Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency (earlier known as Calcutta South Lok Sabha constituency) is one of the 543 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in India. The constituency centres on the southern part of Kolkata in West Bengal. While four of the seven legislative assembly segments on No. 23 Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency are in Kolkata district, three are in South 24 Parganas district.

Considered to be a bastion of the Trinamool Congress, it has been won by the party since its formation in 1998. Prior to it, the seat was a stronghold of Indian National Congress. TMC's founder and current chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee was the longest holder of the seat.

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. Hoghly, 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

As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the Delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency is composed of the following legislative assembly segments from 2009:[3]

# Name District MLA, since 2026 MLA's Party 2024 Lok Sabha Lead
149 Kasba South 24 Parganas Javed Ahmed Khan AITC NCPI
153 Behala Purba Shankar Sikder BJP
154 Behala Paschim Indranil Khan
158 Kolkata Port Kolkata Firhad Hakim AITC
159 Bhabanipur Suvendu Adhikari BJP
160 Rashbehari Swapan Dasgupta
161 Ballygunge Sovandeb Chattopadhyay AITC

Members of Parliament

Year Member[4] Party[5][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
1967 Ganesh Ghosh Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1971 Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Indian National Congress
1977 Dilip Chakravarty Janata Party
1980 Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1984 Bholanath Sen Indian National Congress
1989 Biplab Dasgupta Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991 Mamata Banerjee Indian National Congress
1996
1998 Trinamool Congress
1999
2004
2009
2011^ Subrata Bakshi
2014
2019 Mala Roy
2024
2026 Nationalist Citizens Party of India

^By-Poll

Election results

Vote share of Winning candidates
2024
 
 49.48%
2019
 
 47.48%
2014
 
 36.95%
2011 (By-Poll)
 
 62.70%
2009
 
 57.19%
2004
 
 50.93%
1999
 
 58.26%
1998
 
 59.37%
1996
 
 52.51%
1991
 
 52.46%
1989
 
 50.07%
1984
 
 56.93%
1980
 
 46.09%
1977
 
 58.08%
1971
 
 50.65%
1967
 
 50.28%

2024

2024 Indian general election: Kolkata Dakshin[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mala Roy 615,274 49.48 Increase2.00
BJP Debasree Chaudhuri 428,043 34.42 Decrease0.20
CPI(M) Saira Shah Halim 168,531 13.55 Increase1.93
NOTA None of the Above 6,423 0.52 Decrease0.71
IND 9 Independent Candidates 15,209 1.22
OTH 5 Other Party Candidates 9,997 0.80
Majority 187,231 15.06 Increase2.20
Turnout 1,243,477 67.21 Decrease2.58
AITC hold Swing

2019

2019 Indian general election: Kolkata Dakshin[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mala Roy 573,119 47.48 Increase10.53
BJP Chandra Kumar Bose 417,927 34.62 Increase9.34
CPI(M) Nandini Mukherjee 140,275 11.62 Decrease12.21
INC Mita Chakraborty 42,618 3.53 Decrease6.18
NOTA None of the Above 14,824 1.23 Decrease0.44
BSP Sarfaraz Khan 2,360 0.20 Decrease0.19
SUCI(C) Debabrata Bera 2,391 0.20 Decrease0.14
SS Sridhar Chandra Bagari 1,697 0.14
IND Santanu Roy 4,564 0.38
IND Rita Dutta 2,457 0.20
IND Niraj Agarwal 1,658 0.14
IND Kashinath Das 1,253 0.10
IND Badal Mondal 801 0.07
IND Gautam Mitra 701 0.06
Majority 155,192 12.86 Increase1.19
Turnout 1,206,645 69.79 Increase0.49
AITC hold Swing

2014

2014 Indian general election: Kolkata Dakshin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Subrata Bakshi 431,715 36.95 Decrease25.75
BJP Tathagata Roy 295,376 25.28
CPI(M) Nandini Mukherjee 278,414 23.83 Decrease10.95
INC Mala Roy 113,453 9.71
NOTA None of the Above 19,511 1.67
IND Ashoke Biswas 4,335 0.37
SUCI(C) Zubair Rabbani 3,994 0.34
IUML K. P. Md. Sharif 3,776 0.32
IND Shamali Das 3,356 0.29
AMB Hitangshu Banerjee 2,921 0.25
BSP Omprakash Prajapati 4,564 0.39
IND Badri Mondal 1,844 0.16
WPOI Md. Heshamuddin 1,554 0.13
AIMF Syed Md. Wasim Raza 1,195 0.10
IJP Karan Singh 1,103 0.09
CPIM T. P. Raveendran 875 0.07
Majority 136,339 11.67 Decrease16.25
Turnout 1,167,986 69.30 Increase16.48
AITC hold Swing

2011 by-election

A bye election was held in this constituency in 2011 which was necessitated by the resignation of sitting MP Mamata Banerjee and her subsequent election to the State Assembly from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency. In the by-election, Subrata Bakshi of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Ritabrata Banerjee of CPI(M) by 2,30,099 votes.

