Kadwa Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: INC's Kedar Prasad Gupta Wins, Elected as MLA

Bihar, November 2:  Kadwa (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Katihar district of Bihar. The voting in Kadwa constituency was held on November 7 in the third phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Polling began as usual at 7 am and continues till 6 pm this time amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The last hour was kept for COVID-19 infected patients so that even they could cast their vote. The seat was won by Kedar Prasad Gupta of INC in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020.

The Bihar assembly elections 2020 took place in three phases this time. the dates are October 28, November 3 and November 7. The counting of votes were held on November 10 and the results were also be declared on the same day. The Bihar election is one of the biggest elections to be held globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. The term of Bihar assembly will end on November 29. Balrampur Vidhan Sabha Seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Candidates, MLA, Schedule And Result Date.

In the 2015 Bihar Assembly election, the Kadwa constituency was won by Shakeel Ahmad Khan of INC, and Chander Bhushan Thakur of BJP was the runner-up.  The contesting candidates from the constituency for Bihar Assembly Election 2020 were- Pramod Das from Aam Janta Party Rashtriya, Nationalist Congress Party's Nizam, JDU's Suraj Prakash Roy among others.

Nitish Kumar became the chief minister forming an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Rashtriya Janata Dal got 80 seats in the 2015 Assembly elections, while Janata Dal (United ) managed to win 71 seats. Bharatiya Janata Party won 53 seats and Congress won 27 seats.

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