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

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Begusarai Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Bihar and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 29.

Begusarai registered 62.32 per cent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 1.64 per cent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1954484 while the total voter turnout is 1217988. While in 2014, the constituency registered 60.68 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1777377 while the total voter's turnout was 1078554.

Kanhaiya Kumar of Communist Party of India, Giriraj Singh of Bharatiya Janata Party, Mo. Tanweer Hassan of Rashtriya Janata Dal and Maksudan Paswan of Bahujan Mukti Party are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.

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

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

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Kanhaiya Kumar	Communist Party of India
2	Giriraj Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	Mo. Tanweer Hassan	Rashtriya Janata Dal
4	Umesh Patel	Shoshit Samaj Dal
5	Gaurav Kumar	Bhartiya Lokmat Rashtrwadi Party
6	Maksudan Paswan	Bahujan Mukti Party
7	Amar Kumar	Independent
8	Dhiraj Narain	Independent
9	Shambhu Kumar Singh	Independent
10	Saurabh	Independent

Begusarai constituency covers six assembly segments – Cheria Bariarpur, Bachhwara, Teghra, Matihani, Sahebpur Kamal, Begusarai and Bakhri. 

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Dr. Bhola Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – won by getting a margin of over 58 thousand votes. He had defeated Tanveer Hassan of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Singh had secured 428227 votes while Hassan got 369892 votes.