Senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel also took a swipe at CEC Gyanesh Kumar, saying he played a "crucial" role in the Bihar assembly elections and was "responsible" for the poll outcome as trends show that the NDA is set to register a big win.
By blending welfare politics with strong leadership imagery, Modi turned what could have been a fragmented contest into a cohesive endorsement of his leadership.
PM Modi to address BJP workers as NDA surges past 190 leads in Bihar, with voters backing the Nitish–Modi governance model once again.
Once a major player in both national and state politics, the Congress has gradually slipped to the margins in Bihar
Across the state, 12 of RJD’s seats were led by margins under 2,000 votes, the highest among all parties
Even though the RJD has managed leads only in 31 seats so far, its vote share (23%) in the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections went up slightly from the 22.6% it received in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, while the Congress’s vote share dropped from 9.4% in 2024 Lok Sabha elections to 7.9% in the current electoral contest.
Gone are the days when BJP was considered a 'urban-brahmin-bania' party supported by forward caste. It's now firmly engrossed in rural India.
"People trust Nitish Kumar, and it is reflected in the results," said JD(U) leader Manish Verma.
Today, after seven rounds of counting in Bihar, Saraogi is leading in the seat with Umesh Sahani of the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) trailing him by over 4,800 votes.
Akhilesh Yadav alleged that there has been an "electoral conspiracy" which has been exposed.
In the second phase, 32 Muslim-majority constituencies, concentrated across Seemanchal and Koshi, recorded an average turnout of 74.5 per cent, up sharply from 60.2 percent in 2020.
Bihar Elections Winners List 2025: The NDA is heading for an unprecedented majority in the Bihar Assembly polls.
Compared to his outing in 2020, where the Yadav-dominated party emerged as the single largest party with 75 seats, the 2025 outcome is something the Yadav scion wouldn't want to remember fondly
Past electoral trends show that women have been one of the key votaries of Nitish cutting across caste lines. The 2025 assembly election showed several striking statistics. Bihar saw an unprecedented 71.6% women vote.
For Prashant Kishor, who once engineered victories for several national and regional parties, his own electoral experiment has become a sobering lesson in the limits of strategy without structure.
While campaigning for Bihar Assembly polls, Prashant Kishor had declared in multiple interviews that the JD(U) would not win more than 25 seats, and added that he would quit politics if that happens
The hoarding, near Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's residence, reads 'Bihar ka matlab Nitish Kumar' and displays a photo of the JD(U) chief along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
After his party won all five seats it contested in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Paswan has successfully carried that momentum into the Assembly polls.
The NDA has five constituents — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) (JDU), Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustani Awam Morcha, and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha of Upendra Kushwaha.
Throughout the campaign, Congress attempted to shift the election narrative by raising concerns over alleged voter deletions and irregularities in the electoral rolls.
Early trends from postal ballots indicated a strong showing for NDA, which took a decisive lead with over 130 seats. The Mahagathbandhan, led by the RJD and Congress, trailed significantly with leads in around 65 to 70 constituencies.
In the 2020 election, BJP clearly emerged as the dominant force within NDA after winning 74 seats while JD(U) settled for just 43 seats.
However, according to the trends being showed by the Election Commission, the BJP is leading on five seats and the RJD is leading on two seats.
Bihar Election Results 2025: Instead of waiting for the final numbers, senior Congress leaders appear to have shifted the focus elsewhere, questioning the credibility of the election process itself.
Vijay Kumar Sinha, who has represented the seat since the year 2010 and served as Bihar’s deputy chief minister, has been a key political figure in the district for over a decade