NDA retains Lok Sabha dominance in Bihar
2 pm update
BASED on the Bihar election results’ trends released by the Election Commission of India, which are now available for 240 of the 243 seats, a distinct pattern is emerging. The vote share patterns are in line with what was registered during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, reports The Hindu.
Among the ruling NDA alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now leading in 82 seats with a vote share of 22.4% so far; the Janata Dal (United) in 75 with 18.5% and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJPRV) in 22 with 5.7%. The NDA’s overall vote share, after including all its alliance partners, is now 48.3%. The trends are based on results available until 11.15 a.m. on Friday.
This performance mirrors what the coalition managed in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, where the BJP got a 21% vote share (up by 1.4 points in 2025), JD(U) - 18.9% (reduced marginally by 0.4 points), and the LJPRV with 6.6% (that came down marginally by 0.9 points). In 2024, the NDA’s vote share was nearly identical: 48.2%.
The table shows the party-wise vote share secured in the 2020 Bihar Assembly Elections, 2024 Lok Sabha elections and 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. The figures are in %.
Even though the RJD has managed lead only in 36 seats so far, its vote share (23%) in the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections went up slightly from the 22.6% it received in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, while the Congress’s vote share dropped from 9.4% in 2024 to 7.9% in the current elections.
The Mahagatbandan’s vote share in 2025 is 36.9%, nearly 3 percentage points down from the 40.1% received in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress and smaller parties such as the Vikassheel Insaan Party suffered relatively higher drops in vote shares.
The Jan Suraaj Party has managed a 3.5% vote share, largely at the expense of the Mahagatbandan while the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen has increased its vote share to 1.4% from 0.9% in the Lok Sabha elections.
In sum, the anti-incumbency vote was split a bit by the JSP and the AIMIM, while the NDA’s voteshare was intact, helping it to romp through in the 2025 elections.
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