Khandaghosh (SC), Assembly Constituency No. 260, lies in the southwestern corner of Bardhaman district (Paschim Bardhaman) in South Bengal, at the boundary with Bankura and along the Damodar valley. Covering Khandaghosh community development block and its villages, the constituency features alluvial soil transitioning to laterite, with paddy as the dominant crop and coal-belt economic overspill from the Asansol-Durgapur corridor. With over 234,000 electors, the SC-reserved constituency has Bagdi and Bauri communities alongside OBC groups in a mixed agrarian and semi-industrial economy. Key voter concerns include agricultural support pricing, irrigation, coal-belt employment proximity, welfare scheme delivery, drinking water, and healthcare. A historically Left-influenced area owing to coal-belt trade union presence, now a bipolar TMC-BJP contest. Very high turnout (91.9per cent) under Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha. In 2021, TMC's Nabin Chandra Bag won comfortably by 20,886 votes (~9.7per cent of 215,953 total votes), one of the stronger TMC margins in the district cluster. A safely marginal TMC seat; the comfortable margin reflects TMC's successful SC community consolidation and coal-belt industrial worker support. Khandaghosh is a strategic TMC anchor at the southwestern entry of Barddhaman district, balancing BJP's industrial-belt strongholds.