Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency

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Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the only urbanizated assembly constituency of Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency with 55 percent of urban voters because of the presence of Basirhat Greater Municipal Area.

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 124 Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Basirhat municipality, Basirhat I community development block, and Taki municipality.[1]

Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of 18. Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Year Member Party
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2011 Narayan Mukherjee style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Communist Party of India (Marxist)
2014^ Samik Bhattacharya style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Bharatiya Janata Party
2016 Dipendu Biswas rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Party color" | Trinamool Congress
2021 Saptarshi Banerjee
2026 Surajit Mitra
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^ By-election

Election results

2026

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2021

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2016

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2014 by-election

A bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the death of the sitting MLA, Narayan Mukherjee.[2] Template:Election box begin Template:Election box winning candidate with party link Template:Election box candidate with party link Template:Election box candidate with party link Template:Election box candidate with party link Template:Election box candidate with party link Template:Election box majority Template:Election box turnout Template:Election box gain with party link Template:Election box end

2011

In the 2011 election, Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Narayan Goswami of Trinamool Congress.

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1977-2006 Basirhat

During the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006,[3] Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001,[4] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996, Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991[5] and 1987,[6] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982[7] and 1977.[8][9]

1951-1972 Basirhat

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972[10] and 1971.[11] A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969[12] and 1967.[13] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962.[14] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957[15] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[16]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  2. ↑ 124 Basirhat Dakshin Constituency. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  3. ↑ General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  4. ↑ General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  5. ↑ General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  6. ↑ General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  7. ↑ General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  8. ↑ General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  9. ↑ 95 - Basirhat Assembly Constituency. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  10. ↑ General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  11. ↑ General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  12. ↑ General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  13. ↑ General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  14. ↑ General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  15. ↑ General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
  16. ↑ General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

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