Margao Assembly constituency

Margao Assembly constituency is one of the 40 Goa Legislative Assembly constituencies of the state of Goa in southern India. Margao is also one of the 20 constituencies falling under South Goa Lok Sabha constituency.^[2][3]

Margao
Constituency No. 31 for the Goa Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Goa
District	South Goa
Lok Sabha constituency	South Goa
Established	1963
Total electors	29,508[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
8th Goa Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Digambar Kamat
Party	BJP

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1963	Vasudeo Narayan Sarmalkar		United Goans Party
1967	Babu Naik
1972
1977			Indian National Congress
1980			Indian National Congress
1984	Uday Bhembre		Independent
1989	Babu Naik
1994	Digambar Kamat[a]		Bharatiya Janata Party
1999
2002
2007			Indian National Congress
2012
2017
2022			Bharatiya Janata Party

1. Elected to Indian National Congress. Switched to BJP in 2022

Election results

2022

Goa Legislative Assembly Election, 2022: Margao^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Digambar Kamat	13,674	60.42
	BJP	Manohar Ajgaonkar	5880	25.98
	AAP	Lincoln Vaz[4]	1173	5.18
	AITC	Mahesh Amonkar	923	4.08
	RGP	Sashiraj Naik Shirodkar	722	3.19
	NOTA	None of the Above	261	1.15
Majority
Turnout			22,633	74.84%
Registered electors			29,508
	INC hold		Swing

2017

Goa Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Margao^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Digambar Kamat	12,105
	BJP	Sharmad Raiturkar	7,929
	AAP	Santosh Raiturkar	1832
	MGP	Jayesh Raghunath Naik	216
	None of the Above	None of the Above	271
Majority			4,176
Turnout
Registered electors			28,457
	INC hold		Swing

See also

• List of constituencies of the Goa Legislative Assembly
• South Goa district