18th West Bengal Assembly

18th West Bengal Assembly
18th West Bengal Assembly
Overview
Legislative body	West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Term	15 May 2026 –
Election	2026
Government	Adhikari ministry
Opposition	DTC
Members	294
Speaker of the House	Rathindra Bose
Leader of the House	Suvendu Adhikari
Leader of the Opposition	Ritabrata Banerjee
Deputy Leaders of the Opposition	Javed Khan ; Sandipan Saha ; Sabina Yeasmin ; Seuli Saha
Party control	BJP

Last updated November 05, 2026

The Eighteenth Legislative Assembly of West Bengal constituted after the 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections which were concluded on 23 April & 29 April 2026 and the results announced on 4 May 2026.^[1]

Outcome

Party- wise

Date	Rulling Party	Seats	Party in Opposition	Seats	Others
As of 4 May 2026	Bharatiya Janata Party	208	Trinamool Congress	80	6 ^[a]
As of 5 November 2026	Bharatiya Janata Party	209	Democratic Trinamool Congress	65	20 ^[b]

Alliance- wise

Date	Rulling coalition	Seats	Alliance in opposition	Seats	Others
As of 4 May 2026	National Democratic Alliance	208	Trinamool Congress+	80	6 ^[c]
As of 5 November 2026	National Democratic Alliance	209	Democratic Trinamool Congress+	65	20 ^[d]

Office bearers

S.No	Position	Name		Constituency	Office Taken	Ref
1	Speaker	Rathindra Bose	BJP	Cooch Behar Dakshin	14 May 2026	^[2]
2	Leader of the House (Chief Minister)	Suvendu Adhikari		Bhabanipur	9 May 2026	^[3]
3	Government Chief Whip	Amlan Bhaduri		English Bazar	18 June 2026	^[4]
3	Leader of the Opposition	Ritabrata Banerjee	DTC	Uluberia Purba	3 June 2026	^[5]
4	Deputy Leaders of the Opposition	Javed Khan		Kasba
5		Sandipan Saha		Entally
6		Sabina Yeasmin		Sujapur
7		Seuli Saha		Keshpur
8	Opposition Chief Whip	Akhruzzaman		Raghunathganj

