Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)
Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the southern part of Kolkata in West Bengal. While four of the seven legislative assembly segments on No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Kolkata district, three are in South 24 Parganas district.
Kolkata Dakshin | |
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Lok Sabha Constituency | |
Incumbent | Mala Roy |
Parliamentary Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Elected Year | 2019 |
Constituency Details | |
Established | 1967-present |
Reservation | None |
State | West Bengal |
Total Electors | 1,685,296[1] |
Assembly Constituencies | Kasba Behala Purba Behala Paschim Kolkata Port Bhabanipur Rashbehari Ballygunge |
Assembly segments
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After the implementation of the order of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002, in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency no. 23, Kolkata Dakshin is composed of the following legislative assembly segments:[2]
- Kasba (assembly constituency no. 149)
- Behala Purba (assembly constituency no. 153)
- Behala Paschim (assembly constituency no. 154)
- Kolkata Port (assembly constituency no. 158)
- Bhabanipur (assembly constituency no. 159)
- Rashbehari (assembly constituency no. 160)
- Ballygunge (assembly constituency no. 161)
Before delimitation in 2008, Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:[3]Sonarpur (SC) (assembly constituency no. 109), Chowranghee (assembly constituency no. 146), Alipore (assembly constituency no. 148), Rashbehari Avenue (assembly constituency no. 149), Tollygunge (assembly constituency no. 150), Dhakuria (assembly constituency no. 151), Ballygunge (assembly constituency no. 152)
Members of Parliament
Lok Sabha | Duration | Constituency | Name of M.P. | Party Affiliation |
---|---|---|---|---|
First | 1952-57 | Calcutta South West | Ashim Krishna Dutt | Indian National Congress [4] |
Calcutta South East | Syama Prasad Mookerjee | Bharatiya Jan Sangh[4] | ||
Second | 1957-60 | Calcutta South West | Biren Roy | Independent[5] |
Calcutta East | Sadhan Gupta | Communist Party of India[5] | ||
1960-62 | Calcutta South West | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India[6] | |
Third | 1962-67 | Calcutta South West | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India [7] |
Calcutta East | Ranendra Nath Sen | Communist Party of India [7] | ||
Fourth | 1967-71 | Calcutta South | Ganesh Ghosh | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[8] |
1967-71 | Alipore | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India[8] | |
Fifth | 1971-77 | Calcutta South | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | Indian National Congress[9] |
Alipore | Indrajit Gupta | Communist Party of India[9] | ||
Sixth | 1977-80 | Calcutta South | Dilip Chakravarty | Bharatiya Lok Dal[10] |
Seventh | 1980-84 | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[11] | |
Eighth | 1984-89 | Bhola Nath Sen | Indian National Congress[12] | |
Ninth | 1989-91 | Biplab Dasgupta | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13] | |
Tenth | 1991-96 | Mamata Banerjee | Indian National Congress[14] | |
Eleventh | 1996-98 | Mamata Banerjee | Indian National Congress[15] | |
Twelfth | 1998-99 | Mamata Banerjee | West Bengal Trinamool Congress[16] | |
Thirteenth | 1999-04 | Mamata Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[17] | |
Fourteenth | 2004-09 | Mamata Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[18] | |
Fifteenth | 2009-11 | Kolkata Dakshin | Mamata Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[19] |
Bye Election, 2011 | 2011-14 | Subrata Bakshi | All India Trinamool Congress[20] | |
Sixteenth | 2014-2019 | Subrata Bakshi | All India Trinamool Congress[21] | |
Seventeenth | 2019-2023 | Mala Roy | All India Trinamool Congress[22] |
Election results
General election 2019
Source:Source
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Mala Roy | 5,73,119 | 47.5 | ![]() | |
BJP | Chandra Kumar Bose | 4,17,927 | 34.64 | ![]() | |
CPI (M) | Nandini Mukherjee | 1,40,275 | 11.63 | ![]() | |
INC | Mita Chakraborty | 42,618 | 3.53 | ![]() | |
BSP | Sarfaraz Khan | 2,358 | 0.2 | ![]() | |
SUCI(C) | Dr. Debabrata Bera | 2,391 | 0.2 | ![]() | |
SHS | Sridhar Chandra Bagari | 1,697 | 0.14 | N/A | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 14,824 | 1.23 | ![]() | |
Majority | 1,55,102 | ||||
Turnout | 12,07,076 | 69.82 | |||
AITC hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage | Vote change % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | 22 | ![]() |
43.00 | ![]() |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 18 | ![]() |
40.00 | ![]() |
Indian National Congress | 2 | ![]() |
6.29 | ![]() |
Left Front | 0 | ![]() |
7.57 | ![]() |
Source: Election Results 2019 Note: The vote share may change marginally once the final data is released by Election Commission.
