Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency)

Malda Dakshin
Lok Sabha Constituency
Incumbent	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
Parliamentary Party	Indian National Congress
Elected Year	2019
Constituency Details
Established	2009-present
Reservation	None
State	West Bengal
Total Electors	1,347,143[1]
Assembly Constituencies	Manikchak English Bazar Mothabari Sujapur Baisnabnagar Farakka Samserganj

History

Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) (spelling as spelled by Election Commission of India) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India.

While five of the assembly segments of No. 8 Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) are in Malda district in West Bengal, two assembly segments are in Murshidabad district. As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Malda (Lok Sabha constituency) ceased to exist from 2009 and two new ones came into being: Maldaha Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency) and Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency).[2]

Assembly segments

Parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal - 1. Cooch Behar, 2. Alipurduars, 3. Jalpaiguri, 4. Darjeeling, 5. Raiganj, 6. Balurghat, 7. Maldaha Uttar, 8. Maldaha Dakshin, 9. Jangipur, 10. Baharampur, 11. Murshidabad, 12. Krishnanagar, 13. Ranaghat, 14. Bangaon, 15. Barrackpore, 16. Dum Dum, 17. Barasat, 18. Basirhat, 19. Jaynagar, 20. Mathurapur, 21. Diamond Harbour, 22. Jadavpur, 23. Kolkata Dakshin, 24. Kolkata Uttar, 25. Howrah, 26. Uluberia, 27. Serampore, 28. Hooghly, 29. Arambagh, 30. Tamluk, 31, Kanthi, 32. Ghatal, 33. Jhargram, 34. Medinipur, 35. Purulia, 36. Bankura, 37. Bishnupur, 38. Bardhaman Purba, 39. Bardhaman Durgapur, 40. Asansol, 41. Bolpur, 42. Birbhum

Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) (parliamentary constituency no. 8) is composed of the following assembly segments:[2]

SI No.	Name	Constituency Number
1.	Manikchak	49
2.	English Bazar	51
3.	Mothabari	52
4.	Sujapur	53
5.	Baisnabnagar	54
6.	Farakka	55
7.	Samserganj	56

Members of Parliament

SI No.	Year	Name	Party
1.	2009	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury[3]	Indian National Congress
2.	2014	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	Indian National Congress
3.	2019	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	Indian National Congress

For MPs from Malda in previous years see Malda (Lok Sabha constituency)

Election results

General election 2019

Source:Source

2019 Indian general election: Maldaha Dakshin

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	4,44,270	34.73	-0.08
	BJP	Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury	4,36,048	34.09	+14.02
	AITC	Md Moazzem Hossain	3,51,353	27.47	+6.84
	Independent	Debojit Mandal	9,430	0.74	N/A
	BSP	Fulchand Mandal	6,190	0.48	-0.08
	SUCI	Angushudhar Mandal	5,605	0.44	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	12,062	0.94	+0.17
Majority			8,222	0.64	-14.38
Turnout			12,79,977	81.24	+0.15
Registered electors			15,75,590
	INC hold		Swing	-7.05

 2019 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party		Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage	Vote change %
	AITC	22	12	43.00	4
	BJP	18	16	40.00	23
	INC	2	2	6.29	4
	Left	0	2	7.57	24

Source: Election Results 2019

General election 2014

2014 Indian general elections: Maldaha Dakshin[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	380,291	34.81	-18.64
	BJP	Bishnupada Roy	216,181	19.79	+14.49
	CPI (M)	Abul Hasnat Khan	209,480	19.18	-17.84
	AITC	Md Moazzem Hossain	192,632	17.63	N/A
	AIUDF	Md. Najrul Islam	21,207	1.94	N/A
	SDPI	Imtiaz Ahmed Mollah	12,952	1.18	N/A
	Independent	Manjur Alahi Munshi	11,426	1.04	+0.66
	Independent	Sadhan Chatterjee	10,536	0.96	N/A
	Independent	Naresh Rishi	6,616	0.60	N/A
	BSP	Nikhil Chandra Mondal	6,138	0.56	-0.14
	Jamat-E-Seratul Mustakim	Md Ezaruddin	3,377	0.30	N/A
	IUML	Md Faruque Hossain	3,282	0.30	-0.39
	RPI	Murshed Shekh	2,720	0.24	N/A
	PDS	Nasmul Hoque	2,466	0.22	N/A
	JDP	Bimal Mardi	1,921	0.17	N/A
	RJSP	Dipak Singh	1449	0.13	N/A
	BMP	Firoz Akhtar	1,342	0.12	N/A
	NOTA	None of the above	8,392	0.77	N/A
Majority			164,111	15.02	-1.41
Turnout			1,092,407	81.09	+2.25
	INC hold		Swing	-18.84

 2014 Indian general election
West Bengal summary

Party	Seats won	Seat change	Vote percentage
Trinamool Congress	34	15	39.3
Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2	7	22.7
Communist Party of India	0	2	2.3
Revolutionary Socialist Party	0	2	2.4
Forward Bloc	0	2	2.1
Indian National Congress	4	2	9.6
Bharatiya Janata Party	2	1	16.8
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)	0	1	0.7

Source: General Election to the Lok Sabha 2014 - State wise seats won & valid votes polled by political parties
General Elections 2009 to the 15th Lok Sabha - Party wise seats won and votes polled

General election 2009

General Election, 2009: Maldaha Dakshin[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	443,377	53.45
	CPI (M)	Abdur Razzaque	307,097	37.04
	BJP	Dipak Kumar Chowdhury	43,997	5.30
	BSP	Dr. Bharat Chandra Mandal	5,889	0.70
	IUML	Md. Ejaruddin	5,752	0.69
	Independent	Manjur Alahi Munshi	3,167	0.38
	Independent	Md. Kamal Basirujjaman	3,411	0.41
	Independent	Rustam Ali	5,944	0.71
	Independent	Shyamal Das	10,852	1.30
Majority			136,280	16.41
Turnout			829,482	78.84
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• List of Constituencies of the Lok Sabha

References

1. "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
2. "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
3. "General Elections, 2009 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
4. "General Elections 2014 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 21 June 2016.