After 16 hours of vote counting, the NDA seems poised for a clear majority with a tally of 124 seats. The Mahagathbandhan, on the other hand, is expected to win 111 seats.

PM Modi also thanked the women voters of Bihar by tweeting, "By voting in record numbers, the daughters and sisters of Bihar have shown how huge their contribution to an 'aatmanirbhar' Bihar is."

Union Home Minister has declared the NDA's victory in Bihar.

Putting out a series of tweets, he said, "The people of Bihar have once again rejected the politics of empty promises, caste and appeasement. This is the victory of the hopes and aspirations of every Bihari...the victory of the double engine govt of PM Modi and Nitish Kumar. Congratulations to the workers of the BJP."

As of 9 pm, data from Election Commission website says,

MARGIN OF VOTES IN TRENDS

2 Seats with margin less than 200

6 Seats with margin less than 500

6 Seats with margin less than 1000

13 Seats with margin less than 2000

19 Seats with margin less than 3000

37 Seats with margin less than 5000

As of 08.10 pm, the NDA has a lead on 123 seats while the Mahagathbandhan has a lead on 113.

122 seats are required to win the mandate in the Bihar assembly elections.

Results declared for 52 of the total 243 seats

BJP: 16
RJD: 16
JDU: 7
CPI (ML)L: 3
Congress: 3
Vikassheel Insaan Party: 2
AIMIM: 1
CPI: 1
CPI(M): 1
HAM: 1
Independent: 1

NDA
BJP : Vote Share ( 19.36 % )
JD(U) : Vote Share ( 15.15 % )
VIP : Vote Share ( 1.74 % )
HAM(S): Vote Share ( 0.88 % )

MAHAGATHBANDHAN
RJD : Vote Share ( 23.43 % )
INC : Vote Share ( 9.21 % )
CPI(ML)(L) : Vote Share ( 3.17 % )
CPI(M) : Vote Share ( 0.56 % )
CPI : Vote Share ( 0.71 % )

OTHERS
LJP : Vote Share ( 5.64 % )
AIMIM : Vote Share ( 1.24 % )
BSP: Vote Share ( 1.63 % )

Results declared for 31 of the total 243 seats

BJP: 10
RJD: 8
JDU: 6
Congress: 2
Vikassheel Insaan Party: 2
AIMIM: 1
CPI: 1
CPI(M): 1

Chandrika Rai, the father-in-law of RJD's Tej Pratap Yadav and JDU candidate from Parsa loses to RJD's Chhote Lal Ray.

Election Commission declares results for 22 out of 243 seats -

BJP: 6
RJD: 6
JDU: 4
Congress: 2
VIP: 2
AIMIM: 1
CPI(M): 1

Election Commission declares results for 16 out of the total 243 seats-
BJP wins 6
RJD wins 3
JD(U) & Vikassheel Insaan Party 2 each

Congress, CPI(M) & AIMIM 1 each

The poll body once again said that the counting of votes will go on till late night.

As Bihar election trends continue to evolve, the RJD has overtaken the BJP as the single-largest party. The RJD is currently leading on 71 seats while the BJP is leading on 68 seats.

The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Awadhesh Singh has won over the RJD's Deo Kumar Chaurasia with a margin of 2,990 votes.

5 pm trends from the Election Commission show the BJP emerging as the single-largest party in the Bihar elections.

The BJP is currently leading on 73 seats and has already won 2 seats.

A close second is the Rashtriya Janata Dal with leads on 69 seats and wins on 2 seats.

The Congress has won the Aurangabad seat, as per the Election Commission.

Congress leader Anand Shankar Singh has beaten BJP's Ramadhir Singh by 2,243 votes.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal is still confident that the Mahagathbandhan will form the government in Bihar as a large portion of vote counting is left. "We are in touch with candidates and workers from all areas. News from all districts is in our favor. The counting will go on till late at night. A Mahagathbandhan government is guaranteed. Bihar has chosen change. We request all candidates and counting agents to remain in the counting hall till all votes are counted," the party tweeted.

Chandra Bhushan, Election Commission Dy, has said that the Bihar Election Result 2020 is expected to be out only by late-night, "Earlier, the counting of the votes used to take place in 38 locations. Now, due to the coronavirus pandemic guidelines, it is taking place at 55 locations. This time, it will take 35 rounds per assembly constituency to get the Bihar election results."

JDU state president Vashishtha Narayan Singh is confident that NDA will again form a government under CM Nitish Kumar as trends show the alliance marching ahead of the RJD-led Grand Alliance.

Election Commission says 21.4 % counting has been done so far after 5 hours of vote-counting. Total votes cast this election season in Bihar was at 4 crores and out of that 87,88,780 votes have been counted so far.

According to the Election Commission, total 80 lakh votes have been counted so far and BJP has won 15,89,000 votes so far while JDU has secured 12,56,000 votes, Congress has won 7,29,000 votes, RJD has won 18,28,000. Chirag Paswan’s LJP has secured 4,92,000 votes. EC has also said so far, 1,44,000 votes have gone to NOTA.

Election Commission sources say 16% votes have been counted so far till 12:00 noon. An average of 6 rounds of counting have been completed till now and NDA has gained a lead over the Mahagathbandhan after the first rounds of counting in Bihar assembly election results.

RJD candidate Surendra Yadav is leading in the Belaganj assembly seat in Gaya by 307 votes. BJP candidate Hari Manjhi is leading in the Bodh Gaya assembly seat in Gaya by 1,679 votes. RJD candidate Uday Narayan Choudhary is leading in the Imamganj assembly seat in Gaya by 2,007 votes. RJD candidate Samata Devi is leading in the Barachatti assembly seat in Gaya by 80 votes.