Sonarpur Dakshin result 2026: BJP's Rupa Ganguly wins against TMC's Arundhuti Maitra

NEW DELHI: Rupa Ganguly of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Sonarpur Dakshin constituency with 1,28,970 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Arundhuti Maitra (Lovely) by a margin of 35,782 votes. Maitra secured 93,188 votes. CPI's Paramita Dasgupta finished third with 16,784 votes, followed by Congress's Subrata Dutta with 1,368 votes.Fourteen candidates contested from Sonarpur Dakshin in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Sonarpur Dakshin is a semi-urban assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas, forming part of the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency. It covers wards of Rajpur Sonarpur municipality and several gram panchayats of the Sonarpur community development block. The constituency has a sizeable Scheduled Caste population (around 30 per cent) and is largely urbanised, with over 70 per cent urban population.In 2021, actress-turned-politician Arundhuti Maitra (also known as "Lovely") of TMC won the seat for the first time, polling nearly 47 per cent of the vote and defeating BJP's Anjana Basu by a margin of over 26,000 votes.In 2016, TMC veteran Jiban Mukhopadhyay — a historian and politician — retained the seat with around 48 per cent of the vote. Mukhopadhyay had held the constituency since 2011. He passed away in January 2025. The constituency sits on Kolkata's southern fringes and witnesses issues surrounding urban development, drainage, and connectivity.