Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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Cooch Behar Dakshin
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Cooch Behar Dakshin
Cooch Behar Dakshin (India)
Coordinates: 26°19′27″N89°27′07″E / 26.32417°N 89.45194°E / 26.32417; 89.45194 Coordinates: 26°19′27″N89°27′07″E / 26.32417°N 89.45194°E / 26.32417; 89.45194
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
State West Bengal
District Cooch Behar
Constituency No 4
TypeOpen
Lok Sabha constituency 1 Cooch Behar (SC)
Electorate (year)182,901 (2011) [1]
213,162 (2016) [2]
233,839 (2021) [3]

Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 4 Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Cooch Behar municipality and Chandamari, Chilkirhat, Falimari, Ghughumari, Haribhanga, Moyamari, Patchhara, Putimari Fuleswari and Suktabari gram panchayats of Cooch Behar I community development block. [4]

Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). [4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election
Year		ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951 Cooch BeharMaziruddin Ahmed Indian National Congress [5]
Jatindra Nath Singha SarkarIndian National Congress [5]
1957 Maziruddin AhmedIndian National Congress [6]
Satish Chandra Roy SinghaIndian National Congress [6]
1962 Cooch Behar NorthSunil Dasgupta Forward Bloc [7]
Cooch Behar SouthSunil BasuniaForward Bloc [7]
1967 Cooch Behar NorthM.R.TarIndian National Congress [8]
Cooch Behar SouthSantosh Kumar RoyIndian National Congress [8]
Cooch Behar WestPrasenjit BarmanIndian National Congress [8]
1969Cooch Behar NorthBimal Kanti BasuForward Bloc [9]
Cooch Behar SouthSantosh Kumar RoyIndian National Congress [9]
Cooch Behar WestPrasenjit BarmanIndian National Congress [9]
1971Cooch Behar NorthSunil KarIndian National Congress [10]
Cooch Behar SouthSantosh Kumar RoyIndian National Congress [10]
Cooch Behar WestRajani DasIndian National Congress [10]
1972Cooch Behar NorthSunil KarIndian National Congress [11]
Cooch Behar SouthSantosh Kumar RoyIndian National Congress [11]
Cooch Behar WestRajani DasIndian National Congress [11]
1977Cooch Behar North Aparajita Goppi Forward Bloc [12]
Cooch Behar WestBimal Kanti BasuForward Bloc [12]
1982Cooch Behar NorthAparajita GoppiForward Bloc [13]
Cooch Behar WestBimal Kanti BasuForward Bloc [13]
1987Cooch Behar NorthAparajita GoppiForward Bloc [14]
Cooch Behar WestBimal Kanti BasuForward Bloc [14]
1991Cooch Behar NorthBimal Kanti BasuForward Bloc [15]
Cooch Behar WestSoumindra Chandra DasForward Bloc [15]
1996Cooch Behar NorthMihir GoswamiIndian National Congress [16]
Cooch Behar WestSoumindra Chandra DasForward Bloc [16]
2001 Cooch Behar NorthDipak Chandra SarkarForward Bloc [17]
Cooch Behar WestAkshay ThakurForward Bloc [17]
2006 Cooch Behar NorthDipak Chandra SarkarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) [18]
Cooch Behar WestAkshay ThakurForward Bloc [18]
2011 Cooch Behar DakshinAkshay ThakurForward Bloc [19]
2016 Cooch Behar Dakshin Mihir Goswami All India Trinamool Congress (later join the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2020) [20]
2021Cooch Behar Dakshin Nikhil Ranjan Dey Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency [21] [22]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Avijit Dey Bhowmik
AIFB Akshay Thakur
BJP Nikhil Ranjan
Turnout
Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Mihir Goswami of AITC defeated his nearest rival Debasis Banik of AIFB

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency [19] [23]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AITC Mihir Goswami82,84946.24+1.07
AIFB Debasis Banik64,65436.08-10.96
BJP Nikhil Ranjan Dey18,17610.14+5.95
BSP Maya Majumder5,1972.9
AMB Amita Das2,7031.51
NOTA None of the above 2,4891.39
SUCI(C) Nazma Khandakar1,6780.94
Kamtapur People's Party (United)Akik Hossain Chowdhury1,4270.8
Turnout 179,17384.05+0.13
AITC gain from AIFB Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Akshay Thakur of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Abdul Jalil Ahmed of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency [19] [24]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
AIFB Akshay Thakur72,02847.04-4.03
AITC Abdul Jalil Ahmed69,16545.17+11.29
BJP Gayetri Kar6,4194.19
IndependentSanat Sen2,207
IndependentShyamal Chandra Barman1,277
IndependentPrahlad Chandra Datta745
IndependentKrishna Kanta Barman685
People's Democratic Conference of IndiaChanchal Sarkar589
Turnout 153,11583.92
AIFB hold Swing -15.32

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006 [18] and 2001 [17] state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Trinamool Congress. Mihir Goswami representing Congress had defeated Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc in 1996. [16] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991. [15] Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987, [14] Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982 [13] and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977. [12] [25]

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency

In the 2006 [18] and 2001 [17] state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of Forward Bloc won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of Trinamool Congress) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing Congress in 1996 [16] and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991. [15] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987 [14] and 1982, [13] and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977. [12] [26]

1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies

Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972 [11] and 1971. [10] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969. [9] M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967. [8] Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in 1962. [7] Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972, [11] 1971, [10] 1969 [9] and 1967. [8] Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962. [7] Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972 [11] and 1971. [10] Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969 [9] and 1967. [8] The seat was not there prior to 1967.

1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency

Cooch Behar was a joint seat in 1957. [6] It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In independent India's first election in 1951, [5] Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.

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