Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency

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Howrah Dakshin
Constituency No. 173 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictHowrah
Lok Sabha constituencyHowrah
Established1951
Total electors294,099
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected year2021

Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview[edit | edit source]

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 173 Howrah Dakshin Assembly 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 panchayats of Sankrail community development block.[1]

Howrah South Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly[edit | edit source]

Howrah North[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
1951 Biren Banerjee Communist Party of India
1957 Samar Mukhopadhyay
1962 Saila Mukherjee Indian National Congress

Howrah South[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
1951 Beni Charan Dutta Indian National Congress
1957 Kanai Lal Bhattacharya All India Forward Bloc
1962
1967 B. K. Bhattacharya Indian National Congress
1969 Pralay Talukdar Communist Party of India
1971 Santi Kumar Dasgupta Indian National Congress
1972
1977 Pralay Talukdar Communist Party of India
1982
1987 Mrityunjoy Banerjee Indian National Congress
1991 Pralay Talukdar Communist Party of India
1996
2001 Badal Basu
2006 Krishna Kisor Roy

Howrah East[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
1951 Saila Kumar Mukhopadhyay Indian National Congress
1957 Beni Charan Dutta
1962 Bejoy Bhattacharya

Howrah West[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
1951 Bankim Chandra Kar Indian National Congress
1957
1962 Anadi Dass Independent

Howrah Dakshin[edit | edit source]

Year Name Party
2011 Brajamohan Mazumder All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021 Nandita Choudhury

Election results[edit | edit source]

2026[edit | edit source]

2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Nandita Chowdhury
BJP
CPI(M) Dr. Abhijit Bandopadhyay
INC Adv. Dipshika Bhowmik
SUCI(C) Rita Ghosal
Janata Unnayan Party Sahabuddin Mondal
None of the above (India) None of the above
Majority
Turnout
Swing

2021[edit | edit source]

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Nandita Chowdhury 116,839 53.86
BJP Rantidev Sengupta 66,270 30.55
CPI(M) Sumitra Adhikari 27,287 12.58
NOTA None of the above 2,948 1.36
IND Sushanta Mondal 1,063 0.49
Majority 50,569 23.62
Turnout 2,17,055 73.77
AITC hold Swing

2016[edit | edit source]

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Brajamohan Mazumder 93,689 47.79
CPI(M) Arindam Basu 77,495 39.53
BJP Sahana Guha Roy 16,277 8.30
NOTA None of the above 3,816 1.95
BSP Srinath Yadav 1,249 0.64
Majority 16,194 8.26
Turnout 1,96,208 73.58
AITC hold Swing

2011[edit | edit source]

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin[2][3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Brajamohan Mazumder 1,01,066 56.06
CPI(M) Krishna Kishor Roy 69,644 38.63 −9.43
BJP Pramila Singh 4,256 2.36
IND Sekh Abdul Momin 1,803 1.00
IND Biswanath Mete 828 0.46
Majority 31,422 17.43
Turnout 1,80,437 76.94
AITC gain from CPI (M) Swing #

.# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006[edit | edit source]

In the 2006 state assembly elections,[4] Krishna Kisor Ray of 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 Trinamool Congress in 2001.[5] Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Arup Roy of Congress in 1996[6], BJP's candidate Ambooj Sharma secured 10,237 votes, and Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress in 1991.[7] Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress defeated Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) in 1987.[8] Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Amiya Kumar Dutta of Congress in 1982[9] and Ambica Banerjee of Congress in 1977.[10][11]

1951-1972[edit | edit source]

Santi Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1972[12] and 1971.[13] Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) won in 1969.[14] B.K.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.[15] Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1962[16] and 1957.[17] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1951.[18]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "West Bengal Assembly Election 2011". Howrah Dakshin. Empowering India. Archived from the original on 19 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  9. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "164 - Howrah South Assembly Constituency". Partywise Comparison Since 1977. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  12. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  16. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  17. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, AC No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  18. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. Election Commission. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
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