India, Nov. 17 -- As the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) secured an overwhelming victory over the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) in the Bihar assembly elections, these pages have analysed the victory in detail. There is, however, another important question worth asking. How did the candidates of different social groups perform in these Bihar elections?

Was their performance driven by just social identity or also the political alliance they contested from? Are these patterns confined to broad social groups or do they vary at the sub-caste or jati level too? This story will answer these questions on the basis of the candidate database of the two major alliances in Bihar prepared by the first author of this story.

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