Valmiki Nagar Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Dhirendra Pratap Singh Wins, Elected as MLA

Valmiki Nagar Vidhan Sabha seat is located in the Paschim Champaran district of Bihar. It falls under the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency of the state. JDU's Dhirendra Pratap Singh won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Valmiki Nagar 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 Valmiki Nagar, on November 7.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Independent candidate Dhirendra Pratap Singh alias Rinku Singh, defeating Irshad Hussain of the Congress. The candidates for 2020 Bihar Election on the Valmiki Nagar seat included sitting MLA Dhirendra Pratap Singh alias Rinku Singh, contesting on a JDU ticket, Mahendra Kumar Bharti of the LJP and Rajesh Singh of the Congress 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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