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Paschim Champaran Lok Sabha Elections

Paschim Champaran Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Bihar and will cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 12. This constituency came into existence following delimitation in 2008.

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Bihar will be held in all the seven phases and counting will be held on May 23.

Paschim Champaran constituency covers six assembly segments – Nautan, Chanpatia, Bettiah, Raxaul, Sugauli and Narkatia.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal of the of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – won by getting a margin of over 1.10 lakh votes. He had defeated film maker Prakash Jha of the Janata Dal (United). Jaiswal had secured 371232 votes while Jha got 260978 votes.

The voter turnout figure was at 60.49 percent across 1276 polling stations.

Some of the other candidates in the fray were Raghunath Jha of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Prabhu Raj Narain Rao of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

In the year 2009, Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal of the BJP managed to secure his winning position by getting just over 47 thousand votes against Prakash Jha of the of the JD(U). While Jaiswal got 198781 seats, Jha secured 151438 seats.

Other members in the fray were Anirudh Prasad Alias Sadhu Yadav of the Indian National Congress and Ramashray Singh of the CPM.

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Candidates	Party	Status	Votes
Dr. Sanjay Jaiswal	BJP	Won	603706
Brijesh Kumar Kushwaha	RLSP	Lost	309800
Nota	Nota	Lost	45699
Rakesh Kumar	BSP	Lost	11427
Sanjay Kumar Patel	IND	Lost	10801
Bipin Nath Tiwari Alias Bipin Tiwari	LJSWP	Lost	9868
Vikas Kumar Prasad	IND	Lost	8684
Nafish Ahmad	IND	Lost	5497
Ratan Kumar Sarkar	IND	Lost	4230
Ajay Kumar Sinha	IND	Lost	3224