Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency
Basirhat Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
| Basirhat Dakshin | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 124 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Basirhat Dakshin Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | North 24 Parganas |
| LS constituency | Basirhat |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 212,872 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
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
Election results
2021
2016
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,949 | 0.89 | ||
| Majority | 24,058 | 11.10 | |||
| Turnout | 2,16,639 | ||||
| AITC gain from BJP | Swing | ||||
2014 by-election
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 | ||
| BJP gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +22.09 | |||
2011
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%.
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,[5] Souren Sen of Trinamool 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]
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[12] and 1971.[13] A.B.Bandopadhyay of CPI won in 1969[14] and 1967.[15] Bijesh Chandra Sen of Congress won in 1962.[16] Profulla Nath Banerjee of Congress won in 1957[17] and in independent India's first election in 1951.[18]