2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election
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All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly; 122 seats needed for a majority
	Opinion polls
Incumbent Chief Minister; Nitish Kumar; JD(U)	; ;

The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election for all 243 constituencies is scheduled to be held on October or November 2025.

Background

The previous assembly elections were held in October–November 2020. After the election, National Democratic Alliance formed the state government, with Nitish Kumar becoming Chief Minister. Later, In August 2022 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snap ties with NDA and formed government with RJD led Mahagathbandhan. Later, In January 2024 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snap ties with RJD led Mahagathbandhan and again formed government with BJP led NDA. Prashant Kishor, a political strategist, claimed his prediction scared them, leading to their exit from Mahagathbandhan. His next forecast is that JD(U) won't secure over 20 seats in the state election. He declared retirement if Janata Dal (United) exceeds 20 seats.^[1]

Schedule

Poll Event	Schedule
Notification Date	TBD
Last Date for filing nomination	TBD
Scrutiny of nomination	TBD
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	TBD
Date of Poll	TBD
Date of Counting of Votes	TBD

Parties and Alliances

National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
	Janata Dal (United)				Nitish Kumar
	Bharatiya Janata Party				Dilip Kumar Jaiswal
	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)				Chirag Paswan
	Hindustani Awam Morcha				Jitan Ram Manjhi
	Rashtriya Lok Morcha				Upendra Kushwaha

Mahagathbandhan

Party		Flag	Symbol	Photo	Leader	Seats contested
	Rashtriya Janata Dal				Tejashwi Yadav
	Indian National Congress				Akhilesh Prasad Singh
	Vikassheel Insaan Party				Mukesh Sahani
	Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation				Mahbub Alam
	Communist Party of India				Ram Naresh Pandey
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)				Ajay Kumar

Others

	Leader	Seats contested
Jan Suraaj Party	Prashant Kishor	243
Aam Aadmi Party^[2]	Sushil Kumar	153
Aap Sabki Aawaz	RCP Singh	140^[3]
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	Akhtarul Iman	40
The Plurals Party	Pushpam Priya Choudhary	243
Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party	Pashupati Kumar Paras	188