Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Asansol Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituency
Asansol Dakshin Location in West Bengal Show map of West Bengal Asansol Dakshin Asansol Dakshin (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 23°40′N86°56′E / 23.667°N 86.933°E / 23.667; 86.933 Coordinates: 23°40′N86°56′E / 23.667°N 86.933°E / 23.667; 86.933
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Paschim Bardhaman
Constituency No.	280
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	40. Asansol
Electorate (year)	203,289 (2011)

Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It covers most of the area earlier under Hirapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The Delimitation Commission abolished Hirapur as an assembly constituency in 2011.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, there are two constituencies, namely Asansol Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Asansol Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency). No. 281 Asansol Uttar covers ward nos. 1 to 8, 10 to 17, 19, 21 to 33 of Asansol municipal corporation. No. 280 Asansol Dakshin covers ward nos. 9, 18, 20, 34 to 50 of Asansol municipal corporation and Amrasota, Egra, Ballavpur, Jemari and Tirat gram panchayats of Raniganj community development block. ^[1]

Asansol Uttar and Asansol Dakshin assembly segments are part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal (the area covered by the Asansol Lok Sabha Sabha constituency) after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has seen, it writes, “a sustained hold over it by the CPI(M) since 1984. Before that it was a tale of fluctuating fortune for the CPI(M) and the Congress… However, as the green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.” ^[2]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1957	Hirapur	Taher Hossain	Independent [3]
1962		Dr. Gopika Ranjan Mitra	Indian National Congress [4]
1967		Shibdas Ghatak	Indian National Congress [5]
1969		Bamapada Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [6]
1971		Bamapada Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7]
1972		Triptimoy Aich	Indian National Congress [8]
1977		Bamapada Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [9]
1982		Bamapada Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1987		Suhrid Basu Mallick	Indian National Congress [11]
1991		Mamtaz Hassan	Janata Dal [12]
1996		Shyamadas Banerjee	Indian National Congress [13]
2001		Moloy Ghatak	All India Trinamool Congress [14]
2006		Amitava Mukhopadhyay	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15] [16]
2011	Asansol Dakshin	Tapas Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress [17]
2016		Tapas Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress [18]
2021		Agnimitra Paul	Bharatiya Janata Party [19]

Election results

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Asansol Dakshin ^{[20] [21] [22]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Banerjee	89,645	55.75	+10.74
	CPI (M)	Ashok Kumar Mukherjee	61,104	38.00	-9.13
	BJP	Pawan Kumar Singh	6,706	4.17
	JD(U)	Nirajlal Yadav	3,356	2.09
Majority			28,541	17.75
Turnout			1,60,879	78.69
	AITC gain from CPI (M)		Swing	+20.57#

.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Hirapur constituency.

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Asansol Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Tapas Banerjee	71,515	38.54	-17.21
	CPI (M)	Hemant Prabhakar	57,232	30.84	-7.16
	BJP	Col. Diptansu Choudhury	49,199	26.51	+22.34
	BMP	Chhoton Ruidas	2,096	1.12	N/A
	JDP	Sukanta Hembram	1,601	0.86	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	3,911	2.10	N/A
Majority			14,283	7.70	-10.05
Turnout			1,85,704	75.07
	AITC hold		Swing	-5.03

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Asansol Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Agnimitra Paul	87,881	45.13	+77.14
	AITC	Saayoni Ghosh	83,394	42.82	+15.31
	CPI (M)	Prashanta Ghosh	15,720	8.20	-70.80
	BSP	Singhasan Paswan	2,847	1.67
	BMUP	Shiuli Ruidas	1,157	0.57
	NOTA	None of the above	3,466	1.78
Majority			4,487	2.34
Turnout			1,94,943	71.08
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

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