Digha Assembly constituency

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
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateBihar
DistrictPatna
LS constituency30 Patna Sahib
Established2008
Total electors400000 (expected)
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Sanjeev Chaurasiya
PartyBJP
AllianceNDA
Elected year2020
Preceded byPunam Devi

Overview
Digha in Patna district

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
Year Name[7] Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010 Punam Devi Janata Dal
2015 Sanjeev Chaurasiya Bharatiya Janata Party
2020

Election results

2020
Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Digha
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
Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Digha[8]
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
2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Digha[9]
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
  • List of constituencies of Bihar Legislative Assembly
  • Digha, Patna

References
  1. Digha Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
  2. "DIGHA OF DISPUTES". Archived from the original on 4 October 2015.
  3. "Battle enters final stage". Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.
  4. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
  5. "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
  6. "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.
  7. "Digha Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
  8. Digha Live Bihar Elections Results, 2015 - NDTV.com. Retrieved on 10 November 2015.
  9. Bihar Assembly Election 2010

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