Falta is a village and gram panchayat under the Falta police station in the Falta community development (CD) block of Diamond Harbour subdivision, South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal. The Falta Assembly constituency is one of the 294 Legislative Assembly seats in the state. It is a General category constituency and forms part of the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency. As per the Delimitation Commission’s order, the constituency comprises the entire Falta CD block along with Bhadura Haridas and Kalatalahat gram panchayats of Diamond Harbour II CD block. It is one of the seven Assembly segments under the Diamond Harbour parliamentary seat. In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, Sankar Kumar Naskar of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) won the seat with 1,17,179 votes, securing 56.35 per cent of the vote share. BJP candidate Bidhan Parui finished second with 76,405 votes (36.75 per cent), while INC’s Abdur Razzak Molla polled 7,452 votes (3.58 per cent). In 2016, Tamonash Ghosh of the AITC won with 94,381 votes (50.15 per cent). CPM’s Bidhan Parui was the runner-up with 70,801 votes (37.62 per cent), and BJP’s Amarendra Nath Mukherjee secured 15,763 votes (8.38 per cent).