Saharsa Election Results 2025 LIVE: BJP's Alok Ranjan Maintains Lead Of 13,000 Votes

Alok Ranjan of the Bharatiya Janata Party maintains a 13,000 vote lead, as of 17 rounds of counting.

Prashant Kishor’s much-anticipated electoral debut appears to be falling short of expectations, with trends by non from the Bihar Election Results 2025 indicating that the Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) is likely to flop, broadly in line with major exit poll predictions.

Kishor – popularly known as PK – has been one of the most talked-about figures in this year’s election. As the architect of several major electoral victories across India, his maiden attempt at contesting as a political leader drew immense attention.

His campaign, focused on issues such as education, unemployment and migration (“palayan”), shaped much of the state’s political conversation in 2025, giving both the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan uncomfortable moments during the campaign phase.

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In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the JD(U), contesting as the BJP’s junior ally, retained the parliamentary seat and secured leads in five of the six assembly segments, including Saharsa. This outcome has strengthened the BJP’s confidence heading into the 2025 Assembly polls.

"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.

Alok Ranjan of the Bharatiya Janata Party maintains a 2,000 vote lead, as of three rounds of counting.

Like several urban constituencies in Bihar, this seat has witnessed a marked political transition from being a Congress stronghold to emerging as a BJP bastion. Congress won six of the first eight elections but has since slipped into near-irrelevance. The BJP, meanwhile, has strengthened its grip, securing victory in four of the last five polls.

NDA's strong showing today follows a long seen pattern in Indian election: when voter turnout jumps, it can either wipe out the ruling formation or deliver them a landslide win.

Bihar's voter turnout hit 67.13%, the highest ever since 1951. This means voters chose to give a strong mandate to the winning side.

The RJD has pulled ahead of the BJP in the leads for the first time today.

Counting of votes has begun in Bihar’s Saharsa, and early trends indicate that the BJP’s Alok Ranjan has taken the lead.

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.

In the 2020 Assembly elections, BJP’s Alok Ranjan clinched the Saharsa seat with 61.22% of the total votes, securing a commanding victory over RJD’s Lovely Anand by a margin of 1,03,538 votes.

The much-awaited Bihar Assembly Election results will be declared today, with counting set to begin at 8:00 a.m.

The Saharsa Assembly constituency in Bihar voted on November 6, 2025. In this year’s election, the key candidates include Alok Ranjan from the BJP, Kishor Kumar from the Jan Suraaj Party, along with others in the fray.