Gopalganj Assembly constituency

Vidhan Sabha constituency

Gopalganj
Constituency No. 101 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Gopalganj
Established	1951
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kusum Devi

26°28′00″N 84°26′00″E / 26.46667°N 84.43333°E / 26.46667; 84.43333

Gopalganj Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Overview

As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008, No. 101 Gopalganj Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Gopalganj and Thawe community development blocks; Bairia Durg, Uchkagaon, Chhotka Sankhe, Harpur, Sakhekhas, Parsauni Khas, Nawada Parsauni, Luhsi, Jhirwa and Dahibhata gram panchayats of Uchkagaon CD Block.^[1]

Gopalganj Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name^[2]^[3]
1952	Kamla Rai	Indian National Congress
1957	Kamla Rai
1961^	Satyendra Narayan Sinha
1962	Abdul Ghafoor
1967	Hari Shankar Singh	Samyukta Socialist Party
1969	Ram Dulari Sinha	Indian National Congress
1972	Ram Dulari Sinha	Indian National Congress
1977	Radhika Devi	Janata Party
1980	Kali Prasad Pandey	Independent politician
1985	Surendra Singh	Independent politician
1990	Surendra Singh	Janata Dal
1995	Ramawtar	Janata Dal
2000	Sadhu Yadav	Rashtriya Janata Dal
2005	Reyazul Haque	Bahujan Samaj Party
2005	Subhash Singh	Bharatiya Janata Party
2010
2015
2020
2022^	Kusum Devi

^ bypoll

Election results

2022

By polls necessitated by the death of MLA Subhash Singh.^[4]

By-election, 2022: Gopalganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Kusum Devi	70,053	41.6
	RJD	Mohan Gupta	68,259	40.53
	AIMIM	Abdul Salam	12,214	7.25
	BSP	Indira Yadav	8,854	5.26
	NOTA	None of the above	2,170	1.29
Majority			1,794	1.07
Turnout			1,68,405	50.81
	BJP hold		Swing

2020

2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gopalganj
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Subash Singh	77,791	43.49
	BSP	Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav	41,039	22.94
	INC	Asif Ghafoor	36,460	20.38
	JSD	Abdul Salam	2,450	1.37
	IND	Lalan Prasad Bind	2,418	1.35
Majority			36,752	20.66
Turnout			1,78,880	55.03
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Gopalganj was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.^[5]^[6]

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gopalganj
	Candidate	Votes
BJP	Subash Singh
INC	Asif Ghafoor
BJP hold		Swing

References

^ ^a ^b "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order, 2008 of the Election Commission of India" (PDF). Schedule VI Bihar, Part A – Assembly constituencies, Part B – Parliamentary constituencies. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
^ "Gopalganj Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ Outlook (6 November 2022). "BJP Wins Gopalganj Assembly Bypoll In Bihar". Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
^ "Upcoming Assembly by-polls first battle between GA, BJP in Bihar since change of govt". Hindustan Times. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).