NEW DELHI: The Muzaffarpur Meeting constituency, positioned in north Bihar’s political heartland, has remained a key contest floor between the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) and the Congressreflecting the broader political currents shaping the state. A basic seat, Muzaffarpur has been a stage for a number of the most carefully fought electoral battles in recent times, with each events alternating victories. Within the 2020 Meeting elections, Congress candidate Bijendra Chaudhary Defeated BJP’s Suresh Kumar Sharma by a slender margin of 6,326 votes, securing 81,871 votes to Sharma’s 75,545. The constituency had 3,22,538 registered voters and recorded 1,70,011 legitimate votes. The victory marked a turnaround from 2015, when Sharma had retained the seat for the BJP with a margin of 29,739 votes, polling 95,594 votes towards JD(U)’s Bijendra Chaudhary, who managed 65,855.
| Candidates | Social gathering | Votes polled | Voting share |
| Bijendra Chaudhary | RJD | ||
| Ranjan Kumar | BJP | ||
| Dr AK Das | Jan Suraaj | ||
| Margin of distinction |
Earlier, in 2010, Suresh Kumar Sharma had secured a landslide for the BJP, defeating LJP’s Mohammad Jamal by 46,439 votes. He polled 72,301 votes, whereas Jamal obtained 25,862 out of 1,21,797 legitimate votes. The alternating outcomes between Sharma and Chaudhary underscore Muzaffarpur’s shifting political panorama, formed by each native dynamics and evolving alliance equations in north Bihar. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections additional highlighted the BJP’s power within the area. Raj Bhushan Choudhary of the BJP gained the Muzaffarpur parliamentary seat by a commanding margin of two,34,927 votes, defeating Congress candidate Ajay Nishad. Voter participation throughout Bihar has reached historic ranges within the 2025 elections, with an total turnout of 66.91 % recorded for each phases mixed. Male turnout stood at 62.8 %, whereas feminine turnout was considerably increased at 71.6 %. As counting day approaches, all eyes are on Muzaffarpur, the place the BJP and Congress proceed to vie for dominance in one in all Bihar’s most politically aggressive constituencies.