Mahua Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Mukesh Kumar Raushan Wins, Elected as MLA

Mahua Vidhan Sabha seat is in the Vaishali district of Bihar. The Mahua Assembly constituency falls under the Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been an RJD stronghold since 2000. RJD's Mukesh Kumar Raushan won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Mahua 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 Mahua, on November 7.

Mahua was the seat of former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's son Tej Pratap Yadav, who had won in the 2015 Bihar elections, defeating Ravindra Ray of the HAM. The candidates for Bihar Election 2020 on the Muzaffarpur seat included RJD's Mukesh Kumar Roushan, Ashma Parveen of the JDU and Ravindra Kumar of the RLSP among others.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 was 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. The NDA won with 125 seats.

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