Sikar Lok Sabha Constituency

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Sikar Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in the Northern state of Rajasthan and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 6.

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

Sikar covers eight assembly segments – Lachhmangarh, Dhod, Sikar, Danta Ramgarh, Khandela, Neem-Ka-Thana, Sri Madhopur and Chomu.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won by getting a margin of over 2.39 lakh votes. He had defeated Pratap singh Jat of the Indian National Congress (INC). Saraswati had secured 499428 votes while Jat got 260232 votes.

The voter turnout figure was at 60.31 percent across 1831 polling stations.

Some of the other candidates in the fray were Subhash Maharia who was an Independent Amra Ram of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

In the year 2009, Mahadeo Singh Khandela of the Indian National Congress managed to secure his winning position by getting over 1.49 lakh votes against BJP's Subhash Maharia. While Khandela got 499428 seats, Maharia secured 260232 seats.

Other members in the fray were Amra Ram of the CPI(M) and Bharat Singh Tanwar of the BSP.