Bihar election 2025 vote share: RJD leads but NDA’s wider spread wins the battle | Party-wise vote percentage

The final vote share from the Bihar Assembly election gives a much clearer sense of how people were thinking this year and why the final outcome looked so lopsided on the map.

At first glance, the numbers feel scattered. But once you break them down, a simple pattern jumps out: the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) secured the highest share of votes, yet the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won because its support was spread across the right constituencies.

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RJD tops the vote share, but loses the seat race

The Rashtriya Janata Dal finished with around 23 per cent of all votes cast and became the single-largest party in terms of raw public support.

But most of this support was concentrated in limited pockets. Strong clusters helped the RJD dominate a few seats, but not enough to convert those votes into a meaningful number of wins.

This is a familiar Bihar story: high vote share, low seat conversion.

NDA’s numbers show why it swept the state

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended with about 20.08 per cent, and the Janata Dal (United) with around 19.25 per cent, both slightly behind the RJD individually.

But elections are rarely won in isolation.

Once you add the combined support of the NDA bloc, i.e. BJP, JD(U), Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular), and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, the combined vote share lands somewhere around 46 to 47 per cent of all votes polled. That’s not a majority of the electorate, but in a multi-cornered state like Bihar, it’s more than enough to dominate.

With its vote spread efficiently across regions rather than concentrated in a few pockets, the alliance converted its numbers into seats with remarkable consistency, finishing the race at 202 seats.

JD(U)’s vote share also shows that Nitish Kumar, in his ninth term and facing years of anti-incumbency chatter, still commands a solid, loyal base across the state.

Congress under nine per cent, LJP(RV) makes a visible impact

The Indian National Congress finished with roughly 8.7 per cent of the vote. It was clearly not competitive where it mattered.

Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), on the other hand, recorded around 5 per cent, an impressive showing for a smaller party with limited candidates. It confirms that the Paswan vote base remains intact and responsive.

Left parties, AIMIM and BSP remain small but significant

Some of the smaller parties and Left groups also made their presence felt:

• Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPI-ML L): 2.8 per cent
• All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM): 1.8 per cent
• Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP): 1.6 per cent
• Communist Party of India and CPI(M) combined: around 1.3 per cent

These numbers don’t change the statewide story, but they did influence several triangular contests where the margin of victory was narrow.

‘Others’ still hold a large 14 per cent

Perhaps the most interesting slice is the 14 per cent that went to independents and hyper-local players.

This signals that a substantial portion of Bihar’s electorate still votes on personal equations, caste networks, local grievances, and individual reputation more than big-party narratives.

Party-wise vote share in Bihar election 2025

Below is the final party-wise vote share percentage, based on Election Commission data.

In simple words

The RJD received the highest vote share.

But the NDA, especially the BJP and JD(U), had its support spread across far more constituencies, allowing it to convert votes into seats with far greater efficiency.

This election wasn’t just about who got more votes. It was about where those votes landed, and the NDA placed its pieces almost perfectly.