Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency

Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Kanthi Dakshin
Constituency No. 216 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Kanthi Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Purba Medinipur
LS constituency	Kanthi
Established	1951
Total electors	2,24,657
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Arup Kumar Das
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 216 Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Contai municipality, Contai I community development block, and Durmuth and Kusumpur gram panchayats of Contai III community development block.^[1]

Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of No. 31 Kanthi (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election		Member	Party
	1951	Natendra Nath Das	Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party
	1957	Rashbehari Pal	Indian National Congress
	1962	Sudhir Chandra Das	Praja Socialist Party
	1967
	1969
	1971
	1972
	1977	Satyabrata Maity	Janata Party
	1982	Sisir Adhikari	Indian National Congress
	1987	Sukhendu Maity	Communist Party of India
	1991	Sailaja Kumar Das	Indian National Congress
	1996	Sailaja Kumar Das	Indian National Congress
	2001	Sisir Adhikari	Trinamool Congress
	2006	Suvendu Adhikari
Major boundary changes; constituency renamed as Kanthi Dakshin
	2009 ^	Dibyendu Adhikari	Trinamool Congress
	2011
	2016
	2017 ^	Chandrima Bhattacharya
	2021	Arup Kumar Das	Bharatiya Janata Party

• ^ indicates bye-poll

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kanthi Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Arup Kumar Das	98,477	50.58	19.61
	AITC	Jyotirmoy Kar	88,184	45.3	10.59
	CPI	Anurup Panda	6,014	3.09	7.12
	SUCI(C)	Shrabani Pahari	1,136	3.09	7.12
	NOTA	None of the Above	870	0.45	0.28
Majority			10,293	5.28	19.64
Turnout			1,94,681	86.66	4.65
	BJP gain from AITC		Swing

2017 by-election

The bye election was necessitated by the resignation of the sitting MLA, Dibyendu Adhikari, as he was elected as MP in the Indian Parliament from Tamluk Lok Sabha Constituency on 19 November 2016.

2017 by-election: Kanthi Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Chandrima Bhattacharya	95,369	55.89	+2.17
	BJP	Sourindra Mohan Jana	52,843	30.97	+22.21
	CPI	Uttam Pradhan	17,423	10.21	−24.01
	INC	Naba Kumar Nanda	2,270	1.33	N/A
	SUCI(C)	Shrabani Pahari	1,476	0.87	+0.29
	NOTA	None of the above	1,241	0.73	−0.60
Majority			42,526	24.92	+5.42
Turnout			1,70,622	82.01	−2.90
Registered electors			2,08,028
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Kanthi Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	93,359	53.72
	CPI	Uttam Pradhan	59,469	34.22
	BJP	Kamalesh Mishra	15,223	8.76
	WPI	Sridhar Dash	1,038	0.60
	SUCI(C)	Manas Pradhan	1,010	0.58
	BNP	Jahangir Mahammad Shaikh	754	0.43
	ABHM	Dr. Arun Kumar Giri	639	0.37
	NOTA	None of the above	2,311	1.33
Majority			33,890	19.50
Turnout			1,73,803	84.91
Registered electors			2,04,691
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Kanthi Dakshin^[2][3][4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Dibyendu Adhikari	86,933	57.12	+3.30#
	CPI	Uttam Kumar Pradhan	58,296	38.31	−5.95
	BJP	Dr. Kamalesh Mishra	5,004	3.29
	Independent	Sek Mahammad Jilani	1,233
	Independent	Biswanath Nayak	72
Turnout			152,187	87.06
	AITC hold		Swing	9.25

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. 2009 by election not taken into consideration because of lack of sufficient data.

2006

West Bengal assembly elections, 2006: Contai South^[2][5][6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Suvendu Adhikari	68,608	50.60
	CPI	Satyendra Nath Panda	60,028	38.31
	INC	Harisadhan Das Adhikari	4,380	3.20
	Independent	Chittaranjan Jana	1,758	1.30
	Independent	Adharchandra Nahal	842	0.60
Majority			8,580	6.30
Turnout			1,35,730	(88.3%)
	AITC hold		Swing	9.25

.# Swing calculated on BJP+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. 2009 by election not taken into consideration because of lack of sufficient data.

1977-2006

In the by-election held in 2009, because of the election of the sitting MLA Suvendu Adhikari to parliament from Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency), Dibyendu Adhikari of Trinamool Congress won the Contai South seat defeating Satyendra Nath Panda of CPI.^[7][8]

In the 2006 state assembly elections Suvendu Adhikari of Trinamool Congress won the Contai South assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Satyendra Nath Panda of CPI. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sisir Adhikari of Trinamool Congress defeated Sukhendu Maiti of CPI in 2001. Sailaja Kumar Das of Congress defeated Sukhendu Maity of CPI in 1996 and 1991. Sukhendu Maity of CPI defeated Sailaja Kumar Das of Congress in 1987. Sisir Adhikari of Congress defeated Deepak Mondal, Independent, in 1982. Satyabrata Maity of Janata Party defeated Sudhir Chandra Das, Independent, in 1977.^[9]

1951-1972

Sudhir Chandra Das of PSP won in 1972, 1971, 1969, 1967 and 1962. Rashbehari Pal of Congress won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Natendra Nath Das of KMPP won the Contai South seat.^[10]

References

1. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
2. "Kanthi Dakshin". Assembly Elections May 2011 Results. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
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7. "Results of bye – elections to the 31 (thirty one) Assembly Constituencies and 1(one) Lok Sabha Constituency" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 August 2009.
8. "Trinamool Blooms with Green". Contai Royals. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
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