The short answer: the votes for the 2025 Bihar Assembly were counted and declared on 14 November 2025, and the night produced three separate Yadav results that people still search for. Tejashwi Prasad Yadav held Raghopur for a third term, this time against the Bharatiya Janata Party's Satish Kumar. Ram Kripal Yadav, a five-time MP who had switched to the BJP in 2014, took Danapur for the ruling alliance. The RJD's Bhojpuri film star Khesari Lal Yadav lost his first contest, at Chapra, by roughly 7,600 votes. At the alliance level the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance took 202 of the 243 seats and the Rashtriya Janata Dal-led Mahagathbandhan held 35, against the 110 it had won in 2020.
This page is the results layer of the Yadav archive. Election figures for a public figure belong on two pages at once: the biography, which carries the life around the result, and a tally page, which lets a reader compare several contests in one view. Each row below links to the profile with the full sourcing, the affidavit figures and the career context. Nothing here restates a biography.
What this page counts as a Yadav result
Three rules, set out because most of the competing pages on this query break all of them.
- We publish counted totals, not projections. Every figure is a result that was declared, not a lead reported during counting. Where a tally comes from a third party's running total, and we have not reconciled it against the Election Commission's own report, the row says so.
- A surname is not a community. "Yadav" is carried by millions of people who were never enumerated in the Yadav/Ahir OBC entry, and several of the politicians on this page have never said which sub-group they belong to. We track candidates the Yadav community's politics is routinely discussed around, and we count them by result, not by identity.
- A result is one constituency. Tejashwi Yadav won Raghopur in a year his alliance took 35 seats of 243 while the National Democratic Alliance took 202. Both facts are true at once, and neither cancels the other.
Bihar 2025: the top line
| Level | 2025 figure | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Seats in the House | 243 | Official, uncontested. |
| National Democratic Alliance | 202 seats | Reported by The Hindu on 15 November 2025. |
| Mahagathbandhan (RJD-led) | 35 seats, against 110 in 2020 | The same report; our Tejashwi Yadav profile carries the 2020 comparison. |
| Rashtriya Janata Dal alone | 25 seats | A maintained constituency-by-constituency winner tally; not reconciled by us against the Commission's report. |
| Chief minister | Nitish Kumar sworn in after the count; Samrat Choudhary took office as Bihar's first BJP chief minister on 15 April 2026 after Nitish Kumar resigned on election to the Rajya Sabha | The Hindu, 15 April 2026. |
| Yadav-named ministers in the new council | Bijendra Prasad Yadav (JD-U, 79) and Vijay Kumar Choudhary (69) sworn in as ministers and reported as likely deputy chief ministers | The Hindu, 15 April 2026. |
The three contests that carry the searches
| Seat | Year | Winner | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raghopur (Bihar) | 2025 | Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, RJD | 1,18,597 | Satish Kumar, BJP | 1,04,065 | 14,532 | Tejashwi Yadav |
| Danapur (Bihar) | 2025 | Ram Kripal Yadav, BJP | 1,19,877 | Rit Lal Roy, RJD | 90,744 | 29,133 | Ram Kripal Yadav |
| Chapra (Bihar) | 2025 | Chhoti Kumari, BJP | 86,845 | Khesari Lal Yadav, RJD | 79,245 | 7,600 | Khesari Lal Yadav |
Raghopur. Tejashwi Yadav first contested a Bihar Assembly seat here in 2015 and has now been returned from the same constituency three times. The two vote totals above agree across two independent tallies, which is why we print them; the subtraction gives 14,532 and one encyclopaedic table prints 14,472 for the same pair of totals. We report the arithmetic and flag the discrepancy in the notes, and we do not quietly pick one of them.
Danapur. Ram Kripal Yadav's 2025 win closed a long circle. He joined the BJP on 12 March 2014, won the Pataliputra Lok Sabha seat in the election that followed by defeating Misa Bharti by 40,322 votes, lost the same seat to her in 2024 by 85,174, and returned to the Bihar Assembly the following year. His profile carries the nine assembly contests, six won and three lost, that the published returns show.
