Patepur (SC) Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: BJP's Lakhendra Kumar Raushan Wins, Elected as MLA

Patepur Vidhan Sabha seat is in the Vaishali district of Bihar. The Patepur Assembly constituency falls under the Ujiarpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It had been an RJD seat since 2015. But BJP's Lakhendra Kumar Raushan won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Patepur 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 Patepur, on November 7.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Prema Chaudhary of the RJD won the Patepur seat, defeating Mahendra Baitha of the BJP. The candidates for Bihar Election 2020 on the Patepur seat included Lakhendra Kumar Raushan of the BJP, Shiv Chandra Ram of the RJD and Shashi Kumar 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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