Uluberia Dakshin Assembly constituency

Uluberia Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Uluberia Dakshin
Constituency No. 178 for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Interactive Map Outlining Uluberia Dakshin Assembly Constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	West Bengal
District	Howrah
Lok Sabha constituency	Uluberia
Established	1951
Total electors	174,463
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Pulak Roy
Party	All India Trinamool Congress
Elected year	2021

Overview

As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 178 Uluberia Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Uluberia I community development block, and Belari, Dhandali, Balichaturi and Nabagram gram panchayats of Shyampur I community development block.^[1]

Uluberia Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of No. 26 Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency).^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election Year	Constituency	Name of M.L.A.	Party Affiliation
1951	Uluberia	Bijoy Mondal	All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)[2]
		Bibhuti Bhusan Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)[2]
1957		Abani Kumar Basu	Indian National Congress[3]
		Bijoy Bhusan Mondal	All India Forward Bloc[3]
1962	Uluberia South	Abani Kumar Basu	Indian National Congress[4]
1967		Biswanath Das Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[5]
1969		Biswanath Das Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[6]
1971		Bata Krishna Das	Communist Party of India (Marxist)[7]
1972		Rabindra Ghosh	Independent[8]
1977		Aurobindo Ghosal	All India Forward Bloc[9]
1982		Rabindra Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[10]
1987		Amar Banerjee	Indian National Congress[11]
1991		Rabindra Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[12]
1996		Rabindra Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[13]
2001		Rabindra Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[14]
2006		Rabindra Ghosh	All India Forward Bloc[15]
2011	Uluberia Dakshin	Pulak Roy	All India Trinamool Congress[16]

Election results

2021

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: Uluberia Dakshin constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pulak Roy	101,880	50.37	−3.74
	BJP	Papia Dey (Adhikary)	73,442	36.31	+24.28
	AIFB	Sk. Kutub Uddin Ahmed	21,110	10.44	−23.73
	NOTA	None of the above	1,474	0.73	−0.52
	Independent	Amal Kumar Barman	1,314	0.65
	SUCI(C)	Jayanta Khatua	1,165	0.58
	Indian Unity Centre	Ram Prosad Ghorai	1,024	0.51	−0.48
	Independent	Sujit Mondal	857	0.42
Turnout			202,266	85.12	−0.21
	AITC hold		Swing

2016

West Bengal assembly elections, 2016: Uluberia Dakshin constituency

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pulak Roy	95,902	54.11	+4.63
	AIFB	Md. Nasiruddin	61,902	34.17	−7.37
	BJP	Somnath Sadhukhan	14,239	8.03	+4.15
	Independent	Monirul Islam (Mim)	2,575	1.45
	NOTA	None of the above	2,208	1.25
	Indian Unity Centre	Gobardhan Manna	1,757	0.99
Turnout			177,239	85.33	−0.09
	AITC hold		Swing

2011

West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Uluberia Dakshin constituency^[16][17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	AITC	Pulak Roy	73,734	49.48	+8.25#
	AIFB	Sk. Kutubuddin Ahmad	61,902	41.54	−1.17
	BJP	Goutam Mukherjee	5,775	3.88
	BSP	Shrinath Yadav	2,149
	Indian Unity Centre	Sakila Begum	1,734
	People’s Democratic Conference of India	Aah Soban Khan	1,448
	Independent	Dipak Kumar Mondal	1,429
	Independent	Sk. Aorangjeb	858
Turnout			149,029	85.42
	AITC gain from AIFB		Swing	9.42#

.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006.

1977-2006

In the 2006, 2001, 1996 and 1991 state assembly elections, Rabindra Ghosh of Forward Bloc won the Uluberia South assembly seat, defeating his nearest rivals Pulak Roy of Trinamool Congress in 2006,^[15] Bani Kumar Singha of Trinamool Congress in 2001,^[14] Pulak Roy of Congress in 1996,^[13] and Amar Banerjee of Congress in 1991.^[12] Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Amar Banerjee of Congress defeated Rabindra Ghosh of Forward Bloc in 1987.^[11] Rabindra Ghosh of Forward Bloc defeated Minati Adhikari of Congress in 1982.^[10] Aurobindo Ghosal of Forward Bloc defeated Abani Basu, Independent in 1977.^[9][18]

1951-1972

Rabindra Ghosh, Independent, won in 1972.^[8] Bata Krishna Das of CPI(M) won in 1971.^[7] Biswanath Das Ghosh of Forward Bloc won in 1969^[6] and 1967.^[5] Abani Kumar Basu won the Uluberia South seat in 1962.^[4] In 1957 and 1951 Uluberia had a double seat. In 1957^[3] Abani Kumar Basu of Congress and Bijoy Bhusan Mondal of Forward Bloc won. Bijoy Mondal and Bibhuti Bhusan Ghosh, both of All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar) won in 1951.^[2]