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

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Patna Sahib 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 the last phase of elections being held on May 19.

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

Ravi Shankar Prasad of Bharatiya Janata Party, Shatrughan Sinha of Indian National Congress and Sumit Ranjan Sinha of Shivsena are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar. 

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Bihar are being 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 Patna Sahib Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar.

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	SHATRUGHAN SINHA	Indian National Congress
3	AKHILESH KUMAR	Asli Deshi Party
4	ANAMIKA KUMARI	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
5	PRABHASH CHANDRA SHARMA	Vanchit Samaj Party
6	BASANT SINGH	Bharatiya Jan Kranti Dal (Democratic)
7	MAHBOOB ALAM ANSARI	Bharatiya Momin Front
8	RAJESH KUMAR	Janata Party
9	RITA DEVI	Vikassheel Insaan Party
10	SUMIT RANJAN SINHA	Shivsena
11	AMIT KUMAR GUPTA	Independent
12	ARVIND KUMAR	Independent
13	ASHOK KUMAR GUPTA	Independent
14	KUMAR RAUNAK	Independent
15	JAVED	Independent
16	NIMESH SHUKLA	Independent
17	RANI DEVI	Independent
18	VISHNU DEV	Independent

Patna Sahib constituency covers seven assembly segments–  Bakhtiarpur, Digha, Bankipur, Kumhrar, Patna Sahib and Fatuha.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, bollywood superstar Shatrughan Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party – won by getting a margin of over 2.65 lakh votes. He had defeated Kunal Singh of the Indian National Congress. Shatrughan Sinha had secured 485905 votes while Kunal Singh got 220100 votes.