Panihati Assembly Election Results 2026 Live Updates: BJP's Ratna Debnath leads by over 20,000 votes
THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 04, 2026, 23:35:50 IST
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Panihati Assembly Election Results 2026 Live Updates: BJP's Ratna Debnath leads by over 20,000 votes

Kalatan Dasgupta (Communist Party of India (Marxist)), Tirthankar Ghosh (Trinamool Congress), Ratna Debnath (Bharatiya Janata Party), Subhashish Bhattacharya (Tata) (Congress), Swaminath Kori (Bahujan Samaj Party), Afsana Khatoon (Aam Janata Unnayan party), Chandra Shekhar Chowdhuri (Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)), Biswanath Dey (Independent), Shekh Imanur Rahman (Independent), Sanjib Kumar Ghosh (Independent), and Sadhana Chakraborty (Independent) — 11 candidates contesting from Panihati in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election. Votes cast across this constituency are now being counted, and early trends from each round will be closely watched as the day unfolds. Panihati is a General constituency under the Dum Dum Lok Sabha segment. In 2021, Nirmal Ghosh of the Trinamool Congress won the seat. The 2021 turnout was 73.6%. the final result will show which candidate has secured the most votes in Panihati in 2026.
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Panihati Assembly Election Results 2026 Live Updates
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Panihati Election Results 2026: 11 candidates in the count May 4
Key candidates contesting in Panihati include Kalatan Dasgupta (CPM), Tirthankar Ghosh (TMC), Ratna Debnath (BJP), and Subhashish Bhattacharya (Tata) (CONG) among others. As counting progresses, round-wise updates will reveal how votes are distributed among them.
Disclaimer: This Data is provided by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) | MyNeta and sourced from election affidavits available in the public domain of the Election Commission of India.
Panihati is a General constituency in West Bengal, falling under the Dum Dum Lok Sabha segment. A turnout of 73.6% was recorded in the 2021 election. 11 candidates are contesting in 2026: Kalatan Dasgupta (Communist Party of India (Marxist)), Tirthankar Ghosh (Trinamool Congress), Ratna Debnath (Bharatiya Janata Party), Subhashish Bhattacharya (Tata) (Congress), Swaminath Kori (Bahujan Samaj Party), Afsana Khatoon (Aam Janata Unnayan party), Chandra Shekhar Chowdhuri (Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)), Biswanath Dey (Independent), Shekh Imanur Rahman (Independent), Sanjib Kumar Ghosh (Independent), and Sadhana Chakraborty (Independent). In the 2021 Assembly Election, Nirmal Ghosh of the Trinamool Congress won Panihati. round-by-round trends from Panihati will be closely tracked. The constituency's result will add to West Bengal's state-wide tally across its 294 Assembly segments. This Live Blog is AI-assisted using data from Pvalue.