Panchla election results 2026: TMC’s Gulsan Mullick defeats BJP’s Ranjan Paul in West Bengal

In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Panchla (175), Gulsan Mullick of the All India Trinamool Congress secured victory with 1,23,967 votes, defeating Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Ranjan Paul, who polled 85,647 votes. TMC won by a margin of 38,320 votes in the constituency. All India Forward Bloc’s Farid Mollah finished third with 20,644 votes, while Congress and other candidates remained far behind. NOTA recorded 1,739 votes.Panchla, located in Howrah district under the Howrah Lok Sabha constituency, sends sitting TMC MLA Gulshan Mullick back into the fray in 2026, this time against BJP's Ranjan Kumar Paul. The constituency is a mix of rural and urban areas on Howrah's outskirts, with roughly two-thirds urban population and a notable Scheduled Caste demographic.In 2021, Gulshan Mullick retained the seat for the TMC, defeating BJP's Mohit Lal Ghanti by approximately 32,751 votes, with the TMC polling just under 49 per cent of valid votes. The BJP came in at around 33 per cent, a significant improvement from its previous showing but still insufficient to dislodge the long-serving MLA. In 2016, Mullick again won, this time seeing off the All India Forward Bloc's Doli Roy, polling over 53 per cent of the vote. Roy had historically been a strong competitor in the constituency.Mullick is in fact a veteran of Panchla politics, having first been elected from the seat as far back as 1996 on a Congress ticket. He subsequently aligned with the TMC and has held the seat continuously since 2011. The constituency falls within the Howrah Lok Sabha segment represented by actor-politician Prasun Banerjee. In 2026, Mullick faces the challenge of a fresher BJP candidate and an electorate that has shown a growing willingness to consider alternatives.