Patna: The Bihar Assembly elections 2025 have marked many firsts — first, the state clocked record polling of 67.13 per cent, the highest since Independence and second, it didn’t see repolling in any of the 243 constituencies.

The high-pitched electoral battle in the Hindi heartland hogged the headlines for the right reasons as this election saw clean and violence-free electoral discourse and also the polling process, unlike previous years when both canvassing and polling used to be marred by a spate of violence, murders, booth capturing and bogus voting incidents.

A recap of Bihar’s electoral dynamics over the years gives an insight into how the democratic exercise was held to ransom by political goons, election after election, preventing the electorate from exercising their franchise

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