Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)

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Kolkata Dakshin
Lok Sabha Constituency
IncumbentMala Roy
Parliamentary PartyAll India Trinamool Congress
Elected Year2019
Constituency Details
Established1967–Present
ReservationNone
StateWest Bengal
Total Electors1,719,821[1]
Assembly ConstituenciesKasba
Behala Purba
Behala Paschim
Kolkata Port
Bhabanipur
Rashbehari
Ballygunge

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
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
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
Sixteenth 2014-19 All India Trinamool Congress[19][20]
Seventeenth 2019-24 Mala Roy

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 Increase18 31.8
Indian National Congress 6 Increase0 13.45
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 1 Increase1 NA
Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9 Decrease17 33.1
Communist Party of India 2 Decrease1 3.6
Revolutionary Socialist Party 2 Decrease1 3.56
Forward bloc 2 Decrease1 3.04
Bharatiya Janata Party 1 Increase1 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]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. ↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "General Elections, India, 1951- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "General Elections, India, 1962- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "General Elections, India, 1967 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "General Elections, India, 1971 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "General Elections, 1977 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "General Elections, 1980 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "General Elections, 1984 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "General Elections, 1989 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "General Elections, 1991 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "General Elections, 1998 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "General Elections, 1999 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  18. ↑ "Trinamool Congress retains Kolkata South by record margin". The Hindu, 4 December 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  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.
  21. ↑ "Details of Bye-elections from 1952 to 1995 (Excel file)". Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.

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