Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency

Samastipur
Samastipur
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Assembly constituencies	Kusheshwar Asthan ; Hayaghat ; Kalyanpur ; Warisnagar ; Samastipur ; Rosera
Established	1952
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Shambhavi Choudhary ; D/O: Ashok Choudhary; Minister of Building Construction, Govt. of Bihar
Party	LJP(RV)
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2024
Preceded by	Prince Raj

Samastipur is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India. It is reserved for Scheduled Castes. In the Legislative Assembly segment of this Lok Sabha constituency, Kushwaha, and Yadav caste are dominant, however, due to preponderance of other caste groups, Extremely Backward Castes and Schedule Castes also determine the election results.^[1]

Vidhan Sabha segments

Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[2]

#	Name	District	Member
78	Kusheshwar Asthan (SC)	Darbhanga	Atirek Kumar	JD(U)	LJP(RV)
84	Hayaghat	Darbhanga	Ram Chandra Prasad	BJP
131	Kalyanpur (SC)	Samastipur	Maheshwar Hazari	JD(U)
132	Warisnagar		Manjarik Mrinal
133	Samastipur		Ashwamedh Devi
139	Rosera (SC)		Birendra Kumar	BJP

Members of Parliament

Year	Name
1952	Satya Narayan Sinha	Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967	Yamuna Prasad Mandal
1971	Yamuna Prasad Mandal
1977	Karpoori Thakur	Janata Party
1978^	Ajit Kumar Mehta	Janata Party
1980	Ajit Kumar Mehta	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Ramdeo Rai	Indian National Congress
1989	Manjay Lal	Janata Dal
1991	Manjay Lal
1996	Ajit Kumar Mehta
1998	Ajit Kumar Mehta	Rashtriya Janata Dal
1999	Manjay Lal	Janata Dal (United)
2004	Alok Kumar Mehta	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Maheshwar Hazari	Janata Dal (United)
2014	Ram Chandra Paswan	Lok Janshakti Party
2019	Ram Chandra Paswan
2019^	Prince Raj
2024	Shambhavi Choudhary	Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)

^ by-poll

Result

2024

2024 Indian general election: Samastipur^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LJP(RV)	Shambhavi Choudhary	579,786	52.97
	INC	Sunny Hazari	3,92,535	35.86
	NOTA	None of the Above	32,668	2.98
	BSP	Ram Lakhan Mahto	12,732	1.16
Majority			1,87,251	17.11
Turnout			10,95,866	60.21
	LJP(RV) gain from LJP		Swing

2019 By-election

Bye-elections, 2019: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LJP	Prince Raj	390,276	49.48	5.71
	INC	Ashok Kumar	2,88,186	36.54	6.04
	IND	Suraj Kumar Das	36,152	4.58	4.58
	NOTA	None of the Above	25,694	3.26
Majority			1,02,090	12.94
Turnout			7,88,718	46.93	−13.86
	LJP hold		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LJP	Ram Chandra Paswan^[4]	562,443	55.19
	INC	Ashok Kumar	3,10,800	30.50	−0.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	35,417	3.48
	WAP	Vidya Nand Ram	29,392	2.88
	IND.	Suraj Kumar Das	22,187	2.18
Majority			2,51,643	24.69
Turnout			10,19,771	60.74
	LJP hold		Swing

General election 2014

2014 Indian general election: Samastipur^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	LJP	Ram Chandra Paswan	2,73,654	31.33
	INC	Ashok Kumar	2,63,529	30.53
	JD(U)	Maheshwar Hazari	2,00,124	23.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	29,211	3.38
	JDR	Baleshwar Paswan	15,837	1.83
Majority			10,128	0.80
Turnout			8,63,211	57.38
	LJP gain from JD(U)		Swing

