Canning Purba Assembly constituency is one of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal. It is a general 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, Saokat Molla from the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the seat. He had also won the constituency in the 2016 Assembly election, representing AITC.
Before that, in the 2011 Assembly election, Abdur Razzak Molla from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, was elected as the MLA.
In the 2021 Assembly election, the AITC secured 52.55 per cent of the vote share, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received 14.83 per cent of the votes.