Nathnagar Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Ali Ashraf Siddiqui Wins, Elected as MLA

Nathnagar Vidhan Sabha seat is located in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar. It lies in the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. The Nathnagar constituency has been a JDU dominated seat since 2005. However, RJD's Ali Ashraf Siddiqui won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Nathnagar election took place in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Election 2020 took place in three phases. Voting for these three phases took place on October 28, November 3 and November 7. Bihar election results 2020 were declared on November 10. Voting for Phase 2 of Bihar polls took place in 94 Assembly constituencies including Nathnagar.

In 2015 Bihar Vidhan Sabha polls, JDU's Ajay Kumar Mandal had won from the Nathnagar seat, defeating LJP's Amar Nath Prasad. The candidates for the Bihar elections 2020 included JDU's Lakshmi Kant Mandal, LJP's Amar Nath Prasad and RJD's Ali Ashraf Siddiqui among others.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 was being seen three-way fight with NDA (BJP+JDU), Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left) and the Chirag Paswan-led LJP in the fray. It was also the first major election in the country amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The NDA won the election with 125 seats.

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