Patna, November 15: Swarna Singh of the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) has won from the Gaura Bauram Vidhan Sabha Seat or Gora Bauram Vidhan Sabha Seat this year. Singh has won the seat by defeating RJD candidate Afzal Ali Khan. The constituency is situated in the Darbhanga district of Bihar. The current MLA of the Gora Bauram constituency is Madan Sahni, who belongs to JD(U). The voting in the Gaura Bauram constituency was held in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes was held on November 10. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 2 Dates And Schedule: Voting on November 3, Results on November 10.

The Bihar assembly elections was held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, followed by counting of votes on November 10. The Bihar election was one of the biggest elections globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Second Phase Complete Schedule

Last Date For Filing Nomination October 16
Scrutiny of Nominations October 17
Last date for Nomination Withdrawal October 19
Voting Date November 3
Result Date November 10

The main candidates for the Gaura Bauram Assembly Election 2020 included Afzal Ali Khan of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Tamanna Khan of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Ramesh Kumar Pandit of Janata Dal (Secular) among other candidates. In the last elections in Bihar held in 2015, Madan Sahni of the JD(U) had won from the Gaura Bauram seat by defeating LJP candidate Vinod Sahni.

The voting for the first phase was held on October 28 which covered 71 assembly constituencies, 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 faced a challenge from the RJD-Congress alliance (JDU+BJP) and the Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left).

In the outgoing 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.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
KUNDAN PRASAD SHAHAam Janmat Party,748
KAMLESH RAYThe Plurals Party635
SHUBH KANT SADARashtriya Jan Kalyan Party Secular627
SATYA NARAYAN PASWANMazdoor Ekta Party623
VISHWAMBHAR YADAVJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)597
SWARNA SINGH (Current MLA)Vikassheel Insaan Party59538
DR IZHAR AHMADIND5485
RAHUL KUMAR JHAIND527
AFZAL ALI KHANRJD52258
KHAWAJA MOHAMMAD FAKHRUDDINBhartiya Rashtriya Dal449
SHYAM SADAIND445
BAIJU SAHUWazib Adhikar Party415
GAURAV KUMAR SINGHIND378
RAMESH KUMAR PANDITJanata Dal (Secular)354
RANJIT SAHNIBahujan Mukti Party353
RAJNI MAHATOIND3407
RANDHEER KUMARIND279
SANJAY KUMAR YADAVIND257
MD ISARAFILIND1944
SAROJ KUMAR CHAUDHARYMithilanchal Mukti Morcha1685
CHANDAN KUMAR MISHRAIND1209
AJAY YADAVIND1175
TAMANNA KHANNCP1019

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