Asansol Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It covers most of the area earlier under Hirapur Assembly constituency. The Delimitation Commission abolished Hirapur as an assembly constituency in 2011.
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Coordinates: 23°40′N 86°56′E | |
Country | ![]() |
State | West Bengal |
District | Paschim Bardhaman |
Constituency No. | 280 |
Type | Open |
Lok Sabha constituency | 40. Asansol |
Electorate (year) | 203,289 (2011) |
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, there are two constituencies, namely Asansol Uttar Assembly constituency and Asansol Dakshin Assembly constituency.No. 280 Asansol Dakshin covers Wards 38-39,56-57,75,77-87,94-98,106 of Asansol Municipal Corporation (Before 2015 Ward nos. 9,18,20,34-50 of Asansol municipal corporation) and Amrasota, Egara, Ballavpur, Jemari and Tirat gram panchayats of Raniganj CD Block.[1]
Asansol Uttar and Asansol Dakshin assembly segments are part of No. 40 Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
The United News of India (UNI) has been candid about the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal (the area covered by the Asansol Lok Sabha Sabha constituency) after Kolkata that is a hub of coal mining and railway activity bordering Jharkhand. Asansol has seen, it writes, “a sustained hold over it by the CPI(M) since 1984. Before that it was a tale of fluctuating fortune for the CPI(M) and the Congress… However, as the green surge swept Bengal to demolish the red bastion in 2011 Assembly elections… Moreover, as the Left still remained cornered in state politics, their neutralised voters are increasingly migrating to the BJP for a viable alternative.”[2]
Election Year | Constituency | Name of M.L.A. | Party Affiliation |
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1957 | Hirapur | Taher Hossain | Independent[3] |
1962 | Dr. Gopika Ranjan Mitra | Indian National Congress[4] | |
1967 | Shibdas Ghatak | Indian National Congress [5] | |
1969 | Bamapada Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[6] | |
1971 | Bamapada Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [7] | |
1972 | Triptimoy Aich | Indian National Congress [8] | |
1977 | Bamapada Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist)[9] | |
1982 | Bamapada Mukherjee | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10] | |
1987 | Suhrid Basu Mallick | Indian National Congress [11] | |
1991 | Mamtaz Hassan | Janata Dal[12] | |
1996 | Shyamadas Banerjee | Indian National Congress [13] | |
2001 | Moloy Ghatak | All India Trinamool Congress[14] | |
2006 | Amitava Mukhopadhyay | Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15][16] | |
2011 | Asansol Dakshin | Tapas Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[17] |
2016 | Tapas Banerjee | All India Trinamool Congress[18] | |
2021 | Agnimitra Paul | Bharatiya Janata Party[19] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Tapas Banerjee | 89,645 | 55.75 | +10.74 | |
CPI(M) | Ashok Kumar Mukherjee | 61,104 | 38.00 | -9.13 | |
BJP | Pawan Kumar Singh | 6,706 | 4.17 | ||
JD(U) | Nirajlal Yadav | 3,356 | 2.09 | ||
Majority | 28,541 | 17.75 | |||
Turnout | 1,60,879 | 78.69 | |||
AITC gain from CPI(M) | Swing | +20.57# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Hirapur constituency.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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AITC | Tapas Banerjee | 71,515 | 38.54 | -17.21 | |
CPI(M) | Hemant Prabhakar | 57,232 | 30.84 | -7.16 | |
BJP | Col. Diptansu Choudhury | 49,199 | 26.51 | +22.34 | |
BMP | Chhoton Ruidas | 2,096 | 1.12 | N/A | |
JDP | Sukanta Hembram | 1,601 | 0.86 | N/A | |
NOTA | None of the above | 3,911 | 2.10 | N/A | |
Majority | 14,283 | 7.70 | -10.05 | ||
Turnout | 1,85,704 | 75.07 | |||
AITC hold | Swing | -5.03 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJP | Agnimitra Paul | 87,881 | 45.13 | +77.14 | |
AITC | Saayoni Ghosh | 83,394 | 42.82 | +15.31 | |
CPI(M) | Prashanta Ghosh | 15,720 | 8.20 | -70.80 | |
BSP | Singhasan Paswan | 2,847 | 1.67 | ||
BMUP | Shiuli Ruidas | 1,157 | 0.57 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 3,466 | 1.78 | ||
Majority | 4,487 | 2.34 | |||
Turnout | 1,94,943 | 71.08 | |||
BJP gain from AITC | Swing | ||||
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