Bardhaman Dakshin (earlier called Burdwan South) is an assembly

Vidhan Sabha

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 constituency in Bardhaman district

Bardhaman District

'Bardhaman district is a district in West Bengal. The headquarter of the district is Bardhaman, though it houses other important industrial towns like Durgapur and Asansol...

 in the India

India

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States and territories of India

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 of West Bengal

West Bengal

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Extent

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

Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency)

Burdwan is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centres on Burdwanin West Bengal. Results of elections held in the constituency were as follows:-Assembly segments:...

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As per order of the Delimitation Committee, the Brdhaman assembly constituencies were renamed Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar. No. 260 Bardhaman Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) covers Bardhaman

Bardhaman

'Bardhaman or Burdwan , is a city of West Bengal state in eastern India. It is the headquarters of Bardhaman District....

 municipality. No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Bardhaman Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as the CPI vote percentage, in 2006 for the Burdwan North constiuency.-Burdwan North constituency 1967-2006:...

 (SC) assembly seat covers Burdwan II

Burdwan II (community development block)

Burdwan II is an administrative division in Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision of Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Bardhaman and Memari police stations serve this block...

 community development block and Belkash, Bandul I, Rayan I, Rayan II, Saraitikar, Baghar I and Baghar II gram panchayats of Burdwan I

Burdwan I (community development block)

Burdwan I is an administrative division in Bardhaman Sadar North subdivision of Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Bardhaman police station serves this block...

 community development block. Both Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar assembly segments are part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency)

Bardhaman Durgapur is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency is located in Bardhaman district in West Bengal....

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Results

1951- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India

1957- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India

1962- Radharani Mahtab, Congress

1967- S.B.Chowdhury, Congress

1969- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India (Marxist)

1971- Benoy Choudhuri, Communist Party of India (Marxist)

1977- Kaustav Roy, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 51.84%

1982- Kaustav Roy, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 51.13%

1987- Nirupam Sen, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 53.6%

1991- Shyamaprosad Bose, Communist Party of India(Marxist) 46.78%

1996- Shyamaprosad Bose, Communist Party of India(Marxist) 50.58%

2001- Nirupam Sen, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 53.35%

2006- Nirupam Sen, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 56.63%

2011- Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay. Trinamool Congress 57.7%

Bardhaman Dakshin constituency 2011

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

Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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 won the Burdwan South assembly seat in 2006

West Bengal state assembly election, 2006

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 and 2001 state assembly elections defeating his nearest rivals Samir Kumar Roy and Paresh Chandra Sarkar (both of Trinamool Congress

All India Trinamool Congress

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) 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)

Indian National Congress

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 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.Pradip Bhattacharya of Congress won the seat in 1972. Benoy Choudhury

Benoy Choudhury

Benoy Choudhury was a revolutionary freedom fighter and politician, belonging to the CPI, who played a major role in land reforms in the Indian state of West Bengal.-Early life:...

 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.

Burdwan constituency 1951-1962

Radharani Mahtab of Congress won the Burdwan seat in 1962

West Bengal state assembly election, 1962

The West Bengal state assembly election of 1962 was a part of a series of state assembly elections in 1962.-Alliances:On the political left two alliances had emered; the United Left Election Committee and the United Left Front...

. Benoy Choudhuri representing CPI

Communist Party of India

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 won the seat in 1957

West Bengal state assembly election, 1957

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 and 1951

West Bengal state assembly election, 1952

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