Beleghata election results 2026: TMC’s Kunal Kumar Ghosh defeats BJP’s Partha Chaudhury in West Bengal

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Beleghata (164), Kunal Kumar Ghosh of the All India Trinamool Congress secured victory with 93,757 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Partha Chaudhury, who polled 65,181 votes. TMC won by a margin of 28,576 votes in the constituency. CPI(M)’s Paramita Roy finished third with 10,525 votes, while Congress and other independents remained far behind. NOTA recorded 1,568 votes.Beleghata, constituency number 164, is an urban seat in the Kolkata district, part of the Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency. In 2026, TMC has fielded Kunal Ghosh, a prominent party spokesperson, against BJP's Partha Choudhary. The change of face from the 2021 winner adds considerable interest to this contest.In 2021, Paresh Paul of the TMC retained the seat for the ruling party, defeating BJP's Adv Kashinath Biswas by a massive margin of approximately 67,140 votes, with the TMC polling around 65 per cent. It was among the larger 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) bastion. The Left won the seat six times since 1977 before the TMC broke through in 2011.Beleghata is a densely populated urban constituency comprising several wards of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, with a mixed socio-economic profile and 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.