Gopalganj Assembly constituency

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

Gopalganj Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 101 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Kusum Devi

Gopalganj
Assembly constituency
Gopalganj is located in Bihar
Gopalganj
Gopalganj
Location in Bihar
Coordinates: 26°28′00″N 84°26′00″E
Country India
StateBihar
DistrictGopalganj
Constituency No.101
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency17. Gopalganj (SC)
Electoral systemFirst past the post

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 Legislative Assembly
Year Name[2][3] Party
1952 Kamla Rai Indian National Congress
1957
1961^ S. N. 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

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
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Subash Singh
INC Asif Ghafoor
BJP hold Swing

References
  1. "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.
  2. "Gopalganj Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. Outlook (6 November 2022). "BJP Wins Gopalganj Assembly Bypoll In Bihar". Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  4. "Upcoming Assembly by-polls first battle between GA, BJP in Bihar since change of govt". Hindustan Times. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  5. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  6. "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
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