Digha

Overview & 2025 Context

Digha, Assembly Constituency number 181 in Patna district, produced a landslide verdict in the 2025 Bihar polls. Sanjiv Chaurasia of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished first with 111,001 votes (56.59%), defeating Divya Gautam (CPI(ML)(L)), who polled 51,922 (26.47%). The victory margin was 59,079 votes. Of 458,367 electors, 196,365 votes were polled and turnout stood at 42.84%.

The 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly election was a bipolar contest between the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan. Campaign discourse centred on unemployment, youth out-migration, welfare delivery, women’s schemes, caste arithmetic, and competing claims on jobs versus market-led growth, as reported across major coverage of the polls. In this Legislative Assembly segment, the local verdict hinged on candidate networks and booth-level conversion as much as alliance symbols. Leading contenders by votes included: Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP, 111,001 / 56.59%); Divya Gautam (CPI(ML)(L), 51,922 / 26.47%); Ritesh Ranjan Singh Alias Bittu Singh (Jan Suraaj, 22,071 / 11.25%); Prabhakar Kr. Singh (BSP, 1,930 / 98%).

Campaign noise statewide does not erase the arithmetic of this Legislative Assembly segment: the gap between Sanjiv Chaurasia and Divya Gautam is the binding fact for seat 181, and every other claim about caste blocs or welfare messaging has to be tested against that published margin of 59,079 votes.

Geographical & Administrative Profile

Patna district contains Bihar’s capital region on the southern bank of the Ganga, mixing dense urban assembly segments with peri-urban and rural southern blocks. Administratively, Digha is Legislative Assembly number 181 under Patna (headquarters: Patna). Like neighbouring segments, it mixes rural habitations and market nodes where roads, schools, health access and welfare delivery travel with voters as strongly as statewide narratives.

Geography here is not ornamental for election reading. Flood plains, market roads and block headquarters shape who can mobilise, who migrates for work, and which booth clusters decide close Assembly Constituency contests. Digha sits inside that Patna administrative map even when national television talks only of alliances.

History & Past Election Trends

On the same constituency lineage, recent Legislative Assembly outcomes were — 2020: Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP) by 46,234 votes; 2015: Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP) by 24,779 votes; 2010: PUNAM DEVI (JD(U)) by 60,462 votes.

Against that backdrop, the 2025 win for Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP) in Assembly Constituency number 181 should be read as continuity where the same camp had dominated, or as another swing where the lineage had flipped before — never by treating the serial number alone as eternal identity.

Statistics & Gender-wise Polling Analysis

Electors: 458,367. Votes polled: 196,365. Turnout: 42.84%. Winner Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP): 111,001 (56.59%); runner-up Divya Gautam (CPI(ML)(L)): 51,922 (26.47%); margin: 59,079 — a landslide verdict relative to total votes polled in this Assembly Constituency.

Men slightly outnumbered women among recorded voters: male 105,121 (53.72%), female 90,573 (46.28%), other 2.

Turnout 42.84% with 196,365 votes from 458,367 electors remains the participation baseline for comparing this seat with neighbouring Legislative Assembly segments in Patna.

Issues That Drove Voting Behavior

Statewide themes included jobs and migration, welfare and women-centric schemes, caste coalitions, governance/law-and-order messaging, and local delivery of roads, flood control and farm support. In Patna, voters also weighed urban services, traffic and flooding in wards, peri-urban land use. a landslide verdict for Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP) against Divya Gautam (CPI(ML)(L)) suggests the winner’s camp converted a broader preference in seat 181.

None of those themes automatically explain every booth. The usable conclusion for Digha is narrower: Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP) outpolled Divya Gautam (CPI(ML)(L)) by 59,079 votes under 42.84% turnout, and that is the 2025 mandate recorded for Assembly Constituency number 181.

Reading 2025 carefully means separating statewide wave talk from booth-level conversion in Digha. Sanjiv Chaurasia (BJP) converted 111,001 votes; Divya Gautam (CPI(ML)(L)) had 51,922. Turnout 42.84% and margin 59,079 in seat 181 signal organisational reach across polling stations rather than a single-day mood swing alone.

For journalists and researchers, the safer frame is lineage continuity plus the published 2025 table: electors 458,367, votes polled 196,365, and the head-to-head between Sanjiv Chaurasia and Divya Gautam. District cues in Patna still matter — roads, floods, farm prices, migration and welfare delivery — but they must be weighed against what the EVM count actually recorded in this Assembly Constituency / Legislative Assembly seat.