Sikta Election Results 2025 Live Updates: Turncoats For The Win
Sikta’s electoral history is marked by frequent shifts in political loyalty and strong backing for turncoat candidates. Raiful Azam won the seat in 1962 and 1967 on Swatantra Party and Congress tickets, respectively. Faiyazul Azam followed with victories for the Congress in 1972 and 1977, and again as an Independent in 1990.
His move to the Lok Sabha from Bettiah as a Janata Dal MP led to the 1991 bypoll, where Dilip Varma emerged victorious beginning a remarkable run of five wins, achieved across different party banners: once each as an Independent, a Champaran Vikas Party nominee, a BJP candidate, a Samajwadi Party nominee, and once more as an Independent in 2010.
Bihar Election Result 2025 Live Updates: What's Behind NDA's Outstanding Showing Today
"There is a significant surge in women's support for the NDA. The margin seems to be 20-30% over the opposition. BJP and JDU each are more than the entire Mahagathbandhan's vote share. It shows the scale of the victory," said psephologist Amitabh Tiwari.
Sikta Election Results 2025 Live Updates: Demographic Profile
The Sikta Assembly constituency had a total of 2,76,735 registered voters in the 2025 election. Of these, 1,49,528 were male voters, 1,27,199 were female voters, and 8 were registered as third-gender voters.
Bihar Election Result 2025 Live Updates: Party-Wise Check At This Hour
The NDA has now crossed the 150 mark in leads. The BJP is seen gaining + 9 seats while the JDU is making gains in more than 20. Meanwhile, the top two parties of MGB -- RJD and Congress -- are both seen 13 and 9 seats respectively. Prashant Kishore's JSP has lead in only three seats as of now.
Sikta Election Results 2025 Live Updates: How Many Voters Turned Up?
According to data from the Election Commission of India, the Sikta constituency recorded an estimated voter turnout of 75.13% in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. This marks a sharp rise from previous years: the turnout stood at 62.03% in 2020, 66.02% in 2015, and 62.63% in 2010.
Sikta Election Results 2025 LIVE: Postal Ballot Counting Begins
As per the precedent, the votes cast through postal ballots are counted first, and then the electronic voting machine (EVM) votes are counted.
While the early trends will start emerging minutes after the counting begins, the first set of credible trends will emerge only after 9 am, pollsters say.
Sikta Election Results 2025 LIVE: Who Won Last Time?
In the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, CPI(ML)(L)’s Birendra Prasad Gupta won the seat, defeating independent candidate Dilip Varma by 2,302 votes, a narrow margin amounting to 1.35% of the total votes cast.
The much-awaited Bihar Assembly Election results will be declared today, with counting set to begin at 8:00 a.m.
The Sikta Assembly constituency in Bihar went to polls on November 11, 2025. In the 2025 elections, the key candidates are Sammridh Varma of the JD(U), Utkarsh Srivastava of the Jan Suraaj Party, Birendra Prasad Gupta of the CPI(ML)(L), along with others.
