About Cooch Behar Dakshin Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency
Cooch Behar Dakshin is a legislative assembly segment of West Bengal. It lies in the Cooch Behar district and is a part of the Cooch Behar (SC) Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituency of the state. The Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency is represented in the state legislative assembly of West Bengal by Akshay Thakur of AIFB. He got 72,028 votes in the 2011 assembly elections and won the seat. AITC's Abdul Jalil Ahmed settled for 69,165 votes. A total of 2,01,229 people of the Cooch Behar Dakshin assembly constituency possess the right to vote, out of whom 1,04,636 are men and 96,592 are women.
The Cooch Behar Dakshin assembly segment of West Bengal covers Coochbehar(M); and Sutkabari, Chandamari, Putimari Fuleswari, Chilkirhat, Patchhara, Falimari, Moyamari, Ghughumari and Haribhanga gram panchayats of Cooch Behar-I community development block as per the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India - 2008.
Sitting and previous MLAs from Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the Cooch Behar Dakshin assembly elections conducted so far.
| Year | AC No. | AC name | Type of AC | Winner | Gender | Party | Vote | Runner-up | Gender | Party | Vote |
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| 2011 | 4 | Cooch Behar Dakshin | GEN | Akshay Thakur | M | AIFB | 72028 | Abdul Jalil Ahmed | M | AITC | 69165 |
| 1972 | 7 | Cooch Behar South | GEN | Santosh Kumar Roy | M | INC | 29600 | Sibendra N Chowdhury | M | CPM | 17196 |
| 1971 | 7 | Cooch Behar South | GEN | Santosh Kumar Roy | M | INC | 21582 | Gopal Chandra Saha | M | CPM | 14988 |
| 1969 | 7 | Cooch Behar South | GEN | Santosh Kumar Roy | M | INC | 26029 | Dipak Kumar Sen Gupta | M | FBL | 21723 |
| 1967 | 7 | Cooch Behar South | GEN | S.K.Roy | M | INC | 19479 | D.C.Neogi | M | FBL | 14772 |
| 1962 | 5 | Cooch Behar South | (SC) | Sunil Basunia | M | FB | 16101 | Satish Ch. Roy Singha | M | INC | 9549 |
Last Updated on June 01, 2020