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Kolkata Dakshin
Kolkata Dakshin
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Mala Roy
Parliamentary Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	1967–Present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,719,821
Assembly Constituencies	Kasba; Behala Purba; Behala Paschim; Kolkata Port; Bhabanipur; Rashbehari; Ballygunge

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Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the southern part of Kolkata in West Bengal. While four of the seven legislative assembly segments on No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Kolkata district, three are in South 24 Parganas district.

Legislative Assembly Segments[edit | edit source]

**Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal** - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. **Kolkata Dakshin**, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hoghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31. Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

After the implementation of the order of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002, in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency no. 23, Kolkata Dakshin is composed of the following legislative assembly segments:^[2]

Constituency number	Name	Reserved for (SC/ST/None)	District	Current Party	Present MLA
149	Kasba	None	South 24 Parganas	AITC	Javed Ahmed Khan
153	Behala Purba	None	South 24 Parganas	AITC	Ratna Chatterjee
154	Behala Paschim	None	South 24 Parganas	AITC	Partha Chatterjee
158	Kolkata Port	None	Kolkata	AITC	Firhad Hakim
159	Bhabanipur	None	Kolkata	AITC	Mamata Banerjee
160	Rashbehari	None	Kolkata	AITC	Debasish Kumar
161	Ballygunge	None	Kolkata	AITC	Babul Supriyo

Members of Parliament[edit | edit source]

Lok Sabha		Duration	Name	Party
	First	1952-57	Syama Prasad Mukherjee	Bharatiya Jana Sangh^[3]
Constituency renamed from Calcutta South East to Calcutta East
	Second	1957-62	Sadhan Gupta	Communist Party of India^[4]^[5]
	Third	1962-67	Ranendranath Sen	Communist Party of India^[4]^[5]
Constituency renamed from Calcutta East to Calcutta South
	Fourth	1967-71	Ganesh Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[6]
	Fifth	1971-77	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress^[7]
	Sixth	1977-80	Dilip Chakravarty	Bharatiya Lok Dal^[8]
	Seventh	1980-84	Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[9]
	Eighth	1984-89	Bholanath Sen	Indian National Congress^[10]
	Ninth	1989-91	Biplab Dasgupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[11]
	Tenth	1991-96	Mamata Banerjee	Indian National Congress^[12]^[13]
	Eleventh	1996-98		Indian National Congress^[12]^[13]
	Twelfth	1998-99		Trinamool Congress^[14]^[15]^[16]
	Thirteenth	1999-04
	Fourteenth	2004-09
Constituency renamed from Calcutta South to Kolkata Dakshin
	Fifteenth	2009-11	Mamata Banerjee	Trinamool Congress^[17]^[18]
	Fifteenth	2011-14	Subrata Bakshi	Trinamool Congress^[17]^[18]
	Sixteenth	2014-19	Subrata Bakshi	All India Trinamool Congress^[19]^[20]
	Seventeenth	2019-24	Mala Roy	All India Trinamool Congress^[19]^[20]

Election Results[edit | edit source]

General election 2019[edit | edit source]

Source:Source

2019 Indian general elections: Kolkata Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mala Roy	5,73,119	47.50	+10.55
	BJP	Chandra Kumar Bose	4,17,927	34.64	+9.36
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	1,40,275	11.63	−12.17
	INC	Mita Chakraborty	42,618	3.53	−6.18
	NOTA	None of the Above	14,824	1.23	−0.43
Majority			1,55,102	12.85
Turnout			12,07,076	69.82
	AITC hold		Swing	+10.55

General election 2014[edit | edit source]

2014 Indian general elections: Kolkata Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	4,31,715	36.95	−20.24
	BJP	Tathagata Roy	2,95,376	25.28	+21.33
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	2,79,414	23.83	−11.56
	INC	Mala Roy	1,13,453	9.71	+9.71
	NOTA	None of the Above	19,511	1.67	+1.67
Majority			1,36,339	11.67	−10.13
Turnout			11,67,986	69.30	+2.41
	AITC hold		Swing	-25.75

Bye election 2011[edit | edit source]

A bye election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). In the by-election, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ritabrata Banerjee of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes.

