Santipur Assembly Election Results 2026

Santipur is a key legislative assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Nadia district and is a general category Assembly seat. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the constituency had 255,619 electors and recorded 219,692 valid votes. Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Jagannath Sarkar won the seat with 109,722 votes, defeating the All India Trinamool Congress’s Ajoy Dey, who secured 93,844 votes. The victory margin was 15,878 votes. In the 2016 Assembly elections, Santipur had 225,358 electors and 200,080 valid votes. Congress candidate Arindam Bhattacharya won the seat with 103,566 votes, while Trinamool Congress candidate Ajoy Dey finished second with 84,078 votes, losing by a margin of 19,488 votes. Earlier, in the 2011 Assembly elections, the constituency had 190,634 electors and 171,189 valid votes. Congress candidate Ajoy Dey won with 98,902 votes, defeating Iyar Mallik of the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Rasik Bhatt), who secured 60,744 votes. The margin of victory was 38,158 votes. Santipur had 258,315 registered voters in 2024, up from 255,619 in 2021, 241,506 in 2019, 225,358 in 2016 and 190,634 in 2011. Although it is a general category seat, Scheduled Castes constitute a significant share of the electorate at 33.54 per cent, while Scheduled Tribes account for 2.49 per cent and Muslims around 14 per cent. The constituency has a mixed urban–rural profile, with 63.76 per cent of voters residing in urban municipal wards and 36.24 per cent in villages. Voter turnout has remained high but has gradually declined over time, falling from 89.75 per cent in 2011 to 83.06 per cent in 2024. In the intervening elections, turnout stood at 88.83 per cent in 2016, 86.61 per cent in 2019 and 86.16 per cent in 2021.

2026 Santipur Assembly Election Results

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Swapan Kumar Das
BJP - Won
Votes117,941
Vote %54.86
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Brajakishore Goswami
AITC - 1st Runner Up
Votes72,565
Vote %33.76
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Soumen Mahato
CPI(M)
Votes11,533
Vote %5.36
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Arindam Bhattacharya
IND
Votes7,216
Vote %3.36
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Alok Chatterjee
CONG
Votes1,365
Vote %0.63
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Shyamal Das
IND
Votes989
Vote %0.46
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Nota
NOTA
Votes930
Vote %0.43
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Sourav Biswas
IND
Votes634
Vote %0.29
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Tuhin Indra
IND
Votes624
Vote %0.29
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Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal
AJUP
Votes610
Vote %0.28
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Profulla Kumar Roy
BSP
Votes566
Vote %0.26
Source: PValue
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2021 Santipur Assembly Election Results

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Jagannath Sarkar
BJP - Won
Votes109,722
Vote %49.94
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Ajoy Dey
AITC - 1st Runner Up
Votes93,844
Vote %42.72
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Ritzu Ghosal
INC
Votes9,848
Vote %4.48
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Nota
NOTA
Votes2,385
Vote %1.09
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Profulla Kumar Roy
BSP
Votes1,294
Vote %0.59
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Sukdeb Biswas
PMPT
Votes1,099
Vote %0.50
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Sufal Sarkar
JASP
Votes892
Vote %0.41
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Nadia Chand Biswas
SUCI
Votes608
Vote %0.28

2016 Santipur Assembly Election Results

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Arindam Bhattacharya
INC - Won
Votes103,566
Vote %51.76
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Ajoy Dey
AITC - 1st Runner Up
Votes84,078
Vote %42.02
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Swapan Kumar Dam
BJP
Votes7,495
Vote %3.75
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None Of The Above
NOTA
Votes1,901
Vote %0.95
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Saokat Ali
GMM
Votes1,639
Vote %0.82
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Dinesh Ray
SHS
Votes882
Vote %0.44
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Najima Bibi Kayal
SDPI
Votes519
Vote %0.26