Kalyanpur Vidhan Sabha seat is in the Samastipur district of Bihar. The Kalyanpur Assembly constituency falls under the Purvi Champaran Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been a BJP seat since 2015. However, RJD's Manoj Kumar Yadav won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Kalyanpur election took place in the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 7. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 took place in three phases. Voting for the three phases took place on October 28, November 3 and November 7. Bihar election results 2020 were declared on November 10. In Phase 3, voting took place on 78 seats, including Kalyanpur, on November 7.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Sachindra Prasad Singh of the BJP had won the Kalyanpur seat, defeating Razia Khatoon of the JDU.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 is the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The state was said to be witnessing a three-way fight with Nitish Kumar being the CM face of the NDA (BJP+JDU), Tejashwi Yadav being the CM face of the Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left) and Chirag Paswan being the CM face of LJP.

2020 kalyanpur Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Manoj Kumar Yadav (Current MLA)RJD72819
MAHESHWAR HAZARI (Current MLA)JD(U)72279
Sachindra Prasad SinghBJP71626
Mohammad BadiuzzamanBSP6367
RANJEET KUMAR RAMCommunist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)62028
Muneshwar TiwariIND524
Satyam YadavJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)478
UMESH DASRashtriya Jan Vikas Party4329
Subodh Kumar ThakurBhartiya Vikash Dal United430
SANJAY DASYuva Krantikari Party3875
AnamikaAam Janmat Party,3723
SHATRUDHAN PASWANSHS3303
SHIV NATH SHARANIND2734
PRAMILA DEVIBhartiya Sablog Party2019
Mala ThakurJanta Dal Rashtravadi2006
MANTESH KUMARJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)1961
Rituraj PandeyIND1797
MAMTA KUMARIBSP1625
Rajesh Kumar SinghIND1623
A MONA PRASAD SUNDESHWAR RAMLJPNA

2015 kalyanpur Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Sachindra Prasad Singh (Current MLA)BJP50060
Razia KhatoonJD(U)38572

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