In the 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, how many seats did the BJP-led NDA win out of 243?

Explanation

The NDA's alliance tally is separate from the BJP's standalone number. The ECI results page for the November 2025 Bihar Assembly election records 243 total seats and lists the party-wise results, including BJP 89, JD(U) 85, LJPRV 19, HAMS 5 and RSHTLKM 4. Those NDA parties together won 202 seats. The BJP-led NDA therefore secured a clear Assembly mandate. The RJD-led Mahagathbandhan won 35 seats, so the result was not a marginal majority but a dominant Assembly result.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) 175 understates the NDA tally; the BJP-led alliance won 202 of the 243 Assembly seats.
• (B) 190 is still short of the NDA's actual alliance total of 202 seats.
• (D) 215 overstates the result; the NDA crossed the 200-seat mark, but its total was 202, not 215.

Concept

Assembly election outcomes are often read through alliance totals rather than only individual party seats. Coalition arithmetic is central to Indian polity, mandate analysis and state-level governance.

Source

• Election Commission of India
• https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcGenNov2025/index.htm

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