Entally election results 2026: TMC’s Sandipan Saha defeats BJP’s Priyanka Tibrewal in West Bengal

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Entally (163), Sandipan Saha of the All India Trinamool Congress secured victory with 94,427 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dr. Priyanka Tibrewal, who polled 60,421 votes. TMC won by a margin of 34,006 votes in the constituency. CPI(M)’s Abdul Rauf finished third with 4,904 votes, while Congress and other independent candidates remained far behind. NOTA recorded 692 votes.Entally, constituency number 163, is a wholly urban seat in Kolkata district, part of the Kolkata Uttar Lok Sabha constituency. In 2026, TMC has nominated Sandipan Saha, while the BJP fields Priyanka Tibrewal, a lawyer and party leader who contested the Bhawanipore by-election against Mamata Banerjee in 2021.In 2021, sitting TMC MLA Swarna Kamal Saha retained the seat, with the TMC polling approximately 65 per cent of valid votes against the BJP's 28 per cent. In 2016, Saha again prevailed from Entally, which he has held continuously since 2011, making him one of the most firmly entrenched TMC MLAs in Kolkata North. The constituency has a voter turnout that generally hovers around the high sixties in assembly elections.Entally is a historic area of Kolkata, associated with the city's old bazaar culture and significant Muslim and working-class populations. The nomination of Tibrewal by the BJP brings a combative and well-known opponent to what is otherwise a relatively safe TMC seat.