Asansol Dakshin Assembly constituency is an
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constituency in
Paschim Bardhaman district
Paschim Bardhaman district is a predominantly urban mining-industrial district in West Bengal. The headquarter of the district is Asansol. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after bifurcation of the erstwhile Bardhaman district as the 23rd district o ...
in the
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of
West Bengal
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. It covers most of the area earlier under
Hirapur Assembly constituency. The Delimitation Commission abolished Hirapur as an assembly constituency in 2011.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, there are two constituencies, namely
Asansol Uttar Assembly constituency
Asansol Uttar 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 Asansol constituency. There is another constituency named Asansol Dakshin ...
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
Asansol is a (Tier-II) metropolitan city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the second largest and most populated city of West Bengal and the 33rd largest urban agglomeration in India. Asansol is the district headquarters of Paschim Bar ...
municipal corporation) and Amrasota, Egara,
Ballavpur,
Jemari and Tirat gram panchayats of
Raniganj
Raniganj is a neighbourhood in Asansol of Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by Asansol Municipal Corporation
Geography
Location
Raniganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 91 met ...
CD Block.
Asansol Uttar and Asansol Dakshin assembly segments are part of No. 40
Asansol (Lok Sabha constituency)
Asansol Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Asansol in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 40 Asansol Lok Sabha constituency are in Paschim Bardhaman distri ...
.
[
The ]United News of India
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(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.”
Members of Legislative Assembly
Election results
2011
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Hirapur constituency.
2016
2021
References
{{Vidhan Sabha constituencies of West Bengal
Politics of Paschim Bardhaman district
Assembly constituencies of West Bengal
Asansol
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