Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency

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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| name = Howrah Dakshin

| type= SLA

| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Vidhan Sabha constituencies/West Bengal/Howrah Dakshin.map}}

| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Howrah Dakshin Assembly Constituency

| map_alt =

| mla = Nandita Chowdhury

| party = All India Trinamool Congress

| alliance =

| latest_election_year = 2021

| state = West Bengal

| district = Howrah

| loksabha_cons = Howrah

| constituency_no = 173

| established = 1951

| electors = 294,099

| reservation = None

| abolished =

}}

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.{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 25 July 2015|work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}

Howrah South Assembly constituency is part of No. 25 Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency).

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Election
Year
ConstituencyName of M.L.A.Party Affiliation
1951Howrah NorthBiren BanerjeeCommunist Party of India{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
Howrah SouthBeni Charan DuttaIndian National Congress
Howrah WestBankim Chandra KarIndian National Congress
Howrah EastSaila Kumar MukhopadhyayIndian National Congress
1957Howrah NorthSamar MukhopadhyayCommunist Party of India{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
Howrah SouthKanai Lal BhattacharyaAll India Forward Bloc
Howrah WestBankim Chandra KarIndian National Congress
Howrah EastBeni Charan DuttaIndian National Congress
1962Howrah NorthSaila MukherjeeIndian National Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
Howrah SouthKanai Lal BhattacharyaAll India Forward Bloc
Howrah WestAnadi DassIndependent
Howrah EastBejoy BhattacharyaIndian National Congress
1967Howrah SouthB,K.BhattacharyaIndian National Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1969Pralay TalukdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1971Santi Kumar DasguptaIndian National Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1972Santi Kumar DasguptaIndian National Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1977Pralay TalukdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1982|Pralay TalukdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1987Mrityunjoy BanerjeeIndian National Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1991Pralay TalukdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
1996Pralay TalukdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}
2001Badal BasuCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
2006Krishna Kisor RoyCommunist Party of India (Marxist){{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
2011Howrah DakshinBrajamohan MazumderAll India Trinamool Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}
2016Brajamohan MazumderAll India Trinamool Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2016/stat_WB_May2016.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission }}
2021Nandita ChoudhuryAll India Trinamool Congress{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2021/stat_WB_May2021.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission }}

Election results

=2021=

{{Election box begin | title=2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link

|party = All India Trinamool Congress

|candidate = Nandita Chowdhury

|votes = 1,16,839

|percentage = 53.86

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Rantidev Sengupta

|votes = 66,270

|percentage = 30.55

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)

|candidate = Sumitra Adhikari

|votes = 27,287

|percentage = 12.58

|change =

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{{Election box candidate with party link

|party = None of the above

|candidate = None of the above

|votes = 2,948

|percentage = 1.36

|change =

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{{Election box candidate

|party = IND

|candidate = Sushanta Mondal

|votes =1,063

|percentage =0.49

|change =

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{{Election box majority

|votes = 50,569

|percentage = 23.62

|change =

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{{Election box turnout

|votes = 2,17,055

|percentage = 73.77

|change =

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{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = All India Trinamool Congress

|swing =

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{{Election box end}}

=2016=

{{Election box begin | title=2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Brajamohan Mazumder|votes=93,689|percentage=47.79|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Arindam Basu|votes=77,495|percentage=39.53|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Sahana Guha Roy|votes=16,277|percentage=8.30|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=None of the above|candidate=None of the above|votes=3,816|percentage=1.95|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bahujan Samaj Party|candidate=Srinath Yadav|votes=1,249|percentage=0.64|change=}}

{{Election box majority|votes=16,194|percentage=8.26|change=}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=1,96,208|percentage=73.58|change=}}

{{Election box hold with party link

|winner = All India Trinamool Congress

|swing =

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{{Election box end}}

=2011=

{{Election box begin | title=2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Howrah Dakshin{{cite web|url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=173|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011|work = Howrah Dakshin|publisher = Empowering India|access-date = 1 May 2011|archive-date = 19 May 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120519163421/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=173|url-status = usurped}}}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=All India Trinamool Congress|candidate=Brajamohan Mazumder|votes=1,01,066|percentage=56.06|change=}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Communist Party of India (Marxist)|candidate=Krishna Kishor Roy|votes=69,644|percentage=38.63|change=-9.43}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|party=Bharatiya Janata Party|candidate=Pramila Singh|votes=4,256|percentage=2.36|change=}}

{{Election box candidate

|party = IND

|candidate = Sekh Abdul Momin

|votes = 1,803

|percentage = 1.00

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate

|party = IND

|candidate = Biswanath Mete

|votes =828

|percentage =0.46

|change =

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{{Election box majority|votes=31,422|percentage=17.43|change=}}

{{Election box turnout|votes=1,80,437|percentage=76.94|change=}}

{{Election box gain with party link

|winner = All India Trinamool Congress

|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)

|swing = #

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{{Election box end}}

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

=1977-2006=

In the 2006 state assembly elections, 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. Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Arup Roy of Congress in 1996 and Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress in 1991. Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress defeated Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) in 1987. Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Amiya Kumar Dutta of Congress in 1982 and Ambica Banerjee of Congress in 1977.{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp164.htm |title =164 - Howrah South Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 November 2010}}

=1951-1972=

Santi Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) won in 1969. B.K.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of Forward Bloc won in 1962 and 1957. Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in 1951.

References