PATNA: BJP and JD (U) have won four out of the seven seats in the state legislative Council from the teachers and graduates’ constituencies. The results were declared on Thursday and Friday. The result of the Darbhanga graduates’ constituency is still awaited. The polling took place on October 22.
The CPI retained both their seats. According to the results declared by the Election Commission, while Neeraj Kumar of JD (U) got elected from Patna graduates’ constituency, Nawal Kishore Yadav won from Patna teachers' constituency. Yadav has been elected for the fifth term.
Neeraj defeated his nearest rival Azad Gandhi of RJD by a margin of around 8,252 votes. An estimated 39% of the 1,11,462 electors had exercised their franchise in Patna graduates’ constituency.
Nawal Kishore Yadav (BJP) defeated his rival Narain Yadav by a margin of 1,296 votes. As per EC’s data, 53.83% of the total 13,755 electors had cast their votes in Patna teachers’ constituency.
Similarly, Madan Mohan Jha of Congress emerged victorious from Darbhanga teachers’ constituency. He defeated BJP’s Suresh Prasad Roy by a margin of 689 votes. Jha is the state president of Congress. An estimated 71.73% of the total 13,344 electors had cast their votes.
JD (U)'s Devesh Chandra Thakur defeated his rival Manish Mohan of RJD from Tirhut graduates’ constituency. Almost 46.33% of the 90,526 electors had turned up at polling booths to cast their votes in Tirhut graduates’ constituency.
Sanjay Kumar Singh of CPI defeated Narendra Prasad Singh of BJP in Tirhut teachers’ constituency. An estimated 63.77% of the 8,205 electors exercised their franchise in Tirhut teachers' constituency.
Kedar Pandey of CPI was re-elected from Saran teachers' constituency. An estimated 69.77% of the 11,408 electors cast their votes. N K Yadav of BJP emerged victorious in Kosi graduates’ constituency.
The biennial legislative council elections for eight Council seats were held in four graduates’ constituencies of Patna, Tirhut, Darbhanga and Kosi and four teachers’ constituencies of Patna, Tirhut, Darbhanga and Saran.