About Santa Cruz Assembly Constituency
Santa Cruz is constituency No. 13 of Goa legislative assembly. It is situated in North Goa district and comes under the North Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open assembly constituency. The state of Goa has 40 assembly constituencies. According to data with the Election Commission of India, Santa Cruz has 25,524 registered voters. It comprises 12,628 male and 12,896 female registered voters.
In the last Goa assembly elections held in 2012, the Congress won this constituency by a safe margin of 2,336 votes. Atanasio J. Monserrate, the winning candidate from Congress, got 8,644 votes. The runner-up was Independent candidate Rodolfo Louis Fernande who got 6,308 votes. The voter turnout was 83.92 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Santa Cruz Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Santa Cruz assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | A C No. | Constituency Name | Category | Winner | Gender | Party | Votes | Runner Up | Gender | Party | Votes |
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| 1967 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | S . J . De | M | UGS | 7087 | J . L . C . Araujo | M | UGF | 4045 |
| 1972 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Sequeira Jack Df Erasmo | M | UGS | 6586 | Fernandes M. F. Diogo | M | IND | 4483 |
| 1977 | 11 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Sequeira Jack Erasmo | M | JNP | 4462 | Fernandes Manuel Francisco Xavier Diogo | M | MAG | 2656 |
| 1980 | 11 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Fernandes Michael Antonic Carminho | M | INC(U) | 4574 | Branco Francisco Afonso | M | MAG | 3110 |
| 1984 | 11 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Branco Freancisco Afonso | M | IND | 5537 | Monteiro Antonicio Antonio Agnelo Marcos Castilho | M | INC | 2939 |
| 1989 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Victor Benamin Gonsalves | M | INC | 5729 | Victoria Romeo Fernandes | M | GLP | 4432 |
| 1994 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Victoria Fernandes Romeo | F | IND | 5971 | Gonsalves Victor Benjamin | M | INC | 4665 |
| 1999 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Fernandes Victoria Romio | F | INC | 8829 | Hoble Anil Raghuvir | M | MAG | 3442 |
| 2002 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Fernandes Victoria Romeo | F | INC | 6658 | Anil Roghuvir Hoble | M | BJP | 6618 |
| 2007 | 12 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Fernandes Victoria | F | INC | 7385 | Hoble Anil Raghuvir | M | BJP | 6040 |
| 2012 | 13 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Atanasio J. Monserrate | M | INC | 8644 | Rodolfo Louis Fernandes | M | IND | 6308 |
| 2017 | 13 | Santa Cruz | GEN | Atanasio J. Monserrate | M | INC | 6202 | Hemant Dinanath Golatkar | M | BJP | 5560 |
Last Updated on August 14, 2021