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The voting pattern---with almost 80 lakh more votes polled in 2025---shows that the electorate stayed exactly where it was, yet the victory map of the state has changed
PM Modi's and Nitish Kumar's popularity among women and youth transformed the election results.
The party lost Ramgarh to the BSP by 30 votes and Dhaka to the RJD by 178 votes. Had these contests gone its way, the BJPs tally would have risen to 92 seats
In West Bengal, the Congress once held pockets of influence in Malda and Murshidabad, but its performance deteriorated further in 2024
For weeks, leaders in Mumbai Congress have publicly and privately pushed the high command to allow the party to rebuild its organisational strength by contesting independently.
While extending congratulations to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on the victory, Stalin did not hold back in criticising what he called the ECIs declining credibility.
Senior leaders of Bengal BJP have welcomed PM Modi's statement and assured that they will put in every effort to dislodge the Trinamool Congress from power.
The party is now gearing up for its next major challengeWest Bengal
BJP's Assam unit mocked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by calling him the national child on Childrens Day
The NDA looks set for a sweeping victory in the Bihar elections, decimating the Mahagathbandhan. Here are the top five candidates who won by the narrowest margins.
The ruling party said the incident showed how the revision drive was causing distress among ordinary citizens
The verdict provides BJP with massive momentum heading into future state elections while underscoring the enduring complexity of Bihar's electoral calculus
PM Modi hailed NDA's record victory in Bihar in his address to BJP workers in Delhi, and said the people had rejected politics of appeasement by the RJD-Congress alliance.
Behind this victory stand countless unsung organisational workers who ensured that nothing was left to chance
Kumar thanked Bihar voters on X after NDA won a massive majority in the Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections
The NDAs strong lead in Bihar has triggered a wave of contrasting reactions in Congress, from calls for organisational reboot to renewed allegations of EC interference
Theinternal chaos was compounded by strategic blunders and a failure to heed ground-level warnings
Amit Shah on Friday saluted the people of Bihar Bhumi and called them protector of knowledge, hard work, and democracy for handing NDA, a decisive mandate in the elections.
AIMIM leads in seats such as Jokihat, Kochadhaman, Amour, and Baisi, all of which the party won in the 2020 elections
Chirag Pawans LJP is ahead in over 20 seats out of the 29 it contested, with a stunning strike rate of close to 70%.
Anant Singh defeated his closest competitor RJD's Veena Devi by over 30,000 votes.
The BJP-led NDA registered a landslide victory in Bihar, with a massive lead in about 200 seats of the state's 243 assembly seats.
In the 2025 Assembly elections, the NDA crossed 200 seats, while the RJD-Congress Mahagathbandhan shrank to just 37.
The victory was not accidental, but the result of a coordinated electoral masterclass marrying granular caste arithmetic with a populist welfare delivery mechanism
Shortly after the Bihar outcome, the BJP posted on X a confident two-word message, Next West Bengal.
Bihar election results: Tejashwi Yadav is aiming for a hat-trick in Raghopur, while Tej Pratap is seeking to wrest back Mahua from where he made his electoral debut in 2015
The map, posted by Malviya, is going viral on social media showing Rahul Gandhi's 95 electoral defeats over the past two decades.
Khesari Lal Yadav, one of the best-known singers and actors in the most popular dialect of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, had joined the Tejashwi Yadav-led RJD in October
The LJPs showing has strengthened the BJP and JD(U) by shoring up their traditional support bases, enabling the NDA to make inroads into Dalit and EBC strongholds
The Mokama seat, where polling on November 6 saw a 64 per cent turnout, remains firmly in Anant Singhs grip.
Trends indicated the ruling alliance was not only crossing the halfway mark of 121 seats in the 243-member assembly but moving comfortably beyond it
As he stands on the cusp of yet another term, Nitish Kumar once again proves that in the unforgiving arena of Bihar politics, no one stages a comeback quite like him
Bihar Election Results 2025: The counting of votes is underway for 243 Assembly seats in Bihar, amid tight security arrangements.
Pushpam Priya established 'The Plurals Party' in 2020, aiming to introduce a new kind of politics in Bihar that goes beyond religious and caste divisions.
He began his career as a theatre artist in the late 90s. During this time, he used to sing in Ramayana and Mahabharata plays, mastering Bhojpuri folk dance Launda Naach.
Of the 61 seats allotted to Congress, it is leading in just 16 seats as of time, down significantly from its already weak showing in 2020
In Bihar elections, Chirag Paswans LJP (RV) is contesting 29 seats and is considered the largest junior partner within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
As NDA crossed the halfway mark in the early trends, Union Minister Giriraj Singh declared that the BJP will win in Bihar and predicted the party's next win in Bengal.
Bihar Election Results 2025: A video of the young singer eating makhana made a lot of noise.
Bihar election results: Tejashwi Yadav is aiming for a hat-trick in Raghopur, while Tej Pratap is seeking to wrest back Mahua from where he made his electoral debut in 2015
The poll strategist had presented Jan Suraaj as a fresh alternative to Bihars long-standing political landscape dominated by the Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal, and BJP
Lalu Prasad Yadav and family shape Bihar elections with controversies, feuds, and legal battles, impacting RJD vote share and political dynamics.
With ballots cast and counting looming, the question is no longer who will win, but who left a bigger mark along the campaign trail.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor also addressed the evolving ideological direction of the Congress, suggesting that it has become notably more Leftist in recent years
Security tightened across counting centres as Bihar prepares for a verdict that could reshape its political landscape
The Karnataka High Court permitted the RSS to conduct its route march in Kalaburagi's Chittapur on November 16 with 300 participants and a 50-member band
Sunil Singh claimed that ordinary voters, party workers, and coalition supporters were on alert and would not tolerate even a small percentage of fraud
This ruling counts as the first time in India's history that a high court has disqualified an MLA on charges of anti-party activities
Nitish Kumars NDA faces Tejashwi Yadavs Mahagathbandhan in Bihars historic election with record 67.13 percent turnout. Exit polls predict NDA lead, youth favor Tejashwi Yadav.
The development came just a day ahead of the announcement of the crucial Bihar Assembly election results.

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