The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) forged ahead of the challenger Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) as counting progressed in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 10, leading in 126 of the 243 seats. The Election Commission website said NDA candidates were leading in 126 seats while the opposition alliance was ahead in 110 seats as of 8:30 pm.
Nand Kishore Yadav of the BJP won comfortably against the Congress' Pravin Singh in the Patna Sahib constituency. Yadav received more 82,557 votes, about 17,000 more than his closest competitor in Patna Sahib.
He won about 52.59 percent of the 1,56,978 total votes cast.
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Sitting MLA and JDU candidate Shrawon Kumar won against JVKP's Kaushlendra Kumar, LJP's Ram Keshwar Prasad and Congress candidate Gunjan Patel in the Nalanda assembly seat. Singh won in Nalanda by more than 16,000 votes.
Grand Alliance chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav and his brother Tej Pratap Yadav continue to lead from Raghopur and Hasanpur, respectively. While Tejashwi is leading by 10,043 votes, Tej Pratap won the Hasanpur seat.
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A majority of exit polls released after the third and final round of polls suggested that Tejashwi Yadav-led Grand Alliance might have an edge over the incumbent NDA. But who will actually get the magic figure of 122 in the house of 243 will be known only after the votes are counted.
Apart from the JD(U) and the BJP, the NDA in Bihar comprises HAM-S and the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of Mukesh Sahani.
The Mahagathbandhan consists of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), apart from the RJD and the Congress.
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