NEW DELHI: Agniswar Naskar of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Satgachhia constituency with 1,11,023 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Somashree Betal by a razor-thin margin of 401 votes. Betal secured 1,10,622 votes. CPI(M)'s Goutam Pal finished third with 11,736 votes, followed by Congress's Prabhash Chandra Ghosh with 1,577 votes.
Eight candidates contested from Satgachhia in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.
Satgachhia is a constituency nestled in the Budge Budge II community development block area of South 24 Parganas, falling under the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency. It is a predominantly rural seat — over 74 per cent of its population is rural — with a mixed Hindu-Muslim electorate. Scheduled Castes account for roughly 16 per cent of the population.
In the 2021 assembly election, the sitting TMC MLA Mohan Chandra Naskar successfully defended the seat, defeating BJP's Chandan Pal by a margin of approximately 23,000 votes. TMC polled around 50 per cent of the vote, while the BJP came second with close to 40 per cent.
In 2016, the veteran TMC leader Sonali Guha won the constituency comfortably, defeating the CPI(M) candidate Paramita Ghosh by over 17,000 votes. Guha, a long-serving politician who had represented the seat continuously since 2001, was a dominant figure in this part of South 24 Parganas.
A key local issue in this flood-prone region near the Hooghly River estuary is infrastructure and drainage.
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