Behala Paschim election result 2026: BJP's Dr. Indranil Khan wins against TMC's Ratna Chatterjee

NEW DELHI: Dr. Indranil Khan of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Behala Paschim constituency with 1,13,171 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Ratna Chatterjee by a margin of 24,699 votes. Ratna Chatterjee secured 88,472 votes. CPI(M)'s Nihar Bhakta finished third with 30,676 votes, followed by Congress's Saibal Ray with 1,606 votes.Sixteen candidates contested from Behala Paschim in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Behala Paschim is a 100 per cent urban assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas, part of the Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency. It covers several wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in the western Behala area — a well-established residential neighbourhood in southwestern Kolkata that was long the political bastion of TMC heavyweight Partha Chatterjee.In 2021, Dr Partha Chatterjee — then a senior minister in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet — won the seat by a massive margin of nearly 51,000 votes over BJP's Srabanti Chatterjee. TMC polled nearly 50 per cent of the vote. Chatterjee's subsequent arrest by the CBI in connection with the school jobs scam in 2022 significantly impacted TMC's political standing in this constituency.In 2016, Partha Chatterjee also won, defeating CPI(M)'s Kaustav Chatterjee comfortably. The changed political landscape — given Chatterjee's arrest and the anti-incumbency it may generate — made Behala Paschim a seat to watch in 2026.