Keshpur election results 2026: TMC’s Seuli Saha defeats BJP’s Suvendu Samanta in West Bengal

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Keshpur (235), Seuli Saha of the All India Trinamool Congress secured a decisive victory with 1,43,123 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suvendu Samanta, who polled 93,018 votes. TMC won by a margin of 50,105 votes in the constituency. CPI(M)’s Gurupada Mondal finished third with 10,432 votes, while Congress and other candidates remained far behind. NOTA recorded 1,553 votes.Keshpur (SC) is a reserved constituency in Paschim Medinipur district, falling under the Ghatal Lok Sabha seat. In 2026, sitting TMC MLA Seuli Saha seeks re-election, facing BJP's Suvendu Samanta in a contest set against a backdrop of heightened political competition in this part of West Bengal.In 2021, Seuli Saha of the TMC won the seat, defeating BJP's Pritish Ranjan Kuar by a margin of around 20,720 votes, with the TMC polling approximately 51 per cent of valid votes. The BJP managed roughly 42 per cent, reflecting the party's growing reach in rural Paschim Medinipur even as the TMC held on. In 2016, Saha had won far more decisively, trouncing the CPI(M)'s Rameswar Doloi by a margin of over 100,000 votes, polling nearly 72 per cent — a reflection of the Left's collapse in the district at the time.The constituency covers 100 per cent rural population as per the 2011 census, with over 26 per cent Scheduled Caste population. Keshpur has historically been a politically charged area, with instances of electoral violence associated with the region in past decades. Voter turnout remains consistently high, reaching over 88 per cent in 2021. The fall in Saha's margin from 2016 to 2021 underlines the competitive nature of the seat ahead of the 2026 poll, where her incumbency will be tested against the BJP's renewed push.