Next Bihar Legislative Assembly election

← 2020

By October–November 2025

All 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly
118 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Tejashwi Yadav	Samrat Choudhary	Nitish Kumar
Party	RJD	BJP	JD(U)
Alliance	MGB	NDA	MGB
Leader since	2017	2022	2005
Leader's seat	Raghopur	MLC	MLC
Last election	23.11%, 75 seats	19.46%, 74 seats	15.39%, 43 seats
Current seats	79	78	45
Seats needed	43	44	77


Leader	Ajit Sharma	Mahbub Alam	Santosh Kumar Suman
Party	INC	CPI(ML)L	HAM-Se
Alliance	MGB	MGB	NDA
Leader since	2020	2020	2015
Leader's seat	Bhagalpur	Balrampur	MLC
Last election	9.48%, 19 seats	3.16%, 12 seats	1.24%, 5 seats
Current seats	19	12	4
Seats needed	103	110	121

Incumbent Chief Minister

Nitish Kumar
JD(U)

The Next Bihar Legislative Assembly election is speculated to be held on or before October–November 2025 to elect all 243 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.^[1]^[2]

Background

The previous assembly elections were held in October–November 2020. After the election, National Democratic Alliance formed the state government, with Nitish Kumar becoming Chief Minister.Later, In August 2022 Nitish Kumar led JD(U) snap ties with NDA and formed government with RJD led Mahagathbandhan.

Schedule

Poll Event	Schedule
Notification Date	TBD
Last Date for filing nomination	TBD
Scrutiny of nomination	TBD
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination	TBD
Date of Poll	TBD
Date of Counting of Votes	TBD

Parties and alliances

Mahagathbandhan

		Leader(s)	Contesting Seats
Rashtriya Janata Dal	RJD	Tejashwi Yadav	TBD
Janata Dal (United)	JD(U)	Nitish Kumar	TBD
Indian National Congress	INC	Akhilesh Prasad Singh	TBD
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation	CPI(ML)L	Mahbub Alam	TBD
Communist Party of India	CPI	Ram Naresh Pandey	TBD
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI(M)	Ajay Kumar	TBD

National Democratic Alliance

		Leader(s)	Contesting Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP	Samrat Chaudhary	TBD
Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party	RLJP	Pashupati Kumar Paras	TBD
Hindustani Awam Morcha	HAM	Jitan Ram Manjhi	TBD
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)	LJP(RV)	Chirag Paswan	TBD

Others

		Leader(s)	Contesting Seats
Aam Aadmi Party^[4]	AAP		TBD
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen	AIMIM	Akhtarul Iman	TBD
Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP	Ramji Gautam	TBD
Nationalist Congress Party	NCP	Sharad Pawar	TBD
Vikassheel Insaan Party	VIP	Mukesh Sahani	TBD
National People's Party	NPEP	Conrad Sangma	TBD