Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency

Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India.^[1] Currently Gopal Jee Thakur of Bhartiya Janta Party is the Member of Parliament from Darbhanga Loksabha.

Darbhanga
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Assembly constituencies	Gaura Bauram Benipur Alinagar Darbhanga Rural Darbhanga Bahadurpur
Established	1952
Total electors	14,95,445 (2019)
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Gopal Jee Thakur
Party	Bharatiya Janta Party
Elected year	2019

Assembly segments

From 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Darbhanga Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[2]

No	Name	District	Member	Party		2019 lead
79	Gaura Bauram	Darbhanga	Swarna Singh		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
80	Benipur		Binay Kumar Choudhary		Janata Dal		Bharatiya Janata Party
81	Alinagar		Mishri Lal Yadav		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
82	Darbhanga Rural		Lalit Kumar Yadav		Rashtriya Janata Dal		Bharatiya Janata Party
83	Darbhanga		Sanjay Saraogi		Bharatiya Janata Party		Bharatiya Janata Party
85	Bahadurpur		Madan Sahni		Janata Dal		Bharatiya Janata Party

Members of Parliament

Year	Name	Party
1952	Abdul Jalil		Praja Socialist Party
	Narayan Das		Indian National Congress
1957
1962
1967	Satya Narayan Sinha
1971	Binodanand Jha
1972^	Lalit Narayan Mishra
1977	Surendra Jha 'Suman'		Janata Party
1980	Hari Nath Mishra		Indian National Congress
1984	Vijay Kumar Mishra		Lokdal
1989	Shakeelur Rehman		Janata Dal
1991	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi
1996
1998			Rashtriya Janata Dal
1999	Kirti Azad		Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Kirti Azad		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014
2019	Gopal Jee Thakur

^ by poll

Election results

2019 Indian general election : Darbhanga^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Gopal Jee Thakur^[4]	5,86,668	60.79	+22.81
	RJD	Abdul Bari Siddiqui	3,18,689	33.02
	IND	Saguni Ray	13,774	1.43
	BSP	Md. Mukhtar	11,255	1.17
	None of the Above	None of the Above	20,468	2.12
Majority			2,67,979	27.77
Turnout			9,65,510	58.35	+2.90
	BJP hold		Swing

2014 Indian general elections: Darbhanga^[5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Kirti Azad	3,14,949	37.98
	RJD	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	2,79,906	33.75
	JD(U)	Sanjay Kumar Jha	1,04,494	12.61
	SHS	Kedar Ku Keshav	25,277	3.05
	NOTA	None of the Above	21,103	2.54
Majority			35,043	4.23
Turnout			8,29,289	55.45	+13.80
	BJP hold		Swing

2009 Indian general elections: Darbhanga^[7]

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
	IND	Prof. Hare Ram Acharya	12,977	2.38
	CPI(ML)L	Sathy Narayn Mukhiya	12,154	2.23
	IND	Lalbahadur Yadav	10,622	1.95
Majority			46,453	8.52
Turnout			5,45,713	41.75
	BJP gain from RJD		Swing

2004 Indian general elections: Darbhanga^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi	4,27,672	56.07
	BJP	Kirti Azad	2,84,209	37.27
Majority			1,43,463	18.81
Turnout			7,62,657
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

See also

• Darbhanga district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. . www.news18.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
2. "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.
3. "General Election 2019 - Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
4. The Indian Express (23 May 2019). . Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
5. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 59. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
6. . ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
7. "General Election of India 2009, Constituency Wise Detailed Result". Election Commission of India. p. 24. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
8. "General Election of India 2009, Constituency Wise Detailed Result". Election Commission of India. p. 24. Retrieved 5 December 2020.

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