Sarairanjan Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Vijay Kumar Choudhary Wins, Elected as MLA

Sarairanjan Vidhan Sabha seat is located in the Samastipur district of Bihar. The Sarairanjan Assembly constituency falls under the Ujiarpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been a JDU stronghold since 2010. JDU's Vijay Kumar Choudhary won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Sarairanjan 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 Sarairanjan, on November 7.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Vijay Kumar Choudhary of the JDU had won the Sarairanjan seat, defeating Ranjeet Nirguni of the BJP. The candidates for 2020 Bihar Election on the Sarairanjan seat included JDU's sitting MLA Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Abhash Kumar Jha of the LJP and Arbind Kumar Sahni of the RJD 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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