Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state of West Bengal. It was formed on 1951.

73.51 per cent of over 1.49 crore electorate exercised their franchise in West Bengal in the final phase.

Chandra Kumar Bose of Bharatiya Janata Party, Mala Roy of All India Trinamool Congress, Mita Chakraborty of Indian National Congress, Nandini Mukherjee of Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sarfaraz Khan of Bahujan Samaj Party and Sridhar Chandra Bagari of Shivsena are few prominent candidates contesting for general elections 2019 from Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal.

Serial No.	Name Of Candidate	Party Affiliation
1	Chandra Kumar Bose	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Mala Roy	All India Trinamool Congress
3	Mita Chakraborty	Indian National Congress
4	Nandini Mukherjee	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
5	Sarfaraz Khan	Bahujan Samaj Party
6	Debabrata Bera	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
7	Sridhar Chandra Bagari	Shivsena
8	Badal Mondal	Independent
9	Gautam Mitra	Independent
10	Kashinath Das	Independent
11	Niraj Agarwal	Independent
12	Rita Dutta	Independent
13	Santanu Roy	Independent

It has seven segments of Vidhan Sabha. The Assembly Constituencies that fall in Kolkata Dakshin parliamentary constituency are - Kasba, Behala Purba, Behala Paschim, Kolkata Port, Bhabanipur, Rashbehari and Ballygunge.

The election in this constituency was held in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election 2019 on May 19 and the results will be declared on May 23.

Subrata Bakshi of AITC was elected as the Member of Parliament from this constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. Subrata Bakshi bagged 431,715 votes and defeated Tathagata Roy of the BJP who bagged 295,376 votes.