Buxar is one of the eight Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar going to vote on May 19 for the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha Election 2019. It consists of the following assembly segments - Brahmpur, Buxar, Dumraon, Rajpur, Dinara and Ramgarh.

In 2019, the main battle will be between BJP’s Ashwini Kumar Choubey and RJD’s Jagadanand Singh.

In 2014, Ashwini Kumar Choubey beat Jagadanand Singh of RJD by 1.3 lakh votes.

In 2009, Jagadanand Singh had beaten BJP's Lal Muni Choubey by 23,000 votes.

Full list of candidates: 

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	Ashwini Kumar Choubey	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Jagadanand Singh	Rashtriya Janata Dal
3	Sushil Kumar Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Anil Kumar	Jantantrik Vikas Party
5	Anil Kumar Rai	Rashtriya Dal United
6	Uday Narayan Rai	Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party
7	Dhanjit Singh	Voters Party International
8	Ravi Raj	Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)
9	Binod Kumar Bikrant	Peoples Party of India (Democratic)
10	Santosh Kumar Yadav	Bahujan Mukti Party
11	Arvind Kumar Pandey	Independent
12	Jay Prakash Ram	Independent
13	Ranjit Singh	Independent
14	Rakesh Kumar Ray	Independent
15	Ramchandra Singh Yadav	Independent

The Battle for Bihar

Four Union ministers, a former Lok Sabha Speaker and an actor-turned-politician are among the 159 candidates left in the fray for eight Lok Sabha seats in Bihar after the last date for withdrawal of nomination papers for the seventh and final phase ended Thursday.

The final phase of the election will be held on May 19.

According to the Election Commission, a total of 227 candidates had filed their nomination papers for Patna Sahib, Patalputra, Arrah, Jehanabad, Karakat, Buxar, Sasaraam and Nalanda constituencies between April 22 and April 29. Out of which only 162 withstood scrutiny.

Of those remaining, one candidate each withdrew nomination from Patna Sahib, Pataliputra and Buxar, leaving 159 in the fray.

With 35, Nalanda has the highest number of candidates. The constituency is the home district of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who has represented the Lok Sabha seat a number of times.

His confidant Kaushalendra Kumar is seeking re-election for the third consecutive term.

The JD(U) MP is locked in a straight contest with Mahagathbandhan candidate Ashok Kumar Azad who has been fielded by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi's Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM).

Patna Sahib, which comprises a major part of the state capital and where 18 candidates are in the fray, will witness a clash of titans as Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad seeks to win the seat for the BJP thwarting sitting MP Shatrughan Sinha's bid to retain it for the third consecutive term but this time on a Congress ticket.

In adjoining Pataliputra, 25 candidates are in the fray, though the contest is being seen primarily between Union minister and sitting BJP MP Ram Kripal Yadav who is pitted against RJD's Misa Bharti daughter of his former mentor Lalu Prasad.

The lowest number of 11 candidates, for the phase, are in Ara where sitting BJP MP and Union minister R K Singh's bid to retain the seat has been challenged by young CPI(ML) candidate Raju Yadav whose chances have been bolstered by the Mahagathbandhan supporting his candidature.

In Buxar, another Union minister and sitting BJP MP Ashwini Kumar Choubey is facing the challenge mainly from RJD's Jagadanand Singh who had won the seat in 2009 although the total number of candidates in the fray is 15.

An equal number of candidates are in the fray in Sasaram, a reserved seat which former Lok Sabha Speaker and veteran Congress leader Meira Kumar seeks to wrest back from BJP MP Chhedi Paswan. Karakat, which has 27 candidates, is represented by RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha who resigned from the Union council of ministers and quit the NDA in December last year before joining the Mahagathbandhan.

His principal challenger is JD(U)'s Mahabali Singh.

Jehanabad was won by RLSP's Arun Kumar in 2014. He was, however, expelled from the party later on and he is in the fray as the candidate of the parallel outfit Rashtriya Samata Party (Secular). However, the main contest is being seen as between RJD's Surendra Prasad Yadav who is the Mahagathbandhan candidate and JD(U)'s Chandreshwar Prasad who represents the NDA.