Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency ( bn, হাওড়া দক্ষিন বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র) (earlier called Howrah South) is an

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Howrah district Howrah district (, ) is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. Howrah district is one of the highly urbanized area of West Bengal. The urbanised sectors gradually increase the slum populations. Howrah is the third smallest distric ...

in the

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Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 173 Howrah Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 35, 38 to 41 and 44 to 46 of

Howrah Municipal Corporation Howrah Municipal Corporation (abbreviated as HMC) is the local government of the city of Howrah, West Bengal, India. It is the second largest Municipal corporation and urban area in the state. This civic administrative body administers an area ...

and Duila, Jorhat, Panchpara and Thanamakua

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s of

Sankrail Sankrail is a census town in Sankrail CD Block of Howrah Sadar subdivision in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of Kolkata Urban Agglomeration. Geography Sankrail is located at . It has an average elevation of ...

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. Howrah South Assembly constituency is part of No. 25

Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency) Howrah Lok Sabha constituency ( bn, হাওড়া লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Howrah in West Bengal. All the seven assembly segments of No. 2 ...

Members of Legislative Assembly

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, , Howrah Dakshin, , Brojo Mohan Mazumdar, ,

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Election results

2021

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2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election for 292 of the 294 constituencies in West Bengal was held between 27 March to 29 April 2021 in eight phases. Voting for the two remaining constituencies was delayed to 30 September 2021. The ...

: Howrah Dakshin {{Election box candidate with party link , party = All India Trinamool Congress , candidate = Nandita Chowdhury , votes = 1,16,839 , percentage = 53.86 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Bharatiya Janata Party , candidate = Rantidev Sengupta , votes = 66,270 , percentage = 30.55 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Communist Party of India (Marxist) , candidate = Sumitra Adhikari , votes = 27,287 , percentage = 12.58 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = None of the above , candidate = None of the above , votes = 2,948 , percentage = 1.36 , change = {{Election box candidate , party =

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, candidate = Sushanta Mondal , votes =1,063 , percentage =0.49 , change = {{Election box majority , votes = 50,569 , percentage = 23.62 , change = {{Election box turnout , votes = 2,17,055 , percentage = 73.77 , change = {{Election box hold with party link , winner = All India Trinamool Congress , swing = {{Election box end

2016

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2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election A Legislative Assembly election was held in 2016 for the 294 seats (out of 295 seats) of the '' Vidhan Sabha'' (Vidhān Sabhā) in the state of West Bengal in India. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and th ...

: Howrah Dakshin {{Election box candidate with party link , party = All India Trinamool Congress , candidate = Brajamohan Majumder , votes = 93,689 , percentage = 47.79 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Communist Party of India (Marxist) , candidate = Arindam Basu , votes = 77,495 , percentage = 39.53 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Bharatiya Janata Party , candidate = Sahana Guha Roy , votes = 16,277 , percentage = 8.30 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = None of the above , candidate = None of the above , votes = 3,816 , percentage = 1.95 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Bahujan Samaj Party , candidate = Srinath Yadav , votes =1,249 , percentage =0.64 , change = {{Election box majority , votes = 16,194 , percentage = 8.26 , change = {{Election box turnout , votes = 1,96,208 , percentage = 73.58 , change = {{Election box hold with party link , winner = All India Trinamool Congress , swing = {{Election box end

2011

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2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. It was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 ...

: Howrah Dakshin {{Election box candidate with party link , party = All India Trinamool Congress , candidate = Broja Mohan Majumdar , votes = 1,01,066 , percentage = 56.06 , change = {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Communist Party of India (Marxist) , candidate = Krishna Kishor Roy , votes = 69,644 , percentage = 38.63 , change = -9.43 {{Election box candidate with party link , party = Bharatiya Janata Party , candidate = Pramila Singh , votes = 4,256 , percentage = 2.36 , change = {{Election box candidate , party =

, candidate = Sekh Abdul Momin , votes = 1,803 , percentage = 1.00 , change = {{Election box candidate , party =

, candidate = Biswanath Mete , votes =828 , percentage =0.46 , change = {{Election box majority , votes = 31,422 , percentage = 17.43 , change = {{Election box turnout , votes = 1,80,437 , percentage = 76.94 , change = {{Election box gain with party link , winner = All India Trinamool Congress , loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist) , swing = # {{Election box end .# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006 state assembly elections, Krishna Kisor Ray of

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won 164 Howrah South assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amitava Dutta of

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. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Badal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Arup Ray of

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in 2001. Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Arup Roy of

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in 1996 and Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress in 1991. Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress defeated Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) in 1987. Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Amiya Kumar Dutta of Congress in 1982 and

Ambica Banerjee Ambica Banerjee (28 August 1928 – 25 April 2013) was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha. He was elected as a Trinamool Congress candidate from Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency). Banerjee was born in 1928 to Shri Anilmohon Banerjee and Shyama Devi ...

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1951-1972

Santi Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1972 and 1971. Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) won in 1969. B.K.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967. Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of

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won in

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and

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. Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in

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References

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