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Bihar Election 2020: Result updates for Kasba, Banmankhi, Rupauli, Dhamdaha, Purnia, Korha constituencies
Get round-wise updates on vote counting, latest trends, trailing, leading candidates for Kasba, Banmankhi, Rupauli, Dhamdaha, Purnia, Korha seats under Purnia Lok Sabha constituency.
The counting of votes for the 243-member Bihar assembly elections began at 8 am on Tuesday at 55 centres in 38 districts across Bihar. Purnia is among 40 parliamentary constituencies in Bihar. Its comprises six following assembly seats --Kasba, Banmankhi, Rupauli, Dhamdaha, Purnia, Korha seats.
Get the latest updates from Purnia Lok Sabha constituency:
Kasba assembly election 2020 result updates: Congress’ Md. Afaque Alam wins as he defeats Pradeep Kumar Das of LJP.
Banmankhi assembly election 2020 result updates: Seating MLA Krishna Kumar Rishi of BJP wins with a margin of more than14,000 votes.
Rupauli assembly election 2020 result updates: Bima Bharti of JD(U) wins from Rupauli as she defeated LJP candidate Shankar Singh with a margin of more than 19,800 votes.
Dhamdaha assembly election 2020 result updates: Leshi Singh of JDU wins retains Dhamdaha as she defeats Dilip Kumar Yadav of RJD.
Purnia assembly election 2020 result updates: Vijay Kumar Khemka of BJP retains Purnia with a margin of over 32,150 votes.
Korha assembly election 2020 result updates: BJP’s Kavita Devi wins by a margin of more than 28,986.
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Purnia has been a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stronghold since 2000. In the 2015 assembly polls, Khemka defeated Congress’ Indu Sinha by 32,815 votes.
The three-phase Bihar assembly polls began on October 28 and ended on November 7.
The exit polls, which came out after the polling was concluded, predicted a win for the grand alliance led by the RJD. Nitish Kumar, fighting elections under the NDA banner, may fall short of a clear majority, according to exit polls.
