In the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025, 37 tight seats have become the center of suspense again. These seats with a difference of 12 to 3000 votes will prove to be decisive for the Grand Alliance and NDA. Election strategies and alliance changing at the booth level are more entangled.
Patna: Every time in Bihar assembly elections, some seats are such that the result is full of suspense till the last moment. A similar thrill was observed in the 2020 assembly elections, when about 37 seats in the state were such that the decision to win and lose was decided by a margin of just 3000 or less votes. The picture of the election can be completely revealed in these seats, and that is why all political parties are paying special attention to these areas.
The contest in 37 seats in 2020 elections was so tough that the difference of defeat and defeat was three thousand or less votes. Of these, 17 seats went to the Grand Alliance account, 19 seats were captured by the NDA and independent candidates won 1 seat.
The ‘most thrill’ seat of the state was Hilsa, where Krishna Murari Sharan of JDU could defeat Shakti Singh Yadav of RJD only by 12 votes. It was also charged with allegations of election rigging. Mukesh Sahni, the head of the development human party in Simri Bakhtiyarpur, lost due to just 1759 votes, while the difference in seats like Darbhanga Rural and Matihani was also very minor.
Political equation
Many interesting political changes were also revealed in these seats. Many veterans have either changed the party or have turned to the rival alliance after the election, such as Dr. Faraj Fatmi of JDU in Darbhanga Rural is now in RJD while LJP MLA Rajkumar Singh of Matihani is currently part of JDU.
The mathematics of the next election has become more complicated by changing the alliance and changing the equation. Now the seats where the Grand Alliance or NDA got a small lead, the party and the candidate’s equation is not completely straight.
Independents also competed
On a seat like Chakai, Independent Sumit Kumar Singh defeated the federation candidate by a margin of 581 votes in a tough war. Similarly, the LJP candidate defeated JDU by 333 votes in Matihani, and later he also came to JDU changing the political equation. This strong presence of independents in state politics is making the upcoming election results more complicated.
Booth level politics and new strategy
On all these ‘tight seats’, both major coalitions and small parties are adopting strong organizations at booth level and ‘door-to-door’ electoral strategy. Because the difference of 100-200 or thousand-and-a-half thousand votes can be converted into both a big win and bad defeat. From the previous data, all the parties have understood that only every emerald and every village-land will decide the result of these seats.
These three dozen seats are again the center of everyone’s eyes in Bihar election 2025. Here every voter’s vote, every household and personal popularity of every candidate will prove to be decisive. These seats will not only give a difference of win-loss, but will also give the policy of coalition, internal deal and big political messages. This is the reason that every party is throwing the most focus, resources and strategists here. Because luck will be measured on ‘criterion’ from 12 votes to 3000 votes.