Patna, November 11: Pranav Kumar of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won from the Munger Vidhan Sabha Seat. Kumar has won the seat by defeating RJD candidate Avinash Kumar Vidyarthi of the RJD. The Munger  Assembly constituency falls in the Munger district of Bihar. Voting in the Munger elections was held on October 28 in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The counting of votes as well as the results was announced on November 10. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 1 Dates And Schedule: Voting on October 28, Results to be Declared on November 10.

The Bihar election is believed to be one of the biggest elections amid the coronavirus pandemic. The ECI said that the polling for Bihar assembly elections would be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, followed by counting of votes on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 First Phase Complete Schedule 

Last Date For Filing Nomination  October 8
Scrutiny of Nominations  October 9
Last date for Nomination Withdrawal  October 12
Voting Date  October 28
Result Date  November 10

The main candidates for the Munger Assembly Election 2020 included Avinash Kumar Vidyarthi of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Pranav Kumar of the  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), MD Mokim of Nationalist Congress Party among the other candidates. In the 2015 Bihar elections, Vijay Kumar of the RJD had won from the Munger seat by defeating BJP candidate Pranav Kumar.

Voting for the first phase was held on October 28 covering 71 assembly constituencies of Bihar, 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.

Munger Vidhan Sabha Seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Candidates, MLA, Schedule And Result Date

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
MD MOKIMNCP838
PRANAV KUMAR (Current MLA)BJP75573
AVINASH KUMAR VIDYARTHIRJD74329
MANOJ KUMAR PATELBhartiya Sablog Party610
ROHIT KUMARIND555
SHALINI KUMARIIND4497
JAMUNA LAL SRIVASTAVABhartiya Rashtriya Dal391
ADITYA SINGH MADHUKARIND374
AWADHESH KUMAR YADAVIND285
DEVANAND MANDALSOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)259
MOHMMAD FAISAL AHMADJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)249
SADDAM KHANAam Jan Party (Secular)205
KANCHAN KUMARIIND1358
VIKAS KUMARIND1292
SUBODH VERMARLSPNA

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