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

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.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Currentr MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	23	Kolkata Dakshin	GEN	Subrata Bakshi	M	AITC	431715	Tathagata Roy	M	BJP	295376
2011	By Poll (2011)	Kolkata Dakshin	GEN	Mamata Banerjee	F	AITC	516761	R. Banerjee	M	CPM	286662
2009	23	Kolkata Dakshin	GEN	Subrata Bakshi	M	AITC	576045	Rabin Deb	M	CPM	356474
2004	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Mamata Banerjee	F	AITC	393561	Rabin Deb	M	CPM	295132
1999	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Mamata Banerjee	F	AITC	469103	Subhankar Chakraborty	M	CPM	255095
1998	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Mamata Banerjee	F	WBTC	503551	Prasanta Sur	M	CPM	279470
1996	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Mamata Banerjee	F	INC	438252	Bharati Mukherjee	M	CPM	334991
1991	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Mamata Banerjee	F	INC	367896	Biplab Das Gupta	M	CPM	274233
1989	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Biplab Dasgupta	M	CPM	363674	Bholanath Sen	M	INC	338518
1984	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Bhola Nath Sen	M	INC	324823	Satyasadhan Chakraborty	M	CPM	235884
1980	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty	M	CPM	213441	Bholanath Sen	M	INC(I)	176432
1977	23	Calcutta South	GEN	Dilip Chakravarty	M	BLD	225556	Priya Ranjan Das Munshi	M	INC	157616
1971	21	Calcutta South	GEN	Priya Ranjandas Munsi	M	INC	144952	Ganesh Ghosh	M	CPM	122913
1967	21	Calcutta South	GEN	G. Ghosh	M	CPM	155574	B. B. Ghosh	M	INC	116287

*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
Kasba	Behala Purba	Behala Paschim
Kolkata Port	Bhabanipur	Rashbehari
Ballygunge