Bihar Elections 2025 Live Updates: All eyes on Bihar as counting to begin tomorrow morning; will results go exit polls way?

Bihar Assembly Election Result 2025 Counting Date Live Updates: According to the official website of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the counting of votes and the announcement of trends for the Bihar Elections 2025 will commence at 8 am on November 14, with the final results expected to be declared by the evening.

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Preparation is underway at the BJP headquarters on the eve of the Bihar election results, in New Delhi on Thursday. (ANI Photo)

Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: T-minus one day for the counting of votes! According to the official website of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the counting of votes and the announcement of trends for the Bihar Elections 2025 will commence at 8 am on November 14, with the final results expected to be declared by the evening. The voter turnout in the second and final phase of the Bihar Assembly Elections, was recorded to be 66.91 per cent, officially the highest-ever voter turnout in the state since 1951, the Election Commission of India said. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is likely to retain power in Bihar, as per Axis My India and Today’s Chanakya prediction. Axis My India predicted NDA to win by a narrow margin with 121 to 141 seats, MGB 98 to 118, JSP 0 to 2 seats while Today’s Chanakya projected BJP a major victory with 160 seats, RJD 77 and Others six seats. On Tuesday, nine exit polls also projected the NDA to win 147 seats in the 243-member Assembly.

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Who are contesting? The Mahagathbandhan hopes to break JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar’s two-decade run as Bihar Chief Minister, while the NDA hopes to continue to helm the state. While the RJD in alliance with the JD(U) won the 2015 Bihar elections, the alliance broke soon after. Now, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, supported by the Congress, is fighting to break the RJD’s electoral jinx. Key candidates include Bijendra Prasad Yadav, a veteran JD(U) leader and the most senior member of the state cabinet, who seeks to retain his Supaul seat for a record eighth term.

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Women outvote men: Against the overall turnout of a record 66.91%, the voting percentage among women voters was 71.6 per cent, as much as 8.8 percentage points more than the 62.8% turnout among men and the largest ever gap. In terms of absolute numbers too, women appear to have out-voted men in Bihar, which would be a first for the state.

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Nov 13, 2025 06:13 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: EC says elaborate arrangements in place, asks media to rely only on official results

Elaborate arrangements are in place across all 243 constituencies of Bihar for counting of votes on November 14, the Election Commission said on Thursday. Counting will be conducted by 243 returning officers (ROs) in the presence of 243 counting observers and the candidates or their agents.

As many as 4,372 counting tables staffed with one counting supervisor, counting assistant and micro-observer at each table have been set up, the poll authority said.

More than 18,000 counting agents appointed by the candidates will also oversee the counting process, it pointed out.

Counting will commence at 8 AM and according to the EC's directions, postal ballot counting will begin first. Counting of electronic voting machines (EVMs) will begin thereafter at 8.30 AM.

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Nov 13, 2025 03:09 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: Rohtas DM dismisses RJD's charge of EVM-loaded truck entering counting centre sans prior notice

The district administration in Bihar's Rohtas on Thursday dismissed the opposition RJD's claim that a truck loaded with EVMs entered a counting centre without prior information.

District Magistrate Udita Singh claimed that the truck, which entered the counting centre, was loaded with empty steel boxes.

The RJD had earlier posted a video on X of the counting centre, asking, "Why was a truck allegedly loaded with EVMs allowed to enter a counting centre at Sasaram (Rohtas district) without any prior information? Why was the truck driver not presented before the people? And why was the CCTV camera feed unavailable after 2 pm?" — PTI

Nov 13, 2025 02:11 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: 'Exit polls are all fake'

Jan Suraaj spokesperson Vivek Kumar says, "We are confident that for the first time in 30-35 years, the people of Bihar are winning. In a state where votes have always been cast based on caste and religion, for the first time in 40 years, the government opened its coffers. There was so much fear that if we (the government) didn't work and didn't open the coffers, people would vote for the new option... these exit polls are all fake. When the EVMs are opened tomorrow, you will see the magic of the public. A new system will be created tomorrow."

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Nov 13, 2025 01:52 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: Where to track the Bihar Election 2025 results?

For live updates of the trends, you can follow indianexpress.com and our YouTube channel for live coverage of the polls.

You can also check the trends on the official website of ECI on: results.eci.gov.in

Nov 13, 2025 12:53 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: When does counting of votes begin?

According to the official website of the Election Commission of India (ECI), the counting of votes and the announcement of trends for the Bihar Elections 2025 will commence at 8am on Friday (November 14).

Nov 13, 2025 12:29 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: 'Why would anyone vote for a corrupt person like Lalu Yadav?'

Union Minister Giriraj Singh says, "Whether it's Akhilesh Yadav, Lalu Yadav, Tejashwi Yadav, or Rahul Gandhi, why would anyone vote for these people in Bihar? Why would anyone vote for a corrupt person like Lalu Yadav, who has lived his entire life solely for his family? He neither helped the poor nor the Yadavs. That is why the people of Bihar have voted for development under the leadership of Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar. We won 206 seats in 2010, and we will win even more than that."

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Nov 13, 2025 12:24 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: T-minus one day!

Nov 13, 2025 12:07 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 Live Updates: Will the exit polls prove right?

With less than a day to go for the counting of votes, all eyes are on Bihar. Will the results go the exit polls-way?