Sreerampur election results 2026: BJP's Bhaskar Bhattacharya wins against TMC's Tanmoy Ghosh

NEW DELHI: Bhaskar Bhattacharya of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Sreerampur constituency with 85,644 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Tanmoy Ghosh by a margin of 8,685 votes. Ghosh secured 76,959 votes. CPI(M)'s Nabanita Chakraborty finished third with 17,136 votes, followed by Congress's Subhankar Sarkar with 2,884 votes.Eleven candidates contested from Sreerampur in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Sreerampur (constituency no. 186), also rendered as Serampore, is located in Hooghly district and forms part of the Sreerampur Lok Sabha segment. The constituency encompasses parts of the historic Serampore municipality, Rishra municipality, and adjoining gram panchayats. Serampore holds considerable historical significance as a former Danish colonial settlement and an early centre of Christian missionary activity in Bengal, including the famous Serampore College founded in 1818.In 2021, TMC candidate Sudipta Roy retained the seat, defeating BJP's Kabir Sankar Bose by over 23,000 votes. In 2016, Sudipto Roy of the TMC also won, defeating Congress's Subhankar Sarkar, the very candidate fielded by Congress in 2026. The seat had been firmly in TMC hands since 2011.Tanmoy Ghosh was a new face for the TMC in 2026, replacing the incumbent Sudipta Roy. Subhankar Sarkar, having previously run on a Congress ticket in 2016, returned to contest from the same party once more.