Panaji Assembly constituency

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Panaji
Constituency No. 11 for the Goa Legislative Assembly
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Constituency details
Country India
Region Western India
State Goa
District North Goa
LS constituency North Goa
Established1963
Total electors22,408 [1]
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
8th Goa Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Party Bharatiya Janata Party

Panaji Assembly constituency is one of the 40 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Goa state in India. [2]

Contents

It is part of North Goa district.

Members of Legislative Assembly

YearMemberParty
1963 Jack Sequeira United Goans Party
1967Yaswant Desai United Goans Party (Sequeira Group)
1972Baban Naik Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
1977 Madhav Bir Janata Party
1980Vishnu Naik Independent
1984Joan Gonsalves Indian National Congress
1989
1994 Manohar Parrikar Bharatiya Janata Party
1999
2002
2007
2012
2015^ Sidharth Kuncalienker
2017 [3] [4]
2017^ Manohar Parrikar
2019^ [5] [6] Atanasio Monserrate Indian National Congress
2022 [7] [8] Bharatiya Janata Party

^by-election

Election results

2022

2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election: Panaji [1] [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Atanasio Monserrate 6,787 38.96 −12.74
Independent Utpal Parrikar607134.85N/A
INC Elvis Gomes317518.23N/A
AAP Valmiki Naik7774.46+1.88
RGP Rajesh Redkar3592.06N/A
NOTA None of the Above 1730.99−0.2
Independent Devendra Sundaram400.23N/A
Independent Yeshwant Madar370.21N/A
Majority7164.11
Turnout 17,41973.75+3.75
BJP gain from INC Swing

2019 by-election

A by-election was held on 19 May 2019, as a result of the demise of incumbent MLA and chief minister Manohar Parrikar.

2019 by-election: Panaji
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
INC Atanasio Monserrate 8,74851.70+19.14
BJP Sidharth Kuncalienker 6,99041.32−22.15
Goa Suraksha Manch Subhash Velingkar 5163.05+1.63
AAP Valmiki Naik 4362.58N/A
Independent Dilip Ghadi130.08N/A
Independent Vijay More130.08N/A
NOTA None of the above2021.19−0.75
Majority1,75810.38
Turnout 16,918
INC gain from BJP Swing +20.65

2017 by-election

By-election, 2017: Panaji
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Manohar Parrikar 9,86263.47+17.77
INC Girish Chodankar 5,05932.56−6.97
Goa Suraksha Manch Anand Shirodkar2201.42−0.44
Independent Kenneth Silveira960.62N/A
NOTA None of the above 3011.94+0.93
Majority4,80330.91+24.74
Turnout 15,53870.00−8.09
Registered electors 22,196
BJP hold Swing +12.37

2017

Goa Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Panaji [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sidharth Sripad Kuncalienker 7,92445.70−20.43
United Goans Party Atanasio Monserrate 6,85539.53+9.60
AAP Valmiki Naik1,94411.21New
Goa Suraksha Manch Ketan Kirtikumar Prabhu Bhatikar3231.86N/A
NOTA None of the Above1751.01New
NCP Dominic Savio A. E. Fernandes620.36+0.36
Independent Dilip Ghadi360.21N/A
Independent Parshuram Dodamani200.12N/A
Majority1,0696.17−30.02
Turnout 17,40378.09−0.41
Registered electors 22,203
BJP hold Swing -15.02

2015 by-election

A by-election was necessitated following the resignation of incumbent MLA and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, due to his elevation as the Minister of Defence.

2015 by-election: Panaji
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Sidharth Kuncalienker 9,98960.71−5.42
INC Surendra Furtado5,36832.63+2.70
Independent Sameer Kalekar6243.79N/A
Independent Sadanand Vaingankar1400.85N/A
Majority4,62128.08−8.12
Turnout 16,45171.01−7.49
Registered electors 23,167
BJP hold Swing -4.06

2012

2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election: Panaji
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Manohar Parrikar 11,08666.13+9.30
INC Yatin Parekh5,01829.93−13.24
CPI Christopher Fonseca3832.28N/A
JD(U) Dominic Savio A. E. Fernandes1721.03N/A
Independent Balaram Karishetty1040.62N/A
Majority6,06836.20+22.54
Turnout 16,76378.50+7.78
Registered electors 21,355
BJP hold Swing +11.27

2007

2007 Goa Legislative Assembly election: Panaji
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Manohar Parrikar 6,00456.83+1.25
INC Dinar Purushottam Kamat Tarcar4,56043.17+0.19
Majority1,44413.66+1.06
Turnout 10,56470.72+4.90
Registered electors 14,937
BJP hold Swing +0.53

2002 result

2002 Goa Legislative Assembly election: Panaji
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Manohar Parrikar 5,70055.58
INC Ramesh Silimkhan4,40842.98
SHS Pramod Naik950.93
Independent Rajaram Dhuma520.51
Majority1,29212.60
Turnout 10,25565.82
Registered electors 15,581
BJP hold Swing

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