| Gopalganj | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 101 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| 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
Gopalganj Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Gopalganj district in the Indian state of Bihar.
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]
| Year | Name[2][3] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Kamla Rai | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | |||
| 1961^ | Satyendra Narayan Sinha | ||
| 1962 | Abdul Ghafoor | ||
| 1967 | Hari Shankar Singh | Samyukta Socialist Party | |
| 1969 | Ram Dulari Sinha | Indian National Congress | |
| 1972 | |||
| 1977 | Radhika Devi | Janata Party | |
| 1980 | Kali Prasad Pandey | Independent | |
| 1985 | Surendra Singh | ||
| 1990 | Janata Dal | ||
| 1995 | Ramawtar | ||
| 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
By polls necessitated by the death of MLA Subhash Singh.[4]
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Gopalganj was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[5][6]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Subash Singh | ||||
| INC | Asif Ghafoor | ||||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||