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BJP’s Rama Devi (the sitting MP) retains seat once again with a substantial margin.
Updated : May 24, 2019, 11:24 AM IST
Sheohar Lok Sabha Election result updates:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rama Devi repeated her win once again in the Sheohar seat with a 60.59% vote share, ahead of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) candidate Syed Faisal Ali, who trailed behind with a huge margin of over 3.4 lakh votes.
Sheohar was one of the Lok Sabha Constituencies that went to vote in Lok Sabha Election 2019.
It consists of the following assembly segments - Madhuban, Chiraia, Dhaka, Sheohar, Riga and Belsand.
The main battle was between BJP’s Rama Devi (the sitting MP) and RJD’s Syed Faisal Ali.
Past Results
In 2014, Rama Devi of BJP won by a margin of 1.36 lakh votes against RJD’s Mohammad Anwarul Haque.
In 2009, Rama Devi beat Haque by 1.3 lakh votes.
List of candidates
Serial No. |
Name Of Candidate |
Party Affiliation |
1 |
Mukesh Kumar Jha |
Bahujan Samaj Party |
2 |
RAMA DEVI |
Bharatiya Janata Party |
3 |
Shamim Alam |
Nationalist Congress Party |
4 |
SYED FAISAL ALI |
Rashtriya Janata Dal |
5 |
Anil Kumar |
Jan Adhikar Party |
6 |
Anand Kumar Maurya |
Bahujan Azad Party |
7 |
UPENDRA SAHANI |
Rashtriya Jansambhavna Party |
8 |
Jagdish Prasad |
Bajjikanchal Vikas Party |
9 |
Devendra Prasad Singh |
All India Forward Bloc |
10 |
Nabi Hussain |
Bharat Prabhat Party |
11 |
PRABHU NARAYAN |
Shivsena |
12 |
SHYAM KUMAR |
Rashtriya Hind Sena |
13 |
Anil Kumar Tiwari |
Independent |
14 |
Abul Kalam Khan |
Independent |
15 |
Kedar Nath Prasad |
Independent |
16 |
Raj Kumar Prasad |
Independent |
17 |
Ram Dayal Prasad |
Independent |
18 |
Vijay Nandan Paswan |
Independent |
The Battle for Bihar
In Bihar, the seats going to vote in Phase VI are - Gopalganj, Maharajganj, Paschim Champaran, Purvi Champaran, Sheohar, Siwan, Vaishal and Valmiki Nagar.
The contest in Bihar is mostly two-way with NDA pitted against Mahagathbandhan. While Janata Dal (United) is part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which comprises of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), the Bihar Mahagathbandhan comprises Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP), Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) and Vikasshil Insan Party (VIP).
The BJP will contest from Paschim Champaran (Bettiah), Purvi Champaran (Motihari), Muzaffarpur, Saran, Maharjaganj, Sheohar, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Ujiarpur, Begusarai, Patna Sahib, Patliputra, Ara, Buxar, Sasaram, Aurangabad and Araria.
The JD(U) will field candidates from Valmikinagar, Siwan, Gopalganj, Jehanbad, Gaya, Karakat, Madhepura, Supaul, Jhanjharpur, Sitamarhi, Purnea, Kishanganj, Banka, Bhagalpur, Munger, Nalanda and Katihar.
The Congress got nine constituencies as per the seat-sharing arrangements, while the RJD has 20 out of which it has forgone Ara in favour of the CPI(ML), which has returned the favour by announcing that the ultra-Left outfit would not field its candidate from Pataliputra, which would be contested by Lalu Prasad's eldest daughter Misa Bharti.
Besides, Upendra Kushwaha's RLSP is contesting five seats and Jitan Ram Manjhis HAM is fighting three. The VIP, founded and headed by Bollywood set designer-turned-politician Mukesh Sahni, has got three seats out of the 40 in Bihar.
The Lok Sabha election in the state will be held in seven phases with the first one on April 11 and the last on May 19.
The poll process will start on March 18 with the issuance of notification for filing of nomination papers for the first phase.
The counting of votes will take place along with the rest of the country on May 23, the Election Commission had said.
A total of 7.06 crore voters will exercise their franchise in 72,723 polling stations in the state.