Baruraj Election Results 2025: Arun Kumar Singh Vs Hiralal Kharia—Who's Winning?
Baruraj Election Results 2025: This year, BJP's Singh is going head-to-head against JSP's Kharia, BSP's Nasima Khatoon, and Rakesh Kumar of Vikassheel Insaan Party.
Counting is underway for the Baruraj seat in Bihar, where Arun Kumar Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party is facing Hiralal Kharia of Jan Suraaj Party. The counting of votes for Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 began at 8 am today, Nov. 14. The electoral battle is seen as a veritable referendum on the eastern state’s longest-serving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Voting in Bihar were held in two phases — on Nov. 6 and Nov. 11. Notably, the poll of exit polls showed that the National Democratic Alliance is set to retain power, against the Opposition's Mahagathbandhan bloc. The exit poll trends predicted NDA is set to secure a clear mandate, as the halfway-majority mark stands at 122 in the 243-member assembly.
Demographics, Prominent Parties, Past Wins
Baruraj is located in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. It lies approximately 30 km northwest of Muzaffarpur, the district headquarters while state capital Patna is located about 83 km to the south. Its economy is largely agrarian, with sugarcane cultivation being central to the livelihoods of people.
During the 2020 assembly elections, BJP's Arun Kumar Singh won the Baruraj seat with 87,407 votes against RJD's Nand Kumar Rai, who then secured 43,753 votes. This year, Singh is going head-to-head against JSP's Kharia, BSP's Nasima Khatoon, and Rakesh Kumar of Vikassheel Insaan Party.
Bihar Elections 2025
This year, Bihar sees a high-stakes political battle between the National Democratic Alliance and the current opposition bloc Mahagathbandhan alliance. NDA includes the BJP, JD(U), Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and the Rashtriya Lok Morcha.
Mahagathbandhan includes RJD, Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), and Mukesh Sahani's Vikasheel Insaan Party (VIP). Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj has staked claims to all 243 seats in the state.
Bihar's voter turnout for the second and final phase of the 2025 legislative assembly elections stood at 68.76%, according to provisional data shared by the Election Commission of India on Nov. 11. The turnout surpassed record-high of 64.66% registered in the first phase of voting on Nov. 6.
The total Bihar voter turnout for both phases stood at approximately 66.91%, with women voting more than men. The total turnout for female voters for both phases was seen at 71.6%, while that for male voters was at 62.8%.
