Vaishali Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Vaishali Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Bihar and cast its vote in the 2019 election on May 12.

In Bihar, around 59.38 percent turnout was recorded for the eight Lok Sabha seats.

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh of Rashtriya Janata Dal, Veena Devi of Lok Jan Shakti Party and Shankar Mahto of Bahujan Samaj Party are some of the prominent names that will contest the Lok Sabha election 2019 from Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.

Voting for Lok Sabha election in Bihar was held in all the seven phases and counting will be held on May 23.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Vaishali Lok Sabha Constituency of Bihar.

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	Raghuvansh Prasad Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2	Veena Devi (W/o Dinesh Prasad Singh)	Lok Jan Shakti Party
3	Shankar Mahto	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Amit Vikram	Jantantrik Vikas Party
5	Dhanvanti Devi	Lok Chetna Dal
6	Naresh Ram	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
7	Balak Nath Sahani	Rashtriya mahan Gantantra Party
8	Rameshwar Sah	Rashtriya Pragati Party
9	Reshami Devi	Bajjikanchal Vikas Party
10	Vidya Bhushan	Sapaks Party
11	Satish Kumar Mishra	Rashtriya Jansambhavna Party
12	Sushma Kumari	Garib Janshakti Party
13	Abhay Kumar Sharma	Independent
14	Arvind Kumar Singh	Independent
15	Abha Rai	Independent
16	Ismohamad alias Md. Munna	Independent
17	Pankaj Kumar	Independent
18	Rinkoo Devi	Independent
19	Laljee Kumar Rakesh	Independent
20	Beena Devi (W/o Ajit Kumar Ray)	Independent
21	Sudha Rani	Independent
22	Suresh Kumar Gupta	Independent

Vaishali constituency covers five assembly segments –  Minapur, Kanti, Baruraj, Paroo and Sahebganj.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Rama Kishore Singh of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) – won by getting a margin of over 99 thousand votes. He had defeated Raghuvansh Prasad Singh of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Rama Kishore had secured 305450 votes while Raghuvansh Prasad got 206183 votes.