Kolkata Dakshin Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update







In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha Election Results 2019


CandidatePartyEVM VotesMigrant VotesPostal VotesTotal Votes% of VotesStatus
Mala RoyAll India Trinamool Congress572188093157311947.5Winner
Chandra Kumar BoseBharatiya Janata Party417086084141792734.641st Runner-up
Nandini MukherjeeCommunist Party Of India (Marxist)139770050514027511.632nd Runner-up
Mita ChakrabortyIndian National Congress42536082426183.533rd Runner-up
NOTANone Of The Above14780044148241.234th Runner-up
Santanu RoyIndependent45640045640.385th Runner-up
Rita DuttaIndependent24570024570.26th Runner-up
Debabrata BeraSocialist Unity Centre Of India (Communist)23890223910.27th Runner-up
Sarfaraz KhanBahujan Samaj Party23580223600.28th Runner-up
Sridhar Chandra BagariShivsena16970016970.149th Runner-up
Niraj AgarwalIndependent16580016580.1410th Runner-up
Kashinath DasIndependent12530012530.111th Runner-up
Badal MondalIndependent801008010.0712th Runner-up
Gautam MitraIndependent699027010.0613th Runner-up

Kolkata Dakshin is one of the 41 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state of West Bengal. It was formed on 1951, has seven segments of Vidhan Sabha with over 1,500,000 voters. The Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 23) consists of 1,505,638 number of electorates in totality, of these 821,490 are males and 684,148 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests.The city of Kolkata is the district headquarters of Kolkata District as well as the capital of West Bengal. Kolkata is one of the oldest port cities of the country and is the third most economic cities of South Asia. Nicknamed "City of Joy", it sprawls over an area of about 1,850 sq km.

As per 2011 census, the urban agglomeration of Kolkata houses over 14,000,000 people and has a population density of over 24,000 people every sq km. It has a sex ratio of 899 females per 1000 males and about 15% of the population is under the age of six. The average literacy rate here is 88% and it has a large ethnic mix of people, mostly Bengalis. Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and English are widely spoken here. India's only Chinese neighbourhood exists in this city. It has a 77% Hindu majority. Several premium colleges and universities are located here. The University of Calcutta is the oldest modern university in the entire South Asia. NH-2, NH-6, NH-34 and NH-117 are connected to this city.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Kolkata Dakshin Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Kolkata Dakshin parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Kolkata Dakshin constituency is Shri Subrata Bakshi of AITC.

YearPC No.PC NameCategoryWinner/Currentr MPGenderPartyVoteRunner Up MPGenderPartyVote
201423Kolkata DakshinGENSubrata BakshiMAITC431715Tathagata RoyMBJP295376
2011By Poll (2011)Kolkata DakshinGENMamata Banerjee FAITC516761R. BanerjeeMCPM286662
200923Kolkata DakshinGENSubrata Bakshi MAITC576045Rabin DebMCPM356474
200423Calcutta SouthGENMamata BanerjeeFAITC393561Rabin DebMCPM295132
199923Calcutta SouthGENMamata BanerjeeFAITC469103Subhankar ChakrabortyMCPM255095
199823Calcutta SouthGENMamata BanerjeeFWBTC503551Prasanta SurMCPM279470
199623Calcutta SouthGENMamata BanerjeeFINC438252Bharati MukherjeeMCPM334991
199123Calcutta SouthGENMamata BanerjeeFINC367896Biplab Das GuptaMCPM274233
198923Calcutta SouthGENBiplab DasguptaMCPM363674Bholanath SenMINC338518
198423Calcutta SouthGENBhola Nath SenMINC324823Satyasadhan ChakrabortyMCPM235884
198023Calcutta SouthGENSatya Sadhan ChakrabartyMCPM213441Bholanath SenMINC(I)176432
197723Calcutta SouthGENDilip ChakravartyMBLD225556Priya Ranjan Das MunshiMINC157616
197121Calcutta SouthGENPriya Ranjandas MunsiMINC144952Ganesh Ghosh MCPM122913
196721Calcutta SouthGENG. GhoshMCPM155574B. B. Ghosh MINC116287


*PC = Parliamentary Constituency


List of Assembly Constituencies in Kolkata Dakshin Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Kolkata Dakshin parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
KasbaBehala PurbaBehala Paschim
Kolkata PortBhabanipurRashbehari
Ballygunge 

Last Updated on June 28, 2019