Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency

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Maldaha Dakshin WB-8
Lok Sabha constituency
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Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
Assembly constituencies	Manikchak English Bazar Mothabari Sujapur Baisnabnagar Farakka Samserganj
Established	2009
Total electors	1,347,143
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha

Incumbent Isha Khan Choudhury
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Maldah Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in Malda district, West Bengal, India. It is considered to be a bastion of the Indian National Congress. While five of the assembly segments of No. 8 Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency are in Malda district in West Bengal, two assembly segments are in Murshidabad district. As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Malda Lok Sabha constituency ceased to exist from 2009 and two new ones came into being: Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha constituency and Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency.

Assembly segments

Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency (parliamentary constituency no. 8) is composed of the following assembly segments:

#	Name	District	Member
49	Manikchak	Malda	Sabitri Mitra	TMC	BJP
51	English Bazar		Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	BJP	BJP
52	Mothabari		Sabina Yeasmin	TMC	INC
53	Sujapur		Md. Abdul Ghani	TMC	INC
54	Baisnabnagar		Chandana Sarkar	TMC	BJP
55	Farakka	Murshidabad	Manirul Islam	TMC	INC
56	Samserganj	Murshidabad	Amirul Islam	TMC	INC

2024 Indian general elections: Maldaha Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Isha Khan Choudhury	572,395	41.79	7.06
	BJP	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	444,027	32.42	1.67
	AITC	Shahnawaz Ali Raihan	301,026	21.98	5.49
	NOTA	None of the above	2,797	0.20	0.74
Majority			128,368	9.37
Turnout			1,369,789	76.69	4.55
	INC hold		Swing

Source:Source

2019 Indian general election: Maldaha Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	444,270	34.73	−0.08
	BJP	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	436,048	34.09	+14.02
	AITC	Md Moazzem Hossain	351,353	27.47	+6.84
	Independent	Debojit Mandal	9,430	0.74	N/A
	BSP	Fulchand Mandal	6,190	0.48	−0.08
	SUCI	Angushudhar Mandal	5,605	0.44	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	12,062	0.94	+0.17
Majority			8,222	0.64	−14.38
Turnout			1,279,977	81.24	+0.15
Registered electors			1,575,590
	INC hold		Swing	-7.05

2014 Indian general elections: Maldaha Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	380,291	34.81	−18.64
	BJP	Bishnupada Roy	216,181	19.79	+14.49
	CPI(M)	Abul Hasnat Khan	209,480	19.18	−17.84
	AITC	Md Moazzem Hossain	192,632	17.63	N/A
	AIUDF	Md. Najrul Islam	21,207	1.94	N/A
	SDPI	Imtiaz Ahmed Mollah	12,952	1.18	N/A
	Independent	Manjur Alahi Munshi	11,426	1.04	+0.66
	Independent	Sadhan Chatterjee	10,536	0.96	N/A
	Independent	Naresh Rishi	6,616	0.60	N/A
	BSP	Nikhil Chandra Mondal	6,138	0.56	−0.14
	Jamat-E-Seratul Mustakim	Md Ezaruddin	3,377	0.30	N/A
	IUML	Md Faruque Hossain	3,282	0.30	−0.39
	RPI	Murshed Shekh	2,720	0.24	N/A
	PDS	Nasmul Hoque	2,466	0.22	N/A
	JDP	Bimal Mardi	1,921	0.17	N/A
	RJSP	Dipak Singh	1449	0.13	N/A
	BMP	Firoz Akhtar	1,342	0.12	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	8,392	0.77	N/A
Majority			164,111	15.02	−1.41
Turnout			1,092,407	81.09	+2.25
	INC hold		Swing	-18.84

General Election, 2009: Maldaha Dakshin
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	443,377	53.45
	CPI(M)	Abdur Razzaque	307,097	37.04
	BJP	Dipak Kumar Chowdhury	43,997	5.30
	BSP	Dr. Bharat Chandra Mandal	5,889	0.70
	IUML	Md. Ejaruddin	5,752	0.69
	Independent	Manjur Alahi Munshi	3,167	0.38
	Independent	Md. Kamal Basirujjaman	3,411	0.41
	Independent	Rustam Ali	5,944	0.71
	Independent	Shyamal Das	10,852	1.30
Majority			136,280	16.41
Turnout			829,482	78.84
	INC win (new seat)

"Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
^ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
"Maldaha Dakshin Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/ConstituencywiseS258.htm
"General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
"General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 June 2014.

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