Upendra Kushwaha is contesting two Lok Sabha seats in Bihar this time, Karakat and Ujiarpur. Kushwaha, a sitting MP from Karakat, is up against JDU's Mahabali Singh, a close confidante of Nitish Kumar, on the seat. Kushwaha had won the seat by defeating his nearest rival Kanti Singh of RJD with a margin of over one lakh votes in previous election. Karakat has a sizable population of the Kuhswaha community as well ss the Yadavs. The seat also has considerable Muslim votes. Kushwaha thus holds an advantage in caste equations on the seat.
Constituency Data | |
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Party | RLSP |
Constituency | Karakat |
State | Bihar |
Constituency Type | General |
Personal Details | |
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Criminal Cases | 5 |
Education | Post Graduate |
Total Assets | Rs.3,10,,3,4,,113 (Rs 3.1 core) |
Total Liabilities | Rs.13,,5,8,,960 (Rs 13.59 lakh) |
Party | Votes Polled | Votes % | CANDIDATE NAME |
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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 |