Nawada Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Nawada is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar.  Nawada registered 49.28 percent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a loss of 2.93  percent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1896272 while 934558 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 52.21 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1693646 while 884226 voted.

The first phase of voting in four constituencies of Bihar ended on April 11.  The fate of seven candidates will be decided on May 23 when counting of votes takes place and the result is declared.

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

1	Tulsi Dayal	Aam Jan Party (Secular)
3	Vishnu Dev Yadav	Bahujan Samaj Party
6	Rajesh Kumar	Independent
8	Navin Kumar	Nationalist Congress Party
9	Vijay Ram	Moolniwasi Samaj Party
10	Chandan Kumar	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
11	Prof. K.B. Prasad	Independent
12	Mokim Uddin	Rashtriya Ulama Council
13	Ranganatha chary	Shivsena
15	Chandan Singh	Lok Jan Shakti Party
18	Aditya Pradhan	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
22	Vibha Devi	Rashtriya Janata Dal
26	Rakesh Raushan	Independent
27	Akhlaqur Rahman Mallick	Bahujan Mukti Party
28	Sanjay Prasad	Bharat Bhrashtachar Mitao Party
29	Naresh Prasad	Independent
30	Nivedita Singh	Independent
31	Niraj Lal Yadav	Independent

The Nawada Lok Sabha constituency comprises of six assembly segments, namely Barbigha, Rajauli, Hisua, Nawada, Gobindpur and Warisaliganj. 

In the 2014 election, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Giriraj Singh won defeating his closest rival Rashtriya Janata Dal candidate Raj Ballabh Prasad by a margin of 140157 votes.

In the 2009 Lok Sabha election, BJP's Bhola Singh had bagged 22.46 per cent or 130608 votes to defeat Lok Janskati Party's (LJP) Veena Devi who had won 95691 votes.