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Bihar Election 2020: Result updates for Baikunthpur, Barauli, Gopalganj, Kuchaikote, Bhore, Hathua
Bihar Election Results 2020: Get round-wise updates on vote counting, latest trends, trailing, leading candidates for Baikunthpur, Barauli, Gopalganj, Kuchaikote, Bhore, Hathua
Votes were counted in Bihar on Tuesday after the third and final round of voting held last Saturday. The Election Commission’s officials said the state recorded enthusiastic polling despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and chief minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) is all set for another term in Bihar after crossing the majority mark of 122 seats.
The six assembly seats under the Gopalganj Lok Sabha constituency - Baikunthpur, Barauli, Gopalganj, Kuchaikote, Bhore and Hathua - voted in the second phase of the state assembly elections on November 3. The voter turnout totalled to 54.72 per cent, a dip from 57.79 per cent in 2015.
Here is a look at the performance of all the parties in these six seats in Bihar Assembly Election 2020:
Baikunthpur assembly election 2020 result updates: RJD’s Prem Shankar Prasad won by a margin of 11113 votes. Prasad defeated BJP’s incumbent Mithilesh Tiwari .
Barauli assembly election 2020 result updates: BJP’s Ram Pravesh Rai won Barauli by 14493 votes.
Barauli, a significant seat in Bihar has been a BJP stronghold especially under Ram Pravesh Rai.
Gopalganj assembly election 2020 result updates: BJP’s Shubash Singh is won Gopalganj by 36752 votes.
Kuchaikote assembly election 2020 result updates:JD(U)’s Amarendra Pandey has won with a margin of 20630 votes.
The electoral fight for Kuchaikote constituency was mainly between JD(U)’s Amarendra Pandey and Congress’ Kali Pandey.
Bhore assembly election 2020 result updates: JD)(U)’s Sunil Kumar won on a narrow margin of 462 votes.
Bhore constituency witnessed a litmus test after a bitter fight broke over the allocation of this seat which has traditionally gone to Congress but was handed over to Left and RJD this time around.
Hathua assembly election 2020 result updates: In Hathua RJD’s Rajesh Kumar Singh won with a margin of 30527 votes.He defeated JD(U) incumbent Ramsewak Singh.
The Bihar assembly polls, seen as a mammoth exercise by political experts, are the first in the country to be conducted by the Election Commission amid a raging coronavirus outbreak. The commission had introduced several guidelines keeping the viral contagion in consideration. During the polling exercise, people were instructed to wear a mask for all election related activities and thermal screening of everyone involved was carried out by EC officials. In a departure from the previous polling practices, only 1,000 voters exercised their franchise at a particular booth, instead of 1,500.
