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). Digha Assembly constituency has six panchayats and 14 wards. The wards are of Patna Municipal Corporation. Digha is Bihar's largest assembly constituency having 400 booths with around 4 lakh voters. 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.

  1. BJP (3 times) (75.0%)
  2. JDU (1 time) (25.0%)

Overview

Digha in Patna district

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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

YearNameParty
Until 2008: Constituency did not exist
2010Punam DeviJanata Dal (United)
2015Sanjeev ChaurasiyaBharatiya Janata Party
2020
2025

Election results

2025

Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, 2025: Digha
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSanjeev Chaurasiya111,00156.59−0.5
CPI(ML)LDivya Gautam51,92226.47−3.5
JSPRitesh Ranjan Singh alias Bittu Singh22,07111.25
BSPPrabhakar Kr. Singh1,9300.98
NOTANone of the above3,1021.58+0.33
Majority59,07930.12+3.0
Turnout196,14242.79+5.8
BJP holdSwing

2020

Bihar Assembly election, 2020: Digha
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSanjeev Chaurasiya97,31857.09+6.35
CPI(ML)LShashi Yadav51,08429.97
RLSPSanjay Kumar Sinha5,5833.28
The Plurals PartyShambhavi4,7132.76
NOTANone of the above2,1331.25+0.43
Majority46,23427.12+13.55
Turnout170,47136.99−5.13
BJP holdSwing

2015

Bihar Assembly election, 2015: Digha
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJPSanjeev Chaurasiya92,67150.74
JD(U)Rajeev Ranjan Prasad67,89237.17
Hindustan Vikas DalUday Chandra Choudhary2,6731.46
Samras Samaj PartyRajeev Ranjan Singh -Alias- Pintu Singh2,5971.42
CPIPramod Kumar Nandan1,8271.0
NOTANone of the above1,4900.82
Majority24,77913.57
Turnout182,65642.12
BJP gain from JD(U)Swing

2010

2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election: Digha
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
JD(U)Punam Devi81,24762.03
LJPSatya Nand Sharma20,78515.87
INCRajesh Kumar Sinha9,2157.04
IndependentHarendra Prasad Singh6,9095.28
JD(S)Mohd. Danish Khan2,7422.09
Majority60,46246.16
Turnout1,30,97438.31
JD(U) win (new seat)

See also

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