Binnakandi Assembly constituency is one of the 126 constituencies in the Assam Legislative Assembly, created as a new seat in the 2023 delimitation exercise. It is located in Cachar district in the Barak Valley region of southern Assam and falls under the Silchar Lok Sabha segment. The constituency draws from a diverse electorate in the Barak Valley's rural and semi-urban pockets, adjacent to the Lakhipur and Borkhola segments.
The main political parties in Assam include the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Bodoland People's Front (BPF), United People's Party Liberal (UPPL), and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
As a newly created constituency, Binnakandi does not carry forward a 2021 result. In the adjacent Lakhipur constituency in 2021, BJP's Kaushik Rai won with 55,341 votes over INC by 12,700 votes, while in the former Barkhola, INC's Misbahul Islam Laskar edged out BJP's Amalendu Das by 7,031 votes — reflecting closely contested dynamics in this belt. In 2026, BJP fields Shahab Uddin Majumdar (on AGP's ticket) while Congress fields Rejaul Karim Chowdhury (AJP) for the inaugural contest.
The 2026 Assam Assembly elections will test Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's BJP-led government, which swept to power with a comfortable majority in 2021. With the opposition Congress-AIUDF combine seeking to consolidate anti-incumbency sentiment, every constituency will be a crucial battleground in deciding whether the state returns a second consecutive BJP government.