Darbhanga (Lok Sabha constituency)

Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.

Assembly segments

From 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:[1]

1. (79) Gaura Bauram
2. (80) Benipur
3. (81) Alinagar
4. (82) Darbhanga Rural
5. (83) Darbhanga
6. (85) Bahdurpur

Members of Parliament

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Shree Narayan Das	Indian National Congress
	Anirudha Sinha	Indian National Congress
	Shyam Nandan Mishra	Indian National Congress
	Lalit Narayan Mishra	Indian National Congress
1957	Shree Narayan Das	Indian National Congress
	Rameshwar Sahu	Indian National Congress
1962	Shree Narayan Das	Indian National Congress
1967	Satya Narayan Sinha	Indian National Congress
1971	Binodanand Jha	Indian National Congress
1972^	Lalit Narayan Mishra	Indian National Congress
1977	Surendra Jha 'Suman'	Bharatiya Lok Dal
1980	Hari Nath Mishra	Indian National Congress (I)
1984	Vijay Kumar Mishra	Lok Dal
1989	Shakeelur Rehman	Janata Dal
1991	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Janata Dal
1996	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Janata Dal
1998	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Rashtriya Janata Dal
1999	Kirti Azad	Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Kirti Azad	Bharatiya Janata Party
2014	Kirti Azad	Bharatiya Janata Party
2019	Gopal Jee Thakur	Bharatiya Janata Party

^ by poll

Election results

2019 Indian general election : Darbhanga [2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur	5,86,668	60.79
	RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	3,18,689	33.02
	Independent	Saguni Ray	13,774	1.43
	BSP	Md. Mukhtar	11,255	1.17
	Independent	Saroj Kumar Chaudhary	4,413	0.46
	Independent	Sanjay Paswan	4,396	0.46
	Independent	Pankaj Kumar Singh	2,769	0.29
	Independent	Abdul Aziz	2,564	0.27
	NOTA	None of the Above	20,468	2.12
Majority			2,67,979	27.77
Turnout			9,65,510	58.35
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Darbhanga [3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kirti Azad	3,14,949	37.98
	RJD	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	2,79,906	33.75
	NOTA	None of the Above	21,103	2.54
Majority			35,043	4.23
Turnout			829,289	55.45
	BJP hold		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Darbhanga [5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kirti Azad	2,39,268	43.85
	RJD	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	1,92,815	35.33
	INC	Ajay Kumar Jalan	40,724	7.46
	Independent	Prof. Hare Ram Acharya	12,977	2.38
	CPI(ML)L	Sathy Narayn Mukhiya	12,154	2.23
	Independent	Lalbahadur Yadav	10,622	1.95
Majority			46,453	8.52
Turnout			5,45,713	41.75
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

See also

• Darbhanga district
• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
2. "General Election 2019 - Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
3. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 59. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
4. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
5. "General Election of India 2009, Constituency Wise Detailed Result". Election Commission of India. p. 24. Retrieved 5 December 2020.