2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

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Legislative Assembly elections were held in Bihar to elect the 243 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 14 November 2025. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won a landslide victory securing 202 of the 243 seats in which the election was held, defeating the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan (MGB) which secured just 35 seats. Incumbent chief minister Nitish Kumar took the oath for a record tenth time. Incumbent deputy chief ministers Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha took the oath as the deputy chief ministers for the second consecutive time. 5 months after he was sworn in, Nitish Kumar resigned as the chief minister upon his election to the Rajya Sabha and was succeeded by his deputy Samrat Chaudhary, who became the first BJP chief minister of the state. Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and Bijendra Prasad Yadav were sworn in as the deputy chief ministers. For the first time, the BJP...

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