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Bhatpara election results 2026: Pawan Kumar Singh wins Bhatpara for BJP

Bhatpara election results 2026: Pawan Kumar Singh wins Bhatpara for BJP

Pawan Kumar Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party has won the Bhatpara constituency with 61,683 votes. He defeated Amit Gupta of the All India Trinamool Congress, who secured 38,876 votes, by a margin of 22,807 votes.Bhatpara is a general category constituency in North 24 Parganas, falling under the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat. The constituency is known for its jute mill workers and has been historically associated with Left politics before becoming a hotly contested TMC-BJP battleground. In 2026, TMC has fielded Amit Gupta, while BJP’s Pawan Kumar Singh — who won the seat in 2021 — seeks re-election.In 2021, BJP’s Pawan Kumar Singh won with 57,244 votes, defeating TMC’s Jitendra Shaw by 13,687 votes. In 2016, TMC had held the seat. The Bhatpara belt, encompassing the Barrackpore parliamentary constituency represented at various points by BJP’s Arjun Singh, has been a zone of intense political rivalry and periodic post-poll violence.

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