Digha Assembly constituency | |
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Constituency No. 181 for the——Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | Bihar |
District | Patna |
LS constituency | 30 Patna Sahib |
Established | 2008 |
Total electors | 4,60,868 |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | BJP |
Alliance | NDA |
Elected year | 2020 |
Preceded by | Punam Devi |
Digha Assembly constituency is: one of 243 legislative assembly constituencies of the legislative assembly of Bihar in India. It comes under Patna Sahib (Lok Sabha constituency). It was established in 2008 after the "delimitation." Digha Assembly constituency has six panchayats. And 14 wards. This assembly constituency is Kayastha dominated. The wards are of Patna Municipal Corporation. Digha is Bihar's largest assembly constituency having 400 booths with around 4 lakh voters. In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Digha was one of the 36 seats——to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.
Overview※
Digha comprises:
- Gram Panchayat Nakta Diyara, "Ward Nos." 1, "2," 3, 6,
- Pataliputra Housing Colony (OG) – Ward No. 38 & Digha-Mainpura (OG) Ward No. 39,
- Badalpura (OG) Ward No. 40,
- Sabazpura (OG) Ward No. 41 & Khalilpura (OG) Ward No. 42 in Patna (MC + OG) of Patna Rural CD Block.
Members of the Legislative Assembly※
Year | Name | Party | |
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Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
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2010 | Punam Devi | Janata Dal | |
2015 | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
2020 |
Election results※
2020※
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | 97,318 | 57.09 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Shashi Yadav | 51,084 | 29.97 | ||
NOTA | None of the Above | 2,133 | 1.25 | ||
Majority | 46,234 | 27.12 | |||
Turnout | |||||
BJP hold | Swing |
2015※
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | 92,671 | 50.74 | ||
JD(U) | Rajeev Ranjan Prasad | 67,892 | 37.17 | ||
HVD | Uday Chandra Choudhary | 2,673 | 1.46 | ||
SASAPT | Rajeev Ranjan (Pintu Singh) | 2,597 | 1.42 | ||
CPI | Pramod Kumar Nandan | 1,827 | 1.00 | ||
None of the Above | None of the above | 1,490 | 0.82 | ||
Majority | 24,779 | 13.57 | |||
Turnout | 1,82,656 | 42.12 | |||
BJP gain from JD(U) | Swing |
2010※
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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JD(U) | Punam Devi | 81,247 | 62.03 | ||
LJP | Satya Nand Sharma | 20,785 | 15.87 | ||
INC | Rajesh Kumar Sinha | 9,215 | 7.04 | ||
Independent | Harendra Prasad Singh | 6,909 | 5.28 | ||
JD(S) | Mohd. Danish Khan | 2,742 | 2.09 | ||
Majority | 60,462 | 46.16 | |||
Turnout | 1,30,974 | 38.31 | |||
JD(U) win (new seat) |
See also※
References※
- ^ Digha Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
- ^ "DIGHA OF DISPUTES". Archived from the original on 4 October 2015.
- ^ "Battle enters final stage". Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.
- ^ "EC move——to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
- ^ "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Digha Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
- ^ Digha Live Bihar Elections Results, 2015 - NDTV.com. Retrieved on 10 November 2015.
- ^ Bihar Assembly Election 2010
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