Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency

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Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
Assembly constituencies Hajipur
Lalganj
Mahua
Raja Pakar
Raghopur
Mahnar
Established1957
Reservation SC
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Party Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
Elected year 2019

Hajipur is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.

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Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency is reserved for SC. Former Bihar Chief Minister Ram Sundar Das first contested from this seat in 1957 as a Socialist when he was 36 years old, and 57 years later in 2014 for Nitish Kumar's JD-U when he was 93. He lost both those polls but won in 1991 and 2009.

From 1977 to 2019, this seat was dominated by Ram Vilas Paswan who won eight times from here and lost only twice, in 1984 and 2009. In 1991 Paswan contested and won from Rosera, the only time in 42 years that he did not contest from Hajipur. In 2019 he vacated the seat for his younger brother Pashupati Kumar Paras. In 1977, Paswas polled 89.3% votes, probably the highest voting percentage ever, and he also established a record (since broken) of securing a majority of 4.24 lakh votes. Sitting PM Narasimha Rao secured 89.48% votes in 1991 but that was in a bye-poll, not General Election, for Nandyal seat.

Vidhan Sabha segments

Hajipur Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

#NameDistrictMemberParty2019 lead
123 Hajipur Vaishali Awadhesh Singh BJP LJP
124 Lalganj Sanjay Kumar Singh BJP LJP
126 Mahua Mukesh Raushan RJD LJP
127 Raja Pakar (SC)Pratima Kumari INC LJP
128 Raghopur Tejashwi Yadav RJD RJD
129 Mahnar Bina Singh RJD LJP

    Members of Parliament

    YearNameParty
    1957 Rajeshwara Patel Indian National Congress
    1962
    1967 Valmiki Choudhary
    1971 Digvijay Narain Singh Indian National Congress (O)
    1977 Ram Vilas Paswan Janata Party
    1980 Janata Party (Secular)
    1984 Ram Ratan Ram Indian National Congress
    1989 Ram Vilas Paswan Janata Dal
    1991 Ram Sundar Das
    1996 Ram Vilas Paswan
    1998
    1999 Janata Dal (United)
    2004 Lok Janshakti Party
    2009 Ram Sundar Das Janata Dal (United)
    2014 Ram Vilas Paswan Lok Janshakti Party
    2019 Pashupati Kumar Paras

    Election results

    2019

    2019 Indian general elections: Hajipur
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    LJP Pashupati Kumar Paras 541,310 53.76 +3.45
    RJD Shiv chandra Ram3,35,86133.36+33.36
    NCP Dasai Chowdhary 4,8750.48+0.48
    Independent RAJ KR. PASWAN30,7973.06N/A
    BSP Umesh Das14,5791.45+0.05
    NOTA None of the Above25,2562.51+0.85
    Majority2,05,449
    Turnout 10,07,68055.26+0.41
    LJP hold Swing

    General Elections 2014

    2014 Indian general elections: Hajipur [1] [2]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    LJP Ramvilas Paswan 4,55,65250.31+12.70
    INC Sanjeev Prasad Toni2,30,15225.41+21.52
    Janata Dal (United) Ram Sundar Das 95,79010.58-33.86
    Independent Viphiya Devi24,3992.69N/A
    Independent Dina Nath Ram21,0452.32N/A
    BSP Dhaneshwar Ram12,6881.40+0.47
    NOTA None of the Above15,0471.66N/A
    Majority2,25,50024.90+18.07
    Turnout 9,04,70654.85+13.02
    LJP gain from Janata Dal (United) Swing

    General Elections 2009

    General Election, 2009: Hajipur [3]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    Janata Dal (United) Ram Sundar Das 2,46,71544.44
    LJP Ram Vilas Paswan 2,08,76137.61
    INC Dasai Choudhary21,5853.89
    LTSDDinesh Chandra Bhushan17,1503.09
    Independent Sanjay Pashwan14,2172.56
    Independent Rajendra Kumar Paswan13,0712.35
    Independent Ram Tirth Paswan10,5371.90
    Independent Pratima Kumari5,9481.07
    BSP Maheshwar Das5,1750.93
    Independent Nand Lal Paswan4,6210.78
    Majority37,9546.83
    Turnout 5,55,10741.83
    Janata Dal (United) gain from LJP Swing

    General Elections 1989

    General Election, 1989: Hajipur [3]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    JD Ram Vilas Paswan 6,15,12984.08
    INC(I) Mahabir Paswan1,10,68115.13
    Majority5,04,44868.95
    Turnout 7,31,59266.74
    JD gain from INC Swing

    General Elections 1977

    General Election, 1977: Hajipur [3]
    PartyCandidateVotes%±%
    JP Ram Vilas Paswan 4,69,00789.30
    INC Baleshwar Ram 44,4628.47
    Majority4,24,54580.83
    Turnout 5,25,17976.45
    JP gain from INC(O) Swing

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