Maldaha 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.

Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

The Maldah Dakshin Lok Sabha Constituency was formed after the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies of 2008 and it is one of the 41 constituencies of West Bengal. According to Election Commission of India 2009 data the total electorates in the Maldah Dakshin Parliamentary constituency (constituency number 8) were 1,052,093 of which 506,351 are females and 545,742 are males. It has seven Vidhan Sabha segments, five in Malda District and two in Murshidabad District and has over 1,050,000 voters. Malda or Maldah is one of the nineteen districts of West Bengal and is located in the eastern region, bordering Bangladesh. It covers an area of 3,733 sq km with its administrative headquarters in the English Bazar. It is a part of the Jalpaiguri Division and comprises of more than 3700 villages.

As per 2011 India census, Malda has a population of over 4,000,000 with a 54% male majority and is India's 58th most populous district. Over 2001-2011, it had a population growth rate of 21.5% and currently has a population density of over 1,000 people per sq km. The sex ratio of Malda is 939 females per 1000 males and about 16% of the population is under the age of six. It has a religious majority of 52% Islam and the languages of Bengali, Hindi and Urdu are prevalent here. The district has an average literacy rate of about 62%. The National Highway NH-81 is connected to the district.

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

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Maldaha 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 Maldaha Dakshin constituency is Shri Abu Hasem Khan of INC.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	Winner/Currentr MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	8	Maldaha Dakshin	GEN	Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury	M	INC	380291	Bisnu Pada Roy	M	BJP	216180
2009	8	Maldaha Dakshin	GEN	Choudhury,Shri Abu Hasem Khan	M	INC	443377	Abdur Razzaque	M	CPM	307097

*PC = Parliamentary Constituency

List of Assembly Constituencies in Maldaha Dakshin Parliamentary Constituency

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

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Manikchak	English Bazar	Mothabari
Sujapur	Baisnabnagar	Farakka
Samserganj