Samastipur Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Akhtarul Islam Shaheen Wins, Elected as MLA
Samastipur Vidhan Sabha seat is in the district of the same name in Bihar. It falls under the Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been an RJD seat since 2010.
Samastipur Vidhan Sabha seat is in the district of the same name in Bihar. It falls under the Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been an RJD seat since 2010. RJD's Akhtarul Islam Shaheen won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Samastipur 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 Samastipur, on November 7.
In the 2015 Bihar elections, Akhtarul Islam Shaheen of the RJD had won the Samastipur seat, defeating Renu Kumari of the RJD. The candidates for Bihar Election 2020 on the Samastipur seat included RJD's sitting MLA Akhtarul Islam Shaheen, JDU's Ashwamedh Devi and Mahendra Pradhan of the LJP 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.
| MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Shyam Nandan Prasad | IND | 881 |
| Mahendra Mahto | IND | 859 |
| Sirovan Kumar | BSP | 730 |
| Akhtarul Islam Shahin (Current MLA) | RJD | 68507 |
| Vinay Kumar Parsad | The Plurals Party | 665 |
| Ashwamedh Devi | JD(U) | 63793 |
| Arvind Kumar | Rashtriya Jan Vikas Party | 587 |
| Ramnath Prasad | IND | 540 |
| Premjit Kumar | Aadarsh Mithila Party | 530 |
| Shiv Kishor Jha | IND | 457 |
| Saroj Kumar Jha | Bhartiya Garibmazdoor Party, | 448 |
| Ranjan Kishore Sharma | IND | 423 |
| Avinash Kumar | IND | 4053 |
| Rajeev Ranjan | IND | 367 |
| Murari Kumar Singh | IND | 352 |
| Rishikesh Kumar | Bhartiya Sablog Party | 342 |
| Kanhaiya Kumar | Wazib Adhikar Party | 331 |
| Haroon Gauhar | Janata Party | 2673 |
| Rajesh Kumar | Bhartiya Lokmat Rashtrwadi Party | 261 |
| Ranju Devi | Yuva Krantikari Party | 246 |
| Kundan Kumar | SHS | 230 |
| Nitesh Kumar Sinha | IND | 2120 |
| Bishnudev Ram | IND | 196 |
| MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Akhtarul Islam Shaheen (Current MLA) | RJD | 82508 |
| Renu Kumari | BJP | 51428 |
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