Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Jamui constituency, Bihar

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Constituency profile of Jamui, Bihar

LJP leader Chirag Paswan holds the Jamui Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, which is reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates.

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Constituency profile of Jamui, Bihar (Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times)

The son of Lok Janshakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, Chirag Paswan defeated the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Sudhansu Kumar Bhaskar in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Before Chirag Paswan, the Janata Dal(United) leader Bhudeo Chaudhary held the seat from 2009.

State: Bihar

Name of the Lok Sabha constituency: Jamui

Sitting MP, Party: Chirag Paswan, LJP

Winning margin in 2014: 85,947

Runner up name, party: Sudhansu Shekhar Bhaskar, RJD

Number of voters in 2014: 775,639

Percentage of votes polled in 2014: 50.01%

Number of polling booths in 2014: 1,604

Number of women voters: 722,530