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

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Jhanjharpur Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Bihar and cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 23.

Jhanjharpur registered 57.24 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 1.11 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1850672 while the total voter turnout is 1059349. While in 2014, the constituency registered 56.13 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1650203 while the total voter's turnout was 926210.

Gulab Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Raj Kumar Singh of Bahujan Samaj Party, Ramprit Mandal of Janata Dal (United) and Ramanand Thakur of Shivsena are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Jhanjharpur Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Bihar was 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 Jhanjharpur Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	GULAB YADAV	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2	Raj Kumar Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	Ramprit Mandal	Janata Dal (United)
4	Ganga Prasad Yadav	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
5	Chhedi Ram	Bhartiya Mitra Party
6	Devendra Prasad Yadav	Samajwadi Janata Dal Democratic
7	Prabhat Prasad	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
8	Ratneshwar Jha	Aadarsh Mithila Party
9	Ramanand Thakur	Shivsena
10	Ramesh Kamat	Aam Adhikar Morcha
11	Lakshman Prasad Yadav	Republican Party of India (A)
12	Surendra Prasad Suman	All India Forward Bloc
13	Om Prakash Poddar	Independent
14	Ganpati Jha	Independent
15	Bablu Gupta	Independent
16	Bipin Kumar Singhwait	Independent
17	Sanjay Bhartia	Independent

Jhanjharpur constituency covers six assembly segments – Khajauli, Babubarhi, Rajnagar, Jhanjharpur, Phulparas and Laukaha.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Birendra Kumar Chaudhary, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – won by getting a margin of over 55 thousand votes. He had defeated Mangani Lal Mandal of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Chaudhary had secured 335481 votes while Mandal got 280073 votes.