Uttarpara election results 2026: BJP's Dipanjan Chakraborty wins against TMC's Sirsanya Bandopadhyay

NEW DELHI: Dipanjan Chakraborty of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Uttarpara constituency with 80,612 votes, defeating Trinamool Congress candidate Sirsanya Bandopadhyay by a margin of 10,415 votes. Bandopadhyay secured 70,197 votes. CPI(M)'s Minakshi Mukherjee finished third with 49,820 votes, followed by Congress's Subrata Mukhopadhyay with 1,764 votes.Eight candidates contested from Uttarpara in West Bengal's 2026 Assembly Election, along with NOTA.Uttarpara (constituency no. 185) is a predominantly urban seat situated in Hooghly district, falling under the Sreerampur Lok Sabha constituency. Located along the western bank of the Hooghly River, the constituency covers the Uttarpara Kotrung municipality area and is among the most urbanised seats in the district, with nearly the entire population classified as urban as per the 2011 census.In 2021, TMC candidate Kanchan Mullick, a well-known Bengali film actor, won the seat comfortably, defeating BJP's Prabir Kumar Ghosal by a margin of nearly 36,000 votes. In 2016, the seat was won by Prabir Kumar Ghosal himself, then contesting on a TMC ticket, who defeated the CPI(M)'s Prof Dr Srutinath Praharaj.The constituency has historically oscillated between the Left Front and the TMC since 2001, with the Left having a long earlier reign.