Karakat Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

Karakat Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

Formed in the year 2008, the Karakat Parliamentary constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The Karakat Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 35) has a total of 1,386,634 electorates out of which 638,177 are females and 748,457 are males according to Election Commission of India 2009 reports. It was previously under the geographic jurisdiction of the Bikramganj Parliamentary constituency, which was abolished in 2008.

Karakat is situated within the Rohtas district, which is presently part of the Red Corridor, owing to frequent Naxalite-Maoist interference. As part of the Patna Division, the Rohtas district has the historic town of Sasaram as its headquarters. Six assembly segments form this constituency, out of which the three were part of the erstwhile Bikramganj Lok Sabha constituency, while two belonged to the Aurangabad Lok Sabha constituency, before the delimitation in 2008. The Rohtas district, which was once a renowned industrial hub, has regressed economically, owing to high rate of crime and insurgency. The district is listed among the economically backward districts of the state, coming under the special purview of the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme initiated by the Government of India.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Karakat Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Karakat parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Karakat constituency is Upendra Kushwaha of Rashtriya Lok Samta Party.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	35	Karakat	Gen	Upendra Kushwaha	M	Rashtriya Lok Samta Party	338892	Kanti Singh	F	RJD	233651
2009	35	Karakat	GEN	Singh,Shri Mahabali	M	JD(U)	196946	Kanti Singh	M	RJD	176463

List of Assembly Constituencies in Karakat Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Karakat parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Bikramganj	Dehri	Karakat
Goh	Obra	Nabinagar