Gaighat Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Niranjan Roy Wins, Elected as MLA

Gaighat Assembly constituency is one of the constituencies in the 243-seat Bihar Vidhan Sabha. Gaighat, earlier known as Gaighatti, is geographically located in the district of Muzaffarpur. The assembly constituency of Gaighat covers many important regions such as Katra, Sonpur, Dhanaur, Madhepura, and more. RJD's Niranjan Roy won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020.

This time the Bihar State Elections 2020 took place in 3 phases as against 5 phases. The first phase of Bihar Polls 2020 got over on October 28 (for 71 seats), whereas the second phase got over on November 3 (for 94 seats). The last phase of polling in Bihar Assembly Elections was on November 7 (for 78 seats). The EC announced the results of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 10.

This time, Maheshwar Prasad Yadav contested on the ticket of Janata Dal (United). Against him were RJD’s Niranjan Rai and Lok Janshakti Party’s Komal Singh.In the 2015 Assembly Elections, it was Maheshwar Prasad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), who defeated Veena Devi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a victory margin of nearly 4,000 votes. In the 2010 Bihar State Elections, it was Veena Devi of the BJP who had emerged victorious, after defeating RJD’s Maheshwar Prasad Yadav.

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