Digha Assembly constituency

Digha Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 181 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Patna
Lok Sabha constituency	30 Patna Sahib
Established	2008
Total electors	4,60,868
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sanjeev Chaurasiya
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2025
Preceded by	Punam 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. The wards are of Patna Municipal Corporation. ^[2] Digha is Bihar's largest assembly constituency having 400 booths with around 4 lakh voters. ^[3] This constituency is dominated by the Kayastha Caste .In 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, Digha was one of the 36 seats to have VVPAT enabled electronic voting machines. ^{[4] [5]}

Most successful parties from Digha Assembly

1. BJP (3 times) (75.0%)
2. JDU (1 time) (25.0%)

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]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Name [7]	Party
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010	Punam Devi		Janata Dal (United)
2015	Sanjeev Chaurasiya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2020
2025

Election results

2025

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2025: Digha

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sanjeev Chaurasiya	111,001	56.59	−0.50
	CPI(ML)L	Divya Gautam	51922	26.47	−3.51
	JSP	Ritesh Ranjan Singh alias Bittu Singh	22071	11.25	New
	BSP	Prabhakar Kr. Singh	1930	0.98	−0.01
	Independent	Kusumlata Verma	1382	0.70	New
	Bharatiya Momin Front	Indu Devi	1732	0.88	New
	Vocal India Party	Richa Sinha	685	0.35	New
	The Plurals Party	Pranjal Singh	466	0.24	New
	RRP	Rajiv Kumar Singh	614	0.31	New
	Jagrook Janta Party	Sadhana Kumari	636	0.32	New
	Independent	Shwet Ranjan	601	0.31	New
	NOTA	None of the above	3102	1.58	−1.18
Majority			59079	30.12	+2.98
Turnout			196142	41.40	+4.51
	BJP hold		Swing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Digha ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sanjeev Chaurasiya	97,318	57.09	+6.35
	CPI(ML)L	Shashi Yadav	51,084	29.97
	RLSP	Sanjay Kumar Sinha	5,583	3.28
	The Plurals Party	Shambhavi	4,713	2.76
	NOTA	None of the above	2,133	1.25	+0.43
Majority			46,234	27.12	+13.55
Turnout			170,471	36.99	−5.13
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Digha ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sanjeev Chaurasiya	92,671	50.74
	JD(U)	Rajeev Ranjan Prasad	67,892	37.17
	Hindustan Vikas Dal	Uday Chandra Choudhary	2,673	1.46
	Samras Samaj Party	Rajeev Ranjan Singh -Alias- Pintu Singh	2,597	1.42
	CPI	Pramod Kumar Nandan	1,827	1.0
	NOTA	None of the above	1,490	0.82
Majority			24,779	13.57
Turnout			182,656	42.12
	BJP gain from JD(U)		Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: 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

• List of constituencies of Bihar Legislative Assembly
• Digha, Patna

References

1. Digha Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
2. "DIGHA OF DISPUTES". Archived from the original on 4 October 2015.
3. "Battle enters final stage". Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.
4. "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India .
5. "General Election to the State Legislative Assembly of Bihar, 2015- Use of EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail System(VVPAT)-reg" (PDF).
6. "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.
7. "Digha Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
8. "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India . 13 January 2021.
9. Bihar Assembly Election 2010

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