Karakat is a Lok Sabha / Parliamentary constituency in South Bihar of Bihar and is located in East India. Karakat Lok Sabha is reserved for General.
It is a Rural constituency with an approximate literacy rate of 72.31%. There are 15,80,558 voters of which 8,49,474 are male and 7,30,224 are female and 860 voters of the third gender.
Upendra Kushwaha of RLSP (alliance: UPA) won in this seat defeating RJD. RLSP polled 3,38,892 of the total of 7,89,927 votes polled. JDU won the seat in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections.
Karakat goes to the polls in the 7st phase of the 2019 General Elections to choose the 17th Lok Sabha on Sunday, May 19, 2019. The election results for the seat are scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2019.
The voter turnout in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was 50.01%.
| Constituency Data (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. | 35 |
| Total Assembly Segments | 6 |
| Reservation for | General |
| Number of Voters | 15,80,558 |
| Number of Male Voters | 8,49,474 |
| Number of Female Voters | 7,30,224 |
| Results | 2014 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | RLSP | JDU |
| Turnout % | 50.01% | 41.62% |
| Margin of Victory | 1,05,241 | 20,483 |
| Margin of Victory % | 13.32% | 3.55% |
| Results | 2014 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|
| Winner | RLSP | JDU |
| Turnout % | 50.01% | 41.62% |
| Margin of Victory | 1,05,241 | 20,483 |
| Margin of Victory % | 13.32% | 3.55% |
| Party | Votes Polled | Votes % | CANDIDATE NAME |
|---|---|---|---|
| JD(U) | 398408 | 47.21% | Mahabali SinghWinner |
| RLSP | 313866 | 37.19% | Upendra Kushwaha |
| NOTA | 22104 | 2.62% | Nota |
| BSP | 21715 | 2.57% | Raj Narayan Tiwari |
| ANC | 12431 | 1.47% | Mohammad Atahar Husain |
| RSMP(S) | 8851 | 1.05% | Mamta Pandey |
| RSSD | 8381 | 0.99% | Jyoti Rashmi |
| IND | 6791 | 0.80% | Basudeo Hazarika |
| AHFB(K) | 6663 | 0.79% | Ramjee Singh Kanta |
| IND | 4605 | 0.55% | Neelam Kumari |
| IND | 4103 | 0.49% | Rameshwar Singh |
| JPJD | 3984 | 0.47% | Manoj Singh Kushvaha |
| SP(L) | 3419 | 0.41% | Nand Kishor Yadav |
| SSD | 3003 | 0.36% | Usha Sharan |
| SP | 2881 | 0.34% | Ghanshyam Tiwari |
| BLND | 2844 | 0.34% | Pradeep Chouhan |
| JDR | 2498 | 0.30% | Arif Isain Husain |
| IND | 2450 | 0.29% | Kumar Saurabh |
| PPI(D) | 2219 | 0.26% | Prakash Chandra Goyal |
| VPI | 2079 | 0.25% | Gorakh Ram |
| BMF | 1972 | 0.23% | Shashikant Singh |
| SBSP | 1713 | 0.20% | Kamlesh Ram (Prasad) |
| ADP | 1695 | 0.20% | Prithvi Nath Prasad |
| IND | 1472 | 0.17% | Ram Ayodhya Singh |
| IND | 1359 | 0.16% | Punam Devi |
| IND | 1286 | 0.15% | Dharmendra Singh |
| IND | 1074 | 0.13% | Abhiram Priyadarshi |
| CPI(ML)(L) | 0 | 0.00% | Raja Ram Singh |
