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| | #REDIRECT [[Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency]] |
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| |name = Howrah Dakshin <!-- at least one of the first two fields must be filled in -->
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| |settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency <!-- e.g. Town, Village, City, etc.-->
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| |pushpin_map = India West Bengal#India
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| |map_caption = Location in West Bengal
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| |coordinates = {{coord|22.5736296|N|88.3251045|E|region:IN-{{IndAbbr|[[West Bengal]]}}|display=inline,title}}
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| |subdivision_type = Country
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| |subdivision_name = {{IND}}
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| |subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
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| |subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
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| |subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
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| |subdivision_name2 = [[Howrah district|Howrah]]
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| |subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
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| |subdivision_name3 = 173
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| |subdivision_type4 = Type
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| |subdivision_name4 = Open
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| |subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
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| |subdivision_name5 = [[Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)|25. Howrah]]
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| |subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
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| |subdivision_name6 = 294,099 (2021)
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| '''Howrah Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' ({{lang-bn|হাওড়া দক্ষিন বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র}}) (earlier called Howrah South) is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Howrah district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].
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| ==Overview==
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| As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 173 Howrah Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 35, 38 to 41 and 44 to 46 of [[Howrah Municipal Corporation]] and Duila, Jorhat, Panchpara and Thanamakua [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Sankrail]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]].<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 25 July 2015|work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>
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| Howrah South (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 25 [[Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>
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| ==Members of Legislative Assembly==
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| {| class="wikitable"ìÍĦĤĠčw
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| ! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
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| |[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Howrah North||Biren Banerjee||[[Communist Party of India]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |||Howrah South||Beni Charan Dutta||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
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| |||Howrah West||Bankim Chandra Kar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
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| |||Howrah East||Saila Kumar Mukhopadhyay||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
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| |[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Howrah North||Samar Mukhopadhyay||Communist Party of India<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |||Howrah South||Kanai Lal Bhattacharya||[[All India Forward Bloc]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
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| |||Howrah West||Bankim Chandra Kar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
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| |||Howrah East||Beni Charan Dutta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
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| |[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Howrah North||Saila Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |||Howrah South||Kanai Lal Bhattacharya||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
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| |||Howrah West||Anadi Dass||Independent<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
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| |||Howrah East||Bejoy Bhattacharya||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
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| |[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Howrah South||B,K.Bhattacharya||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1969||||Pralay Talukdar||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1971||||Santi Kumar Dasgupta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1972||||Santi Kumar Dasgupta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1977||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1982|||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1987||||Mrityunjoy Banerjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1991||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |1996||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref>
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| |[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Badal Basu||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Krishna Kisor Roy||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Howrah Dakshin||Brojo Mohan Mazumdar||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
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| |[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||Howrah Dakshin||Brojo Mohan Mazumdar||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2016>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2016/stat_WB_May2016.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | </ref>
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| |}|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||Howrah Dakshin||Nandita Roy Choudhury||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2021>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2021/stat_WB_May2021.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | </ref>
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| ==Election results==
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| ===2021===
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| {{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Dakshin]]}}
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = All India Trinamool Congress
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| |candidate = Nandita Chowdhury
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| |votes = 1,16,839
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| |percentage = 53.86
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Bharatiya Janata Party
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| |candidate = Rantidev Sengupta
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| |votes = 66,270
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| |percentage = 30.55
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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| |candidate = Sumitra Adhikari
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| |votes = 27,287
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| |percentage = 12.58
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = None of the above
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| |candidate = None of the above
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| |votes = 2,948
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| |percentage = 1.36
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate
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| |party = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
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| |candidate = Sushanta Mondal
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| |votes =1,063
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| |percentage =0.49
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| |change =
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| {{Election box majority
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| |votes = 50,569
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| |percentage = 23.62
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| |change =
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| {{Election box turnout
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| |votes = 2,17,055
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| |percentage = 73.77
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| |change =
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| {{Election box hold with party link
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| |winner = All India Trinamool Congress
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| |swing =
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| {{Election box end}}
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| ===2016===
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| {{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Dakshin]]}}
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = All India Trinamool Congress
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| |candidate = Brajamohan Majumder
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| |votes = 93,689
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| |percentage = 47.79
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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| |candidate = Arindam Basu
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| |votes = 77,495
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| |percentage = 39.53
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Bharatiya Janata Party
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| |candidate = Sahana Guha Roy
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| |votes = 16,277
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| |percentage = 8.30
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = None of the above
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| |candidate = None of the above
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| |votes = 3,816
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| |percentage = 1.95
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Bahujan Samaj Party
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| |candidate = Srinath Yadav
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| |votes =1,249
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| |percentage =0.64
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| |change =
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| {{Election box majority | | {{Redirect category shell| |
| |votes = 16,194
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| |percentage = 8.26
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| |change =
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| {{Election box turnout
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| |votes = 1,96,208
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| |percentage = 73.58
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| |change =
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| {{Election box hold with party link
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| |winner = All India Trinamool Congress
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| |swing =
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| {{Election box end}}
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| ===2011===
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| {{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Dakshin]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=173|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Howrah Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 1 May 2011}}</ref>}}
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = All India Trinamool Congress
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| |candidate = Broja Mohan Majumdar
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| |votes = 1,01,066
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| |percentage = 56.06
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| |change =
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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| |candidate = Krishna Kishor Roy
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| |votes = 69,644
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| |percentage = 38.63
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| |change = -9.43
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| {{Election box candidate with party link
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| |party = Bharatiya Janata Party
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| |candidate = Pramila Singh
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| |votes = 4,256
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| |percentage = 2.36
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| {{Election box candidate | |
| |party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
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| |candidate = Sekh Abdul Momin
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| |votes = 1,803
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| |percentage = 1.00
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| {{Election box candidate
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| |party = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
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| |candidate = Biswanath Mete
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| |votes =828
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| |percentage =0.46
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| {{Election box majority
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| |votes = 31,422
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| |percentage = 17.43
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| |change =
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| {{Election box turnout
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| |votes = 1,80,437
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| |percentage = 76.94
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| |change =
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| {{Election box gain with party link
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| |winner = All India Trinamool Congress
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| |loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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| |swing = #
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| {{Election box end}}
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| <small>.# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.</small>
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| ===1977-2006===
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| In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Krishna Kisor Ray of [[Communist Party of India|CPI(M)]] won 164 Howrah South assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amitava Dutta of [[JD(U)]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Badal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Arup Ray of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Arup Roy of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress defeated Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Amiya Kumar Dutta of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and [[Ambica Banerjee]] of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp164.htm |title =164 - Howrah South Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 November 2010}}</ref>
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| ===1951-1972===
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| Santi Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> B.K.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|1951]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
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| ==References==
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| {{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal}}
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| [[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
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| [[Category:Politics of Howrah district]]
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