Simri Bakhtiarpur Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Yusuf Salahuddin Wins, Elected as MLA

Simri Bakhtiarpur Vidhan Sabha seat is one of the 243 seats in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, which went polling in the state elections. The seat of Simri Bakhtiarpur comes under the Saharsa district. In the context of Lok Sabha Elections, the constituency of Simri Bakhtiarpur falls under Khagaria constituency. RJD's Yusuf Salahuddin won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020.

The first phase of the 3-phase election was held on October 28 (71 seats), the second phase on November 3 (94 seats), and the final phase was held on November 7 (for 78 seats). The EC announced the results of all the 243 Bihar Legislative Assembly seats on November 10.

Zafar Alam of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was the incumbent MLA from the Simri Bakhtiarpur constituency. It was in the 2019 by-polls in the constituency when he won. However, in the 2015 Bihar Assembly Elections, it was Dinesh Chandra Yadav of the JD(U) who had won from the same seat. In 2010 Bihar State Elections, it was Arun Kumar of the JD(U) who emerged victorious in the polls.

In 2020 Bihar Assembly Elections, the main contenders of the Simri Bakhtiarpur constituency were Mukesh Sahani of the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), Yusuf Salahuddin of the RJD, and Sanjay Kumar Singh of the LJP. THe NDA won the election with 125 seats.

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