Sonarpur Dakshin

Sonarpur Dakshin is an assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.OverviewAs per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 147 Sonarpur Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos 8 to 24 of Rajpur Sonarpur municipality, and Kalikapur I, Kalikapur II, Langalberia, Poleghat, Pratapnagar and Sonarpur II gram panchayats of Sonarpur community development block.Sonarpur Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 22 Jadavpur (Lok Sabha constituency). Sonarpur was earlier part of Calcutta South (Lok Sabha constituency).Election results2016In 2016 Jiban Mukhopadhyay of Trinamool Congress defeated Tarit Chakraborty of CPI.Earlier Sonarpur had a single seat.2011In 2011 Jiban Mukhopadhyay of Trinamool Congress defeated Tarit Chakraborty of CPI.Earlier Sonarpur had a single seat.1977-2006 SonarpurIn the 2006 elections to the state assembly Shyamal Naskar of CPI(M) won the Sonarpur assembly seat reserved for scheduled castes defeating his nearest rival Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In 2001, Nirmal Chandra Mandal of Trinamool Congress defeated Abha Mandal of CPI(M). Bhadreswar Mondal of CPI(M) defeated Nirmal Mandal of Congress in 1996 and 1991, and Sovaranjan Sardar of Congress in 1987. Gangadhar Naskar of CPI(M) defeated Ramkanta Mandal of ICS in 1982 and Gourhari Sardar of Congress in 1977.