- By Shubham Bajpai
- Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:19 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
The BJP-led NDA and RJD-led Mahagathbandhan are busy deciding the seat-sharing formula and candidates as elections for the 243-seat Bihar Assembly is less than a month away. Amid the deliberations, the focus of the alliances and the parties is on the 52-seat that saw a nail-biting competition in 2020, where the winners ended up advancing by a thin margin of up to 5,000 votes only.
According to the data of the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), the winning margin was less than 3000 or 1 per cent in 35 seats and 5,000 in 52 seat.
Three lowest margin seats
In three seats, the candidates won by less than a margin of 200 votes. These seats were Hilsa, Barbigha and Ramgarh.
In Hilsa, JDU candidate won by a margin of merely 12 votes, while the party won Barbigha by 113 votes. The third seat, Ramgarh was clinched by RJD by 189 votes.
Similarly, in four seats each, the victory margin was less than 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000, 3,000 and 3,500. In five assembly seats, the margin was less tham 2,500 votes.
52 seats with up to 5,000 vote margin
Among 52 seats, with a margin of less than 5,000, Mahagathbandhan constituents won 27 seats. The RJD won 15 seats, Congress got nine, and CPI, CPI(M), and CPI(ML) Liberation won a seat each.
The NDA, on the other hand, won 24 seats. The JDU got 13, the BJP got 8, VIP and HAM won one each. The remaining one seat Maithini, was won by Chirag Paswan's LJP (RV) by 333 votes.
Here are some other prominent seats with thin margin contest
-Bhorey: JD(U) candidate won by 462 votes
-Dehri: RJD won by 464 votes
-Bachhwara: BJP won by 484 votes
-Chakai: Independent won by 581 votes, while the BJP lost Kurhani: RJD won by 712 votes
-Bakhri: CPI won by 777 votes
-Parbatta: JD(U) candidate won by 951 votes
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What Lok Sabha elections tell about these seats?
According to a report by The Indian Express, the NDA has managed to regain ground in the Lok Sabha elections.
The ruling alliance has taken a lead in 20 low-margin seats that the Mahagathbandhan won in 2020. In contrast, the Mahagathbandhan managed to take a lead in only 6 seats that the NDA won.