Basirhat Dakshin

Basirhat Dakshin is an assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Prior to 2011 Basirhat had one assembly constituency. From 2011 it will have two constituencies Basirhat Dakshin and Basirhat Uttar . Hasnabad ceases to exist from 2011.OverviewAs per orders of the Delimitation Commission, 124 Basirhat Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Basirhat municipality, Basirhat I community development block, and Taki municipality.Basirhat Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of 18. Basirhat (Lok Sabha constituency).Election results20162014 Bye-electionA bye-election was held on 13 September 2014 following the death of the sitting MLA, Narayan Mukherjee.2011In the 2011 election, Narayan Mukherjee of CPI defeated his nearest rival Narayan Goswami of Trinamool Congress.As per 2011 census total population of Basirhat Dakshin is 335130,Hindu 183256,Muslim 151180,Other 694.Hindu 54.682%,Muslim 45.111%,Other 0.207%.1977-2006 BasirhatDuring the period Narayan Mukherjee of CPI(M) won seven elections in a row from 95 Basirhat assembly constituency, defeating his nearest rivals Asit Majumdar of INC in 2006,Souren Sen of Trinamool Congress in 2001,Asit Majumdar of Congress in 1996, Dilip Mazumdar of Congress in 1991and 1987,and Debi Prasad Nanda of Congress in 1982and 1977.