Saligao Assembly constituency

Saligao
Constituency No. 7 for the Goa Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	Western India
State	Goa
District	North Goa
LS constituency	North Goa
Established	1989
Total electors	27,576[1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
8th Goa Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Kedar Naik
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party

Saligao Assembly constituency is one of the 40 Goa Legislative Assembly constituencies of the state of Goa in southern India.^[2] Saligao is also one of the 20 constituencies falling under North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is part of North Goa district.

Members of Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
1989	Wilfred de Souza		Indian National Congress
1994
1999			Goa Rajiv Congress Party
2002			Nationalist Congress Party
2007[3]	Dilip Parulekar		Bharatiya Janata Party
2012[4]
2017	Jayesh Salgaonkar[5]		Goa Forward Party
2022	Kedar Naik[a]		Indian National Congress

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

Election results

2022

Goa Legislative Assembly Election, 2022: Saligao

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Kedar Naik	10,045	44.97
	BJP	Jayesh Salgaonkar	8146	36.47
	RGP	Rohan Kalangutkar	1928	8.63
	AAP	Mario Cordeiro	847	3.79
	AITC	Bholanath Ghadi Sakhalkar	352	1.58
	NOTA	None of the above	212	0.95
Majority
Turnout			22,335	77.00	−3.85
	INC gain from GFP		Swing

2017

2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election: Saligao^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	GFP	Jayesh Salgaonkar	9,735	46.29	New
	BJP	Dilip Parulekar	7,598	36.13	−15.53
	INC	Agnelo Fernandes	1,616	7.75	+7.75
	AAP	Dattatraya Padgaonkar	1,330	6.32	New
	SS	Rajesh Dabholkar	428	2.03	N/A
	CPI	Gajanan Naik	150	0.71	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	171	0.81	New
Majority			2,137	10.16
Turnout			21,051	80.85
	GFP gain from BJP		Swing

See also

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

Notes

References

1. "Goa General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
2. "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" (PDF). 26 November 2008. pp. 110–114. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
3. "Goa General Legislative Election 2007". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
4. "Goa General Legislative Election 2012". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
5. "Goa General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 7 June 2021.

External links

• "Record of all Goa Assembly Elections". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 14 March 2022.

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