Chapra. The most-searched single contest on this page, because one side of it was a film star. Khesari Lal Yadav, whose ballot name is Shatrughan Yadav, filed his nomination for the RJD on 17 October 2025 and lost the count on 14 November to Chhoti Kumari, a district-panchayat chairperson the BJP picked for the seat. The Hindu reported the margin as 7,600 votes. What the result does and does not prove about entertainment capital converting into votes is argued on his own page.
Tejashwi Yadav's three cycles, in one table
People searching "tejashwi yadav election result" usually want the trajectory, not one seat. Here it is.
| Year | Role | Seat | Result | Party and alliance outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Candidate, first contest | Raghopur | Won | Mahagathbandhan swept the election; at 25 he became the state's youngest Deputy Chief Minister, with charge of public works, forestry and environment. |
| 2020 | Chief ministerial face | Raghopur | Won | RJD returned as single largest party with 75 seats; the alliance took 110 of 243, short of the 122 needed. |
| 2025 | Chief ministerial face again | Raghopur | Won, 1,18,597 votes | RJD fell to 25 seats and the Mahagathbandhan to 35; the NDA took 202. |
Three personal wins against one held seat and two lost alliances is the exact shape of the argument his career now lives inside, and it is why his 2020 affidavit disclosure of 11 pending criminal cases and his 2025 margin get searched in the same week.
Uttar Pradesh: the by-election route
UP's Yadav political record is unusual in one specific way: the family's two most-searched entry points to elected office both arrived through by-elections in seats a relative vacated.
| Year | Seat | Contest | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Kannauj Lok Sabha | By-election caused when Mulayam Singh Yadav chose to keep a state portfolio | Akhilesh Yadav won it at 26, his first electoral contest. |
| 2014 | Mainpuri Lok Sabha | By-election caused when Mulayam Singh Yadav won Azamgarh as well as Mainpuri and kept Azamgarh | Tej Pratap Singh Yadav won at 26; the Indian Express reported the margin at 3.21 lakh votes. |
| 2022 | Azamgarh Lok Sabha | By-election caused when Akhilesh Yadav vacated the seat after winning Karhal | Dinesh Lal Yadav, the Bhojpuri star known as Nirahua, won with 3,12,768 votes, defeating the SP's Dharmendra Yadav. |
| 2024 | Kannauj Lok Sabha | General election, 18th Lok Sabha | Akhilesh Yadav won the seat again. |
| 2024 | Karhal Assembly | By-election polled 20 November 2024 | Tej Pratap Singh Yadav returned to the legislature for the second time. |
The 2019 and 2024 Azamgarh results complete that arc: Akhilesh Yadav polled 6,21,578 votes to Nirahua's 3,61,704 in 2019, a margin of 2,59,874, and in 2024 Dharmendra Yadav won the seat with 5,08,239 votes, a margin of 1,61,035 over Nirahua on 3,47,204.
Other 2025 contests carrying the Yadav surname
A maintained winner tally for the 2025 Bihar Assembly election shows ten returned candidates carrying the surname. We profile three of them above. The table reproduces that tally, constituency by constituency, with the pairings checked by hand against the source's own winner list and its own margin table.
| Seat | Winner | Party | Votes | Runner-up | Votes | Margin | Our status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raghopur | Tejashwi Prasad Yadav | RJD | 1,18,597 | Satish Kumar | BJP | 14,532 | Verified against a second tally. |
| Danapur | Ram Kripal Yadav | BJP | 1,19,877 | Rit Lal Roy | RJD | 29,133 | Verified against a second tally and his own profile. |
| Narpatganj | Devanti Yadav | BJP | 1,20,557 | Manish Yadav | RJD | 25,353 | Third-party tally only, not verified by us. |
| Belhar | Manoj Yadav | JD-U | 1,15,393 | Chanakya Prakash Ranjan | RJD | 37,206 | Third-party tally only, not verified by us. |
| Fatuha | Dr. Ramanand Yadav | RJD | 90,558 | Rupa Kumari | LJP(RV) | 7,992 | Third-party tally only, not verified by us. |
| Ramgarh | Satish Kumar Singh Yadav | BSP | 72,689 | Ashok Kumar Singh | BJP | 30 | Third-party tally only, not verified by us. |
| Supaul | Bijendra Prasad Yadav | JD-U | not carried here | Winner name checked; sworn in as a minister on 15 April 2026, which we did verify. | |||
| Alamnagar | Narendra Narayan Yadav | JD-U | not carried here | Winner name checked, result totals not verified by us. | |||
| Brahampur | Shambhu Nath Yadav | RJD | not carried here | Winner name checked, result totals not verified by us. | |||
| Nirmali | Aniruddha Prasad Yadav | JD-U | not carried here | Winner name checked, result totals not verified by us. |
Two rows in that table are worth a reader's attention even with the caveat attached. Ramgarh was decided by 30 votes: 72,689 for the BSP's Satish Kumar Singh Yadav against 72,659 for the BJP's Ashok Kumar Singh, which on that tally is the narrowest result in the state among the seats we read. And Narpatganj put two Yadavs against each other, Devanti for the BJP on 1,20,557 votes and Manish for the RJD on 95,204, which is the shape of the 2025 election in one line: two Yadavs on the same ballot, and the community's vote decided neither of them.
