Earlier, during the counting, Tejashwi Yadav was trailing Satish Kumar by 4,829 votes.
New Delhi: Tejashwi Yadav, RJD leader and INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial face, on Friday, 14 November 2025, retained Bihar’s Raghopur assembly seat, defeating BJP’s Satish Kumar by 14,532 votes, according to the Election Commission.
Tejashwi Yadav polled 1,18,597 votes, while Satish Kumar bagged 1,04,065 votes. Independent candidate Baliram Singh came third with 3,086 votes. Yadav has been holding the Raghopur seat for the last 10 years and has defeated Kumar in the 2015 and 2020 assembly elections.
Tejashwi Yadav was trailing earlier
Earlier, during the counting, Tejashwi Yadav was trailing Satish Kumar by 4,829 votes as Raghopur assembly seat witnessed a neck-and-neck fight on Friday, 14 November 2025.
After 11 rounds of counting, Yadav secured 40,100 votes, while Kumar bagged 44,929 votes. Jan Suraaj Party nominee Chanchal Kumar was in third place with 1,392 votes. Tejashwi was earlier leading by barely a few hundred votes after trailing for a while.
Tejashwi egged on his party workers
Earlier, during the counting, the former Deputy Chief Minister said his party workers and the people were ready to handle “any unconstitutional activity during counting”, while a lesser-known RJD leader Sunil Kumar Singh threatened that a “Nepal-like situation” would be witnessed on the streets if the “counting is halted, like in 2020”.
BJP is the single largest party in Bihar
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has put up a spectacular show by winning 91 seats out of the 101 it contested. This is a strike rate of whopping 90.1%. The BJP could add a few more seats. The party is all set to form the government in Bihar with Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United (JDU).
The Assembly Elections were held in Bihar from 6 November to 11 November, to elect the 243 members of the Bihar Legislative Assembly. The elections were held in two phases with a 67.1% voter turnout. The major players were the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which included the Janata Dal (United) of chief minister Nitish Kumar and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)-led Mahagathbandhan, which included the Congress.
