Live : Pataliputra Assembly Election 2020

In 2014 general elections, Ram Kripal Yadav, the Minister of State for Rural Development, was elected from Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket with a margin of 40,322 votes. Yadav was polled 3,83,262 while his nearest rival, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad's elder daughter Misa Bharti, bagged 3,42,940 votes.

Ranjan Prasad Yadav was elected from Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency on a Janata Dal (United) ticket in 2009 when the election was held in this seat for the first time after it was carved out after the 2008 delimitation.

On a repeat of last 2014 general elections, Ram Kripal Yadav is seeking re-election from the Pataliputra seat as Misa Bharti has been fielded by RJD.

Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha MP, had contested unsuccessfully in the 2014 polls from the seat. She was defeated by Ram Kripal Yadav, who had quit the RJD and joined the BJP after being denied a ticket by Lalu Prasad in favour of his daughter.

Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency consists of Danapur, Maner, Phulwari (SC), Masaurhi (SC), Paliganj and Bikram assembly segments from Bihar state Legislative Assembly.

Patliputra Lok Sabha constituency went to polls on May 19 during the last phase of general elections 2019.