Bye-election, 2011: Kolkata Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Subrata Bakshi	5,16,761	62.70	+5.51
	CPI(M)	Ritabrata Banerjee	2,86,662	34.78	−0.61
	Independent	S. K. Biswas	8,068	0.98	+0.98
	Independent	Debashish Ghosh	7,049	0.86	+0.86
	Independent	Ranjit Kumar Dutta	5,596	0.68	+0.68
Majority			2,30,099	27.92	+6.12
Turnout			8,24,231	52.82	−14.07
	AITC hold		Swing	+5.51

General election 2009[edit | edit source]

2009 Indian general elections: Kolkata Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	5,76,045	57.19	+6.09
	CPI(M)	Rabin Deb	3,56,474	35.39	−2.91
	BJP	Jyotsna Banerjee	39,744	3.95
	BSP	Paresh Chandra Roy	6,745	0.67
	IND	Yusuf Jamal Siddique	6,042	0.60
	IUML	Asif Md	5,896	0.59
Majority			2,19,571	21.80
Turnout			10,07,225	66.89
	AITC hold		Swing

e • d
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	19	18	31.8
Indian National Congress	6	0	13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	1	1	NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	9	17	33.1
Communist Party of India	2	1	3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party	2	1	3.56
Forward bloc	2	1	3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party	1	1	6.14

General election 2004[edit | edit source]

General Election, 2004: Calcutta South^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	393,561	51.10	−7.26
	CPI(M)	Rabin Deb	295,132	38.30	+6.62
	INC	Nafisa Ali	60,377	7.80
	Independent	Sujit Kumar Roy	4,782	0.60
	BSP	Kusha Ram	4,431	0.60
	Independent	Bandana Das	4,130	0.50
	Independent	Mukul Paul	2,524	0.30
	Independent	Ranjit Banerjee	2,306	0.30
	Independent	Barnali Mukherjee	2,258	0.30
	Independent	Santu Mukherjee	1,708	0.20
	Independent	Bhushan Mondal	1,533	0.20
Majority			98,429	12.8%
Turnout			7,70,828	70.3%
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 1999[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1999: Calcutta South^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	4,69,103	58.26
	CPI(M)	Subhankar Chakraborty	2,55,095	31.68
	INC	Partha Roy Chowdhury	51,735	6.43
	CPI(ML)	Dr. Partha Sarathi Ghosh	6,186
	BSP	Mohammed Sahabuddun	6,091	0.76
	Independent	Ranjan Kumar Das	5.841
	Independent	Murari Mohan Ghosh	4,512
	Independent	Priya Nath Banerjee	2,740
	Independent	Kabita Mukherjee	2,160
	Independent	Bandana Biswas	1,658
Majority			2,14,008	26.6
Turnout			8,05,121	66.96
	AITC hold		Swing

General election 1998[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1998: Calcutta South^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	AITC	Mamata Banerjee	503,551	59.37
	CPI(M)	Prasanta Kumar Sur	279,470	32.95
	INC	Sougata Roy	56,725	6.69
	Independent	Partha Sarathi Ghosh	1,937	0.23
	RJD	Salik Ram Shaw	1,498	0.18
	Independent	G.Joseph	1.497	0.18
	Independent	Rina Sutradhar	1,447	0.17
	Independent	Adrish Bhattacharya	1,236	0.15
	Independent	Addy Samir Kumar	493	0.06
	Independent	Paresh Nath Bandyopadhyay	340	0.04 %
Majority			2,24,081	27.7
Turnout			8,05,121	66.96%
	AITC gain from INC		Swing

