Jhanjharpur Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: BJP's Nitish Mishra Wins, Elected as MLA

Patna, November 14: Nitish Mishra of the BJP has won from the Jhanjharpur Vidhan Sabha Seat after defeating CPI candidate Ram Narayan Yadav. The constituency is situated in the Madhubani district of Bihar. The current MLA of the Jhanjharpur constituency is Gulab Yadav, who belongs to RJD. The voting in the Jhanjharpur 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 is one of the biggest elections globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Second Phase Complete Schedule

The main candidates for the Jhanjharpur Assembly Election 2020 included BJP candidate Nitish Mishra, Ram Narayan Yadav of Communist Party of India (CPI) among other candidates. In the last elections in Bihar held in 2015, Gulab Yadav of RJD had won from the Jhanjharpur seat by defeating BJP candidate Nitish Mishra.

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.

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