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Bihar poll battle: Seat-sharing dilemma for NDA, Opposition

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June 16, 2025

Seats contested and won by BJP and JD(U) since February 2005

- ARCHIS MOHAN

A mere 12,768 votes of the total 41.43 million polled separated the winner and the loser in the three-phase Bihar Assembly polls held in 2020. The election was held when waves of migrant workers were forced to return back to the state in the wake Covid-19 pandemic.

The Janata Dal (United) JD(U)-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won 125 of 243 seats with a combined vote share of 37.26 per cent, defeating the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led 'Mahagathbandhan' that secured 110 seats with 37.23 per cent vote share.

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