Supaul Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 parliamentary constituencies in Bihar and will go to polls in the third phase of the general elections on April 23. Supaul parliamentary constituency is part of Supaul district of Bihar and came into existence in 2008 delimitation process.
Supaul was one the very few Lok Sabha seats in Hindi belt which were not won by the BJP in 2014 Narendra Modi wave. Ranjeet Ranjan of the Congress won from here by defeating JD(U)'s Dileshwar Kamait with a margin of over 59,000 votes. While Kamait had received 2.73 lakh votes, BJP's Kameshwar Choupal had secured the third position with 2.49 lakh votes.
This was Ranjeet Ranjan's second attempt in Supaul as she had lost to JD(U)'s Vishwa Mohan Kumar in 2009 by over 1.66 lakh votes.
Kamait and Ranjan will again face each other in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
There are 20 candidates in poll fray in Supaul.
The Supaul Lok Sabha constituency is made up of six Assembly constituencies - Nirmali, Pipra, Supaul, Triveniganj, Chhatapur and Singheshwar.
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 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 polling on this seat will be held in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 23. Five constituencies of Bihar's 40 Lok Sabha seats - Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura and Khagaria - will go to polls in the third phase. A total of 82 candidates are in the fray in the five constituencies that would go to polls.
The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.
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