Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in East Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Overview As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 216 Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency is composed of the following: Contai municipality, Contai I community development block, and Durmuth and Kusumpur gram panchayats of Contai III community development block.
Kanthi Dakshin Assembly constituency is part of No. 31 Kanthi Lok Sabha constituency.
Members of the Legislative Assembly YearNameParty1952Natendra Nath Das1957Rashbehari Pal1962Sudhir Chandra Das19671969197119721977Satyabrata Maity1982Sisir Adhikari1987Sukhendu Maity1991Sailaja Kumar Das19962001Sisir Adhikari2006Suvendu Adhikari2009^Dibyendu AdhikariMajor boundary changes; constituency renamed as Kanthi Dakshin2011Dibyendu Adhikari20162017^Chandrima Bhattacharya2021Arup Kumar Das2026
Election results 2026
2021
2017 bypoll The bye election was necessitated by the resignation of the sitting MLA, Dibyendu Adhikari, as he was elected as MP in the Indian Parliament from Tamluk Lok Sabha Constituency on 19 November 2016.
2016
2011
.# Swing calculated on Congress+Trinamool Congress vote percentages taken together in 2006. 2009 by election not taken into consideration because of lack of sufficient data.
2006 In the by-election held in 2009, because of the election of the sitting MLA Suvendu Adhikari to parliament from Tamluk (Lok Sabha constituency), Dibyendu Adhikari of Trinamool Congress won the Contai South seat defeating Satyendra Nath Panda of CPI.
In the 2006 state assembly elections Suvendu Adhikari of Trinamool Congress won the Contai South assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Satyendra Nath Panda of CPI. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Sisir Adhikari of Trinamool Congress defeated Sukhendu Maiti of CPI in 2001. Sailaja Kumar Das of Congress defeated Sukhendu Maity of CPI in 1996 and 1991. Sukhendu Maity of CPI defeated Sailaja Kumar Das of Congress in 1987. Sisir Adhikari of Congress defeated Deepak Mondal, Independent, in 1982. Satyabrata Maity of Janata Party defeated Sudhir Chandra Das, Independent, in 1977.
1972 Sudhir Chandra Das of PSP won in 1972, 1971, 1969, 1967 and 1962. Rashbehari Pal of Congress won in 1957. In independent India's first election in 1951 Natendra Nath Das of KMPP won the Contai South seat.
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