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West Bengal Elections 2026 BJP candidates list is out with 144 names. Check the complete constituency-wise list of BJP candidates for the West Bengal Assembly polls.
Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari | File Image
The West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 will be held in two phases in April. Polling for the first phase is scheduled for April 23, while the second phase will take place on April 29. The counting of votes will be held on May 4, when the results will be announced.
Amid preparations for the polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its first list of 144 candidates for the upcoming election. In a major contest, the party has fielded Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.
The announcement sets up one of the most closely watched battles of the election, with Adhikari also contesting from Nandigram, the seat where he defeated Banerjee in the 2021 Assembly elections.
Check the first list of BJP candidates below:
- Coochbehar Uttar (SC) — Sukumar Roy
- Sitalkuchi (SC) — Savitri Barman
- Dinhata — Ajay Roy
- Tufanganj — Malati Rava Roy
- Kumargram (ST) — Manoj Kumar Oraon
- Kalchini (ST) — Bishal Lama
- Alipurduars — Paritosh Das
- Falakata (SC) — Deepak Barman
- Dabgram-Phulbari — Sikha Chatterjee
- Nagrakata (ST) — Puna Bhengra
- Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) — Anandamay Barman
- Siliguri — Dr. Shankar Ghosh
- Phansidewa (ST) — Durga Murmu
- Goalpokhar — Sarjit Biswas
- Chakulia — Manoj Jain
- Karandighi — Adv. Biraj Biswas
- Kaliaganj (SC) — Utpal Maharaj
- Raiganj — Kaushik Chowdhury
- Kushmandi (SC) — Tapas Chandra Roy
- Kumarganj — Suvendu Sarkar
- Balurghat — Bidyut Roy
- Tapan (ST) — Budhrai Tudu
- Gangarampur (SC) — Satyendra Nath Rai
- Harirampur — Debabrata Majumder
- Habibpur (ST) — Joyel Murmu
- Gazole (SC) — Chinmoy Deb Barman
- Chanchal — Ratan Das
- Malatipur — Ashish Das
- Ratua — Abhishek Singhania
- Manikchak — Gaur Chandra Mandal
- Maldaha (SC) — Gopal Chandra Saha
- Mothabari — Nibaran Ghosh
- Sujapur — Abhiraj Chaudhary
- Suti — Mahabir Ghosh
- Raghunathganj — Surjit Poddar
- Lalgola — Amar Kumar Das
- Bhagawangola — Bhaskar Sarkar
- Murshidabad — Gouri Sankar Ghosh
- Rejinagar — Bapan Ghosh
- Beldanga — Bharat Kumar Jhawar
- Baharamapur — Subrata Moitra
- Hariharpara — Tanmoy Biswas
- Nowda — Rana Mondal
- Domkal — Nanda Dulal Pal
- Jalangi — Nabakumar Sarkar
- Karimpur — Samarendranath Ghosh
- Palashipara — Anima Dutta
- Kaliganj — Bapan Ghosh
- Ranaghat Uttar Paschim — Parthasarathi Chatterjee
- Ranaghat Uttar Purba (SC) — Asim Biswas
- Chakdaha — Ranjan Chandra Ghosh
- Haringhata (SC) — Asim Kumar Sarkar
- Baduria — Sukriti Sarkar
- Amdanga — Arindam Dey
- Naihati — Soumitra Chatterjee
- Bhatpara — Pawan Kumar Singh
- Baranagar — Saijal Ghosh
- Deganga — Tarun Kanti Ghosh
- Basirhat Uttar — Narayan Chandra Mondal
- Basanti (SC) — Bikash Sardar