General election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Subrata Bakshi | 4,31,715 | 36.95 | -20.24 | |
BJP | Tathagata Roy | 2,95,377 | 25.28 | +21.33 | |
CPI (M) | Nandini Mukherjee | 2,79,414 | 23.83 | -11.56 | |
INC | Mala Roy | 1,13,453 | 9.71 | +9.71 | |
BSP | Omprakash Prajapati | 4,564 | 0.39 | -0.38 | |
Independent | Ashoke Biswas | 4,335 | 0.37 | +0.37 | |
SUCI(C) | Zuber Rabbani | 3,994 | 0.34 | +0.34 | |
IUML | K. P. Md. Sharif | 3,776 | 0.32 | -0.27 | |
Independent | Shamali Das | 3,356 | 0.29 | +0.29 | |
Amra Bangalee | Hitangshu Banerjee | 2,921 | 0.25 | +0.25 | |
Independent | Badri Mondal | 1,844 | 0.16 | +0.16 | |
WPOI | Md. Heshamuddin | 1,554 | 0.13 | +0.13 | |
AIMF | Syed Md. Wasim Reza | 1,195 | 0.10 | +0.10 | |
IJP | Karan Singh | 1,103 | 0.09 | -0.06 | |
CPI(ML) Red Star | Raveendran T P (Ravi Paloor) | 875 | 0.07 | +0.07 | |
NOTA | None of the Above | 19,511 | 1.67 | +1.67 | |
Majority | 1,36,339 | 11.67 | -10.13 | ||
Turnout | 11,67,986 | 69.30 | +2.41 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | -25.75 |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | 34 | ![]() |
39.3 |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 2 | ![]() |
22.7 |
Communist Party of India | 0 | ![]() |
2.3 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 0 | ![]() |
2.4 |
Forward Bloc | 0 | ![]() |
2.1 |
Indian National Congress | 4 | ![]() |
9.6 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 2 | ![]() |
16.8 |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 0 | ![]() |
0.7 |
Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled
Bye election 2011
A bye election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). In the by-election, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ritabrata Banerjee of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes, thus breaking the record of Mamata Banerjee who had won the seat in 2009 by 2,19,571 votes.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Subrata Bakshi | 5,16,761 | 62.70 | +5.51 | |
CPI (M) | Ritabrata Banerjee | 2,86,662 | 34.78 | -0.61 | |
Independent | S. K. Biswas | 8,068 | 0.98 | +0.98 | |
Independent | Debashish Ghosh | 7,049 | 0.86 | +0.86 | |
Independent | Ranjit Kumar Dutta | 5,596 | 0.68 | +0.68 | |
Majority | 2,30,099 | 27.92 | +6.12 | ||
Turnout | 8,24,231 | 52.82 | -14.07 | ||
AITC hold | Swing | +5.51 |
General election 2009
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 576,045 | 57.19 | +6.09 | |
CPI (M) | Rabin Deb | 356,474 | 35.39 | -2.91 | |
BJP | Jyotsna Banerjee | 39,744 | 3.95 | ||
BSP | Paresh Chandra Roy | 6,745 | 0.67 | ||
Independent | Yusuf Jamal Siddique | 6,042 | 0.60 | ||
IUML | Asif Md | 5,896 | 0.59 | ||
Independent | Ram Chandra Prasad | 4,091 | 0.41 | ||
Independent | Nishat Khan | 2,923 | 0.29 | ||
Independent | Barnali Mukhopadhyay | 2,623 | 0.26 | ||
Independent | Arun Biswas | 1,984 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Pijush Banerjee | 1,674 | 0.17 | ||
Independent | Jayanta Datta | 1,512 | 0.15 | ||
IJP | Leela Hans | 1,472 | 0.15 | ||
Majority | 219,571 | 21.80 | |||
Turnout | 10,07,225 | 66.89 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
2009 Indian general election
West Bengal summary
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | 19 | ![]() |
