Patna, October 18: Polling in the Gurua Vidha Sabha constituency will be held in the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections 2020. The Gurua assembly seat will witness an electoral fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). According to the Election Commission's schedule for the Bihar assembly elections, the Gurua assembly seat will go to polls on October 28. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD, Congress, Left Declare Candidates on 243 Seats; Check Full List of Names Here.

The Gurua seat is currently held by BJP MLA Rajiv Nandan who has been renominated by the party. Nandan will face a challenge from RJD candidate Vinay Kumar. A total of 23 candidates are in the fray. As per the schedule announced by the Election Commission, the last date of filing nomination papers for seats going to polls in the first phase was October 8. Nominations were scrutinised on October 9. The last date for withdrawal was October 12. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Dates And Schedule: Voting in 3 Phases on October 28, November 3 and 7, Poll Results on Nov 10.

Nandan will also recieved support from the Janata Dal (United) and two other regional parties. Similarly, RJD's Vinay Kumar has the backing of the Congress and Left parties. According to the IANS-C Voter opinion poll, the JDU-BJP alliance is likely to get 151 seats in the 243-member Bihar assembly, the Mahagathbandhan or RJD-Congress-Left combine is likely to get 74 seats while others may win 18 seats.

The elections for 243 assembly seats in Bihar will be held in three phases - for 71 seats on October 28, for 94 seats on November 3, and remaining 78 on November 7. The results will be announced on November 10.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Raja Ram AzadBhartiya Lok Nayak Party991
Mithilesh Kumar SharmaAIFB873
Ranjan Kumar BarnwalIND802
Sudhir Kumar VermaJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)7444
Vinay Kumar (Current MLA)RJD70761
Krishan Deo SinghIND685
Rajiv NandanBJP64162
Bhim PrasadRashtrawadi Janlok Party (Satya)628
Dinanath PrasadAam Janta Party Rashtriya614
Arvind KumarPeoples Party of India (Democratic)492
Brajesh PandeyRashtra Sewa Dal401
Vinod PaswanIND399
Ashok Kumar SinghBhartiya Lok Chetna Party333
Yugesh PaswanRashtriya Samaj Paksha2336
Arvind Kumar SrivastwaIND1905
Ramashray RavidasAkhil Hind Forward Bloc (Krantikari)1795
Binay KumarIND1666
Dilip Kumar SinghIND1536
Raghvendra Narayan YadavBSP15235
Ramadhar SinghNCP1438
Md. AzajBahujan Lok Dal1306
Ajay KumarPragatisheel Magahi Samaj1101
Uday Kumar VermaIND1057

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