Keoti

Overview & 2025 Context

Keoti, Legislative Assembly number 86 in Darbhanga district, produced a comfortable but contested win in the 2025 Bihar polls. Murari Mohan Jha of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 89,123 votes (46.28%), defeating Faraz Fatmi (RJD), who polled 81,818 (42.48%). The victory margin was 7,305 votes. Of 298,961 electors, 192,624 votes were polled and turnout stood at 64.43%.

The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election was a bipolar contest between the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan. Campaign discourse centred on unemployment, youth out-migration, welfare delivery, women’s schemes, caste arithmetic, and competing claims on jobs versus market-led growth, as reported across major coverage of the polls. In this Assembly Constituency, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Murari Mohan Jha (BJP, 89,123 / 46.28%); Faraz Fatmi (RJD, 81,818 / 42.48%); Mohammad Anisur Rahman (AIMIM, 7,474 / 3.88%); Biltu Sahni (Jan Suraaj, 4,816 / 2.5%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Murari Mohan Jha and Faraz Fatmi is the binding fact for seat 86, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 7,305 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Darbhanga is a major Mithila urban–rural hub of north Bihar, combining a historic city core with surrounding agrarian blocks and strong educational–administrative presence. Administratively, Keoti is Assembly Constituency number 86 under Darbhanga (headquarters: Darbhanga). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Keoti sits inside that Darbhanga administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2020: Murari Mohan Jha (BJP) by 5,126 votes; 2015: Faraz Fatmi (RJD) by 7,830 votes; 2010: ASHOK KUMAR YADAV (BJP) by 29 votes; 2005: ASHOK KU. YADAV (BJP) by 4,767 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Murari Mohan Jha (BJP) in Legislative Assembly seat number 86 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 298,961. Votes polled: 192,624. Turnout: 64.43%. Winner Murari Mohan Jha (BJP): 89,123 (46.28%); runner-up Faraz Fatmi (RJD): 81,818 (42.48%); margin: 7,305 — a comfortable but contested win relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Women slightly outnumbered men among recorded voters: male 90,654 (47.22%), female 101,320 (52.78%).

Turnout 64.43% with 192,624 votes from 298,961 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Darbhanga.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included jobs and migration, welfare and women-centric schemes, caste coalitions, governance/law-and-order messaging, and local delivery of roads, flood control and farm support. In Darbhanga, voters also weighed urban services, jobs for youth, rural floodplain farming. a comfortable but contested win for Murari Mohan Jha (BJP) against Faraz Fatmi (RJD) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 86.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Keoti is narrower: Murari Mohan Jha (BJP) outpolled Faraz Fatmi (RJD) by 7,305 votes under 64.43% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 86.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Keoti. Murari Mohan Jha (BJP) converted 89,123 votes; Faraz Fatmi (RJD) had 81,818. Turnout 64.43% and margin 7,305 in seat 86 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2025 table: electors 298,961, votes polled 192,624, and the head-to-head between Murari Mohan Jha and Faraz Fatmi. District cues in Darbhanga still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.