Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha bye-election results 2020: Date, counting timings, candidates, how to check live results

Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha bye-election result 2020: Bypoll to the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar was held on November 7 along with the third phase of Assembly elections in the state. The bypoll in the Valmiki Nagar seat was necessitated after the death of sitting JD(U) MP Baidyanath Prasad Mahto in February.

When will the results of bye-election to Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat in Bihar be declared?

The result of the bye-election to Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat in Bihar will be declared on November 10.

Who are the candidates contesting Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat?

JD(U) fielded Sunil Kumar, son of the late MP Baidyanath Prasad Mahto, in Valmiki Nagar to take on Pravesh Kumar Mishra, whom Congress had fielded as Grand Alliance candidate. In the 2019 Parliamentary polls, Baidyanath Mahto had won the seat as the NDA nominee on a JD(U) ticket defeating Shashwat Kedar Pandey, the Congress candidate from the Grand Alliance, by a margin of more than 354,000 votes.