Bihar election result: RJD tops vote share even as alliance faces major electoral blow

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) – despite facing a big setback in the Bihar Assembly polls – received the maximum vote share, surpassing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which emerged as the single-largest party after Friday’s counting.

Election Commission figures show that Tejashwi Yadav’s party captured a 23 per cent vote share, outperforming the BJP by 2.92 percentage points and Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) by 3.75 points.

However, the RJD, part of the opposition Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, saw a slight dip from its 23.11 per cent share in the previous polls, when it had fielded 144 candidates and bagged 75 seats – then emerging as the single-largest party.

This time, the party contested 141 seats but managed to win only 25 -- its second-worst Bihar performance after 2010, when it secured just 22.

Tejashwi Yadav, the Mahagathbandhan’s CM face, retained the family bastion of Raghopur after a tense, see-saw contest with NDA’s Satish Kumar.

The alliance fared poorly overall, with the Congress winning only six seats, its second-worst tally ever in the state, narrowly better than the four it managed in 2010.

Source: Election Commission of India (ECI)

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The ruling NDA got 202 seats, a three-fourths majority in the 243-member House. This is the second time the NDA has crossed the 200-mark in the assembly polls. In the 2010 polls, it had won 206 seats.

In the NDA, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 89 seats, Janata Dal (United) won 85, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJPRV) won 19, Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (HAMS) won five, and Rashtriya Lok Morcha won four seats.

In Mahagathbandhan, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won 25 seats, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) - CPI(ML)(L) - two, Indian Inclusive Party (IIP) - one and Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI(M) one seat.

All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won five seats, and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) got one seat.

Counting of votes for the two-phased polls took place on Friday, November 14.