Members of Legislative Assembly

District	No.	Constituency	Name		Remarks
Cooch Behar	1	Mekliganj (SC)	Dadhiram Ray	BJP
	2	Mathabhanga (SC)	Nisith Pramanik		Cabinet Minister
	3	Cooch Behar Uttar	Sukumar Ray
	4	Cooch Behar Dakshin	Rathindra Bose		Speaker
	5	Sitalkuchi (SC)	Sabitri Barman
	6	Sitai (SC)	Sangita Roy	MAITC
	7	Dinhata	Ajay Ray	BJP
	8	Natabari	Girija Shankar Ray
	9	Tufanganj	Malati Rava Roy		Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Alipurduar	10	Kumargram (ST)	Manoj Kumar Oraon		Cabinet Minister
	11	Kalchini (ST)	Bishal Lama		Minister of State
	12	Alipurduars	Paritosh Das
	13	Falakata (SC)	Dipak Barman		Cabinet Minister
	14	Madarihat (ST)	Laxuman Limbu
Jalpaiguri	15	Dhupguri (SC)	Naresh Roy
	16	Maynaguri (SC)	Dalim Chandra Roy
	17	Jalpaiguri (SC)	Ananta Deb Adhikari
	18	Rajganj (SC)	Dinesh Sarkar
	19	Dabgram-Phulbari	Shikha Chatterjee
	20	Mal (ST)	Sukra Munda
	21	Nagrakata	Puna Bhengra
Kalimpong	22	Kalimpong	Bharat Chhetri
Darjeeling	23	Darjeeling	Noman Rai
	24	Kurseong	Sonam Lama
	25	Matigara–Naxalbari (SC)	Anandamoy Barman		Minister of State
	26	Siliguri	Shankar Ghosh		Cabinet Minister
	27	Phansidewa (ST)	Durga Murmu
Uttar Dinajpur	28	Chopra	Hamidul Rahaman	MAITC
	29	Islampur	Kanaia Lal Agarwal
	30	Goalpokhar	Md. Ghulam Rabbani
	31	Chakulia	Minhajul Arfin Azad
	32	Karandighi	Biraj Biswas	BJP	Minister of State
	33	Hemtabad (SC)	Haripada Barman
	34	Kaliaganj (SC)	Utpal Brahmacharo
	35	Raiganj	Koushik Chowdhury		Minister of State
	36	Itahar	Mosaraf Hussen	MAITC
Dakshin Dinajpur	37	Kushmandi (SC)	Tapas Chandra Roy	BJP
	38	Kumarganj	Toraf Hossain Mandal	DTC
	39	Balurghat	Bidyut Kumar Roy	BJP
	40	Tapan (ST)	Budhrai Tudu
	41	Gangarampur (SC)	Satyendra Nath Roy
	42	Harirampur	Biplab Mitra	DTC
Malda	43	Habibpur (ST)	Joyel Murmu	BJP	Minister of State
	44	Gazole (SC)	Chinmoy Deb Barman	BJP
	45	Chanchal	Prasun Banerjee	DTC
	46	Harishchandrapur	Md. Matibur Rahaman
	47	Malatipur	Abdur Rahim Boxi
	48	Ratua	Samar Mukherjee
	49	Manikchak	Gour Chandra Mandal	BJP
	50	Maldaha (SC)	Gopal Chandra Saha
	51	English Bazar	Amlan Bhaduri
	52	Mothabari	Md. Najrul Islam	DTC
	53	Sujapur	Sabina Yeasmin	DTC
	54	Baisnabnagar	Raju Karmakar	BJP
Murshidabad	55	Farakka	Motab Shaikh	INC
	56	Samserganj	Mohammad Noor Alam	DTC
	57	Suti	Emani Biswas	DTC
	58	Jangipur	Chitta Mukherjee	BJP
	59	Raghunathganj	Akhruzzaman	DTC
	60	Sagardighi	Bayron Biswas
	61	Lalgola	Abdul Aziz
	62	Bhagabangola	Reyat Hossain Sarkar	MAITC
	63	Raninagar	Julfikar Ali	INC
	64	Murshidabad	Gouri Shankar Ghosh	BJP	Cabinet Minister
	65	Nabagram (SC)	Dilip Saha
	66	Khargram (SC)	Mitali Mal
	67	Burwan (SC)	Sukhen Kumar Bagdi
	68	Kandi	Gargi Das Ghosh		Minister of State
	69	Bharatpur	Mustafizur Rahaman	DTC
	70	Rejinagar	Humayun Kabir	AJUP	Resigned on 15 May 2026
	70	Rejinagar	Shankharav Sarkar	BJP	Elected in 2026 by-election
	71	Beldanga	Bharat Kumar Jhawar
	72	Baharampur	Subrata Maitra
	73	Hariharpara	Niamot Sheikh	DTC
	74	Naoda	Humayun Kabir	AJUP
	75	Domkal	Md. Mostafijur Rahaman	CPI(M)
	76	Jalangi	Babar Ali	DTC
Nadia	77	Karimpur	Samarendranath Ghosh	BJP
	78	Tehatta	Subrata Kabiraj	BJP
	79	Palashipara	Rukbanur Rahman	DTC
	80	Kaliganj	Alifa Ahmed	DTC
	81	Nakashipara	Santanu Dey	BJP
	82	Chapra	Jeber Sekh	DTC
	83	Krishnanagar Uttar	Tarak Nath Chatterjee	BJP
	84	Nabadwip	Srutisekhar Goswami
	85	Krishnanagar Dakshin	Sadhan Ghosh
	86	Santipur	Swapan Kumar Das
	87	Ranaghat Uttar Paschim	Parthasarathi Chatterjee
	88	Krishnaganj (SC)	Sukanta Biswas
	89	Ranaghat Uttar Purba (SC)	Ashim Biswas
	90	Ranaghat Dakshin (SC)	Ashis Kumar Biswas
	91	Chakdaha	Bankim Chandra Ghosh
	92	Kalyani (SC)	Anupam Biswas
	93	Haringhata (SC)	Ashim Kumar Sarkar
North 24 Parganas	94	Bagdah (SC)	Soma Thakur
	95	Bangaon Uttar (SC)	Ashok Kirtania		Cabinet Minister
	96	Bangaon Dakshin (SC)	Swapan Majumder
