Baishnabnagar assembly results 2026: TMC's Chandana Sarkar loses to BJP's Raju Karmakar, trails behind by 46,881 votes

In West Bengal's Baishnabnagar, Bharatiya Janata Party's Raju Karmakar defeated All India Trinamool Congress' Chandana Sarkar by 46,881 votes. Raju Karmakar secured 1,08,692 votes, while Sarkar got 61,811 votes.The 2026 contest at Baishnabnagar will see TMC's Chandana Sarkar take on BJP's Raju Karmakar and Congress's Mamuni Mandal.Baishnabnagar is a general constituency in Malda district, under the Maldaha Dakshin Lok Sabha seat. It covers a largely rural area with a substantial SC population of around 29 per cent and a moderate Muslim presence, making it a genuinely competitive seat with a multi-community electorate. The constituency sits near the Bangladesh border and has a mix of Hindu and Muslim voters unlike the more heavily Muslim seats in the Maldaha Uttar zone.In 2016, the BJP's Swadhin Kumar Sarkar won the seat by defeating Congress's Azizul Haque by a narrow margin of around 4,500 votes — a notable BJP win in pre-surge Malda. The 2021 election saw TMC's Chandana Sarkar win the seat amid the BJP wave, in what was itself a close contest given the constituency's competitive demographics. Chandana Sarkar, the sitting MLA, is again TMC's candidate for 2026 and will seek to consolidate her position. BJP's Raju Karmakar and Congress's Mamuni Mandal will look to break TMC's hold in what remains one of Malda's genuinely competitive constituencies.