Karakat Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar: Full list of candidates, polling dates

Karakat Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Bihar and cast its vote in the 2019 election on the last phase of elections being held on May 19.

Bihar witnessed 53.55 per cent voting in as many seats in the seventh phase.

Upendra Kushwaha of Rashtriya Lok Samta Party, Raj Narayan Tiwari of Bahujan Samaj Party and Ghanshyam Tiwari of Samajwadi Party are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Karakat Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. 

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Bihar are being held in all the seven phases and counting will be held on May 23.

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Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Karakat Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar.

Bihar Lok Sabha Constituencies: All you need to know

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	UPENDRA KUSHWAHA	Rashtriya Lok Samta Party
2	MAHABALI SINGH	Janata Dal (United)
3	RAJ NARAYAN TIWARI	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	ARIF ISAIN HUSAIN	Janta Dal Rashtravadi
5	USHA SHARAN	Shoshit Samaj Dal
6	KAMLESH RAM (PRASAD)	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
7	GORAKH RAM	Voters Party International
8	GHANSHYAM TIWARI	Samajwadi Party
9	JYOTI RASHMI	Rashtra Sewa Dal
10	NAND KISHOR YADAV	Swaraj Party (Loktantrik)
11	PRITHVI NATH PRASAD	Asli Deshi Party
12	PRAKASH CHANDRA GOYAL	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
13	PRADEEP CHOUHAN	Bihar Lok Nirman Dal
14	MANOJ SINGH KUSHVAHA	Jai Prakash Janata Dal
15	MAMTA PANDEY	Rashtriya Samta Party (Secular)
16	MOHAMMAD ATAHAR HUSAIN	Ambedkar National Congress
17	RAJA RAM SINGH	Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninist) (Liberation)
18	RAMJEE SINGH KANTA	Akhil Hind Forward Bloc (Krantikari)
19	SHASHIKANT SINGH	Bharatiya Momin Front
20	ABHIRAM PRIYADARSHI	Independent
21	KUMAR SAURABH	Independent
22	DHARMENDRA SINGH	Independent
23	NEELAM KUMARI	Independent
24	PUNAM DEVI	Independent
25	RAM AYODHYA SINGH	Independent
26	RAMESHWAR SINGH	Independent
27	BASUDEO HAZARIKA	Independent

Also read: Karakat Lok Sabha Constituency

This constituency covers six assembly segments–  Bikramganj, Dehri, Karakat, Goh, Obra and Nabinagar.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Upendra Kushwaha of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party – won by getting a margin of over 1 lakh votes. He had defeated Kanti Singh of the Rashtriya Janata Dal. Kushwaha had secured 338892 votes while Singh got 233651 votes.