General election 1996[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1996: Calcutta South^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Mamata Banerjee	4,38,252	52.50
	CPI(M)	Bharati Mukherjee	3,34,991	40.10
	BJP	Santi Roy	45,066	5.30
	Independent	Bulu Chatterjee	3,439	0.40
	Independent	Sushil Chandra Majumdar	1,869	0.20
	Independent	D. Guha	1,755	0.20
	Independent	Tripti Das	1,589	0.20
	Independent	Bandana Biswas	1,572	0.20
	All India Indira Congress (Tiwari)	Yasmeen Sen Gupta	1,527	0.20
	Independent	Lalita Seth	1,482	0.20
	Independent	Ramagardi Yadav	1,285	0.20
	Independent	Bablu Dutta	958	0.10
	Independent	Murari Mohan Ghosh	798	0.10
Majority			1,03,261	12.1
Turnout			8,52,458	73.0
	INC hold		Swing

General election 1991[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1991: Calcutta South^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Mamata Banerjee	3,67,896	52.46
	CPI(M)	Biplab Dasgupta	2,74,233	39.10
	BJP	Somraj Dutta	50,541	7.21
	Independent	Ashok kumar Roy Chowdhury	1,958	0.28
	Independent	Sushil Chandra Majumdar	1,779	0.25
	BSP	Parimal Kanti Ray	1,121	0.16
	Independent	Priti Mazumder	877	0.13
	Independent	Bandana Biswas	837	0.12
	Doordarshi Party	Hari Shankar Shah	792	0.11
	Independent	Hajranchhor Chand Bhandari	548	0.08
	Independent	Bhagwan Das Nathany	413	0.06
	Independent	Arun Ghosh	295	0.04
	Independent	Murari Mohan Ghosh	798	0.10
Majority			93,663
Turnout			7,01,290	68.50
	INC hold		Swing

General election 1989[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1989: Calcutta South^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Biplab Dasgupta	3,63,674	50.07
	INC	Bholanath Sen	3,38,518	46.61
	BJP	Jnanendra Banerjee	18,418	2.54
	Independent	Sankar Som Banerjee	2,213	0.30
	Independent	Sourendta Nath Mitra	1,459	0.20
	Independent	Arun Ghosh	1,065	0.15
	Independent	Utpal Roy	996	0.14
Majority			25,156
Turnout			7,26,343	73.02
	CPI (M) gain from INC		Swing

General election 1984[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1984: Calcutta South^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Bholanath Sen	324,823	56.93
	CPI(M)	Satyasadhan Chakraborty	235,884	41.34
	BJP	Mridula Mukherjee	2,544	0.45
	Independent	SK Sultan	2,543	0.45
	Independent	Dinesh Gupta	1,274	0.22
	Independent	M.K.Ratnam	1,097	0.19
	Independent	Chandan Banik	872	0.15
	Independent	Shyam Sundar Thakur	789	0.14
	Independent	Souren Mitra	740	0.13
	Independent	Chandan Banik	872	0.14
Majority			88,939
Turnout			570,566	72.52%
	INC gain from CPI (M)		Swing

General election 1980[edit | edit source]

General Election, 1980: Calcutta South^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	CPI(M)	Satyasadhan Chakraborty	213,441	45,20
	INC(I)	Bholanath Sen	176,432	41.34
	JP	Dilip Chakravartty	32,747	6.90
	INC(U)	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	28,531	6.00
	SUCI	Subir Basu Roy	5,001	1.01
	Independent	Anil Kumar Banerjee	2,102	0.40
	Independent	Subrata Chatterjee	1,462	0.30
	Independent	Sunil Prasad Roy	1,425	0.14
	Independent	Shakya Sen	1,053	0.20
	Independent	Karuna Nidhan Roy	495	0.10
	Independent	Rabi Chowdhury	456	0.10
Majority			37,009	(7.8%)
Turnout			4,72,722	61.5
	CPI (M) gain from Bharatiya Lok Dal		Swing

General elections 1951-2004[edit | edit source]

