Sabang 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.
- Manas Ranjan Bhunia (TMC)
- Amal Kumar Panda (BJP)
- Alak Kumar Samai (INC)
- Nakul Chandra Bera (CPIM)
- Debashis Barman (AB)
- Tapan Kumar Sasmal (SUCIC)
- Rafik Ali Saiyed (IND)
- Gopinath Dey (IND)
Sabang is one of the
294 constituencies in the West Bengal Assembly and falls under Paschim Medinipur district of South West Bengal region. The seat is reserved for the General category with 12.17% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Caste community and 5.32% of the population belonging to the Scheduled Tribe community. The constituency has 2,75,463 voters, including 1,42,235 men and 1,33,227 women. The overall literacy rate of Sabang is 79.04% according to the Census of India 2011.
Voting in Sabang 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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