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Bardhaman Dakshin Assembly constituency (earlier called Burdwan South) is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Bardhaman Dakshin
Assembly constituency
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Coordinates: 23°15′N 87°51′E
Country	India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Bardhaman
Constituency No.	260
Type	Open
Lok Sabha constituency	39. Bardhaman-Durgapur
Electorate (year)	213,910 (2011)

Overview

Bardhaman had two state assembly seats – Burdwan North and Burdwan South, both of which were earlier part of Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency).

As per order of the Delimitation Committee, the Brdhaman assembly constituencies were renamed Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar. No. 260 Bardhaman Dakshin Assembly constituency covers Bardhaman municipality. No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency (SC) 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 (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]

The West Bengal political scenario has changed dramatically over the years. In the early years after independence it was a scene of fluctuating fortunes between the Congress and the Left wing parties, till the latter captured power in the late seventies. The United News of India in a candid analysis says, “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]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Burdwan	Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India[3]
1957		Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India[4]
1962		Radharani Mahtab	Indian National Congress[5]
1967	Burdwan South	S. B. Chodhury	Indian National Congress [6]
1969		Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1971		Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [8]
1972		Pradip Bhattacharya	Indian National Congress [9]
1977		Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [10]
1982		Benoy Choudhury	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [11]
1987		Nirupam Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [12]
1991		Shyama Prosad Bose	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [13]
1996		Shyama Prosad Bose	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [14]
2001		Nirupam Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [15]
2006		Nirupam Sen	Communist Party of India (Marxist) [16][17]
2011	Burdwan Dakshin	Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress[18]
2016		Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhyay	All India Trinamool Congress[19][20]
2021		Khokan Das	All India Trinamool Congress [21]

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bardhaman Dakshin[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Khokan Das	91,015	44.32	-3.02
	BJP	Sandip Nandi	82,910	40.38	+32.04
	CPI(M)	Pritha Tah	23,346	11.37	-20.80
	BSP	Pushpa Hansda	1,455	0.71
	NRPOI	Rajib Paswan	983	0.45
	SUCI(C)	Anirudha Kundu	797	0.39
	Independent	Arindam Ghosh	581	0.28
	BMUP	Luxmi Narayan Koda	551	0.27
	NOTA	None of the above	3,707	1.81
Turnout			205,345
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Bardhaman Dakshin [19][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhyay	91,882	47.34
	CPI(M)	Ainul Haque	62,444	32.17
	Independent	Samir Kumar Roy	17,205	8.86
	BJP	Prabal Roy	16,192	8.34
	BSP	Md Harun	1,616	0.83
	SUCI(C)	Parikshit Gorain	1,363	0.70
	NOTA	None of the above	3,394	1.75
Majority
Turnout
	AITC hold		Swing

Bardhaman Dakshin constituency 2011

In the 2011 elections, Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Nirupam Sen of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bardhaman Dakshin [22][23][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay	107,520	57.7	+14.23#
	CPI(M)	Nirupam Sen	70,606	37.89	-18.64
	BJP	Sandip Nandi	5,621	3.02
	BSP	Md. Harun	2,593	1.39
Turnout			186,338	87.11
	AITC gain from CPI(M)		Swing	+32.87

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI(M) vote percentage, in 2006, for Burdwan South constituency.

Burdwan South constituency 1967-2006

Nirupam Sen of CPI (M) won the Burdwan South assembly seat in 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections defeating his nearest rivals Samir Kumar Roy and Paresh Chandra Sarkar (both of Trinamool Congress) 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 (M) defeated Sadhan Kumar Ghosh and Shyamadas Banerjee (both of Congress) in respective years. In 1987, Nirupam Sen of CPI (M) defeated Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress. In 1982 and 1977, Kaustav Roy of CPI (M) defeated Shyamadas Banerjee and Pradip Bhattacharya (both of Congress) in the respective years.[25] Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress won the seat in 1972. Benoy Choudhury of CPI (M) 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.[26]

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.[26]

References

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