Warisnagar Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Ashok Kumar Wins, Elected as MLA

Warisnagar Vidhan Sabha seat is in the Samastipur district of Bihar. The Warisnagar Assembly constituency falls under the Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been an JDU seat since 2010. JDU's Ashok Kumar won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling for the Warisnagar 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 Warisnagar, on November 7.

In the 2015 Bihar elections, Ashok Kumar of the JDU had won the Warisnagar seat, defeating Chandrashekhar Rai of the LJP. The candidates for Bihar Election 2020 on the Warisnagar seat included JDU sitting MLA Ashok Kumar, LJP's Urmila Sinha and RLSP's BK Singh 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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