Digha Assembly constituency

Assembly constituency in Bihar, India

Digha Assembly constituency
Constituency No. 181 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly

Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Bihar
District	Patna
LS constituency	30 Patna Sahib
Established	2008
Total electors	400000 (expected)
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Bihar Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sanjeev Chaurasiya
Party	BJP
Alliance	NDA
Elected year	2020
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] It was established in 2008 after the delimitation. Digha Assembly constituency has six panchayats and 14 wards. This assembly constituency is Kayastha-dominated. The 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]

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]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election results

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Digha
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sanjeev Chaurasiya	97,318	57.09
	CPI(ML)L	Shashi Yadav	51,084	29.97
	NOTA	None of the Above	2,133	1.25
Majority			46,234	27.12
Turnout
	BJP hold		Swing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Digha^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Sanjeev Chaurasiya	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

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)

References

^ Digha Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
^ "DIGHA OF DISPUTES". Archived from the original on 4 October 2015.
^ "Battle enters final stage". Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.
^ "EC move to allay fears about errors in EVMs". The Times of India.
^ "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 10 January 2011.
^ "Digha Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs". Elections in India.
^ Digha Live Bihar Elections Results, 2015 - NDTV.com. Retrieved on 10 November 2015.
^ Bihar Assembly Election 2010