The 2025 Bihar elections were a litmus test for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Mahagathbandhan. And the former sweeped an overwhelming 202 seats while the latter barely scraped 35, a stark contrast to the neck-and-neck battle of 2020, when both alliances had nearly identical vote shares – 37.3 percent vs 37.2 percent – respectively.

On Friday, the ruling NDA cemented its place in the 243-member Assembly by bagging two-thirds majority, with many winners emerging from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) won 83 seats while Chirag Paswan’s party Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) won 19 seats.

In the Mahagathbandhan camp, Tejashwi Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) won 25 seats and Congress got only 6.

BJP’s vote share increases, RJD’s worst nig

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