Gaighata 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.
- Narottam Biswas (TMC)
- Subrata Thakur (BJP)
- Anil Kumar Pandey (INC)
- Sabyasachi Biswas (BSP)
- Sajal Biswas (CPI)
- Shibani Majumdar (SUCIC)
- Sudhir Mondal (IND)
- Shiddhartha Samadder (IND)
- Tapan Biswas (IND)
- Chandan Roy (IND)
- Subrata Adhikary (IND)
Gaighata is one of the 294 constituencies in the West Bengal Assembly and falls under North 24 Parganas district of South East Bengal region. The seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste category with 41.99% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and 2.12% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Tribe community. The constituency has 2,41,883 voters, including 1,23,538 men and 1,18,340 women. The overall literacy rate of Gaighata is 84.95% according to the Census of India 2011.
Voting in Gaighata 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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