Asthawan Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Jitendra Kumar Wins, Elected as MLA

Asthawan Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Nalanda district of Bihar. It falls under the Nalanda Parliamentary constituency of Bihar. The Asthawan constituency has been a JDU seat since 2005. JDU's Jitendra Kumar won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for Asthawan election took place in Phase 2 of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Bihar Polls 2020 were held in three phases. Voting took place on October 28, November 3 and November 7. Bihar Elections 2020 results were declared on November 10 for all three phases. In Phase 2, a total of 94 constituencies, including Asthawan, went to polls on November 3.

In 2015, Jitendra Kumar of the JDU had won the Bihar poll from Asthawan seat, defeating Chhote Lal Yadav of the LJP. The candidates for the 2020 Bihar polls on the Asthawan seat included JDU's four-time MLA Jitendra Kumar, RJD's Anil Kumar and LJP's Ramesh Kumar among others.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 was seen as three-way fight with NDA (BJP+JDU), Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left) and the Chirag Paswan-led LJP in the fray. It is also the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Due to the pandemic, voting timing had been extended by an hour and polling took place from 7 am to 6 pm.

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