Digha Assembly constituency

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Digha Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 181 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region East India
State Bihar
District Patna
LS constituency 30 Patna Sahib
Established2008
Total electors4,60,868
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party BJP
Alliance NDA
Elected year 2020
Preceded byPunam Devi

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] Digha Assembly constituency has six panchayats and 14 wards. he 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]

Contents

Overview

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Digha in Patna district

Digha comprises:

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearName [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
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sanjeev Chaurasiya 97,318 57.09
CPI(ML)L Shashi Yadav51,08429.97
NOTA None of the Above 2,1331.25
Majority46,23427.12
Turnout
BJP hold Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Digha [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sanjeev Chaurasiya 92,67150.74
JD(U) Rajeev Ranjan Prasad67,89237.17
HVD Uday Chandra Choudhary2,6731.46
SASAPT Rajeev Ranjan (Pintu Singh)2,5971.42
CPI Pramod Kumar Nandan1,8271.00
None of the Above None of the above1,4900.82
Majority24,77913.57
Turnout 1,82,65642.12
BJP gain from JD(U) Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Digha [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U) Punam Devi81,24762.03
LJP Satya Nand Sharma20,78515.87
INC Rajesh Kumar Sinha9,2157.04
Independent Harendra Prasad Singh6,9095.28
JD(S) Mohd. Danish Khan2,7422.09
Majority60,46246.16
Turnout 1,30,97438.31
JD(U) win (new seat)

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References

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  8. Digha Live Bihar Elections Results, 2015 - NDTV.com. Retrieved on 10 November 2015.
  9. Bihar Assembly Election 2010

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