Sonarpur Uttar election result 2026: BJP's Debasish Dhar wins against TMC's Firdousi Begam

NEW DELHI: Debasish Dhar of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Sonarpur Uttar constituency with 1,19,824 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Firdousi Begam by a margin of 9,807 votes. Begam secured 1,10,017 votes. CPI(M)'s Monalisa Sinha finished third with 19,744 votes, followed by Congress's Jagannath Kumir with 1,533 votes.Fourteen candidates contested from Sonarpur Uttar in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Sonarpur Uttar is a semi-urban constituency in South 24 Parganas, falling under the Jadavpur Lok Sabha constituency. Like its southern counterpart, it covers a mix of residential and semi-rural pockets within the Rajpur Sonarpur municipality area. The constituency has a sizeable Scheduled Caste population of around 30 per cent.In 2021, TMC's Firdousi Begum won the seat, polling close to 50 per cent of the vote and defeating BJP's candidate by a margin of roughly 15 per cent. The seat remained in TMC's column as part of the party's dominant performance across the greater Jadavpur belt.In 2016, TMC also held this seat, having previously benefited from the anti-Left wave that swept the region from 2011 onwards. The constituency has been part of TMC's consolidation in the suburban belt south of Kolkata.The seat's local concerns include urban infrastructure, waterlogging, and public transport connectivity to central Kolkata.