1991

1991 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Manjay Lal	430,450	60.99	3.97
	INC	Baliram Bhagat	191,418	27.12	3.64
	BJP	Chandra Kant Choudhary	60,344	8.55
	Independent	Anil Kumar Gupta	8,315	1.18
	JP	Ajit Kumar Mehta	6,988	0.99
	Independent	Brahadeo Singh	2,580	0.37
	SOP(L)	Upendra Poddar	1,949	0.28
	Independent	Suresh Choudhary	583	0.08
	Independent	Tirthanand Choudhary	502	0.07
	LKD	Turantlal Sahni	281	0.04
	Independent	Rajendra Prasad Singh	267	0.04
	DDP	Ganpat Mahto	257	0.04	0.18
	Independent	Vanarsi Thakur	256	0.04
	BKUS	Dilip Kumar Sahni	241	0.03
	Independent	Awadh Sahni	187	0.03
	Independent	Kalpu Paswan	175	0.02
	Independent	Yogendra Prasad Singh	156	0.02
	Independent	Anandlal Singh	143	0.02
	Independent	Vidyasagar Gupta	136	0.02
	Independent	Raj Narayan Mishra	125	0.02
	Independent	Dharmakant Thakur	97	0.01
	Independent	Ramnarayan Singh	88	0.01
	Independent	Ramvilash Mahto	86	0.01
	Independent	Parmanand Mishra	80	0.01
	Independent	Ramakant Pathak	57	0.01
Majority			239,032	33.87	0.33
Turnout			713,698	65.91	0.41
	JD hold		Swing

1989

1989 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD	Manjai Lal	451,477	64.96
	INC	Ramdeo Rai	213,796	30.76	27.00
	LKD(B)	Shiva Shankar Sahni	8,894	1.28
	Independent	Suresh Choudhary	5,425	0.78
	Independent	Jia Ram Singh	2,424	0.35
	DDP	Jogi Rai	1,516	0.22
	Independent	Bhagwat Rai	1,186	0.17
	Independent	Saroj Thakur	1,085	0.16
	Independent	Mahesh Jha	1,018	0.15
	Independent	Sivaram Mahto	1,009	0.15
	Independent	Anil Kumar Sharma	978	0.14
	Independent	Surendra Prassad	928	0.13
	Independent	Shyam Sunder Bhagat	594	0.09
	Independent	Ramparwasji Rai	587	0.08
	Independent	Yogendra Prassad Singh	569	0.08
	Independent	Nagendra Rai Yadav	563	0.08
	Independent	Amir Hassan	549	0.08
	Independent	Tapesvar Rai	538	0.08
	Independent	Shanbhu Singh	422	0.06
	Independent	Shilendar Sah	419	0.06
	Independent	Mahesh Singh	407	0.06
	Independent	Dilip Kumar Sahni	402	0.06
	Independent	Harilal Rai	177	0.03
Majority			237,681	34.20	15.09
Turnout			704,303	65.50	1.82
	JD gain from INC		Swing

1984

1984 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Ramdeo Rai	327,585	57.76
	LKD	Karpoori Thakur	219,224	38.65
	Independent	Yogendra Prasad Narain Singh	4,846	0.85
	Independent	Baidyanath Mehta	2,923	0.52
	Independent	Rama Shankar Bajpayee	2,228	0.39
	Independent	Srimant Kr. Choudhary	2,139	0.38
	Independent	Ram Bhajan Sharma	1,946	0.34
	Independent	Harihar Prasad Sharma	1,871	0.33
	Independent	Rajeshwar Prasad Mandal	1,735	0.31
	Independent	Nand Lal Sah	1,642	0.29
	Independent	Sahdeo Sahni	1,006	0.18
Majority			108,361	19.11	0.71
Turnout			579,340	63.68	7.78
	INC gain from JP(S)		Swing

1980

1980 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP(S)	Ajit Kumar Mehta	236,436	50.28
	INC(I)	K. K. Mandal	149,912	31.88	11.55
	JP	Kailashpati Singh	55,245	11.75	37.08
	Independent	Umadhar Singh	13,151	2.80
	Independent	Kameshwar Prasad Thakur	3,110	0.66
	Independent	Bhikhar Mahto	2,552	0.54
	Independent	Badri Narain Poddar	2,287	0.49
	Independent	Maheshwar Das	1,831	0.39
	Independent	Jagannath Poddar	1,742	0.37
	Independent	Nazir Mian	1,111	0.24
	Independent	Kira Moch	1,012	0.22
	Independent	Mahabir Choubey	698	0.15
	Independent	Bhai Gopal	662	0.14
	Independent	Jagdish Prasad Rai	473	0.10
Majority			86,524	18.40	13.01
Turnout			475,011	55.90	14.79
	JP(S) gain from JP		Swing

