Ranaghat Dakshin is a Vidhan Sabha constituency in Nadia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 90 Ranaghat Dakshin Assembly constituency (SC) is composed of the following: Anishmali, Baidyapur I, Baidyapur II, Debagram, Majher Gram, Nokari, Raghunathpur Hijuli I and Shyamnagar gram panchayats of Ranaghat II community development block, Anulia, Habibpur, Nawpara Masunda, Payradanga, Ramnagar II and Tarapur gram panchayats of Ranaghat I community development block and Cooper's Camp notified area.
Ranaghat Dakshin Assembly constituency (SC) is part of No. 13 Ranaghat (Lok Sabha constituency) (SC). Ranaghat East and West were earlier part of Nabadwip (Lok Sabha constituency).
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Ranaghat YearNameParty1951Bijoy Krishna Sarkar1951Keshab Chandra Mitra1957Benoy Kumar Chatterjee1962Gour Chandra Kundu
Ranaghat East YearNameParty1967Nitai Pada Sarkar19691971Naresh Chandra Biswas1972Nitaipada Sarkar1977Satish Chandra Biswas19821987Binay Krishna Biswas199119962001Asim Bala2006Debendra Nath Biswas
Ranaghat West YearNameParty1967Benoy Kumar Chatterjee1969Gour Chandra Kundu197119771972Naresh Chandra Chaki1982Gour Chandra Kundu19871991Subhaas Basu1996Shankar Singha20012006Aloke Kumar Das
Ranaghat Dakshin YearNameParty2011Abir Biswas2016Rama Biswas2021Mukut Mani Adhikari2024^2026Ashim Kumar Biswas ^ = by-election
Election results 2026
2024 bypoll
2021
2016 In the 2016 election, Rama Biswas of CPI(M) defeated his nearest rival Abir Ranjan Biswas of AITC.
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as CPI(M)'s vote percentage, in 2006 for the Ranaghat West seat.
2011 In the 2011 election, Abir Ranjan Biswas of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Aloke Das of CPI(M).
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together, as well as CPI(M)'s vote percentage, in 2006 for the Ranaghat West seat.
1962 In 1962 and 1957, there was a single seat for Ranaghat. Gour Chandra Kundu of CPI won in 1962. Benoy Kumar Chatterjee of Congress won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951, Ranaghat was a joint seat. Bijoy Krishna Sarkar and Keshab Chandra Mitra won the Ranaghat seat.
1972 Ranaghat East Nitaipada Sarkar of CPI won in 1972. Naresh Chandra Biswas of CPI(M) won in 1971. Nitai Pada Sarkar of CPI won in 1969 and 1967.
Ranaghat West Naresh Chandra Chaki of Congress won in 1972. Gour Chandra Kundu of CPI(M) 1971 and 1969. Benoy Kumar Chatterjee of Congress won in 1967.
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