Bharatiya
Janata Party’s Jibesh Kumar has won the Jale seat in the 2020 Bihar elections, defeating
Congress candidate Maskoor Ahmad Usmani. The seat, which went to polls on
November 7 in the phase 3 of the Bihar Assembly polls, one of Bihar’s 243 assembly
constituencies, falls under the Madhubani Lok Sabha constituency.

The
assembly constituency is currently held by Bhartiya Janata Party MLA Jibesh
Kumar who defeated Rishi Mishra of the Janata Dal (United) in 2015.

The Jale Assembly constituency is an unreserved seat. Prior to the 2015
election, the constituency elected either BJP’s or an RJD’s candidate, on an
alternate basis. In 2010 assembly election, Vijay Kumar Mishra of BJP defeated
RJD’s Ramniwas Prasad, who in 2005 defeated Mishra. In 2000, Mishra was elected
as the MLA from Jale.

Here are a few
details about the Jale constituency seat

Name of the
assembly constituency, district: Jale

District: Darbhanga

Polling date: November 7,
2020

2020 winner: Jibesh Kumar
(BJP)

2020 runner up: Maskoor Ahmad Usmani (Congress)

Winning margin: 21,796

Sitting MLA, party: Jibesh Kumar, BJP

2015 winner: Jibesh Kumar
(BJP)

2015 runner up: Rishi Mishra
(JDU)

Winning margin in
2015: 4620