Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)

Kolkata Dakshin
Existence	1967-present
Reservation	None
Current MP	Subrata Bakshi
Party	Trinamool Congress
Elected Year	2014
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,685,296^[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Kasba Behala Purba Behala Paschim Kolkata Port Bhabanipur Rashbehari Ballygunge

Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) (earlier known as Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency) (Bengali: কলকাতা দক্ষিন লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the southern part of Kolkata in West Bengal. While four of the assembly segments on No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Kolkata district, three are in South 24 Parganas district

Assembly segments

After the implementation of the order of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002, in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency no. 23, Kolkata Dakshin is composed of the following legislative assembly segments:^[2]

Kasba (assembly constituency no. 149)
Behala Purba (assembly constituency no. 153)
Behala Paschim (assembly constituency no. 154)
Kolkata Port (assembly constituency no. 158)
Bhabanipur (assembly constituency no. 159)
Rashbehari (assembly constituency no. 160)
Ballygunge (assembly constituency no. 161)

Before delimitation in 2008, Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:^[3]Sonarpur (SC) (assembly constituency no. 109), Chowranghee (assembly constituency no. 146), Alipore (assembly constituency no. 148), Rashbehari Avenue (assembly constituency no. 149), Tollygunge (assembly constituency no. 150), Dhakuria (assembly constituency no. 151), Ballygunge (assembly constituency no. 152)

Members of Parliament

Lok Sabha	Duration	Constituency	Name of M.P.	Party Affiliation
First	1952-57	Calcutta South West	Ashim Krishna Dutt	Indian National Congress ^[4]
		Calcutta South East	Syama Prasad Mookerjee	Bharatiya Jan Sangh^[4]
Second	1957-60	Calcutta South West	Biren Roy	Independent^[5]
		Calcutta East	Sadhan Chandra Gupta	Communist Party of India^[5]
	1960-62	Calcutta South West	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India^[6]
Third	1962-67	Calcutta South West	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India ^[7]
		Calcutta East	Ranendra Nath Sen	Communist Party of India ^[7]
Fourth	1967-71	Calcutta South	Ganesh Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[8]
	1967-71	Alipore	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India^[8]
Fifth	1971-77	Calcutta South	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	Indian National Congress^[9]
		Alipore	Indrajit Gupta	Communist Party of India^[9]
Sixth	1977-80	Calcutta South	Dilip Chakravarty	Bharatiya Lok Dal^[10]
Seventh	1980-84		Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	Communist Party of India (Marxist)^[11]
Eighth	1984-89		Bhola Nath Sen	Indian National Congress^[12]
Ninth	1989-91		Biplab Dasgupta	Communist Party of India (Marxist) ^[13]
Tenth	1991-96		Mamata Banerjee	Indian National Congress^[14]
Eleventh	1996-98		Mamata Banerjee	Indian National Congress^[15]
Twelfth	1998-99		Mamata Banerjee	West Bengal Trinamool Congress^[16]
Thirteenth	1999-04		Mamata Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress^[17]
Fourteenth	2004-09		Mamata Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress^[18]
Fifteenth	2009-11	Kolkata Dakshin	Mamata Banerjee	All India Trinamool Congress^[19]
Bye Election,2011	2011-14		Subrata Bakshi	All India Trinamool Congress^[20]
Sixteenth	2014-incumbent		Subrata Bakshi	All India Trinamool Congress^[21]

Election results

General election 2014

Indian general elections, 2014: Kolkata Dakshin^[21]^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Subrata Bakshi	4,31,715	36.95
	BJP	Tathagata Roy	2,95,376	25.28
	CPI(M)	Nandini Mukherjee	2,78,414	23.83
	INC	Mala Roy	1,13,453	9.71
	BSP	Omprakash Prajapati	4,564	0.39
	Independent	Ashoke Biswas	4,335	0.37
	SUCI(C)	Zuber Rabbani	3,994	0.34
	IUML	K.P. Md. Sharif	3,776	0.32
	Independent	Shamali Das	3,356	0.28
	Amra Bangalee	Hitangshu Banerjee	2,921	0.25
	Independent	Badri Mondal	1,844	0.15
	WPI	Md. Heshamuddin	1,554	0.13
	AIMF	Syed Md. Wasim Reza	1,195	0.10
	Indian Justice Party	Karan Singh	1,103	0.09
	CPI(ML) Red Star	Raveendran T P (Ravi Paloor)	875	0.07
Majority			1,36,339	11.67
Turnout			11,67,986	69.30
	AITMC hold		Swing

Indian general election, 2014
West Bengal summary
Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	34	15	39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	7	22.7
Communist Party of India	0	2	2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	2	2.4
Forward Bloc	0	2	2.1
Indian National Congress	4	2	9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1	16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	0	1	0.7

Source: Party-wise trends in General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014
List of successful candidates in General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha

By-election 2011

A by-election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). In the by-election, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ritabrata Banerjee of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes,thus breaking the record of Mamata Banerjee who had won the seat in 2009 by 2,19,571 votes.

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Indian Parliamentary bye election, 2011: Kolkata Dakshin constituency
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Subrata Bakshi	5,16,761	62.70
	CPI(M)	Ritabrata Banerjee	2,86,662	34.78
	Independent	S. K. Biswas	8,068	0.98
	Independent	Debashish Ghosh	7,049	0.86
	Independent	Ranjit Kumar Dutta	5,596	0.68
Majority			2,30,099	27.92
Turnout			8,24,136	52.82
	AITMC hold		Swing

General Election 2009

General Election, 2009: Kolkata Dakshin^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Mamata Banerjee	5,76,045	57.2
	CPI(M)	Rabin Deb	3,56,474	35.4
	BJP	Jyotsna Banerjee	39,744	3.9
	BSP	Paresh Chandra Roy	6,745	0.7
	IUML	Asif Md	5,896
	Indian Justice Party	Leela Hans	1,472
	Independent	Arun Biswas	1,984
	Independent	Barnali Mukhopadhyay	2,623
	Independent	Jayanta Datta	1,512
	Independent	Nishat Khan	2,923
	Independent	Pijush Banerjee	1,674
	Independent	Ram Chandra Prasad	4,091
	Independent	Yusuf Jamal Siddique	6,042
Majority			2,19,571	21.8
Turnout			9,15,836	80.08
	AITMC hold		Swing

General Election 2004

General Election, 2004: Calcutta South^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Mamata Banerjee	3,93,561
	CPI(M)	Rabin Deb	2,95,132
	INC	Nafisa Ali	60,377
	Independent	Sujit Kumar Roy	4,782
	BSP	Kusha Ram	4,431
	Independent	Bandana Das	4,130
	Independent	Mukul Paul	2,524
	Independent	Ranjit Banerjee	2,306
	Independent	Barnali Mukherjee	2,258
	Independent	Santu Mukherjee	1,708
	Independent	Bhushan Mondal	1,533
Majority			98429	21.8
Turnout			7,72,742	80.08
	AITMC hold		Swing

General Election 1999

General Election, 1999: Calcutta South^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITMC	Mamata Banerjee	4,69,103	58.26 %
	CPI(M)	Subhankar Chakraborty	2,55,095	31.68 %
	INC	Partha Roy Chowdhury	51,735	6.43 %
	CPI(ML)(L)	Dr. Partha Sarathi Ghosh	6,186
	BSP	Mohammed Sahabuddun	6,091	0.76 %
	Independent	Ranjan Kumar Das	5.841
	Independent	Murari Mohan Ghosh	4,512
	Independent	Priya Nath Banerjee	2,740
	Independent	Kabita Mukherjee	2,160
	Independent	Bandana Biswas	1,658
Majority			98429	21.8
Turnout			8,05,121	66.96%
	Trinamool Congress hold		Swing

General elections 1951-2004

Calcutta South constituency came into existence in 1967. However, different constituencies existed in the area. Results of such constituencies are also included here. Most of the contests were multi-cornered. However, only winners and runners-up are mentioned below:

Year	Constituency	Voters	Voter Turnout	Winner			Runners up
			%age	Candidate	%age	Party	Candidate	%age	Party
1951	Calcutta South West	144065	37.91	Ashim Krishna Dutt	51.11	INC	Bankim Chandra Bhattacharyya	27.37	Independent^[4]
	Calcutta South East	144,614	37.91	Syama Prasad Mookerjee	44.97	BJS	Mriganka Mohan Sur	30.46	INC^[4]
1957	Calcutta South West	188,647	46.73	Biren Roy	50.33	IND.	Ashim Krishna Dutt	43.68	INC^[5]
	Calcutta East	228,712	46.0	Sadhan Chandra Gupta	62.68	CPI	Ranadeb Chowdhury	35.47	INC^[5]
1960	Calcutta South West	Bye-election		Indrajit Gupta		CPI	Ashim Krishna Dutt		INC^[6]
1962	Calcutta South West	292,873	67.64	Indrajit Gupta	50.06	CPI	Ismail Ibrahim	46.24	INC^[7]
	Calcutta East	320,419	68.03	Ranendra Nath Sen	56.88	CPI	Sailendra Nath Mukherjee	43.12	INC^[7]
1967	Calcutta South	317,171	62.60	Ganesh Ghosh	50.28	CPI(M)	B. B. Ghosh	37.58	INC^[8]
	Alipore	385,961	68.22	Indrajit Gupta	32.41	CPI	P.Sarkar	32.22	INC^[8]
1971	Calcutta South	296,088	59.00	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	50.65	INC	Ganesh Ghosh	42.95	CPI(M)^[9]
	Alipore	368,717	57.38	Indrajit Gupta	49.00	CPI	Kamal Sarakar	41.40	CPI(M)^[9]
1977	Calcutta South	398,560	60.92	Dilip Chakravarty	58.08	BLD	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	40.59	INC^[10]
1980		472,700	61.54	Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	46.09	CPI(M)	Bhola Nath Sen	38.09	INC(I)^[11]
1984		582,370	72.52	Bhola Nath Sen	56.93	INC	Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	41.34	CPI(M)^[12]
1989		740,080	73.02	Biplab Dasgupta	50.07	CPI(M)	Bhola Nath Sen	46.61	INC^[13]
1991		714,400	68.5	Mamata Banerjee	52.46	INC	Biplab Dasgupta	39.1	CPI(M)^[14]
1996		852,460	73.02	Mamata Banerjee	52.51	INC	Bharati Mukherjee	40.54	CPI(M)^[15]
1998		877,430	74.44	Mamata Banerjee	59.37	AITC	Prasanta Sur	32.95	CPI(M)^[16]
1999		805,270	66.96	Mamata Banerjee	58.26	AITC	Subhankar Chakraborty	31.68	CPI(M)^[17]
2004		772,740	70.46	Mamata Banerjee	50.93	AITC	Rabin Deb	38.19	CPI(M)^[18]

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