Karakat Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: Pawan Singh Loses To Raja Ram Singh In Bihar's Karakat With Over 1 Lakh Votes

Independent candidate and Bhojpuri star Pawan Singh has lost from Karakat Lok Sabha seat in Bihar.

Karakat Lok Sabha Election Result 2024: Pawan Singh loses with a huge margin.

Source : PTI

Karakat Lok Sabha Results 2024: Ahead of the end of polls, all eyes were on the Karakat Lok Sabha seat in Bihar. While Raja Ram Singh was leading for Karakat as a Communist Party Of India (Marxist) candidate, Bhojpuri actor and musician Pawan Singh was up against him. Now that the final results are out, Pawan Singh lost the Karakat seat to CPI's Raja Ram Singh with 1,05,858 votes. Raja Ram Singh garnered 3,805,81 votes whereas Pawan Singh got 2,747,23 votes. 

Karakat Lok Sabha Elections Results 2024: Full List Of Candidates

Pawan Singh (IND)

Pradeep Kumar Joshi (Rashtra Seva Dal)

Raja Ram Singh (IND)

Pradeep Kumar Joshi (RSSD)

Dheeraj Kumar Singh (BSP)

Indra Raj Roushan (IND)

Avadhesh Pasawan (Bharatiya Aam Awam Party)

Priyanka Choudhary (AIMIM)

Vikash Vinayak (Jan Janwadi Party)

Ajeet Kumar Singh (PPID)

Upendra Kushwaha (Rashtriya Lok Morcha)

The voter turnout in Karakat was recorded as 52.87% in the 2024 elections.

Earlier, Pawan Singh was given a ticket by BJP from Asansol. However, Pawan Singh refused to contest the election from there. He was hoping that BJP would give him a ticket from somewhere else. When this did not happen, he announced that he would contest the election from Karakat. Pawan Singh filed an independent nomination.

About Karakat Lok Sabha Seat

Bihar has forty seats, one of which is Karakat. The majority of the Karakat Lok Sabha constituency's 88.87% population lives in rural regions, which is situated in Bihar's Rohtas district. 

The changing vote preferences within the constituency have been reflected in the political representation in the region, which has experienced changes from the Janata Dal to the BJP and RJD. Karakat, which has a sizable population of Koeri (Kushwaha), Rajput, and Yadav people, has become an important constituency after 2002. 

There were a total of 27 contenders for this seat in the 2019 election, up from 15 in 2014 and 16 in 2009.

Mahabali Singh of the JD(U) won the Karakat seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by 398408 votes, with Upendra Kushwaha of the RLSP coming in second with 313,866 votes.

The Karakat parliamentary constituency includes the following assembly seats: Nokha, Dehri, Karakat, Obra, Nabinagar, and Goh.