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{{Short description|Vidhan Sabha constituency in West Bengal, India}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox Indian constituency
| name = Cooch Behar 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/Cooch Behar Dakshin.map}}
| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly Constituency
| map_alt =
| mla = [[Rathindra Nath Bose]]
| party = {{Party index link|Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| alliance = {{Party index link|National Democratic Alliance}}
| latest_election_year = [[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
| state = [[West Bengal]]
| district = [[Cooch Behar district|Cooch Behar]]
| loksabha_cons = [[Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Cooch Behar]]
| constituency_no = 4
| established = 1951
| electors = 2,13,968
| reservation = None
| abolished =
}}

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

== Members of the Legislative Assembly ==

=== Cooch Behar ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]
|[[Maziruddin Ahmed]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=4}}
|-
|Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]
|[[Maziruddin Ahmed]]
|-
|Satish Chandra Roy Singha
|}

=== Cooch Behar North ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Sunil Dasgupta
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|M.R. Tar
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|Bimal Kanti Basu
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc}}
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|rowspan="2"|Sunil Kar
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=2}}
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|-
|[[1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
|rowspan="3"|[[Aparajita Goppi]]
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc|rowspan=4}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|Bimal Kanti Basu
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|[[Mihir Goswami]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|rowspan="2"|Dipak Chandra Sarkar
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc}}
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|{{Full party name with color|Communist Party of India (Marxist)|dab=yes}}
|}

=== Cooch Behar South ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|Sunil Basunia
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|rowspan="4"|[[Santosh Roy|Santosh Kumar Roy]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=4}}
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|}

=== Cooch Behar West ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Prasenjit Barman]]
|{{Full party name with color|Indian National Congress|rowspan=4}}
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]
|-
|[[1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1969]]
|rowspan="2"|Rajani Das
|-
|[[1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
|-
|[[1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1972]]
|rowspan="3"|Bimal Kanti Basu
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc|rowspan=7}}
|-
|[[1982 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1982]]
|-
|[[1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1987]]
|-
|[[1991 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
|rowspan="2"|Soumindra Chandra Das
|-
|[[1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
|rowspan="2"|Akshay Thakur
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
|}

=== Cooch Behar Dakshin ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Name
! colspan=2|Party
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
|Akshay Thakur
|{{Full party name with color|All India Forward Bloc}}
|-
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
|rowspan="2"|[[Mihir Goswami]]
|{{Full party name with color|Trinamool Congress}}
|-
|2020
|{{Full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party|rowspan=3}}
|-
|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
|[[Nikhil Ranjan Dey]]
|-
|[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2026]]
|Rathindra Bose
|}

==Election results==

===2026===
{{Election box begin|title=[[2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: Cooch Behar Dakshin}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[Rathindra Bose]]
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|votes = 108,482
|percentage = 52.81
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Avijit De Bhowmik
|party = Trinamool Congress
|votes = 85,198
|percentage = 41.48
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Nazmul Alam Sarkar
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|votes = 3,137
|percentage = 1.53
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = Khokan Mian
|party = Indian National Congress
|votes = 2,971
|percentage = 1.45
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|candidate = [[None of the above (India)|None of the above]]
|party = None of the above (India)
|votes = 1,770
|percentage = 0.86
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority|
|votes = 23,284
|percentage = 11.22
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 20,5413
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser =
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527082303/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=4| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 May 2013|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 |work =Cooch Behar Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 20 April 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = [[Nikhil Ranjan Dey]]
|votes = 91560
|percentage = 46.83
|change =
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Avijit Dey Bhowmik
|votes = 86629
|percentage = 44.31
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Forward Bloc
|candidate = Akshay Thakur
|votes = 10246
|percentage = 5.24
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 195505
|percentage = 83.61
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party
|loser = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===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">{{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><ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.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 =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Amra Bangalee
|candidate = Amita Das
|votes = 2,703
|percentage = 1.51
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = [[None of the above]]
|votes = 2,489
|percentage = 1.39
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)
|candidate = Nazma Khandakar
|votes = 1,678
|percentage = 0.94
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Kamtapur People's Party (United)
|candidate = Akik Hossain Chowdhury
|votes = 1,427
|percentage = 0.8
|change =
}}
{{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 =
}}
{{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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130527082303/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=4| url-status = usurped| archive-date = 27 May 2013|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 =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Sanat Sen
|votes = 2,207
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Shyamal Chandra Barman
|votes = 1,277
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Prahlad Chandra Datta
|votes = 745
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = Independent
|candidate = Krishna Kanta Barman
|votes = 685
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = People's Democratic Conference of India
|candidate = Chanchal Sarkar
|votes = 589
|percentage =
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 153,115
|percentage = 83.92
|change =
}}
{{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">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> and 2001<ref name="vidhansabha2001">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> 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">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991.<ref name="vidhansabha1991">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987,<ref name="vidhansabha1987">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982<ref name="vidhansabha1982">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.<ref name="vidhansabha1977">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref><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">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> and 1971.<ref name="vidhansabha1971">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969.<ref name="vidhansabha1969">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967.<ref name="vidhansabha1967">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]].<ref name="vidhansabha1962">{{cite web |title=General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |access-date=18 June 2014 |work=Constituency-wise Data |publisher=Election Commission}}</ref> 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">{{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> 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">{{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> 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]]
[[Category:Legislative Assembly constituencies of Indian states established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in West Bengal]]
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Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency - Revision history

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