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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Nov 10, 2020, 09:29 PM IST
Bihar Assembly Election Result 2020 live updates: It's just a matter of hours now that fate will decide whether Bihar see a fourth term for incumbent Nitish Kumar or whether the state gets a new chief minister in young Tejashwi Yadav. The answer will be known with the results of counting of votes on Tuesday in the recently concluded and bitterly fought Assembly elections.
Counting of votes began at 8 am on Tuesday with all real-time trends and results of elections being made on Election Commission of India's website.
The ECI has set up 55 counting centres in all the 38 districts of the state, which had voted in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7 to decide the fate of 3,755 candidates.
Bihar is the first state where the full-fledged election was held after the coronavirus outbreak in India. The voting across 243-assembly constituencies in Bihar was held in three phases on October 28, November 3, and November 7 to decide the fate of 3,755 candidates.
Over 7,29,27,396 electors were eligible to vote in Bihar polls and the voter turnout was at 57.05 per cent, which was 0.39 per cent higher compared to 56.66 per cent in 2015 elections.
The Election Commission took precautionary coronavirus measures as it mandated face masks, hand sanitizers, thermal scanners, gloves, face shields, and PPE kits during the electoral process while ensuring social distancing norms.
The poll body also increased the number of counting centres to 55 in 38 districts across Bihar, in order to comply with social distancing guidelines. The number of counting centres in the state was 38 during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