Bye-election, 2011: Kolkata Dakshin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Subrata Bakshi 516,761 62.70 +5.51
CPI(M) Ritabrata Banerjee 2,86,662 34.78 −0.61
IND S. K. Biswas 8,068 0.98 +0.98
IND Debashish Ghosh 7,049 0.86 +0.86
IND Ranjit Kumar Dutta 5,596 0.68 +0.68
Majority 2,30,099 27.92 +6.12
Turnout 8,24,231 52.82 −14.07
AITC hold Swing +5.51

2009

2009 Indian general election: Kolkata Dakshin
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mamata Banerjee 576,045 57.19 Increase6.26
CPI(M) Rabin Deb 356,474 35.39 Decrease2.80
BJP Jyotsna Banerjee 39,744 3.95
BSP Paresh Chandra Roy 6,745 0.67 Increase0.10
IUML Asif Md. 5,896 0.59
IND Yusuf Jamal Siddique 6,042 0.60
IND Ram Chandra Prasad 4,091 0.41
IND Nishat Khan 2,923 0.29
IND Barnali Mukhopadhyay 2,623 0.26
IND Arun Biswas 1,984 0.20
IJP Leela Hans 1,472 0.15
IND Jayanta Datta 1,512 0.15
IND Pijush Banerjee 1,674 0.17
Majority 219,571 21.80 Increase9.06
Turnout 1,007,225 66.90 Decrease3.40
AITC hold Swing

2004

2004 Indian general election: Calcutta South[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mamata Banerjee 393,561 50.93 Decrease7.33
CPI(M) Rabin Deb 295,132 38.19 Increase6.51
INC Nafisa Ali 60,377 7.81 Increase1.38
IND Sujit Kumar Roy 4,782 0.62
BSP Kusha Ram 4,431 0.57 Decrease0.19
IND Bandana Das 4,130 0.53
IND Mukul Paul 2,524 0.33
IND Ranjit Banerjee 2,306 0.30
IND Barnali Mukherjee 2,258 0.29
IND Santu Mukherjee 1,708 0.22
IND Bhusan Mondal 1,533 0.20
Majority 98,429 12.74 Decrease13.84
Turnout 770,828 70.30 Increase3.34
AITC hold Swing

1999

1999 Indian general election: Calcutta South[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mamata Banerjee 469,103 58.26 Decrease1.11
CPI(M) Subhankar Chakraborty 255,095 31.68 Decrease1.27
INC Partha Roy Chowdhury 51,735 6.43 Decrease0.26
CPI(ML)L Dr. Partha Sarathi Ghosh 6,186 0.77
BSP Md. Shahabuddin 6,091 0.76
IND Ranjan Kumar Das 5,841 0.73
IND Murari Mohon Ghosh 4,512 0.56
IND Priya Nath Banerjee 2,740 0.34
IND Kabita Mukherjee 2,160 0.27
IND Bandana Biswas 1,658 0.21
Majority 214,008 26.58 Increase0.16
Turnout 805,268 66.96 Decrease7.48
AITC hold Swing

1998

1998 Indian general election: Calcutta South[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
AITC Mamata Banerjee 503,551 59.37
CPI(M) Prasanta Sur 279,470 32.95 Decrease7.19
INC Sougata Ray 56,725 6.69 Decrease45.82
IND Partha Sarathi Ghosh 1,937 0.23
RJD Salik Ram Shaw 1,498 0.18
IND G. Joseph 1,497 0.18
IND Rina Sutradhar 1,447 0.17
IND Adrish Bhattacharya 1,236 0.15
IND Addy Samir Kumar 493 0.06
IND Paresh Nath Banerjee 340 0.04
Majority 224,081 26.42 Increase14.05
Turnout 877,430 74.44 Increase1.42
AITC gain from INC Swing

1996

1996 Indian general election: Calcutta South[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Mamata Banerjee 438,252 52.51 Increase0.05
CPI(M) Bharati Mukherjee 334,991 40.14 Increase1.04
BJP Santi Roy 45,066 5.40 Decrease1.81
IND Bulu Chatterjee 3,439 0.41
IND Sushil Chandra Majumdar 1,869 0.22
IND D. Guha 1,755 0.21
IND Tripti Das 1,589 0.19
IND Bandana Biswas 1,572 0.19
AIIC(T) Yasmeen Sen Gupta 1,527 0.18
IND Lalita Seth 1,482 0.18
IND Ramagardi Yadav 1,285 0.15
IND Bablu Dutta 958 0.11
IND Murari Mohan Ghosh 798 0.10
Majority 103,261 12.37 Decrease0.99
Turnout 852,458 73.02 Increase4.52
INC hold Swing

