Araria (Lok Sabha constituency)

For other places with same/similar name, see Araria (disambiguation).

Araria Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India. It is unreserved.

Assembly segments

Araria Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six assembly segments:

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	MLA	Party	Party Leading (in 2019)
46	Narpatganj	None	Araria	Jai Prakash Yadav	BJP	BJP
47	Raniganj	SC	Araria	Achmit Rishidev	JD(U)	BJP
48	Forbesganj	None	Araria	Vidya Sagar Keshri	BJP	BJP
49	Araria	None	Araria	Avidur Rahman	INC	RJD
50	Jokihat	None	Araria	Shahnawaz Alam	AIMIM	RJD
51	Sikti	None	Araria	Vijay Kumar Mandal	BJP	BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner	Party
1967	Tulmohan Ram	Indian National Congress
1971	Tulmohan Ram	Indian National Congress
1977	Mahendra Narayan Sardar	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Dumar Lal Baitha	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Dumar Lal Baitha	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Sukdeo Paswan	Janata Dal
1991	Sukdeo Paswan	Janata Dal
1996	Sukdeo Paswan	Janata Dal
1998	Ramji Das Rishideo	Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Sukdeo Paswan	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2004	Sukdeo Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Pradeep Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Mohammed Taslimuddin	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2018^	Sarfaraz Alam	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2019	Pradeep Kumar Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election Results

2019 Indian general elections: Araria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pradeep Kumar Singh	6,18,434	52.87	+9.68
	RJD	Sarfaraz Alam	4,81,193	41.14	-8.01
	NOTA	None of the Above	20,618	1.76	+0.06
Majority			1,37,241	11.73	+5.77
Turnout			11,69,741	64.79	+5.13
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing	+3.72

By Election, 2018: Araria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Sarfaraz Alam	5,09,334	49.15	+7.34
	BJP	Pradeep Kumar Singh	4,47,546	43.19	+16.39
	JAP(L)	Prince Victor	20,922	2.02	N/A
	RJSP	Upendra Sahani	18,772	1.81	N/A
	IND.	Sudama Singh	11,347	1.10	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	17,607	1.70	--
Majority			61,788	5.96	-9.05
Turnout			10,36,194	59.62	-1.82
	RJD hold		Swing	+7.34

2014 Indian general elections: Araria

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Tasleem Uddin	4,07,978	41.81	+41.81
	BJP	Pradeep Kumar Singh	2,61,474	26.80	-11.91
	JD(U)	Vijay Kumar Mandal	2,21,769	22.73	+22.73
	BSP	Abdul Rahman	17,724	1.82	+0.37
	IND.	Pankaj Kishor Mandal	10,704	1.10	+1.10
	[[Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)|Template:Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)/meta/shortname]]	Sar Wat Jahre Ansari	6,376	0.65	+0.65
	AAP	Chandra Bhushan	5,685	0.58	+0.58
	Independent	Alamdar Hussain	5,645	0.58	+0.58
	CPI(ML)L	Sanjay Kumar Rishidev	5,292	0.54	+0.22
	Janta Dal Rashtravadi	Md. Aslam Beg	5,149	0.53	+0.53
	Bharat Vikas Morcha	Rajesh Kumar	4,646	0.48	+0.48
	Lok Dal	Ramanand Rishideo	3,411	0.35	+0.35
	Bahujan Mukti Party	Bidayanand Paswan	3,350	0.34	+0.34
	NOTA	None of the Above	16,608	1.70
Majority			1,46,504	15.01	+11.93
Turnout			9,75,811	61.48	+5.77
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing	+3.10

See also

• Araria district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha