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).[1] 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.[2] Digha is Bihar's largest assembly constituency having 400 booths with around 4 lakh voters.[3] In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Digha was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[4][5]
| Digha Assembly constituency | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 181 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Patna |
| LS constituency | 30 Patna Sahib |
| Established | 2008 |
| Reservation | None |
| Elected year | 2020 |
Overview edit
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.[6]
Members of the Legislative Assembly edit
| Year | Name[7] | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
| |||
| 2010 | Punam Devi | Janata Dal | |
| 2015 | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2020 | |||
Election results edit
2020 edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
References edit
- ^ 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