Calcutta South constituency came into existence in 1967. However, different constituencies existed in the area. Results of such constituencies are also included here. Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Constituency	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
			%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1951	Calcutta South West	144065	37.91	Ashim Krishna Dutt	51.11	INC	Bankim Chandra Bhattacharyya	27.37	Independent^[3]
	Calcutta South East	144,614	37.91	Syama Prasad Mookerjee	44.97	BJS	Mriganka Mohan Sur	30.46	INC^[3]
1957	Calcutta South West	188,647	46.73	Biren Roy	50.33	IND.	Ashim Krishna Dutt	43.68	INC^[4]
	Calcutta East	228,712	46.0	Sadhan Chandra Gupta	62.68	CPI	Ranadeb Chowdhury	35.47	INC^[4]
1960	Calcutta South West	Bye-election		Indrajit Gupta		CPI	Ashim Krishna Dutt		INC^[21]
1962	Calcutta South West	292,873	67.64	Indrajit Gupta	50.06	CPI	Ismail Ibrahim	46.24	INC^[5]
	Calcutta East	320,419	68.03	Ranendra Nath Sen	56.88	CPI	Sailendra Nath Mukherjee	43.12	INC^[5]
1967	Calcutta South	317,171	62.60	Ganesh Ghosh	50.28	CPI(M)	B. B. Ghosh	37.58	INC^[6]
	Alipore	385,961	68.22	Indrajit Gupta	32.41	CPI	P.Sarkar	32.22	INC^[6]
1971	Calcutta South	296,088	59.00	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	50.65	INC	Ganesh Ghosh	42.95	CPI(M)^[7]
	Alipore	368,717	57.38	Indrajit Gupta	49.00	CPI	Kamal Sarakar	41.40	CPI(M)^[7]
1977	Calcutta South	398,560	60.92	Dilip Chakravarty	58.08	BLD	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	40.59	INC^[8]
1980		472,700	61.54	Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	46.09	CPI(M)	Bhola Nath Sen	38.09	INC(I)^[9]
1984		582,370	72.52	Bhola Nath Sen	56.93	INC	Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	41.34	CPI(M)^[10]
1989		740,080	73.02	Biplab Dasgupta	50.07	CPI(M)	Bhola Nath Sen	46.61	INC^[11]
1991		714,400	68.5	Mamata Banerjee	52.46	INC	Biplab Dasgupta	39.1	CPI(M)^[12]
1996		852,460	73.02	Mamata Banerjee	52.51	INC	Bharati Mukherjee	40.54	CPI(M)^[13]
1998		877,430	74.44	Mamata Banerjee	59.37	AITC	Prasanta Sur	32.95	CPI(M)^[14]
1999		805,270	66.96	Mamata Banerjee	58.26	AITC	Subhankar Chakraborty	31.68	CPI(M)^[15]
2004		772,740	70.46	Mamata Banerjee	50.93	AITC	Rabin Deb	38.19	CPI(M)^[16]
2009	Kolkata Dakshin	10,07,225	66.89	Mamata Banerjee	57.19	AITC	Rabin Deb	35.39	CPI(M)^[17]
2011		8,24,136	52.82	Subrata Bakshi	62.70	AITC	Ritabrata Banerjee	34.78	CPI(M)^[17]
2014		11,67,986	69.30	Subrata Bakshi	36.95	AITC	Tathagata Roy	25.28	BJP^[19]

References[edit | edit source]

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[18] "Trinamool Congress retains Kolkata South by record margin". The Hindu, 4 December 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2016.

[loksabha2014-19] 19.0 ^19.1 "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.

[20] "TMC's Mala Roy Wins Against Chandra Bose in Kolkata Dakshin". News18. Retrieved 16 February 2019.

