Falta Election Result 2026: Why Are BJP Workers Celebrating Before Final Results?

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:01]Hello and welcome viewers. You're watching News X and I'm Kriti Mehta.

[00:00:04]Now, today the counting of votes for the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal is underway. Remember, repolling was ordered by the Election Commission of India for the Falta Assembly constituency in West Bengal on the 21st of May and today the counting of votes is underway. Repolling was necessitated after violence had broken out in Falta Assembly constituency leading the Election Commission of India to go for repolls. All 285 booths of Falta were asked to underway undergo repolling. Now, early trends are in as counting is underway today. BJP's Debangshu Panda is leading. Let's take a look at what the numbers are suggesting.

[00:00:46]We'll take a look at what the Election Commission of India data is saying.

[00:00:51]Debangshu Panda, like I said, is leading.

[00:00:54]He has secured 111,270 votes as of now in early trends and he's leading by 76,397 votes against Communist Party of India Marxist candidate Shambhunath Kurmi who has as of now only 34,873 votes and behind him are candidates of the Congress Party at number three position Abdul Razak Molla who has secured 9,284 votes and Trinamool Congress' Jahangir Khan who only has 5,319 votes as of now. So, there's a huge margin by which the BJP candidate Debangshu Panda is leading more than 76,000 votes, but BJP workers are saying that they are going to win the Falta Assembly constituency by a margin of even more than 1 lakh votes, about 2 lakh votes. Celebrations was already underway in the BJP carders in West Bengal. So, we'll watch out how the final results look like. As of now, Dibangshu Panda of the BJP is leading. Remember, the BJP, of course, stormed to power in West Bengal after ending Trinamool Congress's 50's 15-year rules. Keep watching this space on NewsX.