Bardhaman Dakshin


Bardhaman Dakshin is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Overview

Bardhaman had two state assembly seats – Burdwan North and Burdwan South, both of which were earlier part of Burdwan.
As per order of the Delimitation Committee, the Brdhaman assembly constituencies were renamed Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar. No. 260 Bardhaman Dakshin covers Bardhaman municipality. No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar assembly seat covers Burdwan II community development block and Belkash, Bandul I, Rayan I, Rayan II, Saraitikar, Baghar I and Baghar II gram panchayats of Burdwan I community development block. Both Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar assembly segments are part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur.

Election results

1951- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India

1957- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India

1962- Radharani Mahtab, Congress

1967- S.B.Chowdhury, Congress

1969- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India

1971- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India

1972- Pradip Bhattacharya, Indian National Congress

1977- Kaustav Roy, Communist Party of India 51.84%

1982- Kaustav Roy, Communist Party of India 51.13%

1987- Nirupam Sen, Communist Party of India 53.6%

1991- Shyamaprosad Bose, Communist Party of India 46.78%

1996- Shyamaprosad Bose, Communist Party of India 50.58%

2001- Nirupam Sen, Communist Party of India 53.35%

2006- Nirupam Sen, Communist Party of India 56.63%

2011- Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay. Trinamool Congress 57.7%

Bardhaman Dakshin constituency 2011

In the 2011 elections, Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nirupam Sen of CPI.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage, in 2006, for Burdwan South constituency.

Burdwan South constituency 1967-2006

Nirupam Sen of CPI won the Burdwan South assembly seat in 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections defeating his nearest rivals Samir Kumar Roy and Paresh Chandra Sarkar in the respective years. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 1996 and 1991, Shyamaprosad Bose of CPI defeated Sadhan Kumar Ghosh and Shyamadas Banerjee in respective years. In 1987, Nirupam Sen of CPI defeated Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress. In 1982 and 1977, Kaustav Roy of CPI defeated Shyamadas Banerjee and Pradip Bhattacharya in the respective years. Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress won the seat in 1972. Benoy Choudhury of CPI won the seat in 1971 and 1969. S.B.Chowdhury of Congress won the seat in 1967. Prior to that there was a single Bardhaman seat.

Burdwan constituency 1951-1962

Radharani Mahtab of Congress won the Burdwan seat in 1962. Benoy Choudhuri representing CPI won the seat in 1957 and 1951.