The Election Commission on Monday announced the schedule for the Bihar Assembly elections 2025. The state’s 243 assembly seats will go to the polls in two phases, on November 6 and 11, with the counting of votes set for November 14, reported the ANI.

In the 2015 Assembly elections, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) secured 80 seats with 18.8 per cent vote share, while ally Congress won 27 seats with 6.8 per cent. The Janata Dal (United), then part of the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), bagged 71 seats with 17.3 per cent vote share. The BJP won 53 seats with the highest vote share at 25 per cent, and other parties took 8 seats with a combined 22.5 per cent.