Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency

Howrah Dakshin
Constituency No. 173 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency	Howrah
Established	1951
Total electors	294,099
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nandita Chowdhury
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 173 Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 35, 38 to 41 and 44 to 46 of Howrah Municipal Corporation and Duila, Jorhat, Panchpara and Thanamakua gram panchayats of Sankrail community development block. ^[1]

Howrah South Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). ^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Howrah North

Year	Name	Party
1951	Biren Banerjee		Communist Party of India
1957	Samar Mukhopadhyay
1962	Saila Mukherjee		Indian National Congress

Howrah South

Year	Name	Party
1951	Beni Charan Dutta		Indian National Congress
1957	Kanai Lal Bhattacharya		All India Forward Bloc
1962
1967	B. K. Bhattacharya		Indian National Congress
1969	Pralay Talukdar		Communist Party of India
1971	Santi Kumar Dasgupta		Indian National Congress
1972
1977	Pralay Talukdar		Communist Party of India
1982
1987	Mrityunjoy Banerjee		Indian National Congress
1991	Pralay Talukdar		Communist Party of India
1996
2001	Badal Basu
2006	Krishna Kisor Roy

Howrah East

Year	Name	Party
1951	Saila Kumar Mukhopadhyay		Indian National Congress
1957	Beni Charan Dutta
1962	Bejoy Bhattacharya

Howrah West

Year	Name	Party
1951	Bankim Chandra Kar		Indian National Congress
1957
1962	Anadi Dass		Independent politician

Howrah Dakshin

Year	Name	Party
2011	Brajamohan Mazumder		All India Trinamool Congress
2016
2021	Nandita Choudhury

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Nandita Chowdhury	116,839	53.86
	BJP	Rantidev Sengupta	66,270	30.55
	CPI(M)	Sumitra Adhikari	27,287	12.58
	NOTA	None of the above	2,948	1.36
	IND	Sushanta Mondal	1,063	0.49
Majority			50,569	23.62
Turnout			2,17,055	73.77
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Brajamohan Mazumder	93,689	47.79
	CPI(M)	Arindam Basu	77,495	39.53
	BJP	Sahana Guha Roy	16,277	8.30
	NOTA	None of the above	3,816	1.95
	BSP	Srinath Yadav	1,249	0.64
Majority			16,194	8.26
Turnout			1,96,208	73.58
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin ^{[2] [3]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Brajamohan Mazumder	1,01,066	56.06
	CPI(M)	Krishna Kishor Roy	69,644	38.63	−9.43
	BJP	Pramila Singh	4,256	2.36
	IND	Sekh Abdul Momin	1,803	1.00
	IND	Biswanath Mete	828	0.46
Majority			31,422	17.43
Turnout			1,80,437	76.94
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	#

.# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, ^[4] Krishna Kisor Ray of CPI(M) won 164 Howrah South assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amitava Dutta of JD(U). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Badal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Arup Ray of Trinamool Congress in 2001. ^[5] Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Arup Roy of Congress in 1996 ^[6] and Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress in 1991. ^[7] Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress defeated Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) in 1987. ^[8] Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Amiya Kumar Dutta of Congress in 1982 ^[9] and Ambica Banerjee of Congress in 1977. ^{[10] [11]}

1951-1972

Santi Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1972 ^[12] and 1971. ^[13] Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) won in 1969. ^[14] B.K.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967. ^[15] Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1962 ^[16] and 1957. ^[17] Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1951. ^[18]

References

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