NDA TURNED RALLIES INTO VOTES, WHILE MGB FALTERED

Combined strike rate of Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Nitish Kumar averaged well above 80%, while top MGB campaigners delivered a 15% strike rate.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

The Bihar Assembly Election 2025 has delivered one of the starkest contrasts in campaign effectiveness in recent Indian electoral history, with the NDAs top leadership converting rallies into sweeping victories while the Mahagathbandhan’s star campaigners struggled to translate their extensive outreach into seats.

‘The numbers tell a story of clinical execution on one side and a catastrophic collapse on the other.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign proved to be the most decisive force for the alliance, with the NDA securing 97 of the 122 seats covered by his 16 rallies, delivering a striking 80 percent success rate.

Modi campaigned across 16 districts including Purnia, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Begusarai, West Champaran and Sitamarhi, and the alliance bagged 44 new seats compared to 2020 while retaining 49 and losing only seven.

District-wise performance showed near-total sweeps in several regions, with the NDA winning all seats in Bhojpur, Bhagalpur and Sitamarhi, while Muzaffarpur delivered a 90 percent strike rate. West Champaran registered 88 percent, Katihar 85 percent and Nawada 80 percent.

Even in politically complex districts like Patna, the alliance secured 11 of 14 seats. In 2020, Modi had addressed 12 rallies covering 110 seats and delivered 67 victories with a 61 percent strike rate, making the leap to 80 percent one of the strongest rally-to-seat conversion ratios ever recorded by the NDA in Bihar.