Gopalpur, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency

For the constituencies in other states, see Gopalpur, Bihar Assembly constituency and Gopalpur, Odisha Assembly constituency.

Gopalpur is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Gopalpur in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Gopalpur
Constituency No. 344 for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	North India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nafees Ahmad
Party	Samajwadi Party
Elected year	2022

Gopalpur is one of five assembly constituencies in the Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 344 amongst 403 constituencies.

Election results

2022

2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election: Gopalpur^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Nafees Ahmad	84,401	40.87	+3.37
	BJP	Satyendra Rai	60,094	29.1	−0.49
	BSP	Ramesh Chand Yadav	45,211	21.89	−6.78
	AIMIM	Abdula	8,163	3.95
	VIP	Yogendra Yadav	2,201	1.07
	NOTA	None of the above	1,471	0.71	−0.1
Majority			24,307	11.77	+3.86
Turnout			206,518	58.94	+2.6
	SP hold		Swing

2017

2017 General Elections: Gopalpur^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	SP	Nafees Ahmad	70,980	37.5
	BJP	Shrikrishna Pal	56,020	29.59
	BSP	Kamla Prasad Yadav	54,271	28.67
	CPI	Imteyaz Beg	2,351	1.24
	NOTA	None of the above	1,521	0.81
Majority			14,960	7.91
Turnout			189,300	56.34
	BJP gain from SP		Swing

Members of Legislative Assembly

#	Term	Member of Legislative Assembly	Party	From	To	Days	Comment
01	2nd Vidhan Sabha	Mukti Nath Rai	Indian National Congress	April 1957	March 1962	1,800
02	3rd Vidhan Sabha	Uma Shanker	Praja Socialist Party	March 1962	March 1967	1,828
03	4th Vidhan Sabha	Mukti Nath Rai	Indian National Congress	March 1967	April 1968	402	[3]
04	5th Vidhan Sabha	Dal Singar	Samyukta Socialist Party	February 1969	March 1974	1,832	[4]
05	6th Vidhan Sabha	Ram Adhar	Bharatiya Kranti Dal	March 1974	April 1977	1,153	[5]
06	7th Vidhan Sabha		Janata Party	June 1977	February 1980	969	[6]
07	8th Vidhan Sabha	Dal Singar	Indian National Congress (Indira)	June 1980	March 1985	1,735	[7]
08	9th Vidhan Sabha	Qazu Kalimur Rahman	ICJ	March 1985	November 1989	1,725	[8]
09	10th Vidhan Sabha	Gomti Yadav	Independent	December 1989	April 1991	488	[9]
10	11th Vidhan Sabha	Dal Singar	Janata Dal	June 1991	December 1992	533	[10]
11	12th Vidhan Sabha	Irshad	Bahujan Samaj Party	December 1993	October 1995	693	[11]
12	13th Vidhan Sabha	Wasim Ahmad	Samajwadi Party	October 1996	March 2002	1,967	[12]
13	14th Vidhan Sabha			February 2002	May 2007	1,902	[13]
14	15th Vidhan Sabha	Shyam Narayan	Bahujan Samaj Party	May 2007	March 2012	1,736	[14]
15	16th Vidhan Sabha	Waseem Ahmad	Samajwadi Party	March 2012	March 2017	1,829	[15]
16	17th Vidhan Sabha	Nafees Ahmad		March 2017	Incumbent	3068	[16]