Patna Sahib Election Result 2025: Can BJP’s Ratnesh Kushwaha carry forward 7-time MLA Nand Kishore Yadav’s legacy

Patna Sahib constituency will witness new faces in the 2025 assembly elections in Bihar. Patna Sahib seat was established after the 2008 delimitation exercise. Before that it was known as Patna East Assembly constituency.

Bihar Assembly Speaker and BJP leader Nand Kishore Yadav is a seven-time MLA from this region. First, Nand Kishore Yadav won from Patna East in 1995. Since then, he has maintained his stronghold on this seat by winning consecutive elections.

However, the BJP refused to give ticket to the senior leader and has fielded lawyer Ratnesh Kushwaha in his place in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections. Kushwaha was earlier in the news when he fought a case in the Patna High Court against the Bihar Congress over an AI-generated video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s late mother Hiraben Modi.

He is among the 10 candidates who are contesting from Patna Sahib seat in the 2025 assembly elections in Bihar. His main rivals are Congress’s Shashant Shekhar and Prashant Kishor-led Jan Suraj Party’s Vineeta Mishra.

Shekhar has done civil engineering from IIT Delhi and is a management graduate from IIM Kolkata. He joined Congress in 2022.

Patna Sahib Assembly Election 2025 Candidates

last election results

During the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, Nand Kishore Yadav of BJP defeated Praveen Singh of Congress by over 18,000 votes. Yadav got 97,692 votes or 51.91% vote share. Meanwhile, Singh could secure only 79,392 votes (42.19%).

Earlier in the 2015 elections, Nand Kishore Yadav had got 88,108 votes (46.89% vote share). At that time he had defeated Santosh Mehta of RJD, who had got 85,316 votes (45.4%).

Overall, Patna Sahib has 3,88,369 registered voters, including 2,02,170 males, 1,86,175 and 24 of the third gender.

voting program

Voting date: 6 November (Phase 1).

Result Date: 14 November 2025.