Tejashwi Yadav election result: RJD leader wins after nail-biting contest in Raghopur
Tejashwi Yadav election result: While BJP's Satish Kumar Yadav put up a tough fight, Tejashwi is leading by over 13,000 votes after 25 rounds of counting.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav won after a tight contest in the Raghopur assembly seat as the Election Commission of India (ECI) counted votes for the Bihar elections 2025 on Friday.
Rastriya Janata Dal leader and Mahagathbandhan's chief ministerial face Tejashwi Yadav was up against BJP's Satish Kumar Yadav in the Assembly segment. Other candidates in the fray include Chanchal Kumar from Jan Suraaj Party and Raju Kumar from Aam Aadmi Party.
According to the Election Commission of India data, Tejashwi Yadav won by a margin of over 14,000 votes in a dramatic counting that saw him trailing for several rounds. Satish put up a tough fight, led against Tejashwi Yadav briefly by 9,000 votes, but eventually lost the poll from the RJD stronghold.
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Tejashwi seeking poll hat-trick
The Raghopur constituency, part of Bihar's Vaishali district, was being seen as one of the key contests even before its residents cast their votes in the first phase on November 6.
The seat is seen as a stronghold of former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's family. His son and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has represented the constituency for a decade now, defeating BJP's Satish Kumar Yadav in 2015 and again in 2020. Tejashwi is now seeking to get re-elected from the constituency for the third consecutive time.
Before Tejashwi, his father Lalu Prasad Yadav and mother Rabri Devi, both former chief ministers, have represented the Assembly segment. Lalu won the seat in 1995 and 2000, serving as the chief minister of Bihar both times. Rabri Devi represented the constituency thrice, first in the by-elections in 2000 and later in two subsequent Assembly polls.
Satish, a Yaduvanshi leader, has established himself as a strong challenger in the present Raghopur contest. The BJP leader had also defeated Rabri Devi to win the seat in the 2010 Assembly elections on a JD(U) ticket, later joining the BJP.
Raghopur's voter turnout during the 2025 Assembly elections stood at 64 per cent.
