Maniktala Assembly constituency is a Legislative Assembly seat in Kolkata district, West Bengal. Established in 1951, it is one of the 294 assembly constituencies in the state and falls under No. 24 Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency. It is a general category, fully urban seat situated in Kolkata Corporation district in Kolkata North and is one of the seven assembly segments of the Kolkata Uttar parliamentary constituency. In the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, Sadhan Pande of the All India Trinamool Congress AITC won the seat with 67,577 votes, defeating Kalyan Chaubey of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP by a margin of 20,238 votes. Sadhan Pande had represented Maniktala since 2011 and served as Minister of Consumer Affairs, Self Help Group and Self Employment in the West Bengal government. Following Sadhan Pande’s death, a bypoll was held in July 2024. His wife, Supti Pandey of the AITC, won the Maniktala Assembly by-election with 83,110 votes, securing 71.7 percent of the vote share and defeating BJP candidate Kalyan Chaubey, who polled 20,798 votes. The margin of victory was 62,312 votes, significantly higher than previous winning margins from the seat. Since 2011, Sadhan Pande had won Maniktala three times but never by such a wide gap. After her victory, Supti Pandey said she would protect and continue her husband’s political legacy and development work under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee