About Vasco da Gama Assembly Constituency
Vasco da Gama is constituency No. 25 of Goa legislative assembly. It is situated in South Goa district and comes under the South Goa Lok Sabha constituency. It is an open constituency. The state of Goa has 40 assembly constituencies. According to data with the Election Commission of India, this assembly constituency has 28,411 registered voters. It comprises 14,730 male and 13,681 female registered voters.
In the last Goa assembly elections held in 2012, the BJP won this constituency by 4,490 votes. Jose Luis Carlos Almeida, the winning candidate from BJP, got 11,468 votes. The nearest contender was Jose Filepe D'souza of NCP who got 6,978 votes. The voter turnout was 76.61 %.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Vasco Da Gama Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Vasco Da Gama 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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| 1989 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | D'Sonza Simon Peter | M | INC | 5045 | Menezas Mesquita Wilfred | M | MAG | 4720 |
| 1994 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | Mesouita Menezes Wilfred M. | M | MAG | 6460 | D'Souza Simon Peter | M | INC | 4867 |
| 1999 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | D Souza Jose Philips Domingo | M | UGDP | 5691 | Arlekar Rajendra Vishwanath | M | BJP | 4183 |
| 2002 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | Arlekar Rajendra | M | BJP | 5605 | D'Souza Jose Philips Domingo | M | NCP | 4509 |
| 2007 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | D Souza Jose Philip | M | NCP | 7476 | Arlekar Rajendra Vishwanath | M | BJP | 6864 |
| 2012 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | Jose Luis Carlos Almeida | M | BJP | 11468 | Jose Filepe D'Souza | M | NCP | 6978 |
| 2017 | 25 | Vasco Da Gama | GEN | Jose Luis Carlos Almeida | M | BJP | 8765 | Krishna (Daji) V Salkar | M | IND | 7414 |
Last Updated on August 14, 2021