Jhargram assembly election results 2026: BJP's Lakshmi Sau wins by 38,147 votes, breaks Trinamool hold

In Jhargram assembly constituency, BJP's Lakshmi Sau defeated Trinamool candidate Mongal Saren to win a seat held by the Mamata Banerjee-led party since 2011.The Election Commission's website showed that Sau (120,877) polled 38,147 more votes than Saren (82,730).Jhargram in Jhargram district was previously represented by Birbaha Hansda of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. In the 2021 election, she secured 1,09,493 votes (about 54%), defeating BJP’s Sukhmoy Satpati, who polled 71,253 votes (around 35%), a commanding victory margin of 38,240 votes. A forested, Adivasi‑dominated constituency that saw intense Maoist activity in the late 2000s, Jhargram’s key issues include forest‑fringe livelihoods, land rights, and employment for tribal youth, along with reliable road connectivity between remote villages and Jhargram town. Access to quality government health care, residential schools and hostels for ST students, and timely implementation of welfare schemes (including forest‑rights, housing and food security) remain central demands. Uniquely, Jhargram is both a district headquarters and a symbolically important tribal cultural hub, where the choice of Birbaha Hansda—an Adivasi actor‑activist—as MLA carries representational weight beyond numbers. The Assembly segment falls under the Jhargram Lok Sabha constituency, now held by TMC MP Kalipada Soren, who won the 2024 general election by 1,74,048 votes, aligning Assembly and parliamentary representation in this former “Junglemahal” conflict zone.