BJP releases first list of 71 candidates for Bihar Assembly Election 2025 | Check names
The BJP announced a list of 71 candidates for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, finalizing a seat-sharing formula with the NDA. The BJP and JDU will contest 101 seats each, while the Lok Janshakti Party will contest 29 seats.
The Bharatiya Janata Party announced its first list of 71 candidates for the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 on Tuesday, October 14.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) finalised its seat-sharing formula for the Bihar assembly elections on Sunday, the BJP and the Janata Dal-United (JDU) contesting 101 seats each, and the Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) contesting 29 seats.
In the 2020 Bihar assembly election, the BJP had contested 110 seats, while the JD(U) had fought on 115 seats. Meanwhile, the HAM(S) fielded candidates for seven constituencies and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), then part of the NDA, contested 11 seats.
Bihar Assembly elections
The Bihar Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be conducted in November 2025 to fill all 243 seats. Voting will take place in two phases, on November 6 and 11 with the counting scheduled for November 16.
The initial phase of polling will take place in 121 Assembly constituencies in central Bihar on 6 November. The second phase will include 122 seats across the north, east, and south on 11 November, according to the election schedule.
Here's the list of BJP candidates and the constituencies they represent —
- Renu Devi - Bettiah
- Pramod Kumar Sinha - Raxaul
- Shyambabu Prasad Yadav - Pipra
- Rana Randhir Singh - Madhuban
- Pramod Kumar - Motihari
- Pawan Jaiswal - Dhaka
- Baidyanath Prasad - Riga
- Anil Kumar Ram - Bathnaha
- Gayatri Devi- Parihar
- Sunil Kumar Pintu - Sitamarhi
- Vinod Narayan Jha - Benipatti
- Arun Shankar Prasad - Khajauli
- Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul - Bisfi
- Sujeet Paswan - Rajnagar (SC)
- Nitish Mishra - Jhanjharpur
- Neeraj Kumar Singh Bablu - Chhatapur
- Devanti Yadav - Narpatganj
- Vidya Sagar Keshri - Forbesganj
- Vijay Kumar Mandal - Sikti
- Sweety Singh - Kishanganj
- Krishna Kumar Rishi - Banmankhi (SC)
- Vijay Kumar Khemka - Purnia
- Tarkishore Prasad - Katihar
- Nisha Singh - Pranpur
- Kavita Devi - Korha
- Alok Ranjan Jha - Saharsa
- Sujit Kumar Singh - Gaura Bauram
- Sanjay Saraogi - Darbhanga
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