Morwa Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Ranvijay Sahu Wins, Elected as MLA

Morwa Vidhan Sabha seat is located in the Samastipur district of Bihar. The Morwa Assembly constituency falls under the Ujiarpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been a JDU stronghold. But RJD's Ranvijay Sahu won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Morwa 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 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 Morwa, on November 7.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Vidya Sagar Singh Nishad of the JDU had won the Morwa seat, defeating Suresh Ray of the BJP. The candidates for 2020 Bihar Election on the Morwa seat included JDU's sitting MLA Vidya Sagar Singh Nishad, Abhay Kumar Singh of the LJP and Ranvijay Sahu of the RJD among others.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 is the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The state was said to have witnessed 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.

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