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

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Banka is one of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Bihar and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 18. The result will be out on May 23.

Banka registered 58.67 per cent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a gan of 0.55 per cent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1696533 while 995274 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 58.12 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1547702 while 899556 voted.

Giridhari Yadav of the Janata Dal (United), Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Md. Rafique Alam of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Kailash Prasad Singh of the Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia) And Neelu Devi of the Bhartiya Dalit Party are some of the prominent names who contested the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Banka Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.

Here is the full list of candidates who contested the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Banka Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar:

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	GIRIDHARI YADAV	Janata Dal (United)
2	JAI PRAKASH NARAYAN YADAV	Rashtriya Janata Dal
3	MD. RAFIQUE ALAM	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	KAILASH PRASAD SINGH	Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)
5	NEELU DEVI	Bhartiya Dalit Party
6	PHESAL ANSARI	Bharatiya Momin Front
7	RAJKISHOR PRASAD	Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
8	AMARJEET KUMAR	Independent
9	UMAKANT YADAV	Independent
10	MP YADAV	Independent
11	NARESH YADAV	Independent
12	PAWAN THAKUR	Independent
13	PUTUL KUMARI	Independent
14	PRAMOD SINGH WELDONE	Independent
15	PRAVIN KUMAR JHA	Independent
16	MANOJ KUMAR SAH	Independent
17	MRITIUNJAY ROY	Independent
18	MD. MUKHTAR ALAM	Independent
19	SANJIV KUMAR KUNAL	Independent
20	SYED ALAMDAR HUSSAIN	Independent

Banka Lok Sabha constituency covers six assembly segments – Sultanganj, Amarpur, Dhoraiya, Banka, Katoria and Belhar.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Jay Prakash Narayan Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) -won by a margin of just 10 thousand votes. He had defeated Putul Kumari of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The voter turnout figure was at 84.27 percent across 1580 polling stations. In the closely fought contest, Yadav secured 285150 votes while Putul Kumari got 275006 votes