1991

1991 Indian general election: Calcutta South[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Mamata Banerjee 367,896 52.46 Increase5.85
CPI(M) Biplab Das Gupta 274,233 39.10 Decrease10.97
BJP Somraj Dutta 50,541 7.21 Increase4.67
IND Ashok Kr. Roy Chowdhury 1,958 0.28
IND Sushil Chandra Majumder 1,779 0.25
BSP Parimal Kanti Ray 1,121 0.16
IND Priti Mazumder 877 0.13
IND Bandana Biswas 837 0.12
DDP Hari Shankar Sah 792 0.11
IND Rajranchhor Chand Bhandari 548 0.08
HSS Bhagwan Das Nathany 413 0.06
IND Arun Ghosh 295 0.04
Majority 93,663 13.36 Increase9.90
Turnout 714,395 68.50 Decrease4.52
INC gain from CPI(M) Swing

1989

1989 Indian general election: Calcutta South[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Biplab Dasgupta 363,674 50.07 Increase8.73
INC Bholanath Sen 338,518 46.61 Decrease10.32
BJP Jnanendra Banerjee 18,418 2.54
IND Banerjee Sankar Som 2,213 0.30
IND Sourendra Nath Mitra 1,459 0.20
IND Arun Ghosh 1,065 0.15
IND Utpal Roy 996 0.14
Majority 25,156 3.46 Decrease12.13
Turnout 740,076 73.02 Increase0.50
CPI(M) gain from INC Swing

1984

1984 Indian general election: Calcutta South[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Bhola Nath Sen 324,823 56.93 Increase18.84
CPI(M) Satyasadhan Chakraborty 235,884 41.34 Decrease4.75
IND Mridula Mukherjee 2,544 0.45
IND Sk. Sultan 2,543 0.45
IND Dinesh Gupta 1,274 0.22
IND M. K. Ratnam 1,097 0.19
IND Chandan Banick 872 0.15
IND Shyam Sunder Thakur 789 0.14
IND Souren Mitra 740 0.13
Majority 88,939 15.59 Increase7.59
Turnout 582,369 72.52 Increase10.98
INC gain from CPI(M) Swing

1980

1980 Indian general election: Calcutta South[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Satya Sadhan Chakrabarty 213,441 46.09
INC(I) Bholanath Sen 176,432 38.09 Decrease2.50
JP Dilip Chakrabarty 32,747 7.07 Decrease51.01
INC(U) Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 28,531 6.16
SUCI Subir Basu Roy 5,001 1.08
IND Anil Kumar Banerjee 2,102 0.45
IND Subrata Chatterjee 1,462 0.32
IND Sunil Prasad Roy 1,425 0.31
IND Shakya Sen 1,053 0.23
IND Karuna Nidhan Roy 495 0.11
IND Rabi Chowdhury 456 0.10
Majority 37,009 8.00 Decrease9.49
Turnout 472,722 61.54 Increase0.62
CPI(M) gain from JP Swing

1977

1977 Indian general election: Calcutta South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
JP Dilip Chakravarty 225,556 58.08
INC Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 157,616 40.59 Decrease10.06
IND Pinaki Ranjan Chatterjee 5,182 1.33
Majority 67,940 17.49 Increase9.79
Turnout 398,561 60.92 Increase1.92
JP gain from INC Swing

1971

1971 Indian general election: Calcutta South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 144,952 50.65 Increase13.07
CPI(M) Ganesh Ghosh 122,913 42.95 Decrease7.33
INC(O) Gobind Lal Banerjee 9,971 3.48
SUCI Ashutosh Banerjee 8,333 2.91
Majority 22,039 7.70 Decrease5.00
Turnout 296,088 59.00 Decrease3.60
INC gain from CPI(M) Swing

1967

1967 Indian general election: Calcutta South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
CPI(M) Ganesh Ghosh 155,574 50.28
INC B. B. Ghosh 116,287 37.58
IND M. Sen 24,613 7.95
IND D. Biswanath 12,954 4.19
Majority 39,287 12.70
Turnout 317,171 62.60
CPI(M) win (new seat)

See also

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "Parliamentary Constituency Wise Turnout for General Elections 2014". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Sanyal, Anindita, ed. (8 June 2026). "Trinamool's Kakoli Dastidar Says 20 MPs Will Support NDA: "Written To Speaker"". NDTV. Archived from the original on 13 June 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  3. ↑ "Delimitation Commission Order No. 18" (PDF). Table B – Extent of Parliamentary Constituencies. Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
  4. ↑ "Kolkata Dakshin (West Bengal) Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 -Kolkata Dakshin Parliamentary Constituency, Winning MP and Party Name". www.elections.in.
  5. 1 2 "General Elections, India, 1951- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1957- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "General Elections, India, 1962- Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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  13. ↑ "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in.
  14. ↑ "General Election 2019 - Election Commission of India". Archived from the original on 22 June 2019. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
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  17. ↑ "General Elections, 1998 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  18. ↑ "General Elections, 1996 - Constituency Wise Detailed Results" (PDF). West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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