Assembly Election 2020

Bihar

Jitan Ram Manjhi

Age : 74
Gender : M

WON

The Hindustani Awam Morcha party head Jitan Ram Manjhi is contesting from Imamganj against RJD candidate Uday Narayan Choudhary, former Bihar Assembly Speaker and veteran Dalit leader. Manjhi is the only person to win the seat from his party in the last election. Manjhi had quit the JD(U) in 2015 after being forced to step down as the chief minister to make way for the return of Kumar. He later formed the HAM(S) and contested 21 seats in the 2015 Bihar assembly elections as an NDA constituent. With the return of Kumar to the NDA in July 2017, he walked out of it to join hands with the opposition grouping. Now HAM has again joined hands with NDA for the Bihar assembly polls. Manjhi is also the star campaigner of the NDA. Manjhi was also made the CM in Bihar with the support of JD(U) for around a year till February 2015. He entered the politics in 1980s from the Congress and won the assembly seat from Fatehpur in Gaya district. Manjhi is considered a strong Mahadalit face in the state. His entry into the NDA is being seen as a major setback for the grand alliance ahead of Assembly elections.

Results

PARTY	VOTES POLLED	VOTES%	CANDIDATE NAME
HAMS	78762	45.36%	Jitan Ram Manjhi Won
RJD	62728	36.12%	Uday Narain Choudhary
LJP	14197	8.18%	Kumari Shobha Sinha
NOTA	4705	2.71%	None of the Above
JAPL	3797	2.19%	Fakirchand Das
RLSP	2337	1.35%	Jitendra Kumar Paswan
JGJP	2033	1.17%	Jitendra Chaudhari
IND	1579	0.91%	Bijendra Paswan
NCP	1339	0.77%	Deepak Ram
APOI	1206	0.69%	Lalan Kumar
PPID	962	0.55%	Banarsi Das

PARTY	VOTES POLLED	VOTES%	CANDIDATE NAME
HAMS	79,389	HAMS	Jitan Ram Manjhi Won
JDU	49,981	JDU	Uday Narain Choudhary
NOTA	5,552	NOTA	None Of The Above
SSD	4,297	SSD	Raghuni Ram Shastri
SKLP	3,624	SKLP	Lalan Kumar
BSP	2,732	BSP	Mathura Paswan
AAHPty	2,491	AAHPty	Ram Khelawan Chaudhry
CPIMLL	2,109	CPIMLL	Shankar Paswan

PARTY	VOTES POLLED	VOTES%	CANDIDATE NAME
JDU	44,126	JDU	Uday Narain Choudhary Won
RJD	42,915	RJD	Raushan Kumar
INC	4,478	INC	Sujeet Manjhi
IND	4,368	IND	Fakir Chand Das
IND	3,578	IND	Ram Khelawan Choudhary
BSP	2,565	BSP	Kanhai Singh Bhogta
SSD	2,375	SSD	Raghuni Ram Shastri
IND	1,885	IND	Krishna Das
AP	1,563	AP	Bageshwari Paswan
NCP	1,235	NCP	Sudhir Kumar Bharti