Patna: An overwhelming 65 per cent of women voters appear to have backed the NDA while 78 per cent of Muslim voters went with the Mahagathbandhan in the Bihar Assembly elections, showed the IANS-Matrize Exit Poll on Tuesday.

The findings of the Exit Poll, with a sample size of 66,087 and a margin of error of plus-minus 3 per cent, suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government’s and Nitish Kumar government’s women-centric welfare schemes have impressed women who backed the ruling alliance wholeheartedly in the current elections.

The Mahagathbandhan, led by the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Congress, managed to secure just 27 per cent of women's votes. Jan Suraaj could garner only 6 per cent of the votes of female electors, said the Exit Poll released after the conclusi

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