Dum Dum Uttar Assembly Constituency is set to vote in Phase 2 of 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, with the Election Commission of India announcing the following candidates in the fray.
- Chandrima Bhattacharya (TMC)
- Sourav Sikdar (BJP)
- Dhananjay Maitra (INC)
- Dipsita Dhar (CPIM)
- Ruhul Amin Sardar (AJUN)
- Sanap Mondal (BNARP)
- Satyabrata Majumder (BSP)
- Haripada Biswas (MPI)
- Pratap Baidya (IND)
Dum Dum Uttar is one of the 294 constituencies in the West Bengal Assembly and falls under North 24 Parganas district of Greater Kolkata region. The seat is reserved for the General category with 17.9% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and 0.42% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Tribe community. The constituency has 2,43,908 voters, including 1,19,916 men and 1,23,988 women. The overall literacy rate of Dum Dum Uttar is 84.95% according to the Census of India 2011.
Voting in Dum Dum Uttar will be held on Wednesday, April
29, 2026, as part of Phase 2 polling, while counting is scheduled for Monday, May 4, 2026.
In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress won 215 of the state’s 294 seats, while the Bharatiya Janata Party secured 77. In the same election, Mekliganj was won by Adhikary Paresh Chandra of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), who defeated Dadhiram Ray of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 14,685 votes.
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