Baranagar 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.
- Sayantika Banerjee (TMC)
- Sajal Ghosh (BJP)
- Kalyani Chakraborty (INC)
- Sayandeep Mitra (CPIM)
- Supriya Bhattacharya (SUCIC)
- Sajal Ghosh (IND)
- Sajal Kumar Ghosh (IND)
- Shubhrangshu Bhakta (IND)
- Prasenjit Dey (IND)
- Dulal Kanti Bhattacharya (IND)
Baranagar 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 3.35% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and 0.21% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Tribe community. The constituency has 1,86,596 voters, including 90,637 men and 95,955 women. The overall literacy rate of Baranagar is 84.95% according to the Census of India 2011.
Voting in Baranagar 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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