Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency
Vidhan Sabha constituency
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Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
| Purbasthali Dakshin | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 268 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
 Interactive Map Outlining Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly Constituency | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Purba Bardhaman |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Bardhaman Purba |
| Established | 1951 |
| Total electors | 190,763 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 18th West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Elected year | 2021 |
Overview
As a consequence of the orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 268 Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency covers Nandai, Kankuria, Begpur, Atghoria Simlan, Dhatrigram and Sultanpur gram panchayats of Kalna I community development block and Nasratpur, Samudragarh, Bogpur, Sreerampur and Nadanghat gram panchayats of Purbasthali I community development block.[1]
As per orders of Delimitation Commission, Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of No. 38 Bardhaman Purba (Lok Sabha constituency).[1]
Following are the members of the legislative assembly from Purbasthali Dakshin Assembly constituency over the years.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Year | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Bimalananda Tarkatirtha | Indian National Congress | |
| 1957 | |||
| 1962 | |||
| 1967 | Lalit Mohan Hazra | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1969 | Mollah Humayun Kabir | ||
| 1971 | |||
| 1972 | Nurunnesa Sattar | Indian National Congress | |
| 1977 | Manoranjan Nath | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | |
| 1982 | |||
| 1987 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| 1996 | Himansu Dutta | ||
| 2001 | Subrata Bhowal | ||
| 2006 | |||
| 2011 | Swapan Debnath | Trinamool Congress | |
| 2016 | |||
| 2021 | |||
Election results
2026
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Swapan Debnath | ||||
| BJP | Pran Krishna Tapadar | ||||
| CPI(ML)L | Jiyadul Sheikh | ||||
| INC | Rabindranath Mondal | ||||
| BSP | Manotosh Mondal | ||||
| JUP | Fajar Ali Sheikh | ||||
| SUCI(C) | Pravat Maji | ||||
| NOTA | None of the above | ||||
| Majority | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Swing | |||||
2021
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Swapan Debnath | 105,698 | 49.08 | +0.77 | |
| BJP | Rajib Kumar Bhowmick | 88,268 | 41.00 | +78.47 | |
| INC | Abhijt Bhattacharya | 15,061 | 6.99 | −77.43 | |
| BSP | Surajit Mondal | 3,105 | 1.44 | ||
| PMPT | Santosh Kumar Adhikary | 1,639 | 0.76 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,562 | 0.73 | ||
| Turnout | 215,353 | ||||
| AITC hold | Swing | ||||
2016
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Swapan Debnath | 104,398 | 53.40 | +3.58# | |
| INC | Abhijit Bhattacharya | 66,732 | 34.10 | +34.10 | |
| BJP | Rajib Kumar Bhowmick | 19,003 | 9.70 | +3.48 | |
| PDS | Nasimul Gani Syed | 1,555 | 0.80 | ||
| CPI(ML)L | Jiyadul Sheikh | 1,318 | 0.70 | ||
| BSP | Manoranjan Bal | 1,223 | 0.60 | ||
| Independent | Ram Hansda | 796 | 0.40 | ||
| Independent | Abdul Kalam Sheikh | 796 | 0.30 | ||
| Majority | 37,666 | 19.3 | |||
| Turnout | 195,627 | 88.5 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | +3.58# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress+Congress vote percentages in 2011, in Purbasthali Dakshin constituency.
2011
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC | Swapan Debnath | 86,039 | 49.72 | +0.10# | |
| CPI(M) | Aleaya Begam | 70,181 | 40.56 | −3.35# | |
| BJP | Mahadeb Basak | 10,765 | 6.22 | ||
| Independent | Ram Hansda | 1,818 | |||
| PDS | Badrodojja Molla | 1,676 | |||
| CPI(ML)L | Irai Sekh | 1,385 | |||
| BSP | Kanai Lal Pandey | 1,172 | |||
| Turnout | 173,036 | 90.71 | |||
| AITC hold | Swing | +3.45# | |||
.# Swing calculated on Trinamool Congress and CPI(M) vote percentages in 2006, in Purbasthali constituency.