Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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Constituency for the Vidhan Sabha | |
District | Patna |
State | Bihar |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2008 |
Party | Bharatiya Janata party BJP |
MLA | |
Lok Sabha constituency | 30 Patna Sahib |
Reservation | none |
Digha (Vidhan Sabha 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 came into existence in 2008 after delimitation. Digha assembly constituency has six panchayats and 21 wards 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]
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.[6]
Member of Legislative Assembly[]
Assembly | Duration | Member | Political Party | |
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Fourteenth | 2010 - 2015 | Punam Devi | Janata Dal (United) | |
Fifteenth | 2015 - 2020 | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | Bharatiya Janata Party[7] | |
Sixteenth | 2020 - Incumbent | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | Bharatiya Janata Party |
Election results[]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | 92,671 | 50.74 | ||
JD(U) | Rajeev Ranjan Prasad | 67,892 | 37.17 | ||
Uday Chandra Choudhary | 2,673 | 1.46 | |||
SASAPT | Rajeev Ranjan (Pintu Singh) | 2,597 | 1.42 | ||
CPI | Pramod Kumar Nandan | 1,827 | 1.00 | ||
NOTA | 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 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
JD(U) | Punam Devi | 81,247 | 62.03 | ||
LJP | 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[]
- ^ Digha Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
- ^ "DIGHA OF DISPUTES".
- ^ "Battle enters final stage".
- ^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs".
- ^ "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.
- ^ http://www.telegraphindia.com/1151109/jsp/nation/story_52241.jsp#.VkGmI7crLIU
- ^ Digha Live Bihar Elections Results, 2015 - NDTV.com. Retrieved on 10 November 2015.
- ^ Bihar Assembly Election 2010
Coordinates: 25°38′28″N 85°05′26″E / 25.6411°N 85.0906°E
Categories:
- Assembly constituencies in Patna district
- Politics of Patna district
- Assembly constituencies of Bihar