Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 results: AI’s take on early trends

Voter turnout reached 66.91%, the highest in the state’s history since 1951. Women turnout was especially high at 71.6% versus men at 62.8%.

Bihar elections 2025: The counting continues, with many key battles still unfolding.

The NDA has crossed the majority mark with a lead on 146 seats, while the Mahagathbandhan trails on 73, according to trends available for the Bihar Assembly elections results. JD(U)’s Anant Kumar Singh leads in Mokama, while BJP’s Mangal Pandey trails in Siwan. RJD’s Osama Shahab, son of Mohammad Shahabuddin, is ahead in Raghunathpur.

Other key leads include BJP’s Nitish Mishra in Jhanjharpur, Sujit Paswan in Rajnagar, RJD’s Brajkishore Yadav in Khajauli, JD(U)’s Sudhanshu in Harlakhi, Congress’s Nalini Ranjan Jha in Benipatti, JD(U)’s Meena Kamat in Babubarhi, Shiela Mandal in Phulparas, JD(U) in Laukaha, BJP’s Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul in Bisfi, and Awadhesh Singh in Hajipur.

The counting continues, with many key battles still unfolding.

We asked AI to summarise the key points from Bihar Assembly Elections results 2025. Here’s a summary of the live blog from The Indian Express.

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Key takeaways

*The vote counting for all 243 seats in Bihar began on 14 November 2025 from 8 a.m. IST.
*Voter turnout reached 66.91%, the highest in the state’s history since 1951. Women turnout was especially high at 71.6% versus men at 62.8%.

Two major alliances were in contention:

* Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)
*Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance)

Early trends indicated the NDA pulling ahead of the Mahagathbandhan:

* At one point, the NDA was leading on 85 seats, Mahagathbandhan on 57.
* By 9:30 AM, trends suggested that the NDA had crossed the majority mark, whereas the Mahagathbandhan was still far behind.

Context & dynamics

* The campaign period was tense with significant mudslinging, focus on law-and-order, corruption, and legacy governance narratives.
* The NDA leveraged its longtime association in the state (and with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar) against the Mahagathbandhan’s push around RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav as a challenger.
* A new entrant, Jan Suraaj Party, led by Prashant Kishor, was seen as a possible “alternative” but exit polls had written it off early on.

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Significance

* A record turnout—especially among women—indicates mobilization and possibly heightened political stakes.
* The early trends favouring the NDA suggest continuity rather than a major shift in power in Bihar.
* The strong lead by the NDA in early counting may influence perceptions of momentum, which is important for media coverage and the narrative going forward.
* For your news website strategy: this result will likely dominate politics coverage—looking at how the decisive factors (women turnout, campaign issues, legacy governance) played out could provide deeper angles for search & Discover visibility.

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