Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency

Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Cooch Behar Dakshin
Constituency No. 4 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Cooch Behar
LS constituency	Cooch Behar
Established	1951
Total electors	233,839
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nikhil Ranjan Dey
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 4 Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency covers Cooch Behar municipality and Chandamari, Chilkirhat, Falimari, Ghughumari, Haribhanga, Moyamari, Patchhara, Putimari Fuleswari and Suktabari gram panchayats of Cooch Behar I community development block.^[1]

Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election	Member	Party Affiliation
Cooch Behar
1951	Maziruddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress[2]
	Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar	Indian National Congress[2]
1957	Maziruddin Ahmed	Indian National Congress[3]
	Satish Chandra Roy Singha	Indian National Congress[3]
Cooch Behar North
1962	Sunil Dasgupta	Forward Bloc[4]
1967	M.R.Tar	Indian National Congress[5]
1969	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc[6]
1971	Sunil Kar	Indian National Congress[7]
1972	Sunil Kar	Indian National Congress[8]
1977	Aparajita Goppi	Forward Bloc[9]
1982	Aparajita Goppi	Forward Bloc[10]
1987	Aparajita Goppi	Forward Bloc[11]
1991	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc[12]
1996	Mihir Goswami	Indian National Congress[13]
2001	Dipak Chandra Sarkar	Forward Bloc[14]
2006	Dipak Chandra Sarkar	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[15]
Cooch Behar South
1962	Sunil Basunia	Forward Bloc[4]
1967	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress[5]
1969	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress[6]
1971	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress[7]
1972	Santosh Kumar Roy	Indian National Congress[8]
Cooch Behar West
1962	Prasenjit Barman	Indian National Congress[5]
1967	Prasenjit Barman	Indian National Congress[6]
1969	Rajani Das	Indian National Congress[7]
1971	Rajani Das	Indian National Congress[8]
1972	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc[9]
1982	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc[10]
1987	Bimal Kanti Basu	Forward Bloc[11]
1991	Soumindra Chandra Das	Forward Bloc[12]
1996	Soumindra Chandra Das	Forward Bloc[13]
2001	Akshay Thakur	Forward Bloc[14]
2006	Akshay Thakur	Forward Bloc[15]
Cooch Behar Dakshin
2011	Akshay Thakur	Forward Bloc[16]
2016	Mihir Goswami	All India Trinamool Congress (later join the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2020)[17]
2021	Nikhil Ranjan Dey	Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency^[18][19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nikhil Ranjan	91,560	46.83
	AITC	Avijit Dey Bhowmik	86629	44.31
	AIFB	Akshay Thakur	10246	5.24
Turnout			195505	83.61
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2016

In the 2016 election, Mihir Goswami of AITC defeated his nearest rival Debasis Banik of AIFB

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency^[16][20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Mihir Goswami	82,849	46.24	+1.07
	AIFB	Debasis Banik	64,654	36.08	−10.96
	BJP	Nikhil Ranjan Dey	18,176	10.14	+5.95
	BSP	Maya Majumder	5,197	2.9
	AMB	Amita Das	2,703	1.51
	NOTA	None of the above	2,489	1.39
	SUCI(C)	Nazma Khandakar	1,678	0.94
	Kamtapur People's Party (United)	Akik Hossain Chowdhury	1,427	0.8
Turnout			179,173	84.05	+0.13
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing

2011

In the 2011 election, Akshay Thakur of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Abdul Jalil Ahmed of Trinamool Congress.

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency^[16][21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AIFB	Akshay Thakur	72,028	47.04	−4.03
	AITC	Abdul Jalil Ahmed	69,165	45.17	+11.29
	BJP	Gayetri Kar	6,419	4.19
	Independent	Sanat Sen	2,207
	Independent	Shyamal Chandra Barman	1,277
	Independent	Prahlad Chandra Datta	745
	Independent	Krishna Kanta Barman	685
	People's Democratic Conference of India	Chanchal Sarkar	589
Turnout			153,115	83.92
	AIFB hold		Swing	-15.32

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006^[15] and 2001^[14] state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Trinamool Congress. Mihir Goswami representing Congress had defeated Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc in 1996.^[13] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991.^[12] Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987,^[11] Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982^[10] and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.^[9][22]

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency

In the 2006^[15] and 2001^[14] state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of Forward Bloc won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of Trinamool Congress) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing Congress in 1996^[13] and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991.^[12] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987^[11] and 1982,^[10] and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.^[9][23]

1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies

Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969.^[6] M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967.^[5] Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in 1962.^[4] Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972,^[8] 1971,^[7] 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962.^[4] Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972^[8] and 1971.^[7] Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] The seat was not there prior to 1967.

1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency

Cooch Behar was a joint seat in 1957.^[3] It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In independent India's first election in 1951,^[2] Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.

References

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