Rajgir (SC) Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Kaushal Kishore Wins, Elected as MLA

Rajgir Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Nalanda district of Bihar. It falls under the Nalanda Parliamentary constituency of Bihar. The Rajgir constituency is reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates. JDU's Kashal Kishore won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for Rajgir election took place in Phase 2 of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Bihar Polls 2020 were held in three phases. Voting took place on October 28, November 3 and November 7. Bihar Elections 2020 results were declared on November 10 for all three phases. In Phase 2, a total of 94 constituencies, including Rajgir, went to polls on November 3.

In 2015, Ravi Jyoti Kumar of the JDU had won the Bihar poll from Rajgir seat, defeating Satydeo Narain Arya of the BJP. The candidates for the 2020 Bihar polls on the Rajgir seat included Kaushal Kishore of the JDU, Pappu Paswan of the NCP and Ravi Jyoti Kumar, this time from the Congress, among others.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 was being seen as a three-way fight with NDA (BJP+JDU), Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left) and the Chirag Paswan-led LJP in the fray. It was also the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The NDA won the election with 125 seats.

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