Venzy Viegas | |
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![]() Viegas in 2024 | |
Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 10 March 2022 | |
Preceded by | Churchill Alemao |
Constituency | Benaulim |
AAP Working President | |
Assumed office 24 May 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Goa,India | 9 August 1977
Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
Occupation | Politician |
Venzy Viegas (born 9 August 1977) [1] is an Indian politician and former merchant navy officer [2] who serves as a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly,representing the Benaulim Assembly constituency. A member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),he was elected as the MLA from Benaulim in the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election. [3] [4] Viegas was appointed the legislative party leader of AAP in Goa Assembly in March 2022. [5]
Viegas graduated with the Highest Nautical Diploma in Nautical Science from South Tyneside College,South Shields,United Kingdom in 2011.[ citation needed ]
Veigas is a merchant navy mariner with 17 years of sailing experience in tanker vessels.[ citation needed ]
In 2022 he defeated Churchill Alemao (former Chief Minister of Goa),and won by a margin of 1,271 votes in the Benaulim Assembly constituency. Viegas was also appointed the Working President for AAP in May 2022.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AAP | Venzy Viegas | 6,411 | 30.32% | ![]() | |
AITC | Churchill Alemao | 5,140 | 24.31% | New | |
INC | Antonio Feliciano Dias (Tony) | 4,697 | 22.21% | ![]() | |
RGP | Desmond Fernandes | 3,854 | 18.23% | New | |
BJP | Damodar (Samir) Bandodkar | 851 | 4.02% | New | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 161 | 0.76% | ![]() | |
Margin of victory | 1,271 | 6.01% | ![]() | ||
Turnout | 21,145 | 72.35% | ![]() | ||
Registered electors | 28,959 | ![]() | |||
AAP gain from NCP | Swing | ![]() |