- Patharpratima — Asit Kumar Haldar
- Kakdwip — Deepankar Jana
- Raidighi — Palash Rana
- Canning Purba — Ashim Sapui
- Diamond Harbour — Dipak Kumar Haldar
- Bishnupur (SC) — Agniswar Naskar
- Budge Budge — Dr Tarun Kumar Adak
- Metiabruz — Veer Bahadur Singh
- Bhabanipur — Suvendu Adhikari
- Rashbehari — Swapan Das Gupta
- Howrah Uttar — Umesh Rai
- Shibpur — Brindaban Ghosh
- Uttarpara Dakshin — Swami Mangalanand Puri Maharaj
- Amta — Amit Samanta
- Domjur — Gobinda Hazra
- Saptagram — Swaraj Ghosh
- Tarakeswar — Santu Pan
- Pursurah — Biman Ghosh
- Arambag (SC) — Hemanta Bag
- Goghat (SC) — Prashanta Dighar
- Khanakul — Susanta Ghosh
- Panskura Purba — Subrata Maity
- Panskura Paschim — Sintu Senapati
- Moyna — Ashok Dinda
- Mahisadal — Subhash Panja
- Haldia (SC) — Pradip Kumar Bijoli
- Nandigram — Suvendu Adhikari
- Patashpur — Shria Tapna Maity
- Kanthi Uttar — Smt. Sumita Sinha
- Kanthi Dakshin — Arup Kumar Das
- Ramnagar — Chandra Shekhar Mondal
- Dantan — Ajit Kumar Jana
- Nayagram (ST) — Amiya Kisku
- Gopiballavpur — Rajesh Mahto
- Jhargram — Lakshmikant Sahu
- Keshiary (ST) — Bhudra Hembrem
- Kharagpur Sadar — Dilip Ghosh
- Narayangarh — Rama Prasad Giri
- Sabang — Amal Pati
- Kharagpur — Tapan Bhuiya
- Debra — Shubhashish Om
- Daspur — Tapan Dutta
- Ghatal (SC) — Sital Kapat
- Chandrakona (SC) — Sukanta Dolui
- Salboni — Biman Mahto
- Keshpur (SC) — Suvendu Samanta
- Binpur (ST) — Dr. Pranat Tudu
- Bandwan (ST) — Labsen Baske
- Balarampur — Jaladhar Mahto
- Manbazar (ST) — Moyna Murmu
- Kashipur — Kamalkanta Hansda
- Para (SC) — Nadiar Chand Bauri
- Raghunathpur (SC) — Mamoni Bauri
- Saltora (SC) — Chandana Bauri
- Chhatna — Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay
- Ranibandh (ST) — Khudiram Tudu
- Raipur (ST) — Kshetra Mohan Hansda
- Taldangra — Souvik Patra
- Barjora — Shril Bileshwar Singha
- Onda — Anirban Shakha
- Katulpur (SC) — Laxmikanta Majumdar
- Indus (SC) — Nirmal Kumar Dhara
- Sonamukhi (SC) — Dibakar Gharami
- Raina (SC) — Subhash Patra
- Jamalpur (SC) — Arun Halder
- Bardhaman Uttar (SC) — Sanjay Das
- Bhatar — Soumen Karfa
- Ketugram — Anadi Ghosh (Mathura)
- Ausgram (SC) — Kalita Maji
- Pandabeswar — Jitendra Kumar Tewari
- Durgapur Purba — Chandra Shekhar Banerjee
- Durgapur Paschim — Lakshman Chandra Ghorui
- Jamuria — Dr. Bijan Mukherjee
- Asansol Dakshin — Agnimitra Paul
- Asansol Uttar — Krishnendu Mukherjee
- Kulti — Ajay Kumar Poddar
- Dubrajpur (SC) — Anup Kumar Saha
- Suri — Jagannath Chattopadhyay
- Bolpur — Dilip Kumar Ghosh
- Nanoor (SC) — Khokan Das
- Mayureswar — Dudh Kumar Mondal
- Hansan — Nikhil Banerjee
- Panskura Purba — Subrata Maity
- Narayangarh — Rama Prasad Giri
This is the first list of candidates released on Tuesday, March 16, 2026, and additional names are expected to be announced in subsequent lists as the party finalises more candidates.
Location :
West Bengal, India, India
First Published:
March 16, 2026, 18:02 IST
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