Aurangabad, Bihar Lok Sabha constituency

Aurangabad
Aurangabad
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
Assembly constituencies	Kutumba; Aurangabad; Rafiganj; Gurua; Imamganj; Tikari
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
	18th Lok Sabha
	Incumbent Abhay Kushwaha
Party	RJD
Elected year	2024

The Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Bihar state in eastern India. Between 1952 and 2019, the constituency elected candidates belonging to only Rajput caste to Lok Sabha. From 1989 to 2019, the constituency remained the space for political battle between the families of Satyendra Narayan Singh and Ram Naresh Singh. In 2024, Abhay Kushwaha defeated Sushil Kumar Singh, son of Ram Naresh Singh to become first non-Rajput parliamentarian from the constituency.^[1]

Assembly segments

Presently, Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency comprises the following six Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:

#	Name	District	Member
222	Kutumba (SC)	Aurangabad	Rajesh Kumar	INC	RJD
223	Aurangabad		Anand Shankar Singh	INC	RJD
224	Rafiganj		Mohammad Nehaluddin	RJD	RJD
225	Gurua	Gaya	Vinay Yadav	RJD	RJD
227	Imamganj (SC)		Vacant		RJD
231	Tikari		Anil Kumar	HAM	RJD

Members of Parliament

The following is the list of the Members of Parliament elected from this constituency, the first Member of Parliament from the constituency was eminent freedom fighter Shri Satyendra Narain Singh.^[2]^[3]

Year	Name
1952	Satyendra Narayan Sinha	Indian National Congress
1957	Satyendra Narayan Sinha
1961^	Ramesh Prasad Singh
1962	Maharani Lalita Rajya Lakshmi	Swatantra Party
1967	Mudrika Sinha	Indian National Congress
1971	Satyendra Narayan Sinha	Indian National Congress (O)
1977		Janata Party
1980		Janata Party
1984		Indian National Congress
1989	Ram Naresh Singh	Janata Dal
1991	Ram Naresh Singh
1996	Virendra Kumar Singh
1998	Sushil Kumar Singh	Samata Party
1999	Shyama Singh	Indian National Congress
2004	Nikhil Kumar	Indian National Congress
2009	Sushil Kumar Singh	Janata Dal (United)
2014		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Abhay Kushwaha	Rashtriya Janata Dal

^ by poll

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general elections: Aurangabad, Bihar^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	RJD	Abhay Kushwaha	465,567	49.22	11.1
	BJP	Sushil Kumar Singh	386,456	40.86	4.97
	BSP	Sunesh Kumar	20,309	2.15	1.46
	NOTA	None of the Above	22,627	2.39
Majority			79,111
Turnout			9,45,880	50.35	3.32
	RJD gain from BJP		Swing

Detailed Results at: https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS0437.htm

(#): Joint candidate (HAM(S) in MGB in 2019)

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Aurangabad, Bihar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sushil Kumar Singh	431,541	45.83	+6.67
	HAM(S)	Upendra Prasad	3,58,934	38.12
	BSP	Naresh Yadav	34,033	3.61
	NOTA	None of the Above	22,632	2.4	+0.18
Majority			72,607	7.61
Turnout			9,35,469	53.67
	BJP hold		Swing

General elections 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Aurangabad, Bihar^[5]^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sushil Kumar Singh	307,941	39.16
	INC	Nikhil Kumar	2,41,594	30.72
	JD(U)	Bagi Kumar Verma	1,36,137	17.31
	BSP	Santosh Kumar	27,833	3.54
	NOTA	None of the Above	17,454	2.22
Majority			66,347	7.71
Turnout			7,86,274	51.19
	BJP gain from JD(U)		Swing

General Elections 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Aurangabad, Bihar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	JD(U)	Sushil Kumar Singh	260,153	43.48
	RJD	Shakil Ahmad Khan	1,88,095	31.44
	INC	Nikhil Kumar	54,581	9.12
	BSP	Archna Chandra	45,173	7.55
Majority			72,058	12.04
Turnout			5,98,309	43.47
	JD(U) gain from INC		Swing

References

^ "First non Rajput candidate wins Bihar's Chittorgarh". Hindustan. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
^ "Election Commission of India" Archived 31 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 16 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Result 2024". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
^ "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 80. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
^ "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

Aurangabad lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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[1] "First non Rajput candidate wins Bihar's Chittorgarh". Hindustan. Retrieved 10 June 2024.

[2] "Election Commission of India" Archived 31 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine

[3] "Lok Sabha Former Members" Archived 16 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine

[4] "Result 2024". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 13 July 2024.

[5] "General Election of India 2014, Constituencywise detail result" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 80. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

[web-arch-turnout-6] "Parliamentary Constituency wise Turnout for General Election - 2014". ECI New Delhi. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2015.

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