Bihar Election Results Live:As polling staff prepare for the day, the big question looms: will Nitish’s experience or Tejashwi’s energy carry the day?Bihar Election Results 2025 Explained LIVE Updates: Welcome to our live analysis of the Bihar Assembly Election results. As counting begins, all eyes are on whether the National Democratic Alliance can convert its early confidence, lifted by favourable exit polls, into a clear majority by day’s end. Beyond the numbers, today’s verdict will also shape the internal balance of power within the NDA, with the BJP and JD(U) having contested an equal number of seats—an unusual arrangement that has put the spotlight on Nitish Kumar’s standing. This blog will track not just who leads, but why those trends are emerging, and what they could mean for Bihar’s political future.Can NDA’s three pillars deliver?The NDA’s confidence rests on what it sees as three solid advantages. First is Nitish Kumar’s long-standing political capital, though this election doubles as a test of whether he retains primacy inside his own alliance. Second is the women’s vote, anchored in the “dashazari” Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana routed through Jeevika groups, which the coalition believes could again prove decisive. Third is caste arithmetic: the return of Chirag Paswan’s LJP (Ram Vilas) and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLM gives the NDA a wider umbrella, and Chirag’s showing will be closely watched after his aggressive seat-share push. With small shifts capable of swinging tight seats, the NDA hopes these layers combine into a winning edge.Story continues below this adCan Tejashwi’s caste mix break through?The Mahagathbandhan’s strategy hinges on expanding beyond its Muslim–Yadav core. It is banking on partners like the VIP and the new IIP to mobilise EBCs and riverine communities, groups central to Bihar’s electoral maths. Tejashwi Yadav’s youth and campaign energy form the alliance’s contrasting pitch against Nitish’s long incumbency, while Congress hopes for enough seats to remain relevant after Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra. Also in the mix is Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj, whose vote share—more than its seats—will reveal whether it can cut into traditional caste alignments. With multiple smaller players capable of tilting narrow margins, the alliance’s fortunes may hinge on whether this broader social coalition converts into actual votes on the ground.Live UpdatesNov 14, 2025 08:55 AM ISTBihar Election Results 2025 Explained LIVE Updates: Come Bihar results, see how these five regions performThe one aspect that will be closely watched as counting for the Bihar Assembly election begins is the performance of the parties across the five distinct regions of the state – Tirhut, Mithilanchal and Kosi, Saran, Seemanchal and Shahabad.Seemanchal, with several districts that are Muslim-dominated, is expected to go with the Mahagathbandhan, while Shahabad had in 2020 upset the NDA’s calculations by unexpectedly turning against it.TirhutComprising Muzaffarpur, Sheohar, Sitamarhi, Vaishali, East Champaran and West Champaran districts, this region is the largest, comprising 49 Assembly seats. Of these, the two Champaran districts have been traditional NDA strongholds, while Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur see keen contests.Having lived through a period when dacoits were rampant in the area due to its proximity to the Nepal border, the Champaran belt has swung the NDA way due to police gaining an upper hand under the Nitish Kumar government.The Tirhut region has a mixed population of upper castes and OBCs, besides concentrated populations of EBCs such as Dhanuks and Mallahs.Read moreNov 14, 2025 08:48 AM ISTBihar Election Results 2025 Explained LIVE Updates: Prashant Kishor sets narrative over jobs, migration; runs into caste wall“The farther one goes away from Bihar, more interesting Prashant Kishor appears” – this was how CPI (ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya recently described Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor a.k.a. PK.Kishor, 48, may not emerge as a major player in the Bihar Assembly elections, but no one could deny the buzz that the Jan Suraaj generated in its electoral debut.The poll strategist-turned-politician Kishor, who sought to move beyond caste politics, made jobs, migration, education and health care the central plank of his party, setting a narrative over these issues in his intense campaign for the Bihar polls.Read moreNov 14, 2025 08:37 AM ISTBihar Election Results 2025 Explained LIVE Updates: 5 things to watch out for in Bihar poll results: Nitish factor, Chirag play to Prashant Kishor fateWith the counting of votes in the Bihar Assembly elections set to take place on Friday, here are five things to watch out for in this keen contest between the incumbent NDA and the Opposition Mahagathbandhan.Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar has long been the NDA’s face in Bihar. With the BJP and the JD(U) both allotted 101 seats as part of the NDA’s seat-sharing deal for the state’s 243 seats in the elections, the balance of power appeared to have shifted in the alliance, with the JD(U) no longer remaining the BJP’s senior ally. This indicated that even Nitish’s role may face scrutiny or challenge after the polls.Jan Suraaj’s futurePrashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj has made its electoral debut, positioning itself as the third alternative in the Bihar elections. Its apparent strategy appears to be less about winning a large chunk of seats this time, and more about establishing its salience and winning voters’ confidence by garnering a significant percentage of votes.Read moreNov 14, 2025 08:35 AM ISTBihar Election Results 2025 Explained LIVE Updates: In Bihar poll results today, 3 pillars of NDA’s hopes: Nitish, Mahila vote, social arithmetic edgeAlready enthused by most exit polls giving it a clear advantage, the NDA is banking on three factors to retain power comfortably: a better social combination; welfare benefits for women, especially the “dashazari” scheme or the Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana, under which 1.5 crore prospective women entrepreneurs are eligible to receive Rs 10,000 in the first instalment; and an over-riding Nitish Kumar factor. If this works out, Nitish, who first became CM in October 2005, will take oath for the top job for a record 10th time.For the NDA, there were a couple of things it had to do in the elections: get the social arithmetic right and play up the development narrative, especially the social welfare schemes. Given the importance of women’s vote in the rise of Nitish Kumar and his two decades in power, the narrative around the “dashazari scheme” and all that the CM has done for women voters over the years became a cornerstone of the NDA’s poll plank. That women have outvoted men by 8.8 percentage points will give the CM and his allies hope.Read more© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd