| Basirhat Dakshin | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 124 for theWest Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Dakshin Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Basirhat |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 212,872 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is anassembly constituency inNorth 24 Parganas district in theIndianstate ofWest Bengal.
As per orders of theDelimitation Commission, 124 Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following:Basirhat municipality,Basirhat Icommunity development block, andTaki municipality.[1]
Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of 18.Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
Till 2011 : Constituency did not exist | |||
| 2011 | Narayan Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 2014^ | Samik Bhattacharya | Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| 2016 | Dipendu Biswas | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2021 | Saptarshi Banerjee | ||
^ By-election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Saptarshi Banerjee | 115,873 | 49.15 |  8.5 | |
| BJP | Tarak Nath Ghosh | 91,405 | 38.77 | 9.22 | |
| INC | Amit Majumdar | 23,089 | 9.79 |  16.53 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,689 | 0.72 | 0.17 | |
| BSP | Debashis Sarkar | 1,470 | 0.62 | 0.1 | |
| SUCI(C) | Ajay Kumar Bain | 1,347 | 0.57 | 0.08 | |
| Majority | 24,468 | 10.38 | 0.72 | ||
| Turnout | 2,35,737 | 85.43 | |||
| AITChold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Dipendu Biswas | 88,085 | 40.65 | +11.37 | |
| BJP | Samik Bhattacharya | 64,027 | 29.55 | +25.64 | |
| INC | Asit Majumdar | 57,035 | 26.32 | −37.81 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,949 | 0.89 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Debabrata Biswas | 1,462 | 0.67 | N/A | |
| BSP | Dilip Bairagi | 1,133 | 0.52 | −1.40 | |
| SUCI(C) | Ajay Kumar Bain | 1,081 | 0.49 | ||
| PDS | Barun Das | 964 | 0.44 | ||
| RPI(A) | Tasirul Mondal | 903 | 0.41 | ||
| Majority | 24,058 | 11.10 | |||
| Turnout | 2,16,639 | ||||
| AITCgain fromBJP | Swing | ||||
A bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the death of the sitting MLA, Narayan Mukherjee.[2]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Samik Bhattacharya | 71,002 | 37.43 | +33.52 | |
| AITC | Dipendu Biswas | 69,416 | 36.59 | +7.31 | |
| CPI(M) | Mrinal Chakraborty | 24,884 | 13.12 | −22.86 | |
| INC | Asit Majumdar | 21,958 | 11.58 | N/A | |
| SUCI(C) | Ajay Kumar Bain | 2,431 | 1.28 | N/A | |
| Majority | 1,586 | 0.84 | −5.82 | ||
| Turnout | 1,89,694 | 80.43 | −6.8 | ||
| BJPgain fromCPI(M) | Swing | +22.09 | |||
In the 2011 election, Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Narayan Goswami of Trinamool Congress.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPI(M) | Narayan Mukherjee | 66,924 | 35.94 | ||
| AITC | Narayan Goswami | 54,514 | 29.28 | ||
| Independent | Asit Majumdar | 52,484 | 28.19 | ||
| BJP | Hajarilal Sarkar | 7,282 | 3.91 | ||
| BSP | Amitosh Kumar Mondal | 3,572 | 1.92 | ||
| IUML | Hafijul Mistri | 1,391 | 0.75 | ||
| Majority | 12,410 | 6.66 | |||
| Turnout | 186,157 | 87.22 | |||
| CPI(M)win (new seat) | |||||
As per 2011 census total population of Basirhat Dakshin is 335130,Hindu 183256,Muslim 151180,Other 694.Hindu 54.682%,Muslim 45.111%,Other 0.207%.
During the period Narayan Mukherjee ofCPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar ofINC in2006,[5] Souren Sen ofTrinamool Congress in 2001,[6] Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996, Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991[7] and 1987,[8] and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982[9] and 1977.[10][11]
Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Lalit Kumar Ghosh of Congress won in 1972[12] and 1971.[13] A.B.Bandopadhyay ofCPI won in 1969[14] and 1967.[15] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in1962.[16] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in1957[17] and inindependent India's first election in 1951.[18]
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