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Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party defeats Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal by 9,370 votes.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 9,370 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 26 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 9,688 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 25 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 9,251 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 24 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 11,918 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 23 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 12,762 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 22 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 9,572 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 21 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 8,685 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 20 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 6,882 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after 19 rounds of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 8,294 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 18 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 7,170 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 17 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 9,449 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 16 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 10,884 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 15 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 12,549 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 14 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 12,462 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 13 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 11,838 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 12 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 10,772 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 11 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 10,098 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 10 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 8,941 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 9 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 9,380 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 8 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 8,780 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 7 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 6,088 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 6 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 6,446 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 5 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 4,130 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 4 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party leading by 1,451 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 3 of counting.
Mangal Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party takes a lead of 1,071 votes against Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the Rashtriya Janata Dal after round 2 of counting.
The RJD's Awadh Bihari Choudhary takes early slim lead of 191 against the BJP's Mangal Pandey after round 1.
EVM counting starts.
In the last assembly election, the RJD's Awadh Bihari Choudhary won with 45% of the votes polled, defeating the BJP's Om Prakash Yadav.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the JDU's Vijay Lalkshmi Kushwaha had led from the segment.
Awadh Bihari Choudhary had won from the seat six times earlier, while the BJP had won it in 2025, 2010 and 2015.
The counting of postal ballot votes has started.
Siwan, which went to polls in phase 1, saw a turnout of 59.7% in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha elections.
There are 13 candidates in the fray, out of which the main candidates are Awadh Bihari Choudhary of the RJD, Mangal Pandey from the BJP and Intekhab Ahmed from the Jan Suraaj Party. Sunita Devi of the BSP and Mohammad Kaifi Samshir of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen are also some of the candidates.
The counting for the seats of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 will begin at 8 a.m. at 46 counting centres across 38 districts.
The high-stakes political battle was mainly between the NDA and the grand alliance. New entrant Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj fought for all 243 seats.
The NDA includes the BJP, JDU, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha.
The Mahagathbandhan includes the RJD, Congress, CPI (M-L), CPI, CPI(M) and Vikasheel Insaan Party.
Elections to the 121 seats of the 243-member assembly were held on Nov. 6, while the remaining 122 constituencies went to polls on Nov. 11.
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