JD(U) candidate Bashisth Singh continues to maintain his lead in the Kargahar Assembly seat as counting advances. He now has 62,296 votes, accounting for 41.41%.
Uday Pratap Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party maintains it trailing position in second place with 42,236 votes, or 26.66%. Congress candidate Santosh Kumar Mishra lagged behind to third place with 29,431 votes, or 18.58%. Ritesh Ranjan of the JSP has 10,811 votes, representing 6.82%.
Among independent candidates, Shiv Kumar Singh has 2,153 votes, Govardhan Singh has overtaken many candidates to get 1,941 votes, Mahendra Prasad Gupta of the Communist Party of India has 1,525, and Ramsundar Pal has 843. Amit Kumar of the RSAMP has 538 votes, and Mantu Kumar of the LSPL has 534. Ramesar Noniya of the RJSBP has 319, and Deepak Kumar has 313 votes. NOTA (none of the above) has 2,187 votes.
The total number of votes counted so far is 1,58,431.