Belsand Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Sanjay Kumar Gupta Wins, Elected as MLA

Patna, November 14: Sanjay Kumar Gupta of the RJD has won the Belsand Vidhan Sabha Seat this time. Kumar won the seat by defeating JD(U) candidate Sunit Singh Chauhan. The constituency is situated in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. The current MLA of the Belsand constituency is Sunita Singh Chauhan, who belongs to JD(U) party. The voting for the Belsand elections was held in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes was held on November 10 and the result was also out on the same day. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 2 Dates And Schedule: Voting on November 3, Results on November 10.

The Bihar assembly elections was held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, followed by counting of votes on November 10. The Bihar election was one of the biggest elections globally during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Second Phase Complete Schedule

The main candidates for the Belsand Assembly Election 2020 included Sunita Singh Chauhan of Janata Dal (United), Shahmim Alam of Nationalist Congress Party, Sanjay Kumar Gupta of Rashtriya Janata Dal among other candidates. In the 2015 Bihar elections, Sunita Singh Chauhan of the JD(U)had won from the Belsand seat by defeating LJP candidate Md. Nasir Ahamad.

The voting for the first phase was held on October 28 which covered 71 assembly constituencies, the second-phase voting on November 3 covered 94 seats. The third phase of voting on November 7 covered 78 assembly seats. In Bihar, the ruling NDA faced a challenge from the RJD-Congress alliance (JDU+BJP) and the Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left).

In the outgoing assembly, the RJD has 80 members while the JD (U) has 69. The BJP has 54 seats, Congress has 25, while the remaining seats in the 243-member assembly are held by other parties.

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