Legislative Assembly elections were held in Bihar to elect the 243 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 14 November 2025.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a landslide victory securing 202 of the 243 seats in which the election was held, defeating the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan (MGB) which secured just 35 seats. Incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar took the oath for a record tenth time. Incumbent deputy chief ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha took the oath as the deputy chief ministers for the second consecutive time. 5 months after he was sworn in, Nitish Kumar resigned as the chief minister upon his election to the Rajya Sabha and was succeeded by his deputy Samrat Chaudhary, who became the first BJP chief minister of the state. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav were sworn in as the deputy chief ministers.
For the first time, the BJP became the single largest party in Bihar assembly. The RJD, led by Tejashwi Yadav, fell to third for the first time since 2010, while Kumar's Janata Dal (United) recorded its best result since 2010. The Indian National Congress (INC) fared poorly in the election, while the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha secured seats for the first time.
Background The tenure of Bihar Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 22 March 2025. The previous assembly elections were held in OctoberNovember 2020. After the election, the National Democratic Alliance formed the state government, with Nitish Kumar becoming Chief Minister.
On 9 August 2022, the JD(U) ended its alliance with the BJP and Nitish Kumar resigned as Chief Minister. On 10 August 2022, JD(U) joined the Mahagathbandhan alliance with the RJD and the INC, with Nitish Kumar again taking oath as Chief Minister of the state.
In January 2024, the JD(U) ended its alliance with Mahagathbandhan and Nitish Kumar resigned as Chief Minister. He formed the new government with BJP-led NDA and was sworn in as the Chief Minister again.
Schedule The Election Commission of India announced the schedule for the Bihar Legislative Assembly election on 6 October 2025.
Poll event Phases I II Notification date 5 March 2025 13 March 2025 Last date for filing nomination 17 March 2025 20 March 2025 Scrutiny of nomination 18 March 2025 21 March 2025 Last date for withdrawal of nomination 20 April 2025 23 April 2025 Date of poll 30 April 2025 7 May 2025 Date of counting of votes 16 May 2025 Number of constituencies 243 seats
Parties and alliances National Democratic Alliance
colspan="6" National Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol LeaderSeats contested Samrat Choudhary 101 Nitish Kumar 101 Chirag Paswan 28 Jitan Ram Manjhi 6 Upendra Kushwaha 6 Ankit Kumar1 Total 243
Mahagathbandhan
On 23 October 2025, Tejashwi Yadav was announced as the Chief Ministerial face of the Mahagathbandhan for the election, with Mukesh Sahani being the Deputy CM face.
colspan="6" Mahagathbandhan Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Tejashwi Yadav143 Rajesh Kumar 61 Mahbub Alam20 Mukesh Sahani12 Ram Naresh Pandey9 Ajay Kumar Kushwaha4 Indrajeet Prasad Gupta3 Shyam Kishore Chaudhary1 Ravi Shankar Paswan1Ganesh Bharti1 Total 243
Grand Democratic Alliance
colspan="6" Grand Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Pashupati Kumar Paras 36 Akhtarul Iman 28 Jauhar Azad 18 Swami Prasad Maurya 3 Total 79
Others
Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested Prashant Kishor 238 Shankar Mahato 181 Rakesh Yadav 83 Tej Pratap Yadav 45
Candidates