A third is worth a sentence for the opposite reason. Bijendra Prasad Yadav won Supaul for the JD-U and, five months later, was sworn in as a minister in the first BJP-led government in the state's history, a move from a Yadav name in a constituency to a Yadav name in the council of ministers that the election alone does not explain.
This list is a pointer, not our record. We have not reconciled the six unverified rows against the Election Commission's own statistical report, a candidate named Yadav is not evidence of community, and several of the ten are not figures around which the community's politics is discussed at all. Readers wanting the complete returned-candidate list should read the winner table at the source cited below.
Why the same query comes back every cycle
Election-result searches for Yadav politicians do not behave like news. They spike on counting night, then hold a floor for years, because they are asked by four different people with four different needs: a voter checking whether an incumbent actually won, a journalist or student building a candidacy record, a candidate's own constituency worker comparing margins between cycles, and someone doing a legal or affidavit check who needs the polling date and the returned name. That last group is why the declaration figures sit on the biography pages and not here.
A second pattern is worth naming. The busiest single contest in the set above is a film star's debut, and no assembly stronghold comes near it. Entertainment audiences and political audiences searched the same constituency name on the same night, and Chapra out-searched most seats in the state for a week on the strength of one candidate's filmography.
Checking a result yourself
If you want to verify any figure on this page, in order of authority:
- The Election Commission's statistical reports for the election, which carry every returned candidate's name, their votes and their margin by constituency. The Commission publishes them as PDFs. The site that hosts them changes, so search for the report for the specific election; do not trust a mirror.
- The state's Chief Electoral Officer site, which publishes the party-wise list of winning candidates on result day.
- The candidate's own declaration, filed with the nomination and published by the Commission. It is the source for the asset figures, the education record and the criminal-case list, and it is a declaration, not a finding.
- A maintained aggregator for quick cross-checks of totals, which is what we used for the Raghopur and Danapur figures here alongside a second source.
One traffic note, because it belongs somewhere. A large share of searches reaching this page's neighbourhood asks for university results, admit cards and question papers under the name of a Yadav-named institution. We do not mirror exam outputs: any copy of a marksheet we published would be stale the week it went up, and a wrong grade is not a typo. The institution page for Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg explains what we do carry about it and where the official body publishes its own results.
Sources & verification notes
The 2025 alliance totals, the Chapra result and the April 2026 change of chief minister come from The Hindu's reporting of the count and the swearing-in, checked 2 October 2026. The Raghopur and Danapur vote totals appear identically in a second maintained tally, and the margins printed here are the difference between those two totals; one encyclopaedic table prints 14,472 for Raghopur against the 14,532 its own two figures produce, and we flag it instead of adopting either. That same encyclopaedic article carries conflicting dates for the poll (an infobox and schedule giving April and May 2025 against its own body text, a Commission schedule announcement of 6 October 2025 and reporting of a 14 November 2025 count), so we did not use it for any date. The Hindu's own Chapra report is dated 14 November 2025 while one sentence in it says the result came on Friday, 13 November; the count day we use is 14 November 2025, which matches the Commission's declared schedule and every other source checked. The 2020 comparison, the Pataliputra and Azamgarh margins, the 2022 by-poll figure and the UP by-election record are carried on the individual profiles listed in each row, each verified against its own named sources on the dates printed there. The eight unverified surname winners are labelled as such and are not part of our record.