Throughout the five phases of polling in Bihar, two questions were repeatedly raised. First, does the consistently higher turnout than in 2010 mean an advantage for either side and if so which one? Second, whom does the higher turnout among women than men help? An analysis of the results suggests the answer to the first question is not clear, but the higher female turnout seems to have worked for JD(U) in particular.We looked at the 20 constituencies where the gap between female and male turnout was highest and the 20 in which the reverse was true. In the 20 seats with female turnouts higher than those of men by 17 percentage points or more, the JD(U) won 11 or more than half, compared to its overall share of under 30% of the 243 seats. In these 11 seats, it chalked up margins of between 14,000 and 54,000.The next biggest share was of the RJD, which won four of the 20 seats with margings ranging between 800odd and nearly 38,000. The Congress picked up another two, one by about 14,000 votes and the other by close to 52,000 votes. In all, therefore, the Mahagathbandhan won the overwhelming majority of these seats and by comfortable margins.In contrast, the BJP won just two seats, both by between 4,000 and 5,000 votes, while its ally the RLSP got one by under 4,000 votes.Thus, the NDA won three of the 20 seats, a much lower share than its nearly onefourth share in all 243 seats.At the other end of the gender skew, in the 20 seats where male turnout was higher by 2.5 percentage points or more than the fe male turnout, the BJP won eight seats, as did the RJD The Congress won two of these constituencies and the JD(U) also won only two. Thus, the JD(U)'s share of the constituencies with the turnout most skewed in favour of women was 55% while its share of those where it was most skewed against women was a mere 10%. This suggests that it had the support of female voters, though the data can not confirm this.We also looked at the constituencies where the turnout had increased most sharply since 2010 and the ones in which it had actually declined from five years ago. In this case, the picture is rather more mixed. Among the top 10 constituencies in terms of the increase in turnout, the first nine were all won by the Mahagathbandhan and the tenth by the BJP . However, over the next 10, three were won by the BJP and one by Jiten Ram Manjhi, which means the NDA had a share of about a quarter of the top 20, in line with its overall share of seats.In the 18 constituencies where the turnout had actually dropped, once again the Mahagathabndhan won the overwhelming bulk, 15 to be precise, with the BJP winning two and the CPI(ML) one. It appears therefore that the change in turnout did not have much of a significance in terms of who won or lost and was merely in line with the trend in most states of late.