Gopalganj Assembly constituency

Gopalganj
Constituency No. 101 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictGopalganj
Established1951
Total electors297,051
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Subhash Singh
Party  BJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2025
Preceded byKusum 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.

Gopalganj Assembly constituency is part of No. 17 Gopalganj (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Name 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
2025 Subhash Singh

^ bypoll

Election results

2025

2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gopalganj
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Subash Singh 96,892 48.72 Increase5.23
INC Om Prakash Garg 67,920 34.15 Increase13.77
BSP Indira Yadav 14,225 7.15
AIMIM Anash Salam 8,079 4.15 Decrease14.88
Independent Anup Kumar Shrivastava (supported by Jan Suraaj) 5,116 2.57
SAP Sahana Khatoon 1,806 0.91
NOTA None of the above 2,237 1.12 Increase0.55
Majority 28,972 14.57 Decrease5.98
Turnout 198,872 66.95 Increase11.92
BJP hold Swing


2022

By polls necessitated by the death of MLA Subhash Singh.

By-election, 2022: Gopalganj
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Kusum Devi 70,053 41.6
RJD Mohan Gupta 68,259 40.53
BSP Indira Yadav 12,214 7.25
AIMIM Abdul Salam 8,854 5.26
Pragatisheel Samaj Party Sanjay Kumar Prasad 1,964 1.17
Jan Janwadi Party Jagmohan Mahto 1,805 1.07
Independent Vinay Kumar Rai 1,593 0.95
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 −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.

2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Gopalganj
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


References

  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "Gopalganj Election and Results 2020, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  3. 1 2 Outlook (6 November 2022). "BJP Wins Gopalganj Assembly Bypoll In Bihar". Archived from the original on 7 November 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 15 December 2025.
  5. ↑ "Upcoming Assembly by-polls first battle between GA, BJP in Bihar since change of govt". Hindustan Times. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
  7. 1 2 "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).