Krishnanagar Uttar election results 2026: BJP's Tarak Nath Chatterjee wins against TMC's Avinaba Bhattacharya

NEW DELHI: BJP's Tarak Nath Chatterjee won against TMC's Avinaba Bhattacharya for the constituency of Krishnanagar Uttar in the 2026 assembly elections.There were a total of 2,16,456 registered voters on the electoral rolls for the 2026 Assembly election in Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency, of whom 1,09,610 were male, 1,06,841 female and 5 belonged to the third gender.West Bengal voted across 294 seats in two phases on April 23 and April 29, recording a combined turnout of nearly 93 per cent — the highest since Independence and one of the largest in Indian electoral history. Notably, the surge was not limited to rural strongholds but saw a dramatic rise in urban centres, with women voters outpacing men to drive the record participation.Krishnanagar Uttar is a key legislative assembly constituency in West Bengal's Nadia district. In the 2021 Assembly elections, the seat was won by the Bharatiya Janata Party.BJP candidate Mukul Roy defeated the Trinamool Congress's Koushani Mukherjee by a margin of 35,089 votes. The Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency is part of 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 Amrita Roy by a margin of 56,705 votes.The constituency had 246,385 registered voters in 2024, up from 238,220 in 2021 and 229,355 in 2019. Scheduled Castes formed the largest voting bloc in 2021, accounting for 29.13 per cent of the electorate.Krishnanagar Uttar has a mixed voter profile, with a near-even distribution between urban and rural populations — 54.04 per cent urban and 49.96 per cent rural. Voter turnout has remained consistently strong, generally around 85 per cent, with the lowest recorded at 82.03 per cent in 2024 and the highest at 85.73 per cent in 2016.