31.8 |
Indian National Congress | 6 | ![]() |
13.45 |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 1 | ![]() |
NA |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 9 | ![]() |
33.1 |
Communist Party of India | 2 | ![]() |
3.6 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 2 | ![]() |
3.56 |
Forward bloc | 2 | ![]() |
3.04 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 1 | ![]() |
6.14 |
General election 2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 393,561 | 51.10 | -7.26 | |
CPI (M) | Rabin Deb | 295,132 | 38.30 | +6.62 | |
INC | Nafisa Ali | 60,377 | 7.80 | ||
Independent | Sujit Kumar Roy | 4,782 | 0.60 | ||
BSP | Kusha Ram | 4,431 | 0.60 | ||
Independent | Bandana Das | 4,130 | 0.50 | ||
Independent | Mukul Paul | 2,524 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Ranjit Banerjee | 2,306 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Barnali Mukherjee | 2,258 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Santu Mukherjee | 1,708 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Bhushan Mondal | 1,533 | 0.20 | ||
Majority | 98,429 | 12.8% | |||
Turnout | 7,70,828 | 70.3% | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
Party | Seats won | Seat change | Vote percentage |
---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | 1 | ![]() |
21.40 |
Indian National Congress | 6 | ![]() |
14.56 |
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 0 | ![]() |
NA |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 26 | ![]() |
38.57 |
Communist Party of India | 3 | ![]() |
4.01 |
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 3 | ![]() |
4.48 |
All India Forward Bloc | 3 | ![]() |
3.66 |
Bharatiya Janata Party | 0 | ![]() |
8.06 |
General election 1999
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 4,69,103 | 58.26 | ||
CPI (M) | Subhankar Chakraborty | 2,55,095 | 31.68 | ||
INC | Partha Roy Chowdhury | 51,735 | 6.43 | ||
CPI(ML)(L) | Dr. Partha Sarathi Ghosh | 6,186 | |||
BSP | Mohammed Sahabuddun | 6,091 | 0.76 | ||
Independent | Ranjan Kumar Das | 5.841 | |||
Independent | Murari Mohan Ghosh | 4,512 | |||
Independent | Priya Nath Banerjee | 2,740 | |||
Independent | Kabita Mukherjee | 2,160 | |||
Independent | Bandana Biswas | 1,658 | |||
Majority | 2,14,008 | 26.6 | |||
Turnout | 8,05,121 | 66.96 | |||
AITC hold | Swing |
General election 1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trinamool Congress | Mamata Banerjee | 503,551 | 59.37 | ||
CPI (M) | Prasanta Kumar Sur | 279,470 | 32.95 | ||
INC | Sougata Roy | 56,725 | 6.69 | ||
Independent | Partha Sarathi Ghosh | 1,937 | 0.23 | ||
RJD | Salik Ram Shaw | 1,498 | 0.18 | ||
Independent | G.Joseph | 1.497 | 0.18 | ||
Independent | Rina Sutradhar | 1,447 | 0.17 | ||
Independent | Adrish Bhattacharya | 1,236 | 0.15 | ||
Independent | Addy Samir Kumar | 493 | 0.06 | ||
Independent | Paresh Nath Bandyopadhyay | 340 | 0.04 % | ||
Majority | 2,24,081 | 27.7 | |||
Turnout | 8,05,121 | 66.96% | |||
Trinamool Congress gain from INC | Swing | ||||
General election 1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Mamata Banerjee | 4,38,252 | 52.50 | ||
CPI (M) | Bharati Mukherjee | 3,34,991 | 40.10 | ||
BJP | Santi Roy | 45,066 | 5.30 | ||
Independent | Bulu Chatterjee | 3,439 | 0.40 | ||
