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Bihar’s trust vote for NDA
Hindustan Times Jammu
|November 15, 2025
Voters endorse Nitish Kumar, backed by the BJP. Grand Alliance, Lalu dynasty face political oblivion
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When an alliance’s two main constituents have a strike rate in excess of 80%, and it manages to get almost half of all votes polled (a vote share of 46.6%, 8.7percentage points higher than the opposing grouping’s), you get a result like the Bihar one, where the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won (or was leading in, at 9:30 pm) 202 seats in the 243-member assembly.
Such was the scale of victory — no grouping or party has ever won 46.6% of the popular vote in the state before — that the NDA kept building on its lead as counting continued through the day, eventually crossing the 200-seat mark.
Such landslide wins — and Bihar is definitely one — are the result of the winning side picking an issue that resonates with the electorate, or simply doing something for it (such as a Big Bang populist scheme), or the losing side imploding, or both.
Bihar 2025 isa case of the third.
This story is from the November 15, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Jammu.
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