Sakra (SC) Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Ashok Kumar Chodhary Wins, Elected as MLA

Sakra Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Sakra Assembly constituency falls under the Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. The seat, which had been with the RJD since 2015, was won by JDU's Ashok Kumar Choudhary in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Sakra election took place in the third and final phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 7. The counting of votes will took place on November 10.

Voting for Bihar elections 2020 took place in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7 respectively. Bihar poll results 2020 were declared on November 10 for all phases. In Phase 3, voting took place on 78 seats, including Sakra, on November 7.

In 2015 Bihar election, Lal Babu Ram of the RJD had won from the Sakra seat, defeating Arjun Ram of the BJP. The candidates for the 2020 polls on the Sakra Assembly seat included Umesh Kumar Ram of the Congress, Ashok Kumar Chodhary of the JDU and Sanjay Paswan of the LJP among others.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 was the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Voting timings had, therefore, been increased by an hour to 6 pm and phases had been brought down to three. Bihar saw 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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