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Bihar Election 2020: Results for Bakhtiarpur, Digha, Bankipur, Kumhrar, Patna Sahib, Fatuha
Bihar Assembly Election 2020 results: Get round-wise updates on vote counting, latest trends, trailing, leading candidates for Bakhtiarpur, Digha, Bankipur, Kumhrar, Patna Sahib and Fatuha seats under Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency.
The Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency has six Vidhan Sabha segments, which are a part of the Bihar Assembly Election 2020. All these six constituencies were among the 94 seats which polled in the second phase of the assembly election in Bihar on November 3. In the 2019 general election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and current Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad won the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency after defeating Congress leader and veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha. Sinha had won the 2014 mandate on a BJP ticket.
This year’s election saw a tough contest between the RJD and the BJP. The BJP won four out of the total six assembly seats while the RJD could only manage to win two seats.
Here is a look at how all these parties in these seven seats are faring in Bihar Assembly Election 2020 as counting is underway:
Bakhtiarpur assembly election 2020 result updates: The RJD leader Aniruddh Kumar won the Bakhtiarpur constituency by a margin of 20,672 votes. While Ranvijay Singh of the BJP came second.
Bakhtiarpur had a voting population of 256,575 in the assembly election of 2015 which included 138,161 males and 118,408 females. BJP leader Ranvijay Singh defeated Aniruddh Kumar of the RJD by a margin of nearly 8,000 votes. Read more about Bakhtiarpur constituency
Digha assembly election 2020 result updates: Current trends reflect BJP leader and current MLA Sanjiv Chaurasia emerged victorious for a second time as he defeated Shashi Yadav of the CPI-ML by a massive margin of 46,073 votes.
Digha during the 2015 election had 31 candidates in the fray. Chaurasia defeated JD(U)’s Rajeev Ranjan Prasad by a margin of 24,779 votes. Read more about Digha constituency
Bankipur assembly election 2020 result updates: Nitin Nabin of the BJP secured a fourth consecutive in Bankipur after Congress party’s Luv Sinha by a massive margin of 39,036 votes. Son of Congress leader and veteran Shatrughan Sinha, Luv is made his poll debut this year.
In the 2015 election, the BJP defeated the Congress by a margin of nearly 40,000 votes. Read more about Bankipur constituency
Kumhrar assembly election 2020 result updates: Arun Kumar Sinha of the BJP won the Kumhrar constituency for a fourth straight time as he defeated RJD leader Dharmendra Kumar by a margin of 26,463 votes.
There were 34 candidates in the fray during the 2015 Bihar assembly election. BJP’s Arun Kumar Sinha secured 87,792 votes and won the election after defeating the Congress party candidate Aquil Haider by a big margin of 37,275 votes. Read more about Kumhrar constituency
Patna Sahib assembly election 2020 result updates: The Patna Sahib saw a fluctuating battle between Nand Kishore Yadav of the BJP and Pravin Singh of the Congress. When the initial trends came in , BJP’s Yadav was leading. Shortly, Congress’ Pravin Singh overtook Yadav.
However, as the final results came in BJP’s Yadav won the constituency by a margin of 18,300 votes.
The BJP’s Nand Kishore Yadav had won the 2015 election after defeating RJD’s Santosh Mehta by a margin of just 2,792 votes. A total of 16 candidates were in the fray for the Patna Sahib assembly seat during this year. Read more about Patna Sahib constituency
Fatuha assembly election 2020 result updates: RJD candidate Dr Ramanand Yadav defeated BJP’s Satyendra Kumar Singh by a margin of 19,370 votes. Initial trends had showed that the BJP was leading this constituency.
Dr Ramanand Yadav of the RJD defeated Satyendra Kumar Singh- who was then with the LJP by a margin of over 30,000 votes. Yadav got a total of 77,210 votes while Singh secured nearly 47,000 votes. Read more about Fatuha constituency
The 243-Bihar assembly went to polls in three phases, starting October 28 the first with 71 constituencies on October 28, the second with 94 constituencies on November 3 and the third with 78 constituencies on November 7. This election was majorly a battle between two alliances - the NDA which fielded the JD(U) president Nitish Kumar as its chief ministerial candidate and the Mahagathbandhan -which had RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav as its face for the top job in Bihar. The exit polls, which were conducted by major news channels in the country on November 7 showed that the Mahagathbandhan would perhaps emerge as the winner after getting the requisite majority.
As the electoral process comes to end in the state of Bihar, voters and politicians actively participated in this festival of a democratic institution. The crucial issues for this year were of employment, health, education, corruption and women empowerment. All political parties fielded their best candidates and ensured Bihar’s populace of nearly 124 million that all these issues will be addressed with swiftness if they come into power for the next five years.
