Basanti (SC) Assembly constituency is one of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal. It is a Scheduled Caste category seat and is located in the South 24 Parganas district. The constituency is part of the Jaynagar (SC) Parliamentary constituency, which includes seven Assembly segments.
In the 2021 Assembly election, Shyamal Mondal from the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the seat. Earlier, Gobinda Chandra Naskar from AITC had won in 2016, while Subhas Naskar from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) won the seat in 2011.
In the 2021 Assembly election, AITC secured 52.11 per cent of the vote share, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received 28.43 per cent of the votes.