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The Election Commission (EC) connected Monday (October 13, 2025) issued a notification for the 2nd signifier of Assembly elections successful Bihar to beryllium held connected November 11, opening the process of filing of nominations.
The past day for filing nominations for Phase II — successful which 122 seats volition spell to polls — is October 20, and October 23 is the past day for withdrawal.
Bihar predetermination updates connected October 13, 2025
Counting of votes for each 243 seats volition beryllium held connected November 14.
The EC said randomisation of physics voting machines (EVM) for the archetypal phase, to beryllium held connected November 6, had been completed.
“District Election Officers of each 18 districts going to elections successful Phase-I person completed the archetypal randomisation of EVM-VVPATs, which person passed the first-level checking connected October 11,” the EC said successful a statement.
The archetypal randomisation was done done the EVM Management System (EMS) by the DEOs successful the beingness of representatives of nationalist and State-recognised governmental parties. After the archetypal randomisation, 54,311 ballot units, 54,311 power units and 58,123 VVPATs were randomly allotted to the 121 constituencies having 45,336 polling stations.
Constituency omniscient lists of randomised EVMs and VVPATs were shared with the representatives of governmental parties astatine their territory headquarters.
These EVMs and VVPATs volition beryllium stored successful Assembly beardown rooms successful the beingness of representatives of governmental parties.
