In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for the Daspur constituency (seat number 230), Tapan Kumar Dutta of the Bharatiya Janata Party emerged victorious, securing 1,33,071 votes. He defeated the All India Trinamool Congress candidate, Ashis Hudait, who polled 1,00,937 votes. The victory margin stood at 32,134 votes.
Key Candidates and Vote Share
The CPI(M) candidate, Ranajit Pal, finished third with 12,278 votes. Other candidates and independents lagged far behind. The NOTA option recorded 1,711 votes.
Constituency Details
The Daspur seat falls under the Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency. It comprises the Daspur II community development block and several gram panchayat areas from the Daspur I block. The constituency is largely agricultural with a predominantly rural electorate.
Historical Context
In the 2021 assembly elections, the incumbent MLA Mamata Bhunia of the TMC had retained the seat comfortably, defeating the BJP's Prashant Bera by a margin of approximately 26,842 votes. She had polled around 52 per cent of the total votes cast. Bhunia first came to prominence after the death of her husband, veteran TMC leader Ajit Bhunia, in 2012, winning the subsequent by-election. She went on to consolidate the TMC's hold over the constituency.
In 2016, Mamata Bhunia again prevailed, with the Left Front's CPI(M) providing the principal opposition at that time, before the BJP's dramatic rise in West Bengal. Historically, Daspur was a Left stronghold, with the CPI(M) dominating the seat across much of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, before the TMC began making inroads in the 2000s.
Significance of 2026 Results
The substitution of Mamata Bhunia with Ashis Hudait as the TMC candidate in 2026 was a significant change of face in a seat the party had held for over a decade. The BJP's victory marks a shift in the political landscape of this constituency.
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