Samastipur (Lok Sabha constituency)

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

Vidhan Sabha segments

Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:[1]

1. (78) Kusheshwar Asthan
2. (84) Hayaghat
3. (131) Kalyanpur
4. (132) Warisnagar
5. (133) Samastipur
6. (139) Rosera

Kalyanpur, Warisnagar, Samastipur and Rosera is in Samastipur district, Kusheshwar Asthan and Hayaghat is in Darbhanga district of Bihar.

Members of Lok Sabha

Year	Winner	Party
1952	Satya Narayan Sinha	Indian National Congress
1957	Satya Narayan Sinha	Indian National Congress
1962	Satya Narayan Sinha [2]	Indian National Congress
1967	Yamuna Prasad Mandal	Indian National Congress
1971	Yamuna Prasad Mandal	Indian National Congress
1977	Karpoori Thakur (Became CM in June 1977)	Janata Party
1978^	Ajit Kumar Mehta (by-poll)	Janata Party
1980	Ajit Kumar Mehta	Janata Party (Secular)
1984	Ramdeo Rai	Indian National Congress (I)
1989	Manjay Lal	Janata Dal
1991	Manjay Lal	Janata Dal
1996	Ajit Kumar Mehta	Janata Dal
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 (Died in 2019)	Lok Janshakti Party
	Prince Raj (by-election) [3]	Lok Janshakti Party

General elections

Bye-elections, 2019: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LJP	Prince Raj	3,90,276	49.48
	INC	Ashok Kumar	2,88,186	36.54	+6.04
	IND	Suraj Kumar Das	36,152	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

General election 2019

2019 Indian general election: Samastipur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	LJP	Ram Chandra Paswan	5,62,443	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 [4][5]

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

See also

• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
• Samastipur district

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. http://www.elections.in/parliamentary-constituencies/1962-election-results.html
3. "Paswan's nephew Prince Raj wins LS bypoll to retain Samastipur seat for LJP". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 24 October 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
4. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 68. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
5. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.