Muzaffarpur Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Congress's Bijendra Chaudhary Wins, Elected as MLA

Muzaffarpur Vidhan Sabha seat is in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. The Assembly constituency falls under the Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been a BJP seat since 2010. However, Congress's Bijendra Chaudhary won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Muzaffarpur 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 Muzaffarpur, on November 7.

In 2015 Bihar elections, Suresh Kumar Sharma of the BJP had won from the Muzaffarpur seat, defeating Bijendra Chaudhary of the JDU. The candidates for Bihar Election 2020 on the Muzaffarpur seat included BJP's sitting MLA Suresh Kumar Sharma, Bijendra Chaudhary of the Congress and Vibhuti Priyam of the NCP among others.

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.

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