In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for the Beleghata constituency (numbered 164), Kunal Kumar Ghosh of the All India Trinamool Congress secured a decisive victory. He polled 93,757 votes, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Partha Chaudhury, who garnered 65,181 votes. The margin of victory stood at 28,576 votes.
Detailed Vote Tally
Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Paramita Roy finished a distant third with 10,525 votes. The Congress party and other independent candidates trailed far behind. Notably, the None of the Above (NOTA) option recorded 1,568 votes.
Constituency Profile
Beleghata is an urban assembly seat located in the Kolkata district and forms a part of the Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency. In the 2026 elections, the TMC fielded Kunal Ghosh, a prominent party spokesperson, against the BJP's Partha Choudhary. This change of candidate from the 2021 winner added considerable interest to the contest.
Historical Context
In the 2021 assembly election, Paresh Paul of the TMC retained the seat for the ruling party. He defeated BJP candidate Adv Kashinath Biswas by a massive margin of approximately 67,140 votes, polling around 65 percent of the vote share. That victory was among the largest TMC margins in the Kolkata north cluster of constituencies. In 2016, Paresh Paul again won for the TMC, consolidating the party's hold on a constituency that had previously been a CPI(M) stronghold. The Left had won the seat six times since 1977 before the TMC broke through in 2011.
Socio-Economic Composition
Beleghata is a densely populated urban constituency comprising several wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. It has a mixed socio-economic profile and includes a small but significant Scheduled Caste population. The nomination of Kunal Ghosh, who carries significant party-level stature, signals that the TMC is treating this as a seat requiring a high-profile presence in 2026, possibly anticipating a stronger BJP challenge than in 2021.