Independent | Sushil Chandra Majumdar | 1,869 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | D. Guha | 1,755 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Tripti Das | 1,589 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Bandana Biswas | 1,572 | 0.20 | ||
All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) | Yasmeen Sen Gupta | 1,527 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Lalita Seth | 1,482 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Ramagardi Yadav | 1,285 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Bablu Dutta | 958 | 0.10 | ||
Independent | Murari Mohan Ghosh | 798 | 0.10 | ||
Majority | 1,03,261 | 12.1 | |||
Turnout | 8,52,458 | 73.0 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1991
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Mamata Banerjee | 3,67,896 | 52.46 | ||
CPI (M) | Biplab Dasgupta | 2,74,233 | 39.10 | ||
BJP | Somraj Dutta | 50,541 | 7.21 | ||
Independent | Ashok kumar Roy Chowdhury | 1,958 | 0.28 | ||
Independent | Sushil Chandra Majumdar | 1,779 | 0.25 | ||
BSP | Parimal Kanti Ray | 1,121 | 0.16 | ||
Independent | Priti Mazumder | 877 | 0.13 | ||
Independent | Bandana Biswas | 837 | 0.12 | ||
Doordarshi Party | Hari Shankar Shah | 792 | 0.11 | ||
Independent | Hajranchhor Chand Bhandari | 548 | 0.08 | ||
Independent | Bhagwan Das Nathany | 413 | 0.06 | ||
Independent | Arun Ghosh | 295 | 0.04 | ||
Independent | Murari Mohan Ghosh | 798 | 0.10 | ||
Majority | 93,663 | ||||
Turnout | 7,01,290 | 68.50 | |||
INC hold | Swing |
General election 1989
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | Biplab Dasgupta | 3,63,674 | 50.07 | ||
INC | Bholanath Sen | 3,38,518 | 46.61 | ||
BJP | Jnanendra Banerjee | 18,418 | 2.54 | ||
Independent | Sankar Som Banerjee | 2,213 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Sourendta Nath Mitra | 1,459 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Arun Ghosh | 1,065 | 0.15 | ||
Independent | Utpal Roy | 996 | 0.14 | ||
Majority | 25,156 | ||||
Turnout | 7,26,343 | 73.02 | |||
CPI (M) gain from INC | Swing | ||||
General election 1984
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Bholanath Sen | 324,823 | 56.93 | ||
CPI (M) | Satyasadhan Chakraborty | 235,884 | 41.34 | ||
BJP | Mridula Mukherjee | 2,544 | 0.45 | ||
Independent | SK Sultan | 2,543 | 0.45 | ||
Independent | Dinesh Gupta | 1,274 | 0.22 | ||
Independent | M.K.Ratnam | 1,097 | 0.19 | ||
Independent | Chandan Banik | 872 | 0.15 | ||
Independent | Shyam Sundar Thakur | 789 | 0.14 | ||
Independent | Souren Mitra | 740 | 0.13 | ||
Independent | Chandan Banik | 872 | 0.14 | ||
Majority | 88,939 | ||||
Turnout | 570,566 | 72.52% | |||
INC gain from CPI (M) | Swing | ||||
General election 1980
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CPI (M) | Satyasadhan Chakraborty | 213,441 | 45,20 | ||
INC(I) | Bholanath Sen | 176,432 | 41.34 | ||
JP | Dilip Chakravartty | 32,747 | 6.90 | ||
INC(U) | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 28,531 | 6.00 | ||
SUCI | Subir Basu Roy | 5,001 | 1.01 | ||
Independent | Anil Kumar Banerjee | 2,102 | 0.40 | ||
Independent | Subrata Chatterjee | 1,462 | 0.30 | ||
Independent | Sunil Prasad Roy | 1,425 | 0.14 | ||
Independent | Shakya Sen | 1,053 | 0.20 | ||
Independent | Karuna Nidhan Roy | 495 | 0.10 | ||
