Assembly Election 2020

Bihar

Santosh Kumar Nirala

Age : 49
Gender : M

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Santosh Kumar Nirala is the Transport Minister who is contesting from Rajpur, a reserved seat. Nirala has won the Rajpur constituency in the 2010 assembly polls and then again in 2015 from the same constituency. The transport minister has been eyeing the seat for the third time against the Congress candidate Vishwanath Ram. The LJP has given the election ticket to Nirbhay Kumar Nirala from the same constituency. Nirala started his political career since 1991 with the BSP. He later joined the JD(U) and successfully won the assembly elections in 2010 and then in 2015. He also held the position as Minister of SC & ST Welfare Department, Bihar from 2014 to 2017. Currently, he is Minister of Transport Department, Bihar. The Rajpur seat has been with the JD(U) even in 2005 when Shyam Pyari Devi won the seat from JD(U). In this election, Nirala will be contesting against Vishwanath Ram of the Congress.

Results

PARTY	VOTES POLLED	VOTES%	CANDIDATE NAME
INC	67871	36.76%	Vishwanath Ram Won
JDU	46667	25.28%	Santosh Kumar Nirala
BSP	43836	23.74%	Sanjay Ram
LJP	7449	4.03%	Nirbhaya Kumar Nirala
SBSP	4276	2.32%	Ajad Paswan
NOTA	2841	1.54%	None of the Above
IND	2365	1.28%	Chhedi Lal Ram
IND	1873	1.01%	Neelkamal Prasad
IND	1481	0.80%	Nikunj Kumar Aryan
BSLP	1441	0.78%	Hare Ram Prasad
BMP	1327	0.72%	Ashok Kumar Ram
BAAP	969	0.52%	Savinay Kumar
SKVP	885	0.48%	Suraj Prakash Ram
RJNP	748	0.41%	Ashok Paswan
PPID	587	0.32%	Mohan Ram Rajak

PARTY	VOTES POLLED	VOTES%	CANDIDATE NAME
JDU	84,184	JDU	Santosh Kumar Nirala Won
BJP	51,396	BJP	Bishawnath Ram
BSP	17,031	BSP	Lalji Ram
SBSP	5,540	SBSP	Ajad Paswan
IND	3,495	IND	Raj Bali Ram
NOTA	2,941	NOTA	None Of The Above
IND	2,940	IND	Surendra Paswan
CPIMLL	2,143	CPIMLL	Ramashanker Ram
JAPL	1,376	JAPL	Anand Bardhan
IND	1,302	IND	Manoj Kumar Ram
IND	717	IND	Jagdish Paswan Alias Jagdish Ram
SP	614	SP	Chhedi Lal Ram
SHS	518	SHS	Virendra Kumar
BMUP	500	BMUP	Niwas Ram Dusadh
JMM	424	JMM	Manoj Kumar
GJDS	415	GJDS	Tarkeshwar Paswan

PARTY	VOTES POLLED	VOTES%	CANDIDATE NAME
JDU	54,802	JDU	Santosh Kumar Nirala Won
LJP	39,563	LJP	Chhedi Lal Ram
BSP	18,389	BSP	Pankaj Kumar
INC	5,614	INC	Manju Kumari
JPS	3,912	JPS	Shiv Kumar Ram
CPIMLL	3,715	CPIMLL	Ramashanker Ram
IND	2,933	IND	Binod Kumar Bikrant
IND	2,546	IND	Raj Kumar Ram
JDS	1,741	JDS	Rajendra Paswan
IND	1,234	IND	Madan Ram
IND	1,230	IND	Om Prakash Vidyarthy
NCP	921	NCP	Hiraman Prasad Paswan
RASED	678	RASED	Sanjay Paswan
SP	567	SP	Parsuram Prasad