India, March 28 -- That the Aam Admi Party's (AAP) electoral success before 2025 was always disproportionately larger than its ideological core was a fact well established by election statistics. AAP's assembly election vote share was always significantly larger than its performance in national elections, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) being the primary beneficiary at the AAP's cost in the latter. The 2025 assembly election results saw an end to this split ticket voting pattern in favour of the AAP and led to a comprehensive BJP victory. What exactly led to this result? HT's analysis of electoral data - where we classified constituencies by class - shows that AAP mostly lost its support among the not-so-poor voters. Was this all th...