[bye1970-21] "Details of Bye-elections from 1952 to 1995 (Excel file)". Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

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   |CurrentMPParty = [[All India Trinamool Congress]]
   |CurrentMP = [[Mala Roy]]
-  |ElectedByYear = 2019
+  |ElectedByYear = [[2019 Indian general election|2019]]
   |State = [[West Bengal]]
-  |AssemblyConstituencies = [[Kasba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kasba]]<br />[[Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Behala Purba]]<br />[[Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Behala Paschim]]<br />[[Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Port]]<br />[[Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bhabanipur]]<br />[[Rashbehari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rashbehari]]<br />[[Ballygunge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ballygunge]]
+  |AssemblyConstituencies = [[Kasba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kasba]]<br />[[Behala Purba (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Behala Purba]]<br />[[Behala Paschim (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Behala Paschim]]<br />[[Kolkata Port (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kolkata Port]]<br />[[Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency|Bhabanipur]]<br />[[Rashbehari (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Rashbehari]]<br />[[Ballygunge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ballygunge]]
-  |Electorate = 1,685,296<ref name=turnout>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |title=Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014 |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702210941/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |archive-date=2 July 2014 }}</ref>
+  |Electorate = 1,719,821<ref name=turnout>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |title=Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014 |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=2 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702210941/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main1/GE2014/PC_WISE_TURNOUT.htm |archive-date=2 July 2014 }}</ref>
 }}
 '''Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)''' (earlier known as '''Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency''') is one of the 543 [[Lok Sabha]] (parliamentary) constituencies in [[India]]. The constituency centres on the southern part of [[Kolkata]] in [[West Bengal]]. While four of the seven legislative assembly segments on No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) are in [[Kolkata district]], three are in [[South 24 Parganas district]].
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 !width="100px" style="font-size:75%"|Reserved for ([[Dalit|SC]]/[[Adivasi|ST]]/None)
 !width="150px"|District
-!width="150px"|Party
+!width="150px"|Current Party
-!width="150px"|MLA
+!width="150px"|Present MLA
 |-
 |149
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 |None
 |[[South 24 Parganas District|South 24 Parganas]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
 |[[Javed Ahmed Khan]]
 |-
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 |None
 |[[South 24 Parganas District|South 24 Parganas]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
-|Ratna Chatterjee
+|[[Ratna Chatterjee]]
 |-
 |154
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 |None
 |[[South 24 Parganas District|South 24 Parganas]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
 |[[Partha Chatterjee (politician)|Partha Chatterjee]]
 |-
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 |None
 |[[Kolkata District|Kolkata]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
 |[[Firhad Hakim]]
 |-
 |159
-|[[Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bhabanipur]]
+|[[Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency|Bhabanipur]]
 |None
 |[[Kolkata District|Kolkata]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
-|[[Sovandeb Chattopadhyay]]
+|[[Mamata Banerjee]]
 |-
 |160
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 |None
 |[[Kolkata District|Kolkata]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|
 [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
-|Debashis Kumar
+|[[Debasish Kumar]]
 |-
 |161
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 |None
 |[[Kolkata District|Kolkata]]
-|bgcolor="{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|bgcolor="{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|
-|[[Subrata Mukherjee]]
+[[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]]
+|[[Babul Supriyo]]
 |-
 |}
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 !colspan="2"|Lok Sabha!!Duration!!Name!!Party
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Bharatiya Jana Sangh/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Bharatiya Jana Sangh}}"|
 |[[1st Lok Sabha|First]]
 |[[1952 Indian general election|1952-57]]
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 |colspan=5 align=center|''Constituency renamed from Calcutta South East to Calcutta East''
 |-
-|rowspan="2"style="background-color: {{Communist Party of India/meta/color}}"|
+|rowspan="2"style="background-color: {{party color|Communist Party of India}}"|
 |[[2nd Lok Sabha|Second]]
 |[[1957 Indian general election|1957-62]]
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 |colspan=5 align=center|''Constituency renamed from Calcutta East to Calcutta South''
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"|
 |[[4th Lok Sabha|Fourth]]
