Tehatta is a key legislative assembly constituency in West Bengal’s Nadia district. A general category seat and is one of the seven Assembly segments under the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency.
In the 2021 Assembly elections, the seat was won by Trinamool Congress. TMC candidate Tapas Kumar Saha defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ashutosh Paul by a margin of 6,915 votes.
Tehatta Assembly constituency falls within the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra won the Krishnanagar parliamentary seat, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rajmata Amrita Roy by a margin of 56,705 votes.
The Tehatta constituency did not exist between 1977 and 2006. In the seven elections held between 1951 and 1972, the Congress dominated the seat, winning six times, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist) secured it once in 1971.
Tehatta had 252,454 registered voters in 2021, up from 243,427 in 2019. Scheduled Castes accounted for 32.97 per cent of the electorate, while Muslims made up 28.50 per cent. The constituency has consistently recorded high voter turnout, with participation at 86.36 per cent in 2016, 83.71 per cent in 2019, and 89.10 per cent in 2021.