Bihar result: BJP emerges as single-largest party, wins 89 seats of 101 it contested

The Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged as the single-largest party in Bihar as it won 89 seats in the state Assembly elections on Friday.

This is one of the best performances of the BJP in the state. In 2020, the BJP had won 74 seats, in 2015 it won 53, in 2010 the tally was 91 and in 2005 it was 37.

The party had 101 constituencies it contested as part of the National Democratic Alliance, which also includes Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), Union minister Chirag Paswan’s faction of the Lok Janshakti Party, the Rashtriya Lok Morcha and the Hindustani Awam Morcha.

The NDA won the Assembly polls with 202 seats in the 243-member Assembly.

Read Scroll’s ground reports from Bihar here.

Among the alliance partners, the JD(U) won 85 seats, the Lok Janshakti Party won 19, the Hindustani Awam Morcha secured five seats while the Rashtriya Lok Morcha won four.

A party or an alliance needs 122 seats in the 243-member Assembly to form the government.

The Bihar unit of the BJP thanked voters for their “incredible and historic mandate”. It said that the result was not just an electoral victory, but was the “stamp of Bihar’s bright future”.

The first phase of polling took place on November 6 and the second on...

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