Bihar Results LIVE: Tej Pratap Trails By Huge Margin As Chirag Paswan's Party Leads

Counting for the assembly elections in 243 constituencies in Bihar started on Friday. A majority mark of 122 constituencies is needed to win the election. The trends have started coming in, showing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal United (JD(U))-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) maintaining a considerable lead over the opposition alliance- the Mahagathbandhan (MGB).

The trends show the NDA leading in 203 seats while the MGB is leading in 34 seats. One of the key constituencies in Bihar is Mahua, which is seeing a close fight between Tej Pratap Yadav's party-Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD), the NDA's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) (LJP(RV)) which is led by Chirag Paswan, the MGB's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's (AIMIM). Follow Bihar Assembly Elections Results Live Updates here

What Do The Trends In Mahua Reveal?

The latest trends in Mahua reveal that Tej Pratap Yadav is trailing massively. However, he has moved up a spot- being at the fourth place to now being at the third place.

(LJP(RV)) leader Sanjay Kumar Singh is leading with nearly 69,000 votes; RJD leader and current MLA Mukesh Kumar Raushan in the second place with over 34,200 votes.

Tej Pratap has secured a little over 29,000 votes, and is trailing by nearly 40,000 votes to Sanjay Kumar Singh. After he was expelled from the RJD earlier this year- Tej Pratap formed his own party-the JJD. The party's first list of candidates for this year's assembly election had a total of 21 candidates. Tej Pratap himself announced his candidacy from  Mahua. 

About The Mahua Assembly Constituency

The Mahua assembly constituency falls in Bihar's Vaishali district. Tej Pratap Yadav was the MLA of the constituency in 2015, when he was a memeber of the RJD. However, in 2020, Mukesh Kumar Raushan became the MLA. 

Who Won Mahua In 2020?

RJD's Mukesh Kumar Raushan emerged victorious in the 2020 assembly elections, defeating JD(U)'s Ashma Parveen by a margin of 13,770 votes. Raushan secured 62,747 votes while Parveen managed to get 48,977 votes.