Churu Lok Sabha Constituency of Rajasthan: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Churu Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Northern state of Rajasthan.

Churu registered 65.65 percent voter turnout in Lok Sabha Election 2019, a gain of 1.17 percent from 2014. The total number of electors in the constituency is 2010464 while 1319916 came out to exercise their franchise. While in 2014, the constituency registered 64.48 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1748721 while 1127572 voted.

Balwan Poonia of Communist Party of India (Marxist), Rafique Mandelia of Indian National Congress, Rahul Kaswan of Bharatiya Janata Party and Hari Singh of Bahujan Samaj Party are a few prominent candidates contesting for general election 2019 from Churu Lok Sabha constituency of Rajasthan.

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

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	BALWAN POONIA	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2	RAFIQUE MANDELIA	Indian National Congress
3	RAHUL KASWAN	Bharatiya Janata Party
4	HARI SINGH	Bahujan Samaj Party
5	GOMATI DHARAMPAL KATARIA	Bharat Rakshak Party (Democratic)
6	SATYAPAL BAUDDH	Ambedkarite Party of India
7	ASLAM	Independent
8	KUMBHA RAM MEENA	Independent
9	DARARAM NAYAK	Independent
10	BISHANARAM	Independent
11	SHEELA SHEKHAWAT	Independent
12	SUKHADEV MEGHWAL	Independent

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Rajasthan was held in two phases – April 29 and May 6 –and counting will be held on May 23.

Churu constituency covers eight assembly segments –  Sadulpur, Taranagar, Sardarshahar, Churu, Ratangarh, Sujangarh, Nohar and Bhadra.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Rahul Kaswan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by getting a huge margin of over 2.94 lakh votes. He had defeated Abhinesh Maharshi of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Kaswan had secured 595756 votes while Maharshi got 301017 votes.