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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 came into existence in 2008 after delimitation. Digha assembly constituency has six panchayats and 21 wards 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 [ edit ]
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]
Member of Legislative Assembly [ edit ]
Election results [ edit ]
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
NOTA
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
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
↑ Digha Assembly Constituency 20 December 2013
↑ "DIGHA OF DISPUTES" .
↑ "Battle enters final stage" .
↑ "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
Coordinates : 25°38′28″N 85°05′26″E / 25.6411°N 85.0906°E / 25.6411; 85.0906
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