Digha (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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]
| 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 |
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]
Member of Legislative Assembly
| Assembly | Duration | Member | Political Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fourteenth | 2010 - 2015 | Punam Devi | Janata Dal (United) | |
| Fifteenth | 2015 - Incumbent | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | Bharatiya Janata Party[7] | |
| TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Election results
| 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 | ||
| 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 | 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) | |||||
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
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