Bangaon Dakshin Assembly constituency

For other uses, see Bangaon (disambiguation).

Bangaon Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.

Bangaon Dakshin
Constituency No. 96 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Bangaon Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	North 24 Parganas
LS constituency	Bangaon
Established	1951
Total electors	248,278
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Swapan Majumder
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 96 Bangaon Dakshin Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Bairampur, Chauberia I, Chauberia II, Dighari, Kalupur and Palla gram panchayats of Bangaon community development block, and Chandpara, Dooma, Fulsara, Jaleswar II, Jhaudanga and Ramnagar gram panchayats of Gaighata community development block.^[1]

Bangaon Dakshin Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 14 Bangaon (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1] Bongaon assembly constituency was earlier part of Barasat (Lok Sabha constituency).^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party
Bongaon
1951	Jiban Ratan Dhar	Indian National Congress[3]
1957	Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[4]
	Manindra Bhusan Biswas	Indian National Congress[4]
1962	Jiban Ratan Dhar	Indian National Congress [5]
1967	K.Bhowmick	Indian National Congress[6]
1969	Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[7]
1971	Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[8]
1972	Ajit Kumar Ganguly	Communist Party of India[9]
1977	Ranajit Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[10]
1982	Bhupendranath Seth	Indian National Congress[11]
1987	Ranajit Mitra	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[12]
1991	Bhupendranath Seth	Indian National Congress[13]
1996	Pankaj Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[14]
2001	Pankaj Ghosh	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
2006	Bhupendranath Seth	All India Trinamool Congress[16]
2006 Bye election	Saugata Roy	All India Trinamool Congress.[17]
2009 Bye election	Gopal Seth	All India Trinamool Congress.[18][19]
Bangaon Dakshin
2011	Surajit Kumar Biswas	All India Trinamool Congress[20]
2016	Surajit Kumar Biswas	All India Trinamool Congress[21]
2021	Swapan Majumder	Bharatiya Janata Party[22]

Election results

2021

In the 2021 election, Swapan Majumder of the BJP defeated his nearest rival Alo Rani Sarkar of AITC.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Bangaon Dakshin^[22][23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Swapan Majumder	97,828	47.07	34.08
	AITC	Alo Rani Sarkar	95,824	46.11	3.09
	CPI(M)	Tapas Kumar Biswas	10,069	4.84	30.03
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,542	0.74	0.07
	SUCI(C)	Rabindra Nath Barai	953	0.46	New
	BSP	Pradip Kumar Sarkar	820	0.39	0.47
Majority			2,004	0.96	13.37
Turnout			2,07,834	83.71	0.26
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Bangaon Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Surajit Kumar Biswas	92,379	49.2	4.51
	CPI(M)	Ramendranath Audhya	65,475	34.87	5.43
	BJP	Swapan Majumder	24,384	12.99	9.78
	BSP	Pradip Kumar Sarkar	1,616	0.86	0.34
	NOTA	None of the Above	1,512	0.81	New
	AMB	Dipankar Mandal	1,484	0.79	New
	CPI(ML)L	Pranballabh Pathak	925	0.49	1.08
Majority			26,904	14.33	0.92
Turnout			1,87,775	83.45	2.89
	AITC hold		Swing	{{{swing}}}

2011

In the 2011 election, Surajit Kumar Biswas of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Anuj Baran Sarkar of CPI(M).

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Bangaon Dakshin^[20][24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Surajit Kumar Biswas	87,677	53.71
	CPI(M)	Anuj Baran Sarkar	65,788	40.30
	BJP	Arun Halder	5,243	3.21
	CPI(ML)L	Himangshu Biswas	2,561
	BSP	Rabindra Nath Biswas	1,961
Turnout			163,230	86.63
	AITC win (new seat)

1977-2009 Bongaon assembly seat

In the 2009 bye-election caused by the election of sitting MLA, Saugata Roy to the Lok Sabha from Dum Dum, Gopal Seth of All India Trinamool Congress won the Bangaon seat.^[18][19]

In the 2006 bye-election caused by the death of the sitting MLA, Bhupen Seth, Saugato Roy of Trinamool Congress defeated Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M).^[17]

In the 2006 state assembly elections,^[16] Bhupendranath Seth of All India Trinamool Congress won the Bongaon assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M). Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Pankaj Ghosh of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth, Independent and Congress respectively) in 2001^[15] and 1996.^[14] Bhupendranath Seth of Congress defeated Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) in 1991.^[13] Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth of Congress in 1987.^[12] Bhupendranath Seth of Congress defeated Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) in 1982.^[11] Ranajit Mitra of CPI(M) defeated Bhupendranath Seth of Congress in 1977.^[10][25]

1951-1972 Bongaon assembly seat

Ajit Kumar Ganguly of CPI won in 1972,^[9] 1971^[8] and 1969.^[7] K.Bhowmick of Congress won in 1967.^[6] Jiban Ratan Dhar of Congress won in 1962.^[5] In 1957, Bongaon was a joint seat. Ajit Kumar Ganguly of CPI and Manindra Bhusan Biswas of Congress won in 1957.^[4] Jiban Ratan Dhar of Congress won in 1951.^[3]

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