Incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) has won or was leading in 85 out of the 243 seats in the Bihar Assembly elections, nearly doubling its tally of 43 seats from the 2020 polls.
As of 8.50 pm, the party had won 72 seats and was leading in 13 of the 101 constituencies it contested, making it the second-largest party in terms of seats won.
The JD(U) contested the Bihar elections as part of the National Democratic Alliance, which also includes the Bharatiya Janata Party, Union minister Chirag Paswan’s faction of the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Morcha and the Hindustani Awam Morcha.
The NDA was ahead of the Opposition Mahagathbandhan in 202 of the 243 seats as counting was underway on Friday.
A party or an alliance needs 122 seats in the Assembly to form the government.
Read Scroll’s ground reports from Bihar here.
Kumar thanked voters for expressing their confidence in the government by giving a “massive majority”. He also thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his support.
बिहार विधान सभा चुनाव-2025 में राज्यवासियों ने हमें भारी बहुमत देकर हमारी सरकार के प्रति विश्वास जताया है। इसके लिए राज्य के सभी सम्मानित मतदाताओं को मेरा नमन, हृदय से आभार एवं धन्यवाद।
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