Madarihat Assembly Election Results 2026 Live Updates: BJP’s Laxuman Limbu defeats TMC’s Jayprakash Toppo by 40,910 votes
THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 06, 2026, 15:27:34 IST
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Madarihat Assembly Election Results 2026 Live Updates: BJP’s Laxuman Limbu defeats TMC’s Jayprakash Toppo by 40,910 votes

Ishak Rabha (Bahujan Samaj Party), Jayprakash Toppo (Trinamool Congress), Joy Prafful Lakra (Congress), Laxuman Limbu (Bharatiya Janata Party), Babita Bara Tirkey (Gana Suraksha Party), Sudhist Baraik (Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)), Subhash Lohar (Revolutionary Socialist Party), Haren Rabha (Mulnibasi Party of India), and Saradip Narjeenary (Independent) — 9 candidates contesting from Madarihat in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election. Votes cast across this constituency are now being counted, and early trends from each round will be closely watched as the day unfolds. Madarihat is a Scheduled Tribe (ST) reserved constituency. In 2021, Manoj Tigga of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat. the final result will show which candidate has secured the most votes in Madarihat in 2026.
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Madarihat Election Results 2026: RSP's Subhash Lohar leads as counting progresses
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Madarihat Election Results: Independent candidates in the Madarihat count
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Madarihat Election Results 2026: Jayprakash Toppo (TMC) awaits the round-wise verdict
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Madarihat Election Results: Bharatiya Janata Party's Madarihat candidate and the 2026 count
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Madarihat Election Results: Congress in the Madarihat contest
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Madarihat Election Results 2026: The party that finished second in 2021 — watching Madarihat
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Madarihat Elections 2026: Round by round: how Madarihat's count will unfold
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Madarihat Election Results: What 2026 will add to Madarihat's electoral story
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Madarihat Assembly Election Results 2026: Ishak Rabha's BSP tally being counted in Madarihat
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Madarihat Elections 2026: Awaiting the count: Madarihat's 2026 result in the making
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Madarihat Assembly Election Results 2026: Every candidate in Madarihat awaits the round-wise verdict
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Madarihat Elections 2026: Assessing the count — what each round reveals
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Madarihat Elections 2026: After the last round: how Madarihat's result gets declared
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Madarihat Assembly Election Results 2026: Sudhist Baraik (SUCI(C)) awaits the round-wise verdict
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Madarihat Elections 2026: Madarihat's contribution to West Bengal's counting day story
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Madarihat Elections 2026: After polling day: Madarihat's counting day explained
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Disclaimer: This Data is provided by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) | MyNeta and sourced from election affidavits available in the public domain of the Election Commission of India.
Madarihat is a Scheduled Tribe (ST) reserved constituency in West Bengal. 9 candidates are contesting in 2026: Ishak Rabha (Bahujan Samaj Party), Jayprakash Toppo (Trinamool Congress), Joy Prafful Lakra (Congress), Laxuman Limbu (Bharatiya Janata Party), Babita Bara Tirkey (Gana Suraksha Party), Sudhist Baraik (Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)), Subhash Lohar (Revolutionary Socialist Party), Haren Rabha (Mulnibasi Party of India), and Saradip Narjeenary (Independent). In the 2021 Assembly Election, Manoj Tigga of the Bharatiya Janata Party won Madarihat. round-by-round trends from Madarihat will be closely tracked. The constituency's result will add to West Bengal's state-wide tally across its 294 Assembly segments. This Live Blog is AI-assisted using data from Pvalue.