Tej Pratap Yadav wins Bihar’s Hasanpur constituency

RJD’s Tej Pratap Yadav has won the Hasanpur assembly constituency currently held by JD(U)
MLA Raj Kumar Ray. 

Yadav is a son of Lalu Prasad Yadav, the former Chief Minister of Bihar. His brother, Tejashwi Yadav, the chief ministerial candidate from the Grand Alliance which includes RJD, is also leading from Raghopur seat. 

Hasanpur, one
of Bihar’s 243 assembly constituencies, is part of  25. Khagaria (Lok Sabha
Constituency).

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly
constituencies Order, 2008, No. 140 Hasanpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is
composed of the following: Hasanpur and Bithan community development blocks;
Kundal I, Kundal II, Shalepur, Jahangirpur and Bishnupur Diha gram panchayats
of Singhia CD Block.

Here are a few
details about the Hasanpur
constituency seat

Name of the assembly constituency, district: Hasanpur,
Samastipur

Lok Sabha constituency: No. 25. Khagaria

Polling date: November 3, 2020.

2015 candidates: Raj Kumar Ray (JDU), Vinod Choudhary
(BLSP), Sunil Kumar (JAPL)

2020 candidates: Manish Kumar (LJP), Tej Pratap Yadav (RJD)

Winner: Tej Pratap Yadav

Runner Up: Raj Kumar Ray — Janata Dal (United)

Winning margin: 21, 039

Sitting MLA, party: Raj Kumar Ray (JDU)

Winning margin in 2015: 17235 (12.21% of total valid
votes)

Runner up name, party: Vinod Choudhary (BLSP)

Number of voters in 2015: 146,752 (56 postal votes)

Percentage of votes polled in 2015: 56.07 %

Number of women voters in 2015: 80,324

Number of polling booths in 2015: 251