Key Points:
Tejashwi Yadav wins Raghopur with 1,18,597 votes.
He defeated BJP’s Satish Kumar Yadav by nearly 14,000 votes.
Raghopur remains Lalu family stronghold, continuing their long-standing political legacy.
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has once again secured his family’s stronghold in the Bihar Elections 2025. He won from the Raghopur seat with 1,18,597 votes, defeating his closest rival, Satish Kumar Yadav from BJP, who secured 1,04,065 votes.
The nail bitting battle went down to the wire, concluding after 32 rounds of counting, with Tejashwi eventually finishing first with the higher number in the final round.
The contest was between the two main contenders of RJD and BJP, as independent candidate Baliram Singh remained far behind in the race with only 3,086 votes.
Satish Kumar overtook Tejashwi during the early rounds for a brief period, but ultimately lost by a margin of nearly 14,000 votes. Kumar defeated former Chief Minister Rabri Devi in the 2010 Assembly polls but later got defeated at the hands of her younger son, Tejashwi Yadav, in both 2015 and 2020 assembly election. The 2025 election added yet another chapter to this rivalry.
On the day of vote counting, 14 November 2025, Tejashwi Yadav confidently declared that change was going to happen. “We are going to win. A change is about to come,” he said. Raghopur, as expected, witnessed an intense face-off between the RJD heavyweight and the BJP candidate.
Early trends had shown Tejashwi trailing by 1,273 votes around 11 a.m., but he slowly closed the gap and eventually claimed the lead by winning the Raghopur seat.
Raghopur has served as a political fortress for the Lalu Prasad Yadav family. Lalu Yadav himself won the seat twice, in 1995 and 2000, both times while serving as Bihar’s Chief Minister. His wife, Rabri Devi, also represented the constituency in the 2000 by-election, further cementing the family’s deep connection to the region.
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