| Digha Assembly constituency | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 181 for the Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Bihar |
| District | Patna |
| Lok Sabha constituency | 30 Patna Sahib |
| Established | 2008 |
| Total electors | 458,367 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th Bihar Legislative Assembly | |
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| Incumbent | |
| 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.45
Most successful parties from Digha Assembly
- BJP (3 times) (75.0%)
- JDU (1 time) (25.0%)
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 | Name7 | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
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| 2010 | Punam Devi | Janata Dal (United) | |
| 2015 | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2020 | |||
| 2025 | |||
Election results
2025
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Sanjeev Chaurasiya | 111,001 | 56.59 | −0.5 | |
| CPI(ML)L | Divya Gautam | 51,922 | 26.47 | −3.5 | |
| JSP | Ritesh Ranjan Singh alias Bittu Singh | 22,071 | 11.25 | ||
| BSP | Prabhakar Kr. Singh | 1,930 | 0.98 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 3,102 | 1.58 | +0.33 | |
| Majority | 59,079 | 30.12 | +3.0 | ||
| Turnout | 196,142 | 42.79 | +5.8 | ||
| BJP hold | Swing | ||||
2020
| 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
| 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
| 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
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.
- "2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly Election Results: Digha". Election Commission of India. 14 November 2025. Archived from the original on 11 December 2025. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
- "Bihar General Legislative Election 2020". Election Commission of India. 13 January 2021.
- Bihar Assembly Election 2010
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