 |[[1967 Indian general election|1967-71]]
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 |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=loksabha1967>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |title=General Elections, India, 1967 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404203524/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1967/Vol_I_LS_67.pdf |archive-date= 4 April 2014 }}</ref>
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
 |[[5th Lok Sabha|Fifth]]
 |[[1971 Indian general election|1971-77]]
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 |[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=loksabha1971>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |title=General Elections, India, 1971 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404195218/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |archive-date= 4 April 2014 }}</ref>
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Bharatiya Lok Dal/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Bharatiya Lok Dal}}"|
 |[[6th Lok Sabha|Sixth]]
 |[[1977 Indian general election|1977-80]]
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 |[[Bharatiya Lok Dal]]<ref name=loksabha1977>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf |title=General Elections, 1977 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718185438/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"|
 |[[7th Lok Sabha|Seventh]]
 |[[1980 Indian general election|1980-84]]
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 |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=loksabha1980>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |title=General Elections, 1980 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175926/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
 |[[8th Lok Sabha|Eighth]]
 |[[1984 Indian general election|1984-89]]
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 |[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=loksabha1984>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf |title=General Elections, 1984 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718184911/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>
 |-
-|style="background-color:{{Communist Party of India (Marxist)/meta/color}}"|
+|style="background-color:{{party color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"|
 |[[9th Lok Sabha|Ninth]]
 |[[1989 Indian general election|1989-91]]
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 |[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=loksabha1989>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf |title=General Elections, 1989 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results |work=West Bengal |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date=25 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718183934/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf |archive-date=18 July 2014 }}</ref>
 |-
-|rowspan="2"style="background-color:{{Indian National Congress/meta/color}}"|
+|rowspan="2"style="background-color:{{party color|Indian National Congress}}"|
 |[[10th Lok Sabha|Tenth]]
 |[[1991 Indian general election|1991-96]]
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 |[[1996 Indian general election|1996-98]]
 |-
-|rowspan="3"style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
+|rowspan="3"style="background-color:{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|
 |[[12th Lok Sabha|Twelfth]]
 |[[1998 Indian general election|1998-99]]
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 |colspan=5 align=center|''Constituency renamed from Calcutta South to Kolkata Dakshin''
 |-
-|rowspan="4"style="background-color:{{All India Trinamool Congress/meta/color}}"|
+|rowspan="4"style="background-color:{{party color|All India Trinamool Congress}}"|
 |[[15th Lok Sabha|Fifteenth]]
 |[[2009 Indian general election|2009-11]]
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    |party      = Bharatiya Janata Party
    |candidate  = [[Tathagata Roy]]
-   |votes      = 2,95,377
+   |votes      = 2,95,376
    |percentage = 25.28
    |change     = +21.33
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 ===Bye election 2011===
-A bye election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the [[Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]. In the by-election, [[Subrata Bakshi]] of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival [[Ritabrata Banerjee]] of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes.
+A bye election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the [[Bhabanipur, West Bengal Assembly constituency|Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]]. In the by-election, [[Subrata Bakshi]] of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival [[Ritabrata Banerjee]] of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes.
-{{Election box begin | title=Bye-election, 2011: Kolkata Dakshin}}]]
+{{Election box begin | title=Bye-election, 2011: Kolkata Dakshin}}
 {{Election box candidate with party link
    |party      = All India Trinamool Congress

v t e Electoral constituencies in Kolkata
Lok Sabha constituencies	Kolkata Dakshin Kolkata Uttar
Former Lok Sabha constituencies	Calcutta North West Calcutta North East
Vidhan Sabha constituencies	Kolkata Port Bhabanipur Rashbehari Ballygunge Chowrangee Entally Beleghata Jorasanko Shyampukur Maniktala Kashipur-Belgachia
Former Vidhan Sabha constituencies	Belgachia East Belgachia West Cossipur Jorabagan Bara Bazar Bowbazar Taltola Sealdah Vidyasagar Burtola