West Bengal Assembly elections 2026: BJP fields Suvendu Adhikari from two constituencies | Full list of candidates

The West Bengal Assembly elections will be held in two phases in April, with polling on April 23 and April 29. The counting of votes will take place on May 4.

भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केन्द्रीय चुनाव समिति ने होने वाले पश्चिम बंगाल विधानसभा चुनाव 2026 के लिए निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की है। (1/3) pic.twitter.com/VlT3Z8Q9DJ

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According to the list, Suvendu Adhikari will contest from two constituencies — Nandigram and Bhabanipur. The Bhabanipur seat is currently held by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while Adhikari is the sitting BJP MLA from Nandigram. In the 2021 Assembly elections, he had defeated Banerjee from Nandigram by a margin of around 2,000 votes.

Here is the full list of candidates:

1. Coochbehar Uttar (SC) — Sukumar Roy
2. Sitalkuchi (SC) — Savitri Barman
3. Dinhata — Ajay Roy
4. Tufanganj — Malati Rava Roy
5. Kumargram (ST) — Manoj Kumar Oraon
6. Kalchini (ST) — Bishal Lama
7. Alipurduars — Paritosh Das
8. Falakata (SC) — Deepak Barman
9. Dabgram-Phulbari — Sikha Chatterjee
10. Nagrakata (ST) — Puna Bhengra
11. Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) — Anandamay Barman
12. Siliguri — Dr. Shankar Ghosh
13. Phansidewa (ST) — Durga Murmu
14. Goalpokhar — Sarjit Biswas
15. Chakulia — Manoj Jain
16. Karandighi — Adv. Biraj Biswas
17. Kaliaganj (SC) — Utpal Maharaj
18. Raiganj — Kaushik Chowdhury
19. Kushmandi (SC) — Tapas Chandra Roy
20. Kumarganj — Suvendu Sarkar
21. Balurghat — Bidyut Roy
22. Tapan (ST) — Budhrai Tudu
23. Gangarampur (SC) — Satyendra Nath Rai
24. Harirampur — Debabrata Majumder
25. Habibpur (ST) — Joyel Murmu
26. Gazole (SC) — Chinmoy Deb Barman
27. Chanchal — Ratan Das
28. Malatipur — Ashish Das
29. Ratua — Abhishek Singhania
30. Manikchak — Gaur Chandra Mandal
31. Maldaha (SC) — Gopal Chandra Saha
32. Mothabari — Nibaran Ghosh
33. Sujapur — Abhiraj Chaudhary
34. Suti — Mahabir Ghosh
35. Raghunathganj — Surjit Poddar
36. Lalgola — Amar Kumar Das
37. Bhagawangola — Bhaskar Sarkar
38. Murshidabad — Gouri Sankar Ghosh
39. Rejinagar — Bapan Ghosh
40. Beldanga — Bharat Kumar Jhawar
41. Baharamapur — Subrata Moitra
42. Hariharpara — Tanmoy Biswas
43. Nowda — Rana Mondal
44. Domkal — Nanda Dulal Pal
45. Jalangi — Nabakumar Sarkar
46. Karimpur — Samarendranath Ghosh
47. Palashipara — Anima Dutta
48. Kaliganj — Bapan Ghosh
49. Ranaghat Uttar Paschim — Parthasarathi Chatterjee
50. Ranaghat Uttar Purba (SC) — Asim Biswas
51. Chakdaha — Ranjan Chandra Ghosh
52. Haringhata (SC) — Asim Kumar Sarkar
53. Baduria — Sukriti Sarkar
54. Amdanga — Arindam Dey
55. Naihati — Soumitra Chatterjee
56. Bhatpara — Pawan Kumar Singh
57. Baranagar — Saijal Ghosh
58. Deganga — Tarun Kanti Ghosh
59. Basirhat Uttar — Narayan Chandra Mondal
