Daspur election results 2026: BJP’s Tapan Kumar Dutta defeats TMC’s Ashis Hudait in West Bengal

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Daspur (230), Tapan Kumar Dutta of the Bharatiya Janata Party secured victory with 1,33,071 votes, defeating All India Trinamool Congress candidate Ashis Hudait, who polled 1,00,937 votes. The BJP won by a margin of 32,134 votes in the constituency. CPI(M)’s Ranajit Pal finished third with 12,278 votes, while other candidates and independents remained far behind. NOTA recorded 1,711 votes.The seat falls under the Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency and comprises Daspur II community development block along with several gram panchayat areas from Daspur I block.In 2021, the incumbent MLA Mamata Bhunia of the TMC retained the seat comfortably, defeating BJP's Prashant Bera by a margin of approximately 26,842 votes, polling around 52 per cent of the total votes cast. Bhunia had first come to prominence following the death of her husband, veteran TMC leader Ajit Bhunia, in 2012, winning the by-election that followed. She went on to consolidate TMC's hold over the constituency in subsequent elections.In 2016, Mamata Bhunia again prevailed, with the Left Front's CPI(M) providing the principal opposition at the time before the BJP's dramatic rise in West Bengal. The constituency had historically been a Left stronghold, with CPI(M) dominating the seat across much of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s before TMC began making inroads in the 2000s. Daspur is a largely agricultural constituency with a predominantly rural electorate. The substitution of Bhunia with Asis Hudait as the TMC candidate in 2026 will be closely watched, as it represents a significant change of face in a seat the party has held for over a decade.