Suryagarha Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: RJD's Prahlad Yadav Wins, Elected as MLA

Patna, November 10: Prahlad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has won the Suryagarha Vidhan Sabha Seat. He is also the current MLA of the  Suryagarha constituency. Yadav won the seat by defeating Ramanand Mandal of the JD(U). The voting in Suryagarha was held on October 28 in the first phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The counting of votes and results were announced on November 10. Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 Phase 1 Dates And Schedule: Voting on October 28, Results to be Declared on November 10.

The Bihar election is one of the biggest elections globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. While announcing the poll schedule for the 243-member Bihar assembly, the Election Commission has said that the polling for Bihar assembly elections would be held in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, followed by counting of votes on November 10.

Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 First Phase Complete Schedule

The main candidates for Suryagarha Assembly Election 2020 included Prahlad Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Ramanand Mandal of the Janata Dal (United), Ganesh Kumar of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party among others. In the 2015 Bihar elections, Prahlad Yadav of the RJD had won the polls by defeating BJP candidate Prem Ranjan Patel.

The voting for the first phase was held on October 28 which covered 71 assembly constituencies, while 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). Meanwhile, the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) has said it would contest alone this time with Chirag Paswan at the helm.

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