Bihar Lok Sabha Election 2024: Can Congress Reassert Dominance In Madhubani Or Will BJP Juggernaut Keep Rolling?

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is once again in power in Bihar, has secured three consecutive victories and turned the Madhubani Lok Sabha constituency into their stronghold in the past 15 years.

Bihar Lok Sabha Election 2024: Madhubani Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 40 Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar. Prior to the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Madhubani Lok Sabha seat swapped between the Congress, BJP, and the Communist Party. However, since then the saffron party has maintained absolute dominance in the constituency, winning the seat for three consecutive terms in the 2009, 2014, and the 2019 elections.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s Ashok Kumar Yadav, retained the seat for the saffron brigade by defeating his nearly rival, Badri Kumar Purbey of the regional Vikassheel Insan Party (VIP), by a thumping margin of 4,54,940 votes.

Yadav secured a massive 5,95,843 votes, amidst an average 53.72 percent voter turnout, while Purbey could only manage 1,40,903 votes.

Elections for the Madhubani Lok Sabha constituency will be held on May 20, 2024– Phase 5 of Lok Sabha polls– while votes will be counted on June 4 and results declared on the same day.

Madhubani Lok Sabha Election 2024: Key Candidates

(Note: The candidate(s) list will be updated as and when they are announced.)

Madhubani Lok Sabha Election 2024: Key Dates

Date of polling: May 20, 2024

Date of counting/results: June 4, 2024

About Madhubani Lok Sabha Constituency

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which is once again in power in Bihar, has secured three consecutive victories and turned the Madhubani Lok Sabha constituency into their stronghold in the past 15 years.

The saffron party looks set to retain the Madhubani seat for the fourth straight parliamentary election, however, opposition Congress, which once held sway in the constituency will be looking to reassert their dominance in the Bihar Lok Sabha Election 2024.

Elections for the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar will be held in all seven phases of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 from April 19 to June 1, 2024. Votes will be counted on June 4 and results declared on the same day, the Election Commission has announced.