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NDA Surges Toward Landslide in Bihar as BJP and JD(U) Dominate Early Results

Record participation and a festival-season return of migrants are being credited with lifting turnout to a new high.

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Ever since Prashant Kishor launched his party last year, it was expected that he would contest the Bihar polls, likely from Raghopur, INDIA bloc's chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav's home turf.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, being garlanded during a public rally
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Overview

  • Election Commission trends during counting showed the NDA leading well past the 122-seat majority, with updates through the afternoon placing the bloc ahead in roughly 190–205 of 243 seats.
  • Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and the BJP drove the gains, with the BJP near 90–95 leads and JD(U) around 80–84 in several tallies, while LJP (Ram Vilas) posted strong numbers across the limited seats it contested.
  • Bihar recorded a turnout of about 67.1 percent, and independent analysis of mobile-based mobility data estimated a net return of around 3.1 million migrants that likely boosted participation, alongside high female voting.
  • The Special Intensive Revision removed roughly 4.7 million names from the rolls, a change the opposition criticized as exclusionary and which officials and the BJP defended as a cleanup.
  • The RJD-led Mahagathbandhan trailed far behind on seats, some reports showed the RJD with a higher overall vote share than individual NDA parties, Jan Suraaj failed to secure leads, and celebrations broke out in Patna as NDA supporters cheered the trends.