St. Cruz Assembly constituency

Santa Cruz Assembly constituency is one of the original Goa Legislative Assembly constituency seats in the Tiswadi Taluka of North Goa District in the State of Goa. The other constituencies in Tiswadi are Panaji, Taleigao, St. Andre and Cumbarjua.

Santa Cruz
Constituency No. 13 for the Goa Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionWestern India
StateGoa
DistrictNorth Goa
LS constituencyNorth Goa
Total electors29,298[1]
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
8th Goa Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyIndian National Congress

Santa Cruz is one of the Ilha(s) (Island(s)), the other being Chorão, Divar, St. Estevam and Vaxim. The Portuguese conquered these lands as part of Velha Conquista and used it for spice trade principally and simultaneously for spiritual purposes this resulted in the establishment of Catholic faith in Goa. In 1547, the Portuguese missionaries established the Santa Cruz Catholic Church (also known by its direct translation of Holy Cross Catholic Church).[2] Hence, this constituency has been named as Santa Cruz constituency. A landmark in Calapor/Santa Cruz is called Almacho Khuris (Cross of the Soul in Konkani). This monument was built to commemorate the death of a patriotic Calaporkar.

Jack de Sequeira, widely known for his role in Goan statehood, held this seat between 1967 and 1980.[3]

Members of Legislative Assembly
Year Member Party
1963 Joaquim Araujo United Goans Party
1967 Jack de Sequeira
1972
1977 Janata Party
1980 Michael Fernandes Indian National Congress
1984 Francisco Branco Independent
1989 Victor Gonsalves Indian National Congress
1994 Victoria Fernandes Independent
1999 Indian National Congress
2002
2007
2012 Atanasio Monserrate[lower-alpha 1]
2017 Antonio Fernandes[6] Indian National Congress
Bharatiya Janata Party[lower-alpha 2]
2022 Rodolfo Fernandes[lower-alpha 3] Indian National Congress
Bharatiya Janata Party
  1. Expelled from party in 2015.[4] Joined the Goa Forward Party in 2017.[5]
  2. Elected to Indian National Congress. Switched to BJP in 2019
  3. Elected to Indian National Congress. Switched to BJP in 2022

Election results

2022
2022 Goa Legislative Assembly election: St.Cruz[1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Rodolfo Fernandes 8,841 38.97
BJP Antonio Fernandes 6377 28.11
AAP Amit Palekar [7] 4098 18.06
RGP Ajay Kholkar 2497 11.01
TMC Victor Gonsalves 523 2.31
NOTA None of the Above 349 1.54
Majority
Turnout 73.97% -6.20%
Registered electors 29298
INC hold Swing

2017
Goa Legislative Assembly Election, 2017: Santa Cruz[6]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Antonio Fernandes 6,202 28.3% -12.13%
BJP Hemant Dinanath Golatkar 5,560 25.37% +25.37%
Independent Rodolfo Fernandes 5,262 24.01% -5.49%
MGP Prakash Gopi Naik 2,707 12.35% -14.89%
AAP Jose Vincet Gomes 1,712 7.81% New
NOTA None of the Above 303 1.38% New
Independent Helena Lourenco 227 1.04% N/A
CPI Pedro Ceitano Pires 106 0.48% -0.55%
NCP Shakeel Jamal Shaikh 75 0.34% +0.34%
Independent Jose Lopes 61 0.28% N/A
Majority 642 2.88% -8.04%
Turnout 22,215 80.17% -3.6%
Registered electors 27,711[6]
INC hold Swing

2012 result
2012 Goa Legislative Assembly election: St. Cruz
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Atanasio Monserrate 8,644 40.43
Independent Rodolfo Fernandes 6,308 29.50
MGP Purushottam Kamat 5,824 27.24
CPI Pedro Pires 221 1.03
Independent Xavier Cardo 189 0.88
Independent Dinesh Nair 79 0.37
Independent Jose Lopes 74 0.35
Independent Henry Lobo 42 0.20
Majority 2,336 10.93
Turnout 21,381 83.76
Registered electors 25,524
INC hold Swing

See also

References
  1. "Goa General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. "Former Bishops and Archbishops". Archdiocese of Goa and Daman.
  3. "Dept of Posts release special cover on Dr Jack de Sequeira". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  4. "Congress expels Babush for 6 years". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  5. Babush joins Goa Forward, to support Parrikar in Panaji, goanews.com; accessed 8 October 2017.
  6. "Goa General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  7. "Goa Assembly Election 2022: Full list of AAP candidates and their constituencies". The Financial Express. Retrieved 28 January 2022.

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