The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday released the final voter turnout for the Bihar Assembly Election 2025. The poll panel said Bihar recorded a polling percentage of 67.13 per cent, the highest ever since 1951.
In a release, the ECI stated that the elections in Bihar were conducted with zero repolls. “No re-polls requested by 2,616 candidates; no re-polls requested by 12 recognised political parties,” the poll panel said.
“Zero appeals during SIR in Bihar with 7,45,26,858 electors in the final Electoral Roll; zero appeals in any of the 38 districts from the 12 recognised political parties,” the Commission added.
The ECI further said that it has made the required arrangements for the smooth counting of votes tomorrow, November 14.
“Across the State, counting arrangements have been made in all 243 Assembly Constituencies. Counting will be conducted by 243 Returning Officers (ROs) in the presence of 243 Counting Observers and the candidates or their agents,” the release stated.
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“4,372 counting tables staffed with one counting supervisor, counting assistant and micro-observer at each table have been set up. More than 18,000 Counting Agents appointed by the candidates will also oversee the counting process,” it added.
The Commission also described the procedure of the vote-counting process.
“Counting will commence at 8:00 am on 14th November 2025. As per Commission’s directions, postal ballot counting will begin first, counting of EVMs will begin thereafter at 8.30 am. Counting of Postal ballots is to be completed before the penultimate round of EVM counting. Postal ballots are counted in the presence of candidates or their counting agents by the RO/ARO.”
The Commission said when EVM votes are counted, control units are brought to the counting tables round-wise and shown to the counting agents to verify that the seals are intact and serial numbers match the records in Form 17C (Part I).
The number of votes recorded in EVMs is also cross-verified with entries in Form 17C. In case of any mismatch, VVPAT slips from that polling station are counted mandatorily, the Commission stated.
Explaining the VVPAT verification process with regard to EVM vote counting, the ECI stated: “After completion of EVM counting, a random selection of five polling stations per constituency is made for VVPAT verification. The slips are matched with EVM results in the presence of candidates and their counting agents.”
While the counting is underway tomorrow, the ECI will compile and make available round-wise and constituency-wise results through the respective ROs on the official ECI results portal — https://results.eci.gov.in.