Bihar Assembly Election – 2025
Bihar Assembly Election – 2025
I. Electoral Rolls
II. Training
III. Conduct of Elections
IV. Counting
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PK/GDH/RP
* Data is provisional and the final figures will be shared through ECI Index Card. Phase-II data updated in ECINet after including remaining 2027 Polling Stations. Refer footnote of Press Note No. ECI/PN/351/2025
Sl.
No.
Name of Election and Year
Total No. of Re-polls
1.
GE, Lok Sabha, 2024
2
2.
GE, Lok Sabha, 2019
3
3.
GE, Lok Sabha, 2014
96
4.
GE, Legislative Assembly, 2020
3
5.
GE, Legislative Assembly, 2015
- Bihar Legislative Assembly elections concluded yesterday with a historic highest ever voter turnout of 67.13%*. This is the highest voter turnout ever recorded in the State since 1951. Turnout among male voters is 62.98% and amongst female voters it is 71.78%.
- Election Commission of India (ECI) since March, 2025 had taken a slew of initiatives including 17 initiatives focused on poll-bound Bihar (Annexure-1). These initiatives were aimed at improving voter convenience, structured training of polling personnel, technology driven processes based on the constitutional and legal framework.
- Special Intensive Revision (SIR), 2025 was conducted with zero appeals to ensure that the Bihar Electoral Roll was up to date and clean. Based on this exercise, 7,45,26,858 electors were eligible to vote in the elections across two-phases.
- CEC Shri Gyanesh Kumar along with ECs Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi kept a close watch on the poll proceedings through the Webcasting facility ensured at each of the 90,740 Polling Stations.
- ECINet was the technological backbone for the elections which provided services for the voters and ensured timely data-collection for monitoring and supervision.
- Scrutiny of documents was conducted smoothly in all 122 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) which went to polls in Phase-II of the elections in the presence of 122 Returning Officers (RO) and 122 General Observers (GO) appointed by the Commission. Around 460 candidates or their agents also participated in the scrutiny process.
- After scrutiny, no discrepancy/malpractice was found at any of the Polling Station and no re-poll was recommended. With this over the two-phased Bihar elections zero re-polls have been recommended. This is a first in the recent history of elections in the State (refer Annexure-2).
- The entire process was videographed and after scrutiny, Forms 17A and related materials were re-sealed with the RO’s seal.