Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Basirhat (disambiguation).

Basirhat Dakshin
Constituency No. 124 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
LS constituency	Basirhat
Established	1951
Total electors	212,872
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Saptarshi Banerjee
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 124 Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Basirhat municipality, Basirhat I community development block, and Taki municipality. ^[1]

Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of 18. Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year	Member	Party
Till 2011 : Constituency did not exist
2011	Narayan Mukherjee		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2014^	Samik Bhattacharya		Bharatiya Janata Party
2016	Dipendu Biswas		Trinamool Congress
2021	Saptarshi Banerjee

Election results

2021

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Basirhat Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dipendu Biswas	88,085	40.65	+11.37
	BJP	Samik Bhattacharya	64,027	29.55	+25.64
	INC	Asit Majumdar	57,035	26.32	-37.81
	CPI(ML)L	Debabrata Biswas	1,462	0.67	N/A
	BSP	Dilip Bairagi	1,133	0.52	-1.40
	SUCI(C)	Ajay Kumar Bain	1,081	0.49
	PDS	Barun Das	964	0.44
	RPI(A)	Tasirul Mondal	903	0.41
	NOTA	None of the above	1,949	0.89
Majority			24,058	11.10
Turnout			2,16,639
	AITC gain from BJP		Swing

2014 by-election

A bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the death of the sitting MLA, Narayan Mukherjee. ^[2]

West Bengal state assembly bye-election, 2014: Basirhat Dakshin constituency ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Samik Bhattacharya	71,002	37.43	+33.52
	AITC	Dipendu Biswas	69,416	36.59	+7.31
	CPI(M)	Mrinal Chakraborty	24,884	13.12	-22.86
	INC	Asit Majumdar	21,958	11.58	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Ajay Kumar Bain	2,431	1.28	N/A
Majority			1,586	0.84	-5.82
Turnout			1,89,694	80.43	-6.8
	BJP gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+22.09

2011

In the 2011 election, Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Narayan Goswami of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Basirhat Dakshin constituency ^{[3] [4]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	CPI(M)	Narayan Mukherjee	66,924	35.94
	AITC	Narayan Goswami	54,514	29.28
	Independent	Asit Majumdar	52,484	28.19
	BJP	Hajarilal Sarkar	7,282	3.91
	BSP	Amitosh Kumar Mondal	3,572	1.92
	IUML	Hafijul Mistri	1,391	0.75
Majority			12,410	6.66
Turnout			186,157	87.22
	CPI(M) win (new seat)

As per 2011 census total population of Basirhat Dakshin is 335130,Hindu 183256,Muslim 151180,Other 694.Hindu 54.682%,Muslim 45.111%,Other 0.207%.

1977-2006 Basirhat

During the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006, ^[5] Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001, ^[6] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996, Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991 ^[7] and 1987, ^[8] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982 ^[9] and 1977. ^{[10] [11]}

1951-1972 Basirhat

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972 ^[12] and 1971. ^[13] A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969 ^[14] and 1967. ^[15] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962. ^[16] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957 ^[17] and in independent India's first election in 1951. ^[18]

References

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13. "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
14. "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
15. "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
16. "General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
17. "General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
18. "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.