Jangipara election results 2026: BJP's Prasenjit Bag wins against TMC's Snehasis Chakraborty

NEW DELHI: Prasenjit Bag of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Jangipara constituency with 1,02,409 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Snehasis Chakraborty by a margin of 862 votes. Chakraborty secured 1,01,547 votes. CPI(M)'s Sudipta Sarkar finished third with 18,138 votes, followed by Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party's Sekh Abdul Rahim with 2,567 votes and Congress's Subhasis Dutta with 1,572 votes.Eleven candidates contested from Jangipara in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Jangipara (constituency no. 195) in Hooghly district is part of the Sreerampur Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency covers the Jangipara community development block, a predominantly rural area located in the southern part of Hooghly district. It had the distinction of requiring re-polling at one booth in 2021 due to alleged irregularities during the assembly elections.In 2021, TMC's Snehasis Chakraborty won convincingly, defeating BJP's Debjit Sarkar by nearly 18,000 votes and securing 48 per cent of the vote share. In 2016, the TMC also held this seat. Historically, Jangipara was a CPI(M) stronghold, with the Left winning six of nine elections since 1977 before the TMC's successive wins.Snehasis Chakraborty was renominated by the party, allowing him to contest on his incumbency record. BJP's Prasenjit Bag and Congress's Subhasis Dutta faced the challenge of unseating a sitting MLA in a constituency where the TMC had consolidated its grip in recent cycles. Agricultural and rural development issues remained dominant electoral concerns.