Bardhaman Dakshin

Bardhaman Dakshin is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.OverviewBardhaman had two state assembly seats – Burdwan North and Burdwan South, both of which were earlier part of Burdwan (Lok Sabha constituency).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 municipality. No. 266 Bardhaman Uttar (Vidhan Sabha constituency) (SC) assembly seat covers Burdwan II community development block and Belkash, Bandul I, Rayan I, Rayan II, Saraitikar, Baghar I and Baghar II gram panchayats of Burdwan I community development block. Both Bardhaman Dakshin and Bardhaman Uttar assembly segments are part of No. 39 Bardhaman-Durgapur (Lok Sabha constituency).Election results1951- 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) 1972- Pradip Bhattacharya, Indian National Congress 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%