firecrackers if the NDA wins as we speak.
8.15 am: ‘A change is about to return’
Mahagathbandhan’s CM face and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav mentioned he’s assured that the alliance will win and kind the federal government.
#WATCH | Patna: Bihar Meeting Election Outcomes | Mahagathbandhan’s CM face and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav says, “We’re going to win. Due to everybody. A change is about to return. We’re forming the federal government” pic.twitter.com/p6pVag0e96
— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2025
8.00 am: Counting of votes begins
The destiny of candidates in all 243 constituencies throughout 38 districts of Bihar to be determined over the following few hours. Counting additionally begins for Meeting by-elections in eight constituencies throughout six states and 1 Union Territory.
Tight safety preparations are in place throughout all constituencies. Visuals from Muzaffarpur and Patna:
#WATCH | Bihar: Police and Administration on alert in Muzaffarpur, preparations in place for the counting of #BiharElection2025 pic.twitter.com/nnq2z8AHXh
— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2025
#WATCH | Bihar: Horse-mounted Police personnel perform patrolling in Patna, as counting for #BiharElection2025 begins. pic.twitter.com/Bi7iKyD3j5
— ANI (@ANI) November 14, 2025
7.30 am: Why Bihar polls noticed highest ever girls voter turnout
From the Particular Intensive Revision performed by the Election Fee of India (ECI) to girls receiving Rs 10,000 below the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana (MMRY), a cocktail of things within the build-up to the Bihar meeting elections has paved the way in which for the state to witness its highest-ever girls voter turnout since Independence.
The 2-phase meeting polls concluded Tuesday, with a complete voter turnout of 66.91 p.c, the best ever in Bihar since 1951, in accordance with the Election Fee of India (ECI).
The primary section noticed a turnout of 69.04 p.c of ladies voters, in comparison with 61.56 p.c of males voters. Within the second section, 74.03 p.c of ladies voters forged their poll, in comparison with 64.1 p.c of males voters.
In all, in accordance with provisional information launched by the ECI, Bihar this meeting polls noticed a record-breaking participation of ladies voters—71.6 p.c—the best since 1962, when the boys’s and ladies’s voter turnouts appear to have first been taken into consideration.
Political commentator and psephologist Sanjay Kumar calls it a “exceptional shift in Indian politics”, saying, “We see this taking place in lots of states, however a 9 proportion level hole between women and men turnout is one thing now we have not witnessed up to now—both in Bihar or in another state.”
Some consultants name it an “empowerment story”. The state authorities’s Rs 10,000 advantages to girls may need been a contributing issue. Others name it a statistical end result of the Bihar SIR by the ECI.
Learn Apoorva Mandhani’s report.
7.00 am: What exit polls say
The NDA is headed for a sweeping victory in Bihar, early exit polls predicted Tuesday, with a robust displaying by the Janata Dal (United) probably to assist the ruling coalition deny the Mahagathbandhan a shot at energy. If the projections maintain, Chief Minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar, written off by many and battling perceptions of poor well being, seems poised to take the oath of workplace a tenth time.
The INDIA bloc, made up of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, CPI(ML-L) and a handful of smaller events, might wrestle to succeed in the three-digit mark, whereas Prashant Kishor’s upstart Jan Suraaj Occasion (JSP), which grew to become a serious speaking level in the course of the marketing campaign, is anticipated to attract a clean, a number of pollsters mentioned.
5 years in the past, exit polls had tilted towards the Opposition, with a number of predicting that RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav would finish Kumar’s two-decade reign. In the long run, although, Yadav fell simply brief, even because the RJD emerged as the only largest occasion with 75 seats within the 243-member Meeting.
Some exit polls now counsel the Opposition might win even fewer seats than what the RJD alone secured in 2020, forecasting a landslide for the NDA, which incorporates the JD(U), BJP, LJP (Ram Vilas) and some smaller outfits.
Bihar exit polls predict ‘fir se Nitish’, double digits for Tejashwi-led Oppn, duck for Jan Suraaj
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6.30 am: Raghopur to Tarapur—key seats in play
Whereas every of the 243 seats in Bihar will play a job in who kinds the following authorities, just a few contests are being extra keenly watched than others. From Raghopur the place sitting MLA Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Tejashwi Yadav is within the fray, to Tarapur and Lakhisarai the place Deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha are locked in a tricky contest. Different key seats are Chapra, Alinagar, and Chanpatia, the place three political novices are making their electoral debut—Bhojpuri performer Khesarilal Yadav (RJD), folks singer Maithili Thakur (BJP) and former journalist Manish Kashyap (Jan Suraaj).
One other carefully watched contest is Mokama, the place the ruling Janata Dal (United) has fielded native strongman Anant Kumar Singh. The seat was gained by his spouse in a bypoll in 2022 on an RJD ticket.
6 am: Counting of postal ballots to start at 8 am
On Thursday, the Election Fee of India (ECI) launched a press observe stating that counting of postal ballots will start at 8 am Friday, adopted by EVM counting at 8.30 am.
It reiterated that counting of postal ballots is to be accomplished earlier than the penultimate spherical of EVM counting. It additionally mentioned that 4,372 counting tables have been arrange throughout Bihar’s 243 meeting constituencies the place returning officers and greater than 18,000 counting brokers appointed by candidates will oversee the counting course of.
“Throughout EVM counting, Management Models are delivered to the counting tables round-wise and proven to the counting brokers to confirm that the seals are intact and serial numbers match the information in Type 17C (Half I),” it defined. The ballot panel added that the variety of votes recorded in EVMs is cross-verified with entries in Type 17C and in case of any mismatch, “VVPAT slips from that polling station are to be counted mandatorily”.
In its press observe, the EC additionally mentioned that no re-polls had been requested by the two,616 candidates within the fray this time, or the 12 recognised political events.
Within the run-up to the election, ballot panel had come below intense criticism over its choice to conduct a Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, which resulted within the closing electoral roll comprising 7,45,26,858 electors.
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