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|name = Cooch Behar 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 = [[Cooch Behar district|Cooch Behar]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
|subdivision_name3 = 4
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency)|1 Cooch Behar (SC)]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 182,448 (2011)

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'''Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Cooch Behar district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the [[Delimitation Commission of India|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 panchayat]]s of [[Cooch Behar I (Community development block)|Cooch Behar I]] [[Community Development Block in India|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 | access-date = 20 June 2014 | work = West Bengal| publisher = Election Commission}}</ref>

Cooch Behar Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 1 [[Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency)]] (SC).<ref name =delimitation/>

==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]]||Cooch Behar||Maziruddin Ahmed||[[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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||||Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||||Maziruddin Ahmed||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||||Satish Chandra Roy Singha||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Cooch Behar North||Sunil Dasgupta||[[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]]<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Sunil Basunia||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Cooch Behar North||M.R.Tar||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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Prasenjit Barman||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967/>
|-
|1969||Cooch Behar North||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1969/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Prasenjit Barman||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1969/>
|-
|1971||Cooch Behar North||Sunil Kar||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Rajani Das||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971/>
|-
|1972||Cooch Behar North||Sunil Kar||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
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|||Cooch Behar South||Santosh Kumar Roy||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972/>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Rajani Das||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972/>
|-
|1977||Cooch Behar North||[[Aparajita Goppi]]||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1977/>
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|1982||Cooch Behar North||Aparajita Goppi||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1982/>
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|1987||Cooch Behar North||Aparajita Goppi||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
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|||Cooch Behar West||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1987/>
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|1991||Cooch Behar North||Bimal Kanti Basu||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
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|||Cooch Behar West||Soumindra Chandra Das||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1991/>
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|1996||Cooch Behar North||Mihir Goswami||Indian National Congress<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Soumindra Chandra Das||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1996/>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||Cooch Behar North||Dipak Chandra Sarkar||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Akshay Thakur||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2001/>
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|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||Cooch Behar North||Dipak Chandra Sarkar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|||Cooch Behar West||Akshay Thakur||Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha2006/>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Cooch Behar Dakshin||Akshay Thakur||Forward Bloc<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 = 18 June 2014}}</ref>
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||Cooch Behar Dakshin||[[Mihir Goswami]]||[[All India Trinamool Congress]] (later join the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2020)<ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/mla-mihir-goswami-quits-tmc-joins-bjp-7071239/</ref>
|-
|2021||Cooch Behar Dakshin||[[Nikhil Ranjan Dey]]||[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
|}

==Election results==

===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2021]]: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2021>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2021.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 2 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=4|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 |work =Cooch Behar Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Avijit Dey Bhowmik
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Akshay Thakur
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Nikhil Ranjan
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===2016===
In the 2016 election, Mihir Goswami of [[All India Trinamool Congress|AITC]] defeated his nearest rival Debasis Banik of [[All India Forward Bloc|AIFB]]

{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2016]]: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web|url = https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3469-west-bangal-general-legislative-election-2016
|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2016 |work =Cooch Behar Dakshin| publisher =Election Commission Of India |access-date = 21 April 2021}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Mihir Goswami
|votes = 82,849
|percentage = 46.24
|change = +1.07
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Debasis Banik
|votes = 64,654
|percentage = 36.08
|change = -10.96
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Nikhil Ranjan Dey
|votes = 18,176
|percentage = 10.14
|change = +5.95
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Maya Majumder
|votes = 5,197
|percentage = 2.9
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Amita Das
|votes = 2,703
|percentage = 1.51
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,489
|percentage = 1.39
|change =
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Nazma Khandakar
|votes = 1,678
|percentage = 0.94
|change =
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{{Election box candidate
|party = Kamtapur People's Party (United)
|candidate = Akik Hossain Chowdhury
|votes = 1,427
|percentage = 0.8
|change =
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{{Election box turnout
|votes = 179,173
|percentage = 84.05
|change = +0.13
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = All India Forward Bloc
|swing =
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{{Election box end}}

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

{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal state assembly election|West Bengal assembly elections, 2011]]: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=4|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work =Cooch Behar Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Akshay Thakur
|votes = 72,028
|percentage = 47.04
|change = -4.03
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Abdul Jalil Ahmed
|votes = 69,165
|percentage = 45.17
|change = +11.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Gayetri Kar
|votes = 6,419
|percentage = 4.19
|change =
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{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Sanat Sen
|votes = 2,207
|percentage =
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{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Shyamal Chandra Barman
|votes = 1,277
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{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Prahlad Chandra Datta
|votes = 745
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{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Krishna Kanta Barman
|votes = 685
|percentage =
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{{Election box candidate
|party = People's Democratic Conference of India
|candidate = Chanchal Sarkar
|votes = 589
|percentage =
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{{Election box turnout
|votes = 153,115
|percentage = 83.92
|change =
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{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Forward Bloc
|swing = -15.32
}}
{{Election box end}}

===1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency===
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006]]<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] defeated Mihir Goswami of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]. Mihir Goswami representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] had defeated [[Aparajita Goppi]] of Forward Bloc in 1996.<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987,<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp04.htm | title =4 - Cooch Behar North Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency===
In the 2006<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> and 2001<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]]) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> and 1982,<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/archive/May2006/pollupd/ac/states/s25/..%5C..%5C..%5C..%5C..%5CElectionAnalysis%5CAE%5CS25%5CPartycomp05.htm | title =5 - Cooch Behar West Assembly Constituency | work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977| publisher = Election Commission of India| access-date = 29 August 2009}}</ref>

===1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies===
Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972,<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> 1971,<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962.<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> and 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> The seat was not there prior to 1967.

===1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency===
Cooch Behar was a joint seat in [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|independent India's first election in 1951]],<ref name=vidhansabha1952/> Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.

==References==
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{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Politics of Cooch Behar district]]

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