For BJP, is the poll drubbing as bad as it appears? | HT Explains

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From being the single largest party with 32 seats in last year's assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fared exceptionally poorly this year with just three seats. But is its defeat as bad as it appears? Election data shows, at 32.2 per cent the party has been able to more or less retain its total vote share from last election. Much of Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) gains this election are from sections of voters that voted neither for the BJP nor the AAP last election. So how will the election debacle impact the BJP?