Jalangi is a key legislative assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the seat was won by the All India Trinamool Congress.
TMC candidate Abdur Razzak defeated CPM’s Saiful Islam Molla by a margin of 79,276 votes. The Jalangi Assembly constituency is part of the Murshidabad Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress candidate Abu Taher Khan won the Murshidabad parliamentary seat, defeating CPI(M) leader Md. Salim by a margin of 164,215 votes.
Jalangi is an entirely rural constituency with no urban voters on its electoral rolls. Voter turnout has remained high over the years, though it has gradually declined, recording 89.23 per cent in 2011, 83.92 per cent in 2016, 83.28 per cent in 2019, 85.12 per cent in 2021 and 80.65 per cent in 2024.