# Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency

Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

## Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 4 Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency covers Cooch Behar municipality and Chandamari, Chilkirhat, Falimari, Ghughumari, Haribhanga, Moyamari, Patchhara, Putimari Fuleswari and Suktabari gram panchayats of Cooch Behar I community development block.
Cooch Behar Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of No. 1 Cooch Behar (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC).

## Members of the Legislative Assembly

| Election | Member | Party Affiliation |
| Cooch Behar |||
| 1951 | Maziruddin Ahmed | Indian National Congress |
| 1951 | Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Maziruddin Ahmed | Indian National Congress |
| 1957 | Satish Chandra Roy Singha | Indian National Congress |
| Cooch Behar North |||
| 1962 | Sunil Dasgupta | Forward Bloc |
| 1967 | M.R.Tar | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Bimal Kanti Basu | Forward Bloc |
| 1971 | Sunil Kar | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Sunil Kar | Indian National Congress |
| 1977 | Aparajita Goppi | Forward Bloc |
| 1982 | Aparajita Goppi | Forward Bloc |
| 1987 | Aparajita Goppi | Forward Bloc |
| 1991 | Bimal Kanti Basu | Forward Bloc |
| 1996 | Mihir Goswami | Indian National Congress |
| 2001 | Dipak Chandra Sarkar | Forward Bloc |
| 2006 | Dipak Chandra Sarkar | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Cooch Behar South |||
| 1962 | Sunil Basunia | Forward Bloc |
| 1967 | Santosh Kumar Roy | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Santosh Kumar Roy | Indian National Congress |
| 1971 | Santosh Kumar Roy | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Santosh Kumar Roy | Indian National Congress |
| Cooch Behar West |||
| 1962 | Prasenjit Barman | Indian National Congress |
| 1967 | Prasenjit Barman | Indian National Congress |
| 1969 | Rajani Das | Indian National Congress |
| 1971 | Rajani Das | Indian National Congress |
| 1972 | Bimal Kanti Basu | Forward Bloc |
| 1982 | Bimal Kanti Basu | Forward Bloc |
| 1987 | Bimal Kanti Basu | Forward Bloc |
| 1991 | Soumindra Chandra Das | Forward Bloc |
| 1996 | Soumindra Chandra Das | Forward Bloc |
| 2001 | Akshay Thakur | Forward Bloc |
| 2006 | Akshay Thakur | Forward Bloc |
| Cooch Behar Dakshin |||
| 2011 | Akshay Thakur | Forward Bloc |
| 2016 | Mihir Goswami | All India Trinamool Congress (later join the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2020) |
| 2021 | Nikhil Ranjan Dey | Bharatiya Janata Party |

## Election results
### 2021

West Bengal assembly elections, 2021: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | BJP | Nikhil Ranjan | 91,560 | 46.83 |
| | AITC | Avijit Dey Bhowmik | 86629 | 44.31 |
| | AIFB | Akshay Thakur | 10246 | 5.24 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 195505 | 83.61 |
| | BJP gain from AITC | BJP gain from AITC | Swing | |

### 2016

In the 2016 election, Mihir Goswami of AITC defeated his nearest rival Debasis Banik of AIFB
West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AITC | Mihir Goswami | 82,849 | 46.24 | +1.07 |
| | AIFB | Debasis Banik | 64,654 | 36.08 | −10.96 |
| | BJP | Nikhil Ranjan Dey | 18,176 | 10.14 | +5.95 |
| | BSP | Maya Majumder | 5,197 | 2.9 | |
| | AMB | Amita Das | 2,703 | 1.51 | |
| | NOTA | None of the above | 2,489 | 1.39 | |
| | SUCI(C) | Nazma Khandakar | 1,678 | 0.94 | |
| | Kamtapur People's Party (United) | Akik Hossain Chowdhury | 1,427 | 0.8 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 179,173 | 84.05 | +0.13 |
| | AITC gain from AIFB | AITC gain from AIFB | Swing | | |

### 2011

In the 2011 election, Akshay Thakur of AIFB defeated his nearest rival Abdul Jalil Ahmed of Trinamool Congress.
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Cooch Behar Dakshin constituency :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | AIFB | Akshay Thakur | 72,028 | 47.04 | −4.03 |
| | AITC | Abdul Jalil Ahmed | 69,165 | 45.17 | +11.29 |
| | BJP | Gayetri Kar | 6,419 | 4.19 | |
| | Independent | Sanat Sen | 2,207 | | |
| | Independent | Shyamal Chandra Barman | 1,277 | | |
| | Independent | Prahlad Chandra Datta | 745 | | |
| | Independent | Krishna Kanta Barman | 685 | | |
| | People's Democratic Conference of India | Chanchal Sarkar | 589 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 153,115 | 83.92 | |
| | AIFB hold | AIFB hold | Swing | -15.32 | |

### 1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar North constituency

Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections Dipak Chandra Sarkar of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Trinamool Congress. Mihir Goswami representing Congress had defeated Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc in 1996. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1991. Aparajita Goppi of Forward Bloc defeated Mihir Goswami of Congress in 1987, Sunil Kar of Congress in 1982 and Bimal Chandra Dhar of Congress in 1977.

### 1977 – 2006: Cooch Behar West constituency

In the 2006 and 2001 state assembly elections, Akshay Thakur of Forward Bloc won the Cooch Behar West seat defeating Abdul Jalil Ahmed and Soumendra Chandra Das (both of Trinamool Congress) respectively. Soumindra Chandra Das of Forward Bloc defeated Abdul Jalil Ahmed representing Congress in 1996 and Ramkrishna Pal of Congress in 1991. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc defeated Shyamal Choudhury of Congress in 1987 and 1982, and Maqsudar Rahman of Congress in 1977.

### 1962-1972: Cooch Behar North, South and West constituencies

Sunil Kar of Congress won the Cooch Behar North in 1972 and 1971. Bimal Kanti Basu of Forward Bloc won it in 1969. M.R.Tar of Congress won it in 1967. Sunil Dasgupta of Forward Bloc won it in 1962. Santosh Kumar Roy of Congress won the Cooch Behar South seat in 1972, 1971, 1969 and 1967. Sunil Basunia of Forward Bloc won the seat in 1962. Rajani Das of Congress won the Cooch Behar West seat in 1972 and 1971. Prasenjit Barman of Congress won it in 1969 and 1967. The seat was not there prior to 1967.

### 1951 & 1957: Cooch Behar constituency

Cooch Behar was a joint seat in 1957. It was won by Maziruddin Ahmed and Satish Chandra Roy Singha (both of Congress). In independent India's first election in 1951, Maziruddin Ahmed and Jatindra Nath Singha Sarkar (both of Congress) won the Cooch Behar joint seat.