Mamata wins Kolkata South

KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee registered her sixth consecutive victory from the Kolkata South Lok Sabha seat, trouncing her nearest rival, Rabin Deb of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) by 219,571 votes.

Banerjee, who has been winning from this seat since 1991, had defeated Deb in 2004 also.

Banerjee, who created a sensation by stunning CPI-M veteran Somnath Chatterjee in Jadavpur constituency on her electoral debut in 1984, shifted to Kolkata South after losing to Malini Bhattacharya in 1989.