Kolkata, May 4 (). In the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026, a very close contest was seen on Jangipara Assembly seat in Hooghly district. BJP’s Prosenjit Baig won the seat by defeating Trinamool Congress’s Snehasis Chakraborty by just 862 votes.
In the results declared after 24 rounds of counting, Prosenjit Bag got 1,02,409 votes, while TMC candidate Snehasis Chakraborty got 1,01,547 votes. CPI(M)’s Sudipta Sarkar got 18,138 votes and stood third. 91.94 percent voting was recorded in this seat, while 91.98 percent voting was recorded in the entire Hooghly district.
BJP candidate Prosenjit Baig (50) is 10th pass. TMC candidate Snehasis Chakraborty (56) is a post graduate and CPI(M) candidate Sudipta Sarkar (56) is a graduate.
Jangipara assembly constituency was established in 1957. It comes under Shrirampur Lok Sabha constituency of Hooghly district. The seat is predominantly rural, with only 8.20 per cent of voters living in urban areas.
Till now 16 assembly elections have been held here. The main contest in the initial years was between Congress and CPI(M). CPI(M) won here seven times and Congress won here six times. In 2011, Trinamool Congress captured this seat for the first time.
Minister of State Snehasis Chakraborty won from here three consecutive times (2011, 2016 and 2021). In 2011, he defeated Professor Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury of CPI(M) by 13,076 votes. In 2016 the margin increased to 23,605 votes. In 2021, BJP gave a tough fight, but TMC managed to win by 17,926 votes.
BJP’s presence has continuously strengthened in the Lok Sabha elections also. In 2019, BJP lagged behind TMC by 11,932 votes, while in 2024 the gap increased to 28,020 votes. The position of CPI(M) has continued to weaken.
This time in the assembly elections, BJP has breached the TMC stronghold by winning by a very narrow margin of only 862 votes. This result has now made Jangipara a highly competitive seat.
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