Constituency
39. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026
WB-BALURGHAT
BJP 60.5%won by 30.1%AITC 30.4%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.8% to 30.1%.
- Safe seatBharatiya Janata Party won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,58,296
Margin
47,576
30.06%
Candidates
14 contested · winner BJP- 1BIDYUT KUMAR ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP95,69760.5%
- 2ARPITA GHOSHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC48,12130.4%
- 3ARNAB CHOWDHURYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP8,5935.4%
- 4PRADIP KUMAR MITRAIndian National Congress · INC1,6481.0%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,4440.9%
- 6JOGESH CHANDRA MURMUBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6290.4%
- 7MITHUN BARMANIndependent · IND5120.3%
- 8SUSHIL MARDIIndependent · IND4600.3%
- 9NAMITA MAHANTA (POLI)SUCOI · SUCOI2990.2%
- 10PRADYUT KUMAR SAHAIndependent · IND2900.2%
- 11DIPANKAR BARMANIndependent · IND1940.1%
- 12DULAL BARMANIndependent · IND1750.1%
- 13MASUMA KHATUNAam Janata Unnayan Party · AJUP1220.1%
- 14NAROTTAM SAHAAB · AB1120.1%
Since 2021
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–AITC swing
- +21.2%
- BJP share
- 47.4% → 60.5%
- AITC share
- 38.6% → 30.4%
- Turnout
- 82.7% → —