Constituency
26. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-SILIGURI
BJP 65.8%won by 39.9%AITC 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 19.9% to 39.9%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 80.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,83,573
Margin
73,192
39.87%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1SHANKAR GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,20,76065.8%
- 2GOUTAM DEBAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC47,56825.9%
- 3SARADINDU CHAKRABORTY (JOY)Communist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,1685.0%
- 4ALOK DHARAIndian National Congress · INC2,2751.2%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,2240.7%
- 6TARUN TALAPATRAIndependent · IND5670.3%
- 7PRIYANKA BOSEBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5610.3%
- 8SURAJ BISHWAKARMAIndependent · IND4570.2%
- 9KRISHNA NAND SINGHIndependent · IND2710.1%
- 10MAMATA DASAB · AB2510.1%
- 11DR. SHAHRIAR ALAMSUCOI · SUCOI2450.1%
- 12SUNIL PANDITIndependent · IND2260.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AITC swing
- +20.0%
- BJP share
- 50.0% → 65.8%
- AITC share
- 30.1% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- 77.4% → —