Harlakhi Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JD(U)'s Sudhanshu Shekhar Wins, Elected as MLA

Patna, November 15: Sudhanshu Shekhar of the JD(U) has won the Harlakhi Vidhan Sabha Seat after defeating CPI candidate Ram Naresh Pandey. The Harlakhi constituency is situated in the Madhubani district of Bihar. The voting in this constituency was held on November 7 in the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The current MLA of the Harlakhi constituency is Basant Kumar, who belongs to the RLSP. The counting of votes was held on November 10 and the results were declared on the same day. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 3 Dates And Schedule: Voting on November 7, Results on November 10.

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

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Third Phase Complete Schedule

The main candidates for Harlakhi Assembly Election 2020 included Ram Naresh Pandey of the Communist Party of India, Sanjive Kamat of Bhartiya Lokmat Rashtrwadi Party among other candidates. In the 2015 Bihar elections, RLSP candidate Basant Kumar had won from the Harlakhi Vidhan Sabha seat after defeating Congress candidate Mohammad Shabbir.

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. 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).

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