Palashipara is a key legislative assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Nadia district. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the seat was won by the All India Trinamool Congress.
TMC candidate Manik Bhattacharya defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Bibash Chandra Mondal by a margin of 51,336 votes. The Palashipara Assembly constituency is part of the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra won the Krishnanagar parliamentary seat, defeating the BJP’s Amrita Roy by a margin of 56,705 votes.
The constituency had 252,634 registered voters in 2024, up from 244,867 in 2021, 231,244 in 2019, 218,181 in 2016 and 185,525 in 2011. Muslims constitute the largest share of the electorate at 49.20 per cent, while Scheduled Castes account for 15.79 per cent and Scheduled Tribes 1.08 per cent.
Palashipara is an entirely rural constituency with no urban voters on its electoral rolls. Voter turnout has remained consistently high over the years, though with slight fluctuations, recording 86.05 per cent in 2011, 83.75 per cent in 2016, 80.72 per cent in 2019, 83.13 per cent in 2021 and 78.21 per cent in 2024.