The BJP emerged victorious on 89 of the 101 seats it contested to become the single largest party in Bihar's 243-member Assembly. The party's strike rate in the Bihar Assembly election was an impressive 88%. It faltered on a dozen seats. In four of these 12 seats, the margin of defeat for the BJP was less than a thousand votes. Ten seats had a margin of less than 10,000 votes. Despite a wave, who are the dozen who didn't manage to cross the finish line, and by what distance did they fall short?

Three of the most nail-biting contests saw the BJP lose by just 30 votes in Ramgarh to the BSP, 178 votes in Dhaka to the RJD, and 221 votes in Seemanchal's Forbesganj to the Congress.

Of these 12 BJP losses, four came from Seemanchal, translating to gains for the Congress and the AIMIM in t

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