Gopalganj Assembly constituency

26°28′00″N 84°26′00″E

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

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]	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 politician
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

Election results

2022

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

By-election, 2022: Gopalganj^[3]

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^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subash Singh	77,791	43.49	−2.0
	BSP	Anirudh Prasad alias Sadhu Yadav	41,039	22.94	+20.87
	INC	Asif Ghafoor	36,460	20.38
	Jan Sangharsh Dal	Abdul Salam	2,450	1.37
	Independent	Lalan Prasad Bind	2,418	1.35
	Independent	Waqar Ahmad	2,277	1.27
	The Plurals Party	Vivek Kumar Chaubey	2,165	1.21
	Independent	Sanjay Choubey	2,015	1.13
	NOTA	None of the above	1,028	0.57	−0.37
Majority			36,752	20.55	+17.61
Turnout			178,862	55.03	−2.73
	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^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Subash Singh	78,491	45.49
	RJD	Reyajul Haque Alias " Raju"	73,417	42.55
	BSP	Jay Hind Prasad	3,565	2.07
	Independent	Om Prakash Singh	3,240	1.88
	Independent	Sunil Pandey	2,937	1.7
	Independent	Surendra Ram	2,844	1.65
	Independent	Dr. Rajesh Kumar Vernwal	1,552	0.9
	NOTA	None of the above	1,618	0.94
Majority			5,074	2.94
Turnout			172,533	57.76
	BJP hold		Swing