Arwal Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Arwal district in Bihar itself. The Arwal Assembly constituency comes under the Jehanabad Lok Sabha seat. The Assembly seat belongs to the RJD since 2015. RJD allyĀ CPI(M-L)'s Maha Nand Singh won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Arwal Assembly ElectionĀ took place in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on October 28. The counting of votesĀ took place on November 10.

The Bihar Vidhan Sabha polls 2020Ā were held in three phases. Voting for Phase 1Ā took place in 71 constituencies including Arwal on October 28. The counting of votes for all three phasesĀ took place on November 10.

The sitting MLA on the Arwal seat in Bihar is RJD's Ravindra Singh, who won the 2015 election, defeating BJP's Chitranjan Kumar. The candidates for Bihar election 2020 from the Arwal constituency included BJP's Dipak Kumar Sharma, CPI(M-L)'s Maha Nand Singh and JAP's Abhishek Ranjan among others.

The Bihar Assembly Election 2020Ā was being seen become a three-pronged battled with the LJP, led by Chirag Paswan, fighting it alone. The battleĀ was among, NDA, Mahagathbandhan and the LJP. ThisĀ was also the first big election in India amid COVID-19.

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Krishna KishoreJanata Dal (Secular)945
Anil Kumar PanditRashtra Sewa Dal911
Sikandar KumarJagrook Janta Party911
Shah Imran AhmadIND812
Subhash SharmaApna Kisan Party792
Maha Nand Singh (Current MLA)Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)68286
Kameshwar ThakurBahujan Mukti Party652
Sanjay KumarAkhil Hind Forward Bloc (Krantikari)636
Gorakh RajwarIND530
Aunrag KumarPeoples Party of India (Democratic)500
Dipak Kumar SharmaBJP48336
Vimlesh KumarPragatisheel Magahi Samaj466
Bhim PaswanIND444
Kumar GauravIND263
Vikash KumarIND260
Mohan KumarJanata Party2594
Shashi Bhushan SinhaIND240
Ajay KumarIND1616
Anita KumariIND1498
Vimala KumariBhartiya Sablog Party1337
Abhishek RanjanJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)1309
Subhash Chandra YadavRLSPNA
Mohammad Sabbir AlamBahujan Lok DalNA

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