Arunachal Pradesh East Lok Sabha Election 2024: Date of voting, result, candidates, main parties, schedule

Arunachal East Lok Sabha constituency is one of the two constituencies in Arunachal Pradesh state which covers the entire Upper Siang, East Siang, Dibang Valley, Lower Dibang Valley, Lohit, Anjaw, Changlang and Tirap districts.
Candidates
This year a total of six candidates are contesting in the Arunachal East parliamentary constituency after the nomination of Techi Rana, an independent candidate, was found invalid during scrutiny, as per the election official. The candidates are sitting MP Tapir Gao, Bosiram Siram of the Congress, Bandey Mili from Arunachal Democratic Party, Omak Nitik (independent), Sotai Kri (independent) and Tamat Gamoh (independent).
Lok Sabha 2019 election result
Tapir Gao leads the BJP unit in Arunachal Pradesh won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections with 153,883 and 52.38 per cent vote vote share after defeats in 2009 and 2014. After Gao, Lowangcha Wanglat was the second candidate who received second highest vote which was just 83,935 votes with vote percentage 28.57. Earlier, in 2014 election Congress candidate Ninong Ering won the election with 118,455 votes while Gao lost that election but received just above the 40 per cent vote.
Voting date and result
The Arunachal East Lok Sabha constituency is scheduled to vote on 19th April 2024, with the Election Commission announcing results on 4th June, as per their statement on March 16.