Gopalpur Vidhan Sabha seat is located in the Gopalganj district of Bihar. The Gopalpur seat falls under the Bhagalpur Lok Sabha constituency of the state. It has been a JDU dominated seat since 2005. JDU's Narendra Kumar Niraj won the seat in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. Voting for the Gopalpur election took place in the second phase of Bihar Assembly Elections 2020 on November 3. The counting of votes took place on November 10.

Voting for the Bihar Assembly Election 2020 took place in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7. Bihar election results were declared on November 10. In Phase 2, polling took place on 94 seats on November 3.

In the 2015 Bihar Vidhan Sabha polls, three-time JDU MLA Narendra Kumar Niraj had won from Gopalpur, defeating Anil Kumar Yadav of the BJP. The candidates fighting the 2020 Bihar polls from the Gopalpur constituency included Narendra Kumar Niraj of the JDU, Shailesh Kumar of the RJD and Suresh Bhagat of the LJP among others.

The battle for Bihar witnessed a three-way fight with the NDA (BJP+JDU), Mahagathbandhan (RJD+Congress+Left) and the LJP in the fray. It was also the first major election in the country amid COVID-19 outbreak.

2020 gopalpur Assembly Election: Candidates' list

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Shankar KumarPeoples Party of India (Democratic)783
Narendra Kumar Niraj (Current MLA)JD(U)75533
Shailesh KumarRJD51072
Sanjeev Kumar SinghRashtriya Jan Jan Party4002
Ruchi SinghIND1419
Premshankar KumarVanchit Samaj Party1377
Shabana AzmiJan Adhikar Party1343
Sures BhagatLJPNA

2015 gopalpur Assembly Election Results

MLA CandidatesPartyVotes
Narendra Kumar Niraj (Current MLA)JD(U)57403
Anil Kumar YadavBJP52234

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