Constituency
35. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-RAIGANJ
BJP 64.1%won by 35.6%AITC 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.9% to 35.6%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 86.0% — 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
1,64,804
Margin
58,641
35.58%
Candidates
15 contested · winner BJP- 1KOUSHIK CHOWDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,05,56164.1%
- 2KRISHNA KALYANIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC46,92028.5%
- 3MOHIT SENGUPTAIndian National Congress · INC4,3862.7%
- 4JIBANANDA SINGHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,7872.3%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,6541.0%
- 6SABINAY DASIndependent · IND1,3720.8%
- 7MD. RAFIK ALAMIndependent · IND3030.2%
- 8MANTU KUMAR MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1510.1%
- 9DWARIK NATH BARMANIndependent · IND1410.1%
- 10FAKIRA MDIndependent · IND1290.1%
- 11MADHABILATA PAULSUCOI · SUCOI1160.1%
- 12GOUTAM BISWASAB · AB830.1%
- 13SAPRATIVE CHAKRABORTYNBPP · NBPP810.0%
- 14MANJUR ALAMAam Janata Unnayan Party · AJUP730.0%
- 15ANWARUL HOQUEIndependent · IND470.0%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AITC swing
- +22.7%
- BJP share
- 49.4% → 64.1%
- AITC share
- 36.6% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- 79.7% → —