In the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election for Purbasthali Uttar (269), Gopal Chattopadhyay of the Bharatiya Janata Party won with 1,11,379 votes, defeating All India Trinamool Congress candidate Vasundhara Goswami, who secured 81,153 votes. The BJP registered a margin of 30,226 votes in this contest. CPI(M)’s Pradip Kumar Saha finished third with 25,577 votes, while other candidates from Congress, independents, and smaller parties lagged far behind. NOTA accounted for 1,188 votes.Purbasthali Uttar (constituency no. 269) is a rural constituency in Purba Bardhaman district, part of the Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency. The constituency is entirely rural by character, with its population engaged primarily in agriculture. It covers the Purbasthali II community development block area and is situated in the fertile Hooghly-Damodar plain, which supports extensive paddy and vegetable cultivation. The seat has a significant Scheduled Caste and Other Backward Class population.In 2021, TMC’s Tapan Chatterjee won the seat, with the BJP polling about 40 per cent of the vote. In 2016, the TMC also held Purbasthali Uttar. The constituency has been in TMC hands since 2011. The 2026 contest sees the TMC field Vasundhara Goswami, a new candidate replacing Tapan Chatterjee. The BJP’s Gopal Chattopadhyay and Congress’s Amitava Bhattacharya offer the opposition. Given the BJP’s competitive 2021 performance, despite losing, Purbasthali Uttar is not an easy seat for the TMC. The shift to a new candidate introduces some uncertainty, and the BJP may attempt to convert its prior vote share gains into an outright victory.
