Nawada (Lok Sabha constituency)

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

Assembly segments[edit]

Presently, Nawada 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)
170	Barbigha	None	Sheikhpura	Sudarshan Kumar	JD(U)	LJP
235	Rajauli	SC	Nawada	Prakash Veer	RJD	LJP
236	Hisua	None	Nawada	Nitu Kumari	INC	LJP
237	Nawada	None	Nawada	Vibha Devi	RJD	LJP
238	Gobindpur	None	Nawada	MD. Kamran	RJD	LJP
239	Warisaliganj	None	Nawada	Aruna Devi	BJP	LJP

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this Lok Sabha constituency:^[1]

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Brajeshwar Prasad	Indian National Congress
1952	Ram Dhani Das	Indian National Congress
1957	Satyabhama Devi	Indian National Congress
1957	Ram Dhani Das	Indian National Congress
1962	Ram Dhani Das	Indian National Congress
1967	Surya Prakash Puri	Independent
1971	Sukhdeo Prasad Verma	Indian National Congress
1977	Nathuni Ram	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Kunwar Ram	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Kunwar Ram	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Prem Pradeep	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991	Prem Chand Ram	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1996	Kameshwar Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party
1998	Malti Devi	Rashtriya Janata Dal
1999	Dr. Sanjay Paswan	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Virchandra Paswan	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Dr. Bhola Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Giriraj Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Chandan Singh	Lok Jan Shakti Party

2019 Indian general elections: Nawada
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LJP	Chandan Singh	4,95,684	52.59
	RJD	Vibha Devi	3,47,612	36.88
	NOTA	None of the Above	35,147	3.73
Majority			1,48,072	15.71
Turnout			9,44,691	49.73
	LJP hold		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Nawada^[2]^[3]^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Giriraj Singh	3,90,248	44.12	+21.66
	RJD	Raj Ballabh Prasad	2,50,091	28.28	N/A
	JD(U)	Kaushal Yadav	1,68,217	19.02	N/A
	NOTA	None of the Above	7,489	0.85
Majority			1,40,187	15.45
Turnout			8,84,474	52.18	+10.56
	BJP hold		Swing	+21.66

↑ "All Members of Lok Sabha (Since 1952)". New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
↑ "Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). New Delhi: Election Commission of India. 2014. Constituency: 39. Nawada. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
↑ "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 82. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
↑ "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.