Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency (earlier known as Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency) (Bengali: কলকাতা দক্ষিণ লোকসভা কেন্দ্র) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the southern part of Kolkata in West Bengal.
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After the implementation of the order of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted in 2002, in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency no. 23, Kolkata Dakshin is composed of the following legislative assembly segments:[1]
Before delimitation in 2008, Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency was composed of the following Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) segments:[2]
A by-election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Bhabanipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).In the by-election , Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ritabrata Banerjee of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes,thus breaking the record of Mamata Banerjee who had won the seat in 2009 by 2,19,571 votes.
| General Election, 2009: Kolkata Dakshin [3] | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Trinamool Congress | Mamata Banerjee | 576,045 | 57.2 | ||
| CPI(M) | Rabin Deb | 356,474 | 35.4 | ||
| BJP | Jyotsna Banerjee | 39,744 | 3.9 | ||
| BSP | Paresh Chandra Roy | 6,745 | 0.7 | ||
| MUL | Asif Md | 5,896 | |||
| IJP | Leela Hans | 1,472 | |||
| Independent | Arun Biswas | 1,984 | |||
| Independent | Barnali Mukhopadhyay | 2,623 | |||
| Independent | Jayanta Datta | 1,512 | |||
| Independent | Nishat Khan | 2,923 | |||
| Independent | Pijush Banerjee | 1,674 | |||
| Independent | Ram Chandra Prasad | 4,091 | |||
| Independent | Yusuf Jamal Siddique | 6,042 | |||
| Majority | 219,571 | 21.8 | |||
| Turnout | 1,007,225 | ||||
| Trinamool Congress hold | Swing | ||||
The following is a summary of the results of the Lok Sabha elections prior to 2009:
During the period there were two constituencies with varying names. The winners are shown below.[4]
| Year | Constituency | Winner | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Calcutta South West | Ashim Krishna Dutt | Congress |
| Calcutta South East | Syama Prasad Mookerjee | Bharatiya Jan Sangh | |
| 1957 | Calcutta South West | Biren Roy | Independent |
| Calcutta East | Sadhan Chandra Gupta | CPI | |
| 1962 | Calcutta South West | Indrajit Gupta | CPI |
| Calcutta East | Ranendra Nath Sen | CPI |
Alipore (Lok Sabha constituency) existed in 1967 and 1971.
| Year | Winner | Party |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Indrajit Gupta | CPI |
| 1971 | Indrajit Gupta | CPI |
| Year | Voters | Voter Turnout | Winner | Runners up | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %age | Candidate | %age | Party | Candidate | %age | Party | ||
| 1967[5] | 317,171 | 62.60 | Ganesh Ghosh | 50.28 | CPI(M) | B.B. Ghosh | 37.58 | INC |
| 1971[6] | 296,088 | 59.00 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 50.65 | INC | Ganesh Ghosh | 42.95 | CPI(M) |
| 1977[7] | 398,560 | 60.92 | Dilip Chakravarty | 58.08 | BLD | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 40.59 | INC |
| 1980 | 472,700 | 61.54 | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | 46.09 | CPI(M) | Bhola Nath Sen | 38.09 | INC(I) |
| 1984 | 582,370 | 72.52 | Bhola Nath Sen | 56.93 | INC | Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty | 41.34 | CPI(M) |
| 1989 | 740,080 | 73.02 | Biplab Dasgupta | 50.07 | CPI(M) | Bhola Nath Sen | 46.61 | INC |
| 1991 | 714,400 | 68.5 | Mamata Banerjee | 52.46 | INC | Biplab Dasgupta | 39.1 | CPI(M) |
| 1996 | 852,460 | 73.02 | Mamata Banerjee | 52.51 | INC | Bharati Mukherjee | 40.54 | CPI(M) |
| 1998 | 877,430 | 74.44 | Mamata Banerjee | 59.37 | AITC | Prasanta Sur | 32.95 | CPI(M) |
| 1999 | 805,270 | 66.96 | Mamata Banerjee | 58.26 | AITC | Subhankar Chakraborty | 31.68 | CPI(M) |
| 2004 | 772,740 | 70.46 | Mamata Banerjee | 50.93 | AITC | Rabin Deb | 38.19 | CPI(M) |
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