NDA wins Bihar Assembly Elections
POLITY – ELECTIONS
15 NOVEMBER 2025
- Beating the anti-incumbency factor in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a huge win in the State Assembly election o, with the ruling coalition’s seat tally crossing 200 in the 243-strong legislature.
- Mr. Kumar’s Mahila Rojgar Yojana, under which ₹10,000 was given to around 1.25 crore women over the last two months, seemed to have played an important role in his victory.
- Mr. Kumar’s decision to more than double the State’s pension for the elderly, disabled people, and widows from ₹400 to ₹1,100 played a major role, along with the 125 units of electricity given free to every consumer.
- The NDA’s total vote share stood at 46.7%, while the Opposition INDIA bloc had a vote share of 37.5%.
- In terms of seats, the gap is much wider. The NDA won 202 seats. The Opposition Mahagatbandhan (Grand Alliance) is facing total collapse, having won just 35 seats.
- In fact, the Opposition’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has the highest vote share among all parties, winning nearly 23% of votes polled, but that has translated to a tally of just 25 seats.
- The BJP had the next best vote share of 20.6% and is set to have the most legislators in the Assembly, having won 89 seats.
- Its NDA ally, the Janata Dal (United), which garnered a 20.3% vote share, won 85 seats.
- Both the BJP and the JD(U) had contested 101 seats each.
- The Congress has posted its worst performance since 2010, snagging just six seats, despite a vote share of 8.9%.
- The NDA victory comes amidst potential headwinds from anti-incumbency, allegations of vote theft levelled by the Congress, and new entrants like Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party, which failed to win even a single seat in its electoral debut.
