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

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Sasaram 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.

Chhedi Paswan of Bharatiya Janata Party, Manoj Kumar of Bahujan Samaj Party and Meira Kumar of Indian National Congress are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Sasaram 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 Sasaram Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar.

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	CHHEDI PASWAN	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	MANOJ KUMAR	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	MEIRA KUMAR	Indian National Congress
4	DHARMRAJ PASWAN	Lok Jan Vikas Morcha
5	NIRMALA DEVI	Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)
6	VIDYA JYOTI	Bahujan Mukti Party
7	SATYA NARAYAN RAM	Ambedkarite Party of India
8	ASHOK KUMAR PASWAN	Independent
9	ASHOK BAITHA	Independent
10	RAGHUNI RAM SHASTRI	Independent
11	RAJANIKANT CHOUDHARY	Independent
12	RAMEKBAL RAM	Independent
13	SATYA NARAYAN PASWAN	Independent

Sasaram constituency is reserved for the members of the Scheduled Castes. This constituency covers seven assembly segments–  Mohania, Bhabua, Chainpur, Chenari, Sasaram and Kargahar.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Chhedi Paswan of the Bharatiya Janata Party – won by getting a margin of over 63 thousand votes. He had defeated Meira Kumar of the Indian National Congress. Paswan had secured 366087 votes while Meira Kumar  got 302760 votes.