Karakat Vidhan Sabha seat lies in the Rohtas district of Bihar. It is also a Parliamentary constituency in the state with the same name - Karakat Lok Sabha seat. The Karakat Assembly constituency had been an RJD seat since 2015 but the CPI(ML)'s Arun Singh won the seat in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Karakat election took place in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on October 28. The results for the Bihar polls were declared on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 was conducted in three phases between October 28 and November 7. Voting for Phase 1 took place on October 28. The results for all the phases was declared on November 10.

The earlier MLA on the Karakat Vidhan Sabha seat in Bihar was Sanjay Kumar Singh of the RJD, who defeated Rajeswar Raj of the BJP in the 2015 Bihar polls. This election, the candidates from Karakat included Rajeshwar Raj of the BJP, Arun Singh of the CPIM (L) among others.

2020 karakat Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Sweta SinghIND963
ARUN SINGH (Current MLA)Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)82700
RAJESHWAR RAJBJP64511
BINAY KUMARIND593
AMIT KUMAR SINGHRashtrawadi Janlok Party (Satya)5645
DHARMENDRA KUMAR RAMIND499
LAL BAHADUR YADAVSOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)361
Ashok Kumar SinghIND2980
Baban SinghIND2531
HARE RAM SINGHIND2528
Bansidhar SinghIND2162
UMESH KUMARJan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik)1347
MALTI SINGHRLSPNA

2015 karakat Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Sanjay Kumar Singh (Current MLA)RJD59720
Rajeshwar RajBJP47601

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