The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — comprising the BJP, Nitish Kumar's JD(U), Chirag Paswan's LJP(RV) and other parties — has swept the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025.

As the results trickled in on Friday, 14 November, NDA was leading in at least 200 seats in the 243-seat Assembly. The BJP wrested the title of the single-largest party from the RJD, leading in 93 seats at the time of writing the story.

The election, held in two phases, not only registered a record voter turnout of 66.91 percent, but also saw more women polling than men. Female voters saw a total (Phase-I and Phase-II) voter turnout of 71.6 percent — the highest ever — while male voters registered a turnout of 62.8 percent. In terms of absolute numbers too, 2,51,64,386 women cast their ballots as compared to 2,47,30,24

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