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Bihar Elections Mark First: Zero Repolls, No Voting-Day Deaths

Election officials cite enhanced security with strict code enforcement for the unusually peaceful polling.

Overview

  • The Election Commission reported no re-polling across any of Bihar’s 243 constituencies after the two-phase vote.
  • Official data recorded zero voting-day fatalities, a first for the state long associated with poll-time violence.
  • Voter turnout reached 67.13%, described as the highest since Independence.
  • Only isolated incidents were noted, including reports from Mokama, without changing the overall assessment of a calm process.
  • Past elections saw severe disruptions, including 63 deaths and 156 repolls in 1985, 87 deaths in 1990, multiple postponements in 1995 under T. N. Seshan, and 660 repolls in 2005, while counting of the 2025 ballots is underway.