Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

181 Digha
Constituency
for the Vidhan Sabha
District Patna
State Bihar
Current constituency
Created 2008
Party BJP
MLA Sanjiv Chaurasia
Lok Sabha constituency 30 Patna Sahib
Reservation none

Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (Hindi: दीघा विधानसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र) is one of 243 legislative assembly constituencies of the legislative assembly of Bihar. 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 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2015, Digha was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines.[4][5]

Overview

Digha comprises:

Member of Legislative Assembly

Assembly Duration Member Political Party
Fourteenth 2010 - 2015 Punam Devi Janata Dal (United)
Fifteenth 2015 - Incumbent Sanjiv Chaurasia Bharatiya Janata Party[7]

Election results

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2015: Digha[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Sanjiv Chaurasia 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
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
Bihar Legislative Assembly election, 2010: 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

References

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