1. Election Commission of India (ECI) has marked several firsts with the successful conduct of the Bihar Legislative Assembly elections, 2025.
2. ECI had taken as many as 17 new initiatives starting with these elections. (Annexure)
3. Highest ever polling percentage of 67.13%* in Bihar since 1951.
4. Highest ever participation by female voters with polling percentage of 71.78%* in Bihar since 1951.
5. Zero appeals against wrongful inclusion or exclusion of any elector after Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Bihar in any of the 38 districts from any of the electors or any of the 12 recognised political parties.
6. Zero repolls in Bihar Assembly Elections, 2025
   • No re-polls requested by any of the 2,616 candidates
   • No re-polls requested by any of the 12 recognised political parties
7. Counting was conducted by 243 Returning Officers (ROs) in the presence of 243 Counting Observers and 31,768 counting agents appointed by 2,616 candidates.
8. In another major initiative Index Cards** for Bihar elections and bye-elections in 8 ACs, have been made available for the first time within 72 hours of the declaration of the poll results. Before the introduction of ECINET, the publication of Index Cards, used to take several weeks, or even months as the data used to be manually filled by the field officials.
9. Mandatory verification of VVPAT slips was done for 5 randomly selected polling stations per Assembly Constituency (total 1,215 polling stations) and no discrepancy was found with the EVM count anywhere.
10. The Index Card reports contain data across multiple dimensions such as candidates, electors, votes polled, votes counted, party-wise and candidate- wise vote polled etc. These Index card reports can be accessed from both the platforms i.e. ECINet App (About Elections tab  Current Elections  Index Cards) and the ECI website.

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* Data given in Press Note dated 13.11.2025did not include Service Voters & Postal Ballots. All-inclusive final figures are being shared through ECI Index Card.

** The Index Card, is a non-statutory, suo-moto initiative by the Commission to promote accessibility of election-related data. These reports are prepared only for academic and research purposes from the secondary data filled in the Index Cards. The primary data is in the statutory forms maintained by the concerned Returning Officers and the data kept in statutory forms is final.

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