Gopalpur Vidhan Sabha Seat Result in Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: JDU's Narendra Kumar Niraj Wins, Elected as MLA
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.
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.
| MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Shankar Kumar | Peoples Party of India (Democratic) | 783 |
| Narendra Kumar Niraj (Current MLA) | JD(U) | 75533 |
| Shailesh Kumar | RJD | 51072 |
| Sanjeev Kumar Singh | Rashtriya Jan Jan Party | 4002 |
| Ruchi Singh | IND | 1419 |
| Premshankar Kumar | Vanchit Samaj Party | 1377 |
| Shabana Azmi | Jan Adhikar Party | 1343 |
| Sures Bhagat | LJP | NA |
| MLA Candidates | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Narendra Kumar Niraj (Current MLA) | JD(U) | 57403 |
| Anil Kumar Yadav | BJP | 52234 |
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