Gaya Lok Sabha constituency

Gaya
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Assembly constituencies	Sherghati Barachatti Bodh Gaya Gaya Town Belaganj Wazirganj
Established	1957
Total electors	17,54,390
Reservation	SC
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Jitan Ram Manjhi Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Former Chief Minister of Bihar
Party	HAM(S)
Alliance	NDA
Preceded by	Vijay Kumar Manjhi,   JD(U)

Gaya Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) constituencies in the Indian state of Bihar. In the 2024 Indian general election, Jitan Ram Manjhi secured this constituency by defeating Kumar Sarvjeet of Rashtriya Janata Dal. ^[1]

Assembly segments

Currently, the Gaya Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

#	Name	District	Member	Party		2024 lead
226	Sherghati	Gaya	Uday Kumar Singh		LJP(RV)		HAM
228	Barachatti (SC)		Jyoti Devi		HAM		HAM
229	Bodh Gaya (SC)		Kumar Sarvjeet		RJD		HAM
230	Gaya Town		Prem Kumar		BJP		HAM
232	Belaganj		Manorama Devi		JD(U)		RJD
234	Wazirganj		Birendra Singh		BJP		HAM

Members of Parliament

The following is the list of the MPs elected from this Lok Sabha constituency: ^{[2] [3]}

Year	Name	Party
1957	Brajeshwar Prasad		Indian National Congress
1962
1967	Ram Dhani Das
1971	Ishwar Chaudhary		Bharatiya Jana Sangh
1977			Janata Party
1980	Ramswaroop Ram		Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Ishwar Chaudhary		Janata Dal
1991	Rajesh Kumar
1996	Bhagwati Devi
1998	Krishna Kumar Choudhary		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999	Ramji Manjhi
2004	Rajesh Kumar Manjhi		Rashtriya Janata Dal
2009	Hari Manjhi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2014
2019	Vijay Manjhi		Janata Dal (United)
2024	Jitan Ram Manjhi		Hindustani Awam Morcha

Election results

2024 Lok Sabha

2024 Indian general elections: Gaya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	HAM(S)	Jitan Ram Manjhi	494,960	51.36	+18.50
	RJD	Kumar Sarvjeet	3,93,148	40.80
	NOTA	None of the above	17,288	1.79
Majority			1,01,812	10.56
Turnout			9,64,870	52.98	−3.20
	HAM(S) gain from JD(U)		Swing

2019 Lok Sabha

2019 Indian general elections: Gaya

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	JD(U)	Vijay Manjhi	467,007	48.79	+32.51
	HAM(S)	Jitan Ram Manjhi	3,14,581	32.86	+32.86
	NOTA	None of the above	30,030	3.14	+0.78
	JDR	Vijay Kumar Chaudhari	23,462	2.45	+2.45
	API	Shiv Shankar	20,464	2.14	+2.14
Majority			1,52,426	15.93	+1.66
Turnout			9,57,654	56.18	+2.26
	JD(U) gain from BJP		Swing

2014 Lok Sabha

2014 Indian general elections: Gaya ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Hari Manjhi	326,230	40.30
	RJD	Ramji Manjhi	2,10,726	26.03
	JD(U)	Jitan Ram Manjhi	1,31,828	16.28
	JMM	Ashok Kumar	36,863	4.55
	IND	Dr. Dev Kumar Choudhary	19,651	2.43	+2.43
Majority			1,15,504	14.27
Turnout			8,09,587	53.92
	BJP hold		Swing

See also

• Gaya district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "Result 2024 Gaya". Election Commission of India.
2. "Election Commission of India" Archived January 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
3. "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived June 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
4. "ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA, GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2014".
5. "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 59. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
6. "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

External links

• Gaya lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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