Independent | Rabi Chowdhury | 456 | 0.10 | ||
Majority | 37,009 | (7.8%) | |||
Turnout | 4,72,722 | 61.5 | |||
CPI (M) gain from BLD | Swing | ||||
General elections 1951-2004
Calcutta South constituency came into existence in 1967. However, different constituencies existed in the area. Results of such constituencies are also included here. Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:
Year | Constituency | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
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%age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | |||
1951 | Calcutta South West | 144065 | 37.91 | Ashim Krishna Dutt | 51.11 | INC | Bankim Chandra Bhattacharyya | 27.37 | Independent[4] |
Calcutta South East | 144,614 | 37.91 | Syama Prasad Mookerjee | 44.97 | BJS | Mriganka Mohan Sur | 30.46 | INC[4] | |
1957 | Calcutta South West | 188,647 | 46.73 | Biren Roy | 50.33 | IND. | Ashim Krishna Dutt | 43.68 | INC[5] |
Calcutta East | 228,712 | 46.0 | Sadhan Chandra Gupta | 62.68 | CPI | Ranadeb Chowdhury | 35.47 | INC[5] | |
1960 | Calcutta South West | Bye-election | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | Ashim Krishna Dutt | INC[6] | |||
1962 | Calcutta South West | 292,873 | 67.64 | Indrajit Gupta | 50.06 | CPI | Ismail Ibrahim | 46.24 | INC[7] |
Calcutta East | 320,419 | 68.03 | Ranendra Nath Sen | 56.88 | CPI | Sailendra Nath Mukherjee | 43.12 | INC[7] | |
1967 | Calcutta South | 317,171 | 62.60 | Ganesh Ghosh | 50.28 | CPI(M) | B. B. Ghosh | 37.58 | INC[8] |
Alipore | 385,961 | 68.22 | Indrajit Gupta | 32.41 | CPI | P.Sarkar | 32.22 | INC[8] | |
1971 | Calcutta South | 296,088 | 59.00 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 50.65 | INC | Ganesh Ghosh | 42.95 | CPI(M)[9] |
Alipore | 368,717 | 57.38 | Indrajit Gupta | 49.00 | CPI | Kamal Sarakar | 41.40 | CPI(M)[9] | |
1977 | Calcutta South | 398,560 | 60.92 | Dilip Chakravarty | 58.08 | BLD | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 40.59 | INC[10] |
1980 | 472,700 | 61.54 | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | 46.09 | CPI(M) | Bhola Nath Sen | 38.09 | INC(I)[11] | |
1984 | 582,370 | 72.52 | Bhola Nath Sen | 56.93 | INC | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | 41.34 | CPI(M)[12] | |
1989 | 740,080 | 73.02 | Biplab Dasgupta | 50.07 | CPI(M) | Bhola Nath Sen | 46.61 | INC[13] | |
1991 | 714,400 | 68.5 | Mamata Banerjee | 52.46 | INC | Biplab Dasgupta | 39.1 | CPI(M)[14] | |
1996 | 852,460 | 73.02 | Mamata Banerjee | 52.51 | INC | Bharati Mukherjee | 40.54 | CPI(M)[15] | |
1998 | 877,430 | 74.44 | Mamata Banerjee | 59.37 | AITC | Prasanta Sur | 32.95 | CPI(M)[16] | |
1999 | 805,270 | 66.96 | Mamata Banerjee | 58.26 | AITC | Subhankar Chakraborty | 31.68 | CPI(M)[17] | |
2004 | 772,740 | 70.46 | Mamata Banerjee | 50.93 | AITC | Rabin Deb | 38.19 | CPI(M)[18] | |
2009 | Kolkata Dakshin | 10,07,225 | 66.89 | Mamata Banerjee | 57.19 | AITC | Rabin Deb | 35.39 | CPI(M)[19] |
2011 | 8,24,136 | 52.82 | Subrata Bakshi | 62.70 | AITC | Ritabrata Banerjee | 34.78 | CPI(M)[19] | |
2014 | 11,67,986 | 69.30 | Subrata Bakshi | 36.95 | AITC | Tathagata Roy | 25.28 | BJP[21] | |
See also
- Kolkata
- List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha
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