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Cooch Behar Dakshin
Constituency No. 4 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateWest Bengal
DistrictCooch Behar
LS constituencyCooch Behar
Established1951
Total electors233,839
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nikhil Ranjan Dey
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2021

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

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.

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Election results

2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency
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
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
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 and 2001 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. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991. Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987, Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982 and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.

1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency

In the 2006 and 2001 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 and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.

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

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

1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency

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

References

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  2. ^ "General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
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  5. ^ "General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
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  17. "MLA Mihir Goswami quits TMC, joins BJP". Indian Express. 28 November 2020.
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