Gangarampur Assembly Constituency is set to vote in Phase 1 of 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, with the Election Commission of India announcing the following candidates in the fray.
- Goutam Das (TMC)
- Satyendra Nath Roy (BJP)
- Jui Barman (INC)
- Biplab Barman (CPIM)
- Jatindra Nath Barman (BSP)
- Amrita Barman (SUCIC)
- Sadhan Biswas (IND)
- Tarun Ray (IND)
Gangarampur is one of the 294 constituencies in the West Bengal Assembly and falls under Dakshin Dinajpur district of North Bengal region. The seat is reserved for the Scheduled Caste category with 34.2% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and 14.03% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Tribe community. The constituency has 2,13,002 voters, including 1,10,015 men and 1,02,977 women. The overall literacy rate of Gangarampur is 73.86% according to the Census of India 2011.
Voting in Gangarampur will be held on Thursday, April 23,
2026, as part of Phase 1 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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