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

Buxar is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar and cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 12. The counting will be held on May 23.

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

Ashwini Kumar Choubey of Bharatiya Janata Party, Jagadanand Singh of Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sushil Kumar Singh of Bahujan Samaj Party are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Buxar Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. 

The Buxar parliamentary constituency comprises of six Vidhan Sabha segments, namely Brahmpur, Buxar, Dumraon, Rajpur, Dinara and Ramgarh.

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

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Jagadanand Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
3	Sushil Kumar Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Anil Kumar	Jantantrik Vikas Party
5	Anil Kumar Rai	Rashtriya Dal United
6	Uday Narayan Rai	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
7	Dhanjit Singh	Voters Party International
8	Ravi Raj	Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)
9	Binod Kumar Bikrant	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
10	Santosh Kumar Yadav	Bahujan Mukti Party
11	Arvind Kumar Pandey	Independent
12	Jay Prakash Ram	Independent
13	Ranjit Singh	Independent
14	Rakesh Kumar Ray	Independent
15	Ramchandra Singh Yadav	Independent

In the 2014 election, Bharatiya Janata Party's Ashwini Kumar Choubey defeated Rashtriya Janata Dal's Jagadanand Singh by a margin of 186674 votes.    

In 2014 election, Bihar witnessed an overall turnout of 56.28 per cent of which 57.66 per cent were female voters and 55.08 per cent were male voters. The Buxar seat saw an overall voter turnout of 52.67 per cent which included 49.80 per cent female and 55.17 per cent male voters.