Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)
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[1] |
Assembly Constituencies | Kasba 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]

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 | Debasish Kumar | |
161 | Ballygunge | None | Kolkata | Babul Supriyo |
Members of Parliament[edit]
Election Results[edit]
General election 2019[edit]
Source:Source
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]
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]
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.
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]
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 |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | 19 | ![]() |
31.8 |
Indian National Congress | 6 | ![]() |
13.45 |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 1 | ![]() |
NA |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 9 | ![]() |
33.1 |
Communist Party of India | 2 | ![]() |
3.6 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | ![]() |
3.56 |
Forward bloc | 2 | ![]() |
3.04 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 1 | ![]() |
6.14 |
General election 2004[edit]
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]
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)(L) | 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | Satyasadhan Chakraborty | 213,441 | 45,20 | ||
[[Indian National Congress (Indira)|Template:Indian National Congress (Indira)/meta/shortname]] | Bholanath Sen | 176,432 | 41.34 | ||
JP | Dilip Chakravartty | 32,747 | 6.90 | ||
[[Indian National Congress (Urs)|Template:Indian National Congress (Urs)/meta/shortname]] | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 28,531 | 6.00 | ||
style="background-color: Template:Socialist Unity Centre of India/meta/color; width: 5px;" | | [[Socialist Unity Centre of India|Template:Socialist Unity Centre of India/meta/shortname]] | 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]
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 | ||||
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%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]
References[edit]
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "General Elections, India, 1962- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 7.0 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.
- ↑ 8.0 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.
- ↑ 9.0 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.
- ↑ 10.0 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.
- ↑ 11.0 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.
- ↑ 12.0 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.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 15.0 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.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 "General Elections, 2004 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Trinamool Congress retains Kolkata South by record margin". The Hindu, 4 December 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ↑ "TMC's Mala Roy Wins Against Chandra Bose in Kolkata Dakshin". News18. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
- ↑ "Details of Bye-elections from 1952 to 1995 (Excel file)". Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
External links[edit]
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