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Lok Sabha elections 2019: In Bihar’s Sheohar, BJP and RJD will be at war
The constituency has been held by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Rama Devi since 2009 Lok Sabha elections. She had defeated Mohammad Anwarul Haque of the Rashtriya Janata Dal of Lalu Prasad. Haque held the seat in 1999-2004 and had given her a tough fight in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
Sheohar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 parliamentary constituencies in Bihar in eastern India. Sheohar Lok Sabha constituency is one of the oldest in the country and was once held by Thakur Jugal Kishore Sinha, an eminent freedom fighter.
The constituency has been held by Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Rama Devi since 2009 Lok Sabha elections. She had defeated Mohammad Anwarul Haque of the Rashtriya Janata Dal of Lalu Prasad. Haque held the seat in 1999-2004 and had given her a tough fight in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
There were 1,489,724 electorate in the Sheohar Lok Sabha Constituency in 2014 elections, out of which 794,679 are male and the remaining 409,478 are female.
According to the estimates of the 2011 census, out of total 656,246 population, there were 346,673 males and 309,573 females.
Voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was 56.58%.
Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Sheohar
State: Bihar
Lok Sabha constituency: Sheohar
Date of polling: May 12
2019 candidates: Rama Devi (BJP), Syed Fasal Ali (Congress)
Sitting MP, Party: Rama Devi, BJP
Winning margin in 2014: 1,36,239
Runner up name, party: Mohammad Anwarul Haque, RJD
Number of voters in 2014: 1,489,724
Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 56%
Number of polling booths in 2014:
Number of women voters: 695,045
