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All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly 122 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election for all 243 constituencies is scheduled to be held on October or November 2025. It will be conducted by the Election Commission of India.
The previous assembly elections were held in October–November 2020. After the election, National Democratic Alliance formed the state government, with Nitish Kumar becoming Chief Minister. Later, in August 2022 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snapped ties with NDA and formed government with RJD led Mahagathbandhan. Later, In January 2024 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snapped ties with RJD led Mahagathbandhan and again formed government with BJP led NDA.
| Poll Event | Schedule |
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| Notification Date | TBD |
| Last Date for filing nomination | TBD |
| Scrutiny of nomination | TBD |
| Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | TBD |
| Date of Poll | TBD |
| Date of Counting of Votes | TBD |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janata Dal (United) | Nitish Kumar | |||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | Dilip Kumar Jaiswal | |||||
| Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) | Chirag Paswan | |||||
| Hindustani Awam Morcha | Jitan Ram Manjhi | |||||
| Rashtriya Lok Morcha | Upendra Kushwaha | |||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Photo | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Suraaj Party | Prashant Kishore | 243 | ||||
| The Plurals Party | Pushpam Priya Choudhary | 243 | ||||
| Aam Aadmi Party[1] | Sushil Kumar | 153 | ||||
| Aap Sabki Aawaz | RCP Singh | 140[2] | ||||
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | Akhtarul Iman | 85 | ||||
| Bahujan Samaj Party | ||||||
| Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party | Pashupati Kumar Paras | |||||
| Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) | Chandrashekhar Azad | |||||
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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| MGB | NDA | Others | |||||
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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| MGB | NDA | Others | |||||
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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| MGB | NDA | Others | |||||
| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| NDA | Janata Dal (United) | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||||
| Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) | |||||||||
| Hindustani Awam Morcha | |||||||||
| Rashtriya Lok Morcha | |||||||||
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| MGB | Rashtriya Janata Dal | ||||||||
| Indian National Congress | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |||||||||
| Vikassheel Insaan Party | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Other parties | |||||||||
| Independents | |||||||||
| NOTA | |||||||||
| Total | 100% | — | 243 | — | |||||
| District | Seats | |||
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| NDA | MGB | Others | ||
| West Champaran | 9 | |||
| East Champaran | 12 | |||
| Sheohar | 1 | |||
| Sitamarhi | 8 | |||
| Madhubani | 10 | |||
| Supaul | 5 | |||
| Araria | 6 | |||
| Kishanganj | 4 | |||
| Purnia | 7 | |||
| Katihar | 7 | |||
| Madhepura | 4 | |||
| Saharsa | 4 | |||
| Darbhanga | 10 | |||
| Muzaffarpur | 11 | |||
| Gopalganj | 6 | |||
| Siwan | 8 | |||
| Saran | 10 | |||
| Vaishali | 8 | |||
| Samastipur | 10 | |||
| Begusarai | 7 | |||
| Khagaria | 4 | |||
| Bhagalpur | 7 | |||
| Banka | 5 | |||
| Munger | 3 | |||
| Lakhisarai | 2 | |||
| Sheikhpura | 2 | |||
| Nalanda | 7 | |||
| Patna | 14 | |||
| Bhojpur | 7 | |||
| Buxar | 4 | |||
| Kaimur | 4 | |||
| Rohtas | 7 | |||
| Arwal | 2 | |||
| Jehanabad | 3 | |||
| Aurangabad | 6 | |||
| Gaya | 10 | |||
| Nawada | 5 | |||
| Jamui | 4 | |||
| Total | 243 |