Sheohar (Lok Sabha constituency)

Sheohar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian state of Bihar. This constituency has been represented by veterans like Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha an eminent freedom fighter and is known as the father of Cooperative Movement in India and Ram Dulari Sinha, former Union Minister and Governor. Their son Dr. Madhurendra Kumar Singh has also contested from Congress in 1989 General Election.

Assembly segmentsEdit

Presently, Sheohar Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	MLA	Party	Party Leading (in 2019)
18	Madhuban	None	East Champaran	Rana Randhir Singh	BJP	BJP
20	Chiraia	None	East Champaran	Lal Babu Prasad Gupta	BJP	BJP
21	Dhaka	None	East Champaran	Pawan Kumar Jaiswal	BJP	BJP
22	Sheohar	None	Sheohar	Chetan Anand Singh	RJD	BJP
23	Riga	None	Sitamarhi	Moti Lal Prasad	BJP	BJP
30	Belsand	None	Sitamarhi	Sanjay Kumar Gupta	RJD	BJP

Members of ParliamentEdit

Year	Winner	Party
1977	Thakur Girjanandan Singh	Janata Party
1980	Ram Dulari Sinha	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Ram Dulari Sinha	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Hari Kishore Singh	Indian People's Front
1991	Hari Kishore Singh	Janata Dal
1996	Anand Mohan Singh	Janata Dal
1998	Anand Mohan Singh	Rashtriya Janata Party
1999	Mohammad Anwarul Haque	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2004	Sitaram Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Rama Devi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Rama Devi	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Rama Devi	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election ResultsEdit

2019 Indian general elections: Sheohar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rama Devi	6,08,678	60.59	+16.40
	RJD	Syed Faisal Ali	2,68,318	26.71	-1.32
	IND.	Kedar Nath Prasad	18,426	1.83	+1.83
	IND.	Raj Kumar Parsad	13,704	1.36	+1.36
	NCP	Shah Alam	13,269	1.32	+1.32
	BSP	Mukesh Kumar Jha	12,470	1.24	-1.90
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,017	0.70	-0.68
Margin of victory			3,40,360	33.88	+17.72
Turnout			10,04,927	59.60	+2.87
	BJP hold		Swing	+16.40

2014 Indian general elections: Sheohar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Rama Devi	3,72,506	44.19	+3.39
	RJD	Mohammad Anwarul Haque	2,36,267	28.03	+12.38
	JD(U)	Shahid Ali Khan	79,108	9.39	+9.39
	SP	Lovely Anand	46,008	5.46	+5.46
	BSP	Angesh Kumar	26,446	3.14	-15.70
	JMM	Laxman Paswan	18,681	2.22	+2.22
	IND	Shivanandan Prasad	12,161	1.44	+1.44
	NOTA	None of the Above	11,670	1.38	+1.38
Margin of victory			1,36,239	16.16	-5.80
Turnout			8,42,926	56.73	+11.64
	BJP hold		Swing	+3.39

2009 Indian general elections: Sheohar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Rama Devi	2,33,499	40.80
	BSP	Mohammad Anwarul Haque	1,07,815	18.84
	RJD	Sitaram Singh	89,584	15.65
	INC	Lovely Anand	81,479	14.24
	CPI	Mohammad Tanveer Zafar	16,864	2.95
	IND.	Sunil Singh	10,037	1.75
Margin of victory			1,25,684	21.96
Turnout			5,73,012	45.15
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

ReferencesEdit

External linksEdit

Sheohar lok sabha constituency election 2019 result details

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