Bihar Election 2025

This Week in Explainers: How NDA pulled off ‘is baar 200 paar’ in Bihar

The NDA stormed past the 200-seat mark in a 243-member Assembly, scripting a sweeping mandate that effectively wiped out the Mahagathbandhan in the Bihar elections. We discuss the reasons for this surge, the Delhi blast probe and more in our weekly wrap

RJD won the most votes in Bihar. So why did it lose the election?

The Bihar election produced a striking outcome; the RJD secured the highest vote share at 23 per cent but won only 25 seats, while the NDA swept 202 seats. The result exposed gaps in seat distribution, alliance disunity and caste-based miscalculations that prevented the Mahagathbandhan from converting statewide support into victories

Bihar Election Results 2025 Live Updates: PM Modi hails NDA landslide, says people have voted for a developed and prosperous state

Bihar Election Result 2025 Live Updates: Bihar election results 2025 will determine if Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U)-BJP-led NDA retains power or if Tejashwi Yadav’s RJD-led INDIA alliance topples the nine-time CM

NDA win gave new ‘MY – mahila and youth’ formula, destroyed ‘communal MY’ of ‘jungle raj people’: PM Modi

PM Modi on Friday hailed Bihar Assembly poll victory, crediting women and youth for shaping new ‘MY’ formula, and praised record voter turnout

Tejashwi Yadav, Maithili Thakur and more... The big winners and losers in Bihar

Tejashwi Yadav prevailed in his family stronghold of Raghopur over the BJP's Satish Kumar Yadav after a day of many twists and turns. However, Tej Pratap Yadav, who is the elder son of RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav, placed third in Mahua. Let's take a closer look at which big names won and those that lost

Nitish & Modi magic reigns, RJD's poor show and more... Big takeaways from the Bihar election results

Voters have given a resounding vote of confidence to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar led by the Janata Dal (United) of Nitish Kumar. While the BJP has emerged as the single-largest party, the opposition, named the Mahagathbandhan, is in tatters

Why Nitish Kumar wins Bihar every time: It’s not just women voters

Bihar Assembly election 2025 has given the NDA its biggest mandate till date, extending its 20-year dominance here. The only loss the NDA suffered during these decades was when Nitish Kumar parted ways. What makes Nitish Kumar indispensable in Bihar’s power game?

‘Good governance has won’: PM Modi hails Bihar victory NDA wins two-thirds majority

Hailing the victory in the 2025 Bihar assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that good governance has won in the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has won more than two-thirds majority.

Why the NDA’s win in Bihar elections matter beyond Patna

The BJP-JD(U) led by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to return to power in Bihar, with a thumping mandate. The RJD-Congress-led Mahagathbandhan has failed poorly, with the results likely to impact the future of the opposition India Alliance. The Bihar election results could also guide the template for the upcoming polls in other states, such as West Bengal and Assam. Here’s how

Why this Bihar candidate won't be able to remove her mask after election results

Pushpam Priya Choudhary, the Plurals Party chief who famously vowed to keep her face covered until she wins an election in Bihar, has lost in the Darbhanga seat. Her opponent, BJP's Sanjay Saraogi, has over 96,000 votes more than her