60. Basanti (SC) — Bikash Sardar
61. Patharpratima — Asit Kumar Haldar
62. Kakdwip — Deepankar Jana
63. Raidighi — Palash Rana
64. Canning Purba — Ashim Sapui
65. Diamond Harbour — Dipak Kumar Haldar
66. Bishnupur (SC) — Agniswar Naskar
67. Budge Budge — Dr Tarun Kumar Adak
68. Metiabruz — Veer Bahadur Singh
69. Bhabanipur — Suvendu Adhikari
70. Rashbehari — Swapan Das Gupta
71. Howrah Uttar — Umesh Rai
72. Shibpur — Brindaban Ghosh
73. Uttarpara Dakshin — Swami Mangalanand Puri Maharaj
74. Amta — Amit Samanta
75. Domjur — Gobinda Hazra
76. Saptagram — Swaraj Ghosh
77. Tarakeswar — Santu Pan
78. Pursurah — Biman Ghosh
79. Arambag (SC) — Hemanta Bag
80. Goghat (SC) — Prashanta Dighar
81. Khanakul — Susanta Ghosh
82. Panskura Purba — Subrata Maity
83. Panskura Paschim — Sintu Senapati
84. Moyna — Ashok Dinda
85. Mahisadal — Subhash Panja
86. Haldia (SC) — Pradip Kumar Bijoli
87. Nandigram — Suvendu Adhikari
88. Patashpur — Shria Tapna Maity
89. Kanthi Uttar — Smt. Sumita Sinha
90. Kanthi Dakshin — Arup Kumar Das
91. Ramnagar — Chandra Shekhar Mondal
92. Dantan — Ajit Kumar Jana
93. Nayagram (ST) — Amiya Kisku
94. Gopiballavpur — Rajesh Mahto
95. Jhargram — Lakshmikant Sahu
96. Keshiary (ST) — Bhudra Hembrem
97. Kharagpur Sadar — Dilip Ghosh
98. Narayangarh — Rama Prasad
99. GiriSabang — Amal Pati
100. Kharagpur — Tapan Bhuiya
101. Debra — Shubhashish Om
102. Daspur — Tapan Dutta
103. Ghatal (SC) — Sital Kapat
104. Chandrakona (SC) — Sukanta Dolui
105. Salboni — Biman Mahto
106. Keshpur (SC) — Suvendu Samanta
107. Binpur (ST) — Dr. Pranat Tudu
108. Bandwan (ST) — Labsen Baske
109. Balarampur — Jaladhar Mahto
110. Manbazar (ST) — Moyna Murmu
111. Kashipur — Kamalkanta Hansda
112. Para (SC) — Nadiar Chand Bauri
113. Raghunathpur (SC) — Mamoni Bauri
114. Saltora (SC) — Chandana Bauri
115. Chhatna — Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay
116. Ranibandh (ST) — Khudiram Tudu
117. Raipur (ST) — Kshetra Mohan Hansda
118. Taldangra — Souvik Patra
119. Barjora — Shril Bileshwar Singha
120. Onda — Anirban Shakha
121. Katulpur (SC) — Laxmikanta Majumdar
122. Indus (SC) — Nirmal Kumar Dhara
123. Sonamukhi (SC) — Dibakar Gharami
124. Raina (SC) — Subhash Patra
125. Jamalpur (SC) — Arun Halder
126. Bardhaman Uttar (SC) — Sanjay Das
127. Bhatar — Soumen Karfa
128. Ketugram — Anadi Ghosh (Mathura)
129. Ausgram (SC) — Kalita Maji
130. Pandabeswar — Jitendra Kumar Tewari
131. Durgapur Purba — Chandra Shekhar Banerjee
132. Durgapur Paschim — Lakshman Chandra Ghorui
133. Jamuria — Dr. Bijan Mukherjee
134. Asansol Dakshin — Agnimitra Paul
135. Asansol Uttar — Krishnendu Mukherjee
136. Kulti — Ajay Kumar Poddar
137. Dubrajpur (SC) — Anup Kumar Saha
138. Suri — Jagannath Chattopadhyay
139. Bolpur — Dilip Kumar Ghosh
140. Nanoor (SC) — Khokan Das
141. Mayureswar — Dudh Kumar Mondal
142. Hansan — Nikhil Banerjee

More names are expected to be announced in the coming days.