Sitting BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy wins against RJD’s Rohini Acharya in the Saran Lok Sabha elections in 2024

Rajiv Pratap Rudy vs Rohini Acharya, Saran Elections Result 2024: Rajiv Pratap Rudy from the BJP defeated RJD's Rohini Acharya by a slender margin of 13,661 votes.

Saran Result 2024, Rajiv Pratap Rudy vs Rohini Acharya: With the results finally being announced today, June 4, find out the winner of the Lok Sabha from Saran constituency of Bihar.

Saran Election Results 2024: Rajiv Pratap Rudy, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and sitting Member of Parliament (MP), retained his seat by securing victory in the Saran constituency by a slender margin of 13,661 votes. Rudy garnered 471,752 votes, while Rohini Acharya of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) received 458,091 votes, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI).

Saran — the constituency, about 75 km from Patna, was known as Chhapra before the 2008 delimitation — in the fifth phase on May 20. Rohini Acharya, 44, is the RJD candidate here, making her electoral debut from the constituency her father won four times in his career.

Acharya is also dependent on her brother and Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav’s appeal and her father’s old magic to push her past the finish line in a seat where it essentially boils down to a battle between Rajputs and Yadavs because both communities are of almost equal strength.

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Of the estimated 18 lakh voters in Saran, there are approximately 3.5 lakh Yadavs and 3.25 lakh Rajput voters, followed by about two lakh Muslims and 1 lakh Bania and Kushwaha (Other Backward Classes) each.

Facing Rohini is sitting BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy who is a four-term parliamentarian. Though Rudy lost to Lalu in 2009, he defeated former Bihar CM Rabri Devi, Lalu’s wife, five years later and retained the seat in 2019.