The ruling NDA’s landslide win in the Bihar Assembly elections includes those seats which the Tejashwi Yadav-led RJD had won comfortably last time.

In 2020, of its 75 seats, the RJD won 45 with at least 40% of the vote share, and 47 with a margin of at least 10,000 votes. It recontested 73 of these 75 seats this time, and is set to lose 55 of them, with more than 25 wrested by the JD(U).

The RJD’s losses include 31 seats where it had won by a margin of at least 10,000 votes in 2020, and 4 where its vote share was greater than 50%. It lost 24 seats despite getting more than 40% of the vote share, and 15 despite recording an increase in its vote share from 2020.

As many as 29 sitting RJD MLAs lost.

In 8 seats, the RJD’s vote share dropped by at least 10 percentage points from 2020. The h

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