Nuapada By-Election 2025 Results LIVE Updates: BJP's Jay Dholakia leads as counting of votes underway

Results of the Nuapada By-Election 2025 will be announced today once the counting of votes is completed. Polling was held on November 11 across 358 booths. Around 2.54 lakh voters were eligible to cast their votes, while the turnout reached 83.45 per cent.

The By-Election was conducted following the death of four-time MLA Rajendra Dholakia on September 8. In this By-Election, Rajendra Dholakia’s son Jay Dholakia contested on a BJP ticket, Snehnagini Chhuria represented the BJD, and tribal leader Ghasiram Majhi was the Congress candidate.

The counting of votes will be conducted in 26 rounds across 14 counting tables and one for postal votes.

This page provides LIVE updates on the Nuapada By-Election 2025 results as the latest trends are being updated here.

New Update
Nov 14, 2025 11:15 IST

BJP's lead crosses 30,000 after 9th round of counting of votes

Total Votes:

Jay Dholakia (BJP): 45251

Snehangini Chhuria (BJD): 14784

Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress): 11957

Jay Dholakia leads by 30467 votes.

Nov 14, 2025 11:03 IST

BJP's Jay Dholakia leads by 28888 votes after 8th round of counting of votes

Total Votes:

Jay Dholakia (BJP): 41520

Snehangini Chhuria (BJD): 12632

Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress): 10649

Nov 14, 2025 10:42 IST

BJP leads by over 25,000 votes after 7th round of counting of votes

Total Votes:

Jay Dholakia (BJP): 36088

Snehangini Chhuria (BJD): 10742

Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress): 9474

Jay Dholakia leads by 25346 votes.

Nov 14, 2025 10:30 IST

BJP's lead crosses 20,000 after 6th round of counting of votes

Total Votes:

Jay Dholakia (BJP): 30641

Snehangini Chhuria (BJD): 8646

Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress): 7891

Nov 14, 2025 10:18 IST

BJP cements lead after 5th round of counting of votes

Total Votes: 

Jay Dholakia (BJP): 25195

Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress): 6797

Snehangini Chhuria (BJD): 6538

Nov 14, 2025 10:06 IST

4th round: BJP leads, Congress moves to second spot

Jay Dholakia (BJP) continues to lead while Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress) stood at second spot after 4th round of counting of votes.

Total votes:

Jay Dholakia (BJP): 18903

Ghasi Ram Majhi (Congress): 6088

Snehangini Chhuria (BJD): 5320

 

 

Nov 14, 2025 09:52 IST

JAY DHOLAKIA leads with margin of over 10,000 after 3rd round

JAY DHOLAKIA of BJP was leading with a margin of 10013 votes after the 3rd round of counting of votes.

Total Votes:

JAY DHOLAKIA: 14370.

SNEHANGINI CHHURIA (BJD): 4357.

GHASI RAM MAJHI (Congress): 3530. 

Nov 14, 2025 09:43 IST

BJP maintains lead in second round, leads by 7413 votes

BJP's Jay Dholakia maintained his lead in the second round also and was leading by 7413 votes

Total Votes:

JAY DHOLAKIA (BJP): 10436.

SNEHANGINI CHHURIA (BJD): 3023.

GHASI RAM MAJHI (Congress): 2234.

 

Nov 14, 2025 09:28 IST

BJP's Jay Dholakia leads

BJP candidate Jay Dholakia was leading with a total of 4904 votes after the conclusion of the first round of counting.

BJD's Snehangini Chhuria stood second with 1357 votes, while Congress candidate Ghasi Ram Majhi was in third spot with 1308 votes.

Nov 14, 2025 08:07 IST

Counting of postal ballots begins

The counting of postal ballots began at 8 AM. The counting of votes registered in the EVMs is scheduled to start at 8.30 AM.