1978 by-election

1978 Samastipur by-election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Ajit Kumar Mehta	243,554	48.83	29.39
	INC(I)	T. Sinha	216,690	43.43
	Independent	U. Singh	18,686	3.75
	INC	C. P. Verma	5,394	1.08	13.42
	Independent	R. J. Rai	4,236	0.85
	Independent	K. K. Sharma	3,050	0.61
	Independent	M. Singh	2,831	0.57
	Independent	J. C. Purbey	2,301	0.46
	Independent	N. Mian	1,553	0.31
	Independent	R. N. Singh	981	0.20
	Independent	D. Pandey	974	0.20
Majority			26,864	5.39	58.33
Turnout
	JP hold		Swing

1977

1977 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JP	Karpoori Thakur	401,935	78.22
	INC	Yamuna Prasad Mandal	74,501	14.50	34.64
	CPI	Parma Nand Singh 'Madan'	29,028	5.65
	Independent	Sureshwar Prasad Singh	8,414	1.64
Majority			327,434	63.72	41.42
Turnout			520,131	70.69	15.45
	JP gain from INC		Swing

1971

1971 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Yamuna Prasad Mandal	166,827	49.14	7.97
	ABJS	Valmiki Prasad Singh	91,111	26.84	17.20
	SSP	Munshilal Roy	73,359	21.61	9.38
	PBI	Lalit Kumar Singh	2,842	0.84
	Independent	Yadunandan Thakur	2,118	0.62
	Independent	Jwala Prasad Choudhary	1,422	0.42
	Independent	Bhola Nath Choudhary	943	0.28
	Independent	Rampur Prasad Roy	842	0.25
Majority			75,716	22.30	12.12
Turnout			342,224	55.24	5.60
	INC hold		Swing

1967

1967 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Y. P. Mandal	128,148	41.17	0.32
	SSP	C. L. Rai	96,476	30.99
	PSP	B. N. Singh	56,653	18.20	12.46
	ABJS	B. P. Singh	29,999	9.64
Majority			31,672	10.18	0.65
Turnout			324,023	60.84	6.53
	INC hold		Swing

1962

1962 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Satya Narayan Sinha	82,522	41.49	12.02
	PSP	Rajendra Mahto	60,972	30.66	2.80
	SWA	Ramasray Prasad Choudhary	45,411	22.83
	Socialist	Banarsi Prasad Sha	9,991	5.02
Majority			21,550	10.83	14.82
Turnout			208,396	54.31	6.13
	INC hold		Swing

1957

1957 Indian general election: Samastipur
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Satya Narayan Sinha	89,266	53.51	2.25
	PSP	Rajendra Narain Sharma	46,474	27.86
	Independent	Badri Narayan Sinha	23,122	13.86
	Independent	Lakshman Pd. Bhagat	7,953	4.77
Majority			42,792	25.65	5.94
Turnout			166,815	48.18	11.99
	INC hold		Swing

1952

1952 Indian general election: Samastipur East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Satya Narain Sinha	63,019	51.26
	Socialist	Badri Narain Sinha	38,790	31.55
	Independent	Ram Prakash Sharma	14,477	11.78
	Independent	Phuleshwar Mukhya	6,660	5.42
Majority			24,229	19.71
Turnout			122,946	36.19
	INC win (new seat)

References

↑ "समस्तीपुर लोकसभा सीट समीकरण: रामचंद्र पासवान के बाद प्रिंस राज जीते". livehindustan.com. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
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↑ "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Samastipur". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 13 July 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
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↑ "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 68. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
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