Pirpainti Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. The Pipainti constituency, reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates, falls under the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha seat. The seat was dominated by the RJD. However, BJP's Lalan Kumar won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for Pirpainti election took place in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. Bihar election results were declared on November 10.

Voting for the Bihar Vidhan Sabha polls 2020 took place in three phases on October 28, November 3 and 7. The counting of votes for all phases took place on November 10. A total of 94 constituencies, including Pipainti, went to polls in the second phase on November 3.

Ram Vilash Paswan of the RJD had won the 2015 Bihar polls on the Pirpainti constituency, defeating Lalan Kumar of the BJP. The candidates on the Pirpainti seat for 2020 Bihar polls included RJD's sitting MLA Paswan, Lalan Kumar of the BJP and Bishnudev Kumar Paswan of the NCP among others.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 were the first major polls in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. It is because of the pandemic that the polls had been brought down to three phases while voting timing was increased by an hour. The JDU-BJP combine won the election with 125 seats.

2020 pirpainti Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
ANIL DASNational Tiger Party991
LALAN KUMAR (Current MLA)BJP96229
SUDHIR PASWANBhartiya Party (Loktantrik)896
Upendra PaswanPrabal Bharat Party882
SUDHIR KUMARRashtriya Jan Jan Party876
DILIP KUMARThe Plurals Party724
RAM VILASH PASWANRJD69210
SHANKAR RAVIDASIND564
PANKAJ PASWANIND563
RAJESH PASWANBhartiya Sablog Party497
RAVINDRA KUMAR DASJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)450
AWADH KISHOR BHARTIIND4030
NIRMALA DEVIJMM377
DEO KUMAR PASWANIND362
PRAVIN NAGBhartiya Dalit Party310
AJAY KUMAR PASWANIND2491
BISHNUDEV KUMAR PASWANNCP1917
UDHALI PASWANIND1547
NARESH DASRashtriya Jansambhavna Party1304
AMAN KUMARIND12720

2015 pirpainti Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Ram Vilash Paswan (Current MLA)RJD80058
Lalan KumarBJP74914

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