Digha Assembly 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) (Template:Lang-hi) 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:
- 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| style="background-color: Template:Janata Dal (United)/meta/color" | | Fourteenth | 2010 - 2015 | Punam Devi | Janata Dal (United) | |
| style="background-color: Template:Bharatiya Janata Party/meta/color" | | Fifteenth | 2015 - Incumbent | Sanjiv Chaurasia | Bharatiya Janata Party[7] | |
Election results
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| 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
- ^ 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 2011-01-10.
- ^ 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