Uluberia Purba election results 2026: TMC’s Ritabrata Banerjee defeats BJP’s Rudra Prosad Banerjee in West Bengal

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Uluberia Purba (176), Ritabrata Banerjee of the All India Trinamool Congress secured victory with 95,633 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rudra Prosad Banerjee, who polled 83,795 votes. TMC won by a margin of 11,838 votes in the constituency. Other candidates, including those from the All India Secular Front and Congress, trailed far behind. NOTA recorded 1,251 votes.Uluberia Purba is a constituency in Howrah district that falls under the Uluberia Lok Sabha seat. In 2026, TMC has fielded Ritabrata Banerjee against BJP's Rudra Prasad Banerjee, marking a change in candidature from the party that won the seat in 2021.In 2021, Bidesh Bose, a former professional footballer, won the seat for the TMC, defeating BJP's Pratyush Mandal by approximately 17,126 votes. The TMC polled around 45 per cent of total votes, with the BJP at approximately 36 per cent — a competitive result in a seat that the TMC had previously held more comfortably. In 2016, the seat was held by Haider Aziz Safwi, a distinguished IPS officer-turned-politician who served as the Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. Safwi defeated the CPI(M)'s Sabiruddin Molla by a margin of 16,269 votes. Safwi passed away in December 2018, prompting a by-election in 2019.The constituency is part of the broader Uluberia industrial belt and includes semi-urban and suburban areas. The 2021 result showed that the TMC's margin had narrowed compared to the comfortable leads of the Safwi era, making 2026 a significant electoral test. The change in the TMC's candidate from the 2021 victor adds an element of unpredictability to this contest.