Vidhan Sabha · Assembly constituency 170 of West Bengal

Howrah Uttar

GeneralWest BengalAC 170Lok Sabha: Howrah

—Electors · 2026

—Turnout

13Candidates

0Villages placed

MLA · elected 2026

Umesh Rai

BJP · Bharatiya Janata Party

67,539

Votes

50.8%

Vote share

11,250

Margin

Source: Election Commission of India, West Bengal Assembly 2026 (via OpenCity).

Election history

Assembly results for Howrah Uttar

Contests since the 2008 delimitation, including by-elections where we have them.

Year

Winner & runner-up

Vote %

Margin

2026

Umesh Rai BJP

def. Gautam Chowdhury (AITC)

50.8%

11,250

2021

Gautam Chowdhuri AITC

def. Umesh Rai (BJP)

47.8%

5,522

2016

Laxmi Ratan Shukla AITC

def. Santosh Kumar Pathak (INC)

46.0%

26,959

2011

Asok Ghosh AITC

def. Nimai Samanta (CPI(M))

49.3%

19,608

2026 vote share

BJP Umesh Rai50.8%

AITC Gautam Chowdhury42.3%

CPI(M) Gautam Ray4.5%

Others (10 candidates)1.8%

Source: Election Commission of India, West Bengal Assembly 2026 (via OpenCity). NOTA excluded.

Source: Election Commission of India, West Bengal Assembly 2026 (via OpenCity); TCPD Lok Dhaba, Trivedi Centre for Political Data, Ashoka University.

13 candidates

Every candidate, 2026

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Umesh Rai	Bharatiya Janata Party	67,539	50.76%
2	Gautam Chowdhury	All India Trinamool Congress	56,289	42.30%
3	Gautam Ray	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	5,997	4.51%
4	Om Prakash Jaiswal	Indian National Congress	920	0.69%
5	Soumen Manna	Independent	503	0.38%
6	Harinaarayan Chowdhary	Independent	250	0.19%
7	Sisir Samanta	Independent	168	0.13%
8	Priti Devi	Bahujan Samaj Party	150	0.11%
9	Shankar Kha	Independent	144	0.11%
10	Ganeshlal Gupta	National Republic Party Of India	93	0.07%
11	Chandra Kanta Jaiswal	Independent	56	0.04%
12	Monoranjan Polley	Independent	56	0.04%
13	Gautam Verma	Independent	50	0.04%

Source: Election Commission of India, West Bengal Assembly 2026 (via OpenCity). NOTA votes are not listed.

0 villages

Villages in Howrah Uttar

Placed by map location where we have it (✓), otherwise estimated from their mandal (≈). Boundaries are approximate — the voter list is the final word.

We haven't been able to place any villages in this constituency yet.

Boundaries: Assembly constituency boundaries, DataMeet (CC BY 2.5 IN).