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|name = Bangaon Dakshin 
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|settlement_type = Vidhan Sabha constituency 
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|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
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|subdivision_type = Country
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|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[North 24 Parganas district|North 24 Parganas]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No.]]
|subdivision_name3 = 96
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|SC]]
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency)|14. Bangaon (SC)]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 236,855 (2019)

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'''Bangaon Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[North 24 Parganas district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]]. Up to 2011 there was one assembly seat for Bangaon. From 2011 there are two seats – Bangaon Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) and Bangaon Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The seat is reserved for [[Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes|scheduled castes]]. The Bangaon seat was an open seat up to 2011.

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|Delimitation Commission]], No. 96 Bangaon Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is composed of the following: Bairampur, Chauberia I, Chauberia II, Dighari, Kalupur and Palla [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Bangaon (Community development block)|Bangaon]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]], and Chandpara, Dooma, Fulsara, Jaleswar II, Jhaudanga and Ramnagar gram panchayats of [[Gaighata (Community development block)|Gaighata]] community development block.<ref name=delimitation>{{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=15 October 2010 |work = West Bengal | publisher= Election Commission of India }}</ref>

Bangaon Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) is part of No. 14 [[Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency)]] (SC).<ref name=delimitation/> Bongaon assembly constituency was earlier part of [[Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf | title = Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha | access-date = 15 October 2010 | work = Volume III Details For Assembly Segments Of Parliamentary Constituencies | publisher = Election Commission of India | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101006140327/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_2004/Vol_III_LS_2004.pdf| archive-date= 6 October 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
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! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
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|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Bongaon||Jiban Ratan Dhar||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Ajit Kumar Ganguly||[[Communist Party of India]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||||Manindra Bhusan Biswas||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||||Jiban Ratan Dhar||Indian National Congress <ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||||K.Bhowmick||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Ajit Kumar Ganguly||Communist Party of India<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{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|publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Ajit Kumar Ganguly||Communist Party of India<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
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|1972||||Ajit Kumar Ganguly||Communist Party of India<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
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|1977||||Ranajit Mitra||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1982||||Bhupendranath Seth||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Ranajit Mitra||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Bhupendranath Seth||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
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|1996||||Pankaj Ghosh||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
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|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||[[Pankaj Ghosh]]||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
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|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Bhupendranath Seth||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|2006 Bye election||||[[Saugata Roy]]||All India Trinamool Congress.<ref name=vidhansabha2006bye>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/ByeElection/ByeOct2006/bye-85-Bongaon.htm |title = Legislative Assembly of West Bengal – Assembly Constituency 85-Bongaon |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
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|2009 Bye election||||Gopal Seth||All India Trinamool Congress.<ref name=vidhansabha2009bye1>{{cite web|url=http://indian-electionaffairs.com/results/bye-elections/West_Bengal_bye-elections-2009.html |title=West Bengal State Assembly Byelections 2009 |publisher=Indian Election Affairs |access-date=26 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713024926/http://indian-electionaffairs.com/results/bye-elections/West_Bengal_bye-elections-2009.html |archive-date=13 July 2011 }}</ref><ref name=vidhansabha2009bye2>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/press/current/pn101109.pdf| title = Results of bye – elections to the 31 (thirty one) Assembly Constituencies and 1(one) Lok Sabha Constituency|publisher = Election Commission of India | access-date = 26 January 2011}}</ref>
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|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]|||Bangaon Dakshin||Surajit Kumar Biswas||All India Trinamool Congress<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]|||Bangaon Dakshin||Surajit Kumar Biswas||All India Trinamool Congress<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{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|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 13 August 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]|||Bangaon Dakshin||[[Swapan Majumdar]]
||BJP<ref name=vidhansabha2021>{{cite web| url =https://results.eci.gov.in/Result2021/ConstituencywiseS2596.htm?ac=96|title = Election Commission of India}}</ref>
|}

==Election results==
===2021===
In the 2021 election, [[Swapan Majumder]] of [[BJP]] defeated his nearest rival ALO RANI SARKAR of AITC.
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Bangaon Dakshin (SC) constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2021/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=96|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Bangaon Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Swapan Majumder]]
|votes = 97828
|percentage = 47.07
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = ALO RANI SARKAR
|votes = 95824
|percentage = 46.11
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = TAPAS KUMAR BISWAS
|votes = 10069
|percentage = 4.24
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = RABINDRA NATH BARAI
|votes = 953
|percentage = 0.46
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = PRADIP KUMAR SARKAR
|votes = 820
|percentage = 0.39
|change =
}}

{{Election box turnout
|votes = 207834
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = BJP
|loser = AITC
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
In the 2011 election, Surajit Kumar Biswas of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anuj Baran Sarkar of CPI(M).
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Bangaon Dakshin (SC) constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=96|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Bangaon Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 24 April 2011}}</ref> }}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Surajit Kumar Biswas
|votes = 87,677
|percentage = 53.71
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Anuj Baran Sarkar
|votes = 65,788
|percentage = 40.30
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Arun Halder
|votes = 5,243
|percentage = 3.21
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
|candidate = Himangshu Biswas
|votes = 2,561
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Rabindra Nath Biswas
|votes = 1,961
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 163,230
|percentage = 86.63
|change =
}}
{{Election box new seat win
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
}}
{{Election box end}}
===1977-2009 Bongaon assembly seat===
In the 2009 bye-election caused by the election of sitting MLA, [[Saugata Roy]] to the Lok Sabha from [[Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dum Dum]], Gopal Seth of All India Trinamool Congress won the Bangaon seat.<ref name=vidhansabha2009bye1/><ref name=vidhansabha2009bye2/>

In the 2006 bye-election caused by the death of the sitting MLA, Bhupen Seth, Saugato Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated Pankaj Ghosh of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]].<ref name=vidhansabha2006bye/>

In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Bhupendranath Seth of All India Trinamool Congress won the Bongaon assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Pankaj Ghosh of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPI(M)]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth, Independent and [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] respectively) in 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> and 1996.<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Bhupendranath Seth of Congress defeated Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth of Congress in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Bhupendranath Seth of Congress defeated Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) in 1982.<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp85.htm |title =85 - Bongaon Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 15 October 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972 Bongaon assembly seat===
Ajit Kumar Ganguly of [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] won in 1972,<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> 1971<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> and 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> K.Bhowmick of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Jiban Ratan Dhar of Congress won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> In 1957, Bongaon was a joint seat. Ajit Kumar Ganguly of CPI and Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Jiban Ratan Dhar of Congress won in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|1951]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

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