Belhar Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JD(U)'s Manoj Yadav Wins, Elected as MLA

Patna, November 10: Manoj Yadav of JD(U) has won from the Belhar Vidhan Sabha Seat. The Belhar Assembly constituency falls in the Banka district of Bihar. The voting in the Belhar elections was held on October 28 in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The counting of votes and announcement of results was held on November 10. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 1 Dates And Schedule: Voting on October 28, Results to be Declared on November 10.

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Bihar election is believed to be one of the biggest elections. While announcing the poll schedule for the 243-member Bihar assembly, the ECI said that the polling for Bihar assembly elections would be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, followed by counting of votes on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 First Phase Complete Schedule 

The main candidates for the Belhar Assembly Election 2020 included Ramdeo Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Kumari Archana of the Lok Jan Shakti Party, Brahmadev Ray of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) among others. In the 2015 Bihar elections, Giridhari Yadav of the JD (U) had won the polls by defeating BJP candidate Manoj Yadav.

The voting for the first phase was held on October 28 which will cover 71 assembly constituencies, while the second-phase voting on November 3 covered 94 seats. The third phase of voting on November 7 covered 78 assembly seats. In Bihar, the ruling NDA will face a challenge from the RJD-Congress alliance (JDU+BJP) and the Mahagathbandhan.

While most are looking at it as a two-way fight between the NDA (JDU+BJP) and the Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left), the LJP this time has decided to go alone with party President Chirag Paswan taking charge of the all the affairs in the party.

In the outgoing Bihar assembly, the RJD has 80 members while the JD (U) has 69. The BJP has 54 seats, Congress has 25, while the remaining seats in the 243-member assembly are held by other parties. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 are the first major polls amid COVID-19 pandemic.

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