Singur election results 2026: BJP's Arup Kumar Das wins against TMC's Becharam Manna

NEW DELHI: Arup Kumar Das of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Singur constituency with 1,13,008 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Becharam Manna by a margin of 21,438 votes. Manna secured 91,570 votes. CPI(M)'s Debashis Chatterjee finished third with 12,320 votes, followed by Congress's Barun Kumar Malik with 1,015 votes.Ten candidates contested from Singur in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Singur (constituency no. 188) in Hooghly district is one of West Bengal's most politically significant seats. It gained national and international attention during the Nano car factory land acquisition agitation of 2006–08, when Mamata Banerjee led the TMC's resistance to the Tata Motors project, an episode widely credited with fuelling the TMC's rise to power in 2011. The constituency covers the Singur community development block and parts of Chanditala II block, with a mix of rural and semi-urban settlements.In 2021, TMC's Becharam Manna won convincingly, defeating BJP's Rabindranath Bhattacharya by nearly 26,000 votes. Bhattacharya, a veteran TMC leader who had won the seat in 2016 on a TMC ticket, had switched to the BJP ahead of 2021. In 2016, Bhattacharya won as a TMC candidate, defeating CPI(M)'s Rabin Deb.The Singur agitation remains a defining electoral narrative here, with the TMC having leveraged it to consolidate rural support. Becharam Manna, a senior party figure and former union leader, was well-established locally.