	97	Gaighata (SC)	Subrata Thakur
	98	Swarupnagar (SC)	Bina Mondal	DTC
	99	Baduria	Burhanul Mukaddim	DTC
	100	Habra	Debdas Mondal	BJP
	101	Ashoknagar	Sumay Hira	BJP
	102	Amdanga	Mohammad Kasem Siddique	DTC
	103	Bijpur	Sudipta Das	BJP
	104	Naihati	Sumitro Chatterjee
	105	Bhatpara	Pawan Kumar Singh
	106	Jagatdal	Rajesh Kumar
	107	Noapara	Arjun Singh		Cabinet Minister
	108	Barrackpore	Kaustuv Bagchi
	109	Khardaha	Kalyan Chakraborty		Cabinet Minister
	110	Dum Dum Uttar	Sourav Sikdar
	111	Panihati	Ratna Debnath
	112	Kamarhati	Madan Mitra	DTC
	113	Baranagar	Sajal Ghosh	BJP
	114	Dum Dum	Arijit Bakshi
	115	Rajarhat New Town	Piyush Kanodia
	116	Bidhannagar	Sharadwat Mukhopadhyay		Cabinet Minister
	117	Rajarhat Gopalpur	Tarunjyoti Tewari
	118	Madhyamgram	Rathin Ghosh	MAITC
	119	Barasat	Sankar Chatterjee	BJP
	120	Deganga	Anisur Rahaman Bidesh	MAITC
	121	Haroa	Abdul Matin Muhammad
	122	Minakhan (SC)	Usha Rani Mondal
	123	Sandeshkhali (ST)	Sanat Sardar	BJP
	124	Basirhat Dakshin	Surajit Mitra	DTC
	125	Basirhat Uttar	Mohammad Tauseef Rahman	DTC
	126	Hingalganj (SC)	Rekha Patra	BJP
South 24 Parganas	127	Gosaba (SC)	Bikarna Naskar	BJP
	128	Basanti (SC)	Nilima Mistry Bishal	DTC
	129	Kultali (SC)	Ganesh Chandra Mondal
	130	Patharpratima	Samir Kumar Jana
	131	Kakdwip	Dipankar Jana	BJP	Minister of State
	132	Sagar	Sumanta Mandal	BJP
	133	Kulpi	Barnali Dhara	DTC
	134	Raidighi	Tapas Mondal
	135	Mandirbazar (SC)	Joydeb Halder
	136	Jaynagar (SC)	Biswanath Das
	137	Baruipur Purba (SC)	Bivas Sardar
	138	Canning Paschim (SC)	Paresh Ram Das
	139	Canning Purba	Mohammad Baharul Islam
	140	Baruipur Paschim	Biman Banerjee
	141	Magrahat Purba (SC)	Sarmistha Purkait
	142	Magrahat Paschim	Md. Samim Ahamed Molla
	143	Diamond Harbour	Pannalal Halder
	144	Falta	Debangshu Panda	BJP
	145	Satgachia	Agniswar Naskar	BJP
	146	Bishnupur (SC)	Dilip Mondal	DTC
	147	Sonarpur Dakshin	Roopa Ganguly	BJP
	148	Bhangar	Naushad Siddiqui	AISF
	149	Kasba	Javed Ahmed Khan	DTC	Deputy Leader of Opposition
	150	Jadavpur	Sarbori Mukherjee	BJP
	151	Sonarpur Uttar	Debasish Dhar
	152	Tollygunge	Papiya Adhikari
	153	Behala Purba	Sankar Sikder
	154	Behala Paschim	Indranil Khan		Minister of State (Independent Charge)
	155	Maheshtala	Subhasis Das	DTC
	156	Budge Budge	Ashok Kumar Deb
	157	Metiaburuz	Abdul Khaleque Molla
Kolkata	158	Kolkata Port	Firhad Hakim
	159	Bhabanipur	Suvendu Adhikari	BJP	Chief Minister
	160	Rashbehari	Swapan Dasgupta	BJP	Cabinet Minister
	161	Ballygunge	Sovandeb Chattopadhyay	MAITC
	162	Chowrangee	Nayna Bandyopadhyay	MAITC
	163	Entally	Sandipan Saha	DTC	Deputy Leader of Opposition
	164	Beleghata	Kunal Ghosh	MAITC
	165	Jorasanko	Vijay Ojha	BJP
	166	Shyampukur	Purnima Chakraborty		Minister of State
	167	Maniktala	Tapas Roy		Cabinet Minister
	168	Kashipur–Belgachhia	Ritesh Tiwari
Howrah	169	Bally	Sanjay Kumar Singh
	170	Howrah Uttar	Umesh Rai		Minister of State
	171	Howrah Madhya	Arup Roy	DTC
	172	Shibpur	Rudranil Ghosh	BJP
	173	Howrah Dakshin	Nandita Chowdhury	DTC
	174	Sankrail (SC)	Priya Paul
	175	Panchla	Gulshan Mullick
	176	Uluberia Purba	Ritabrata Banerjee		Leader of the Opposition
	177	Uluberia Uttar (SC)	Chiran Bera	BJP
	178	Uluberia Dakshin	Pulak Roy	DTC
	179	Shyampur	Hiran Chatterjee	BJP
	180	Bagnan	Arunava Sen	DTC
	181	Amta	Amit Samanta	BJP
	182	Udaynarayanpur	Samir Kumar Panja	DTC
	183	Jagatballavpur	Anupam Ghosh	BJP
	184	Domjur	Tapas Maity	DTC
Hooghly	185	Uttarpara	Dipanjan Chakraborty	BJP
	186	Sreerampur	Bhaskar Bhattacharya		Minister of State
	187	Champdani	Dilip Singh
	188	Singur	Arup Kumar Das
	189	Chandannagar	Deepanjan Kumar Guha
	190	Chunchura	Subir Nag
	191	Balagarh (SC)	Sumana Sarkar		Minister of State
	192	Pandua	Tushar Kumar Majumdar
	193	Saptagram	Swaraj Ghosh
	194	Chanditala	Swati Khandoker	DTC
	195	Jangipara	Prosenjit Bag	BJP
	196	Haripal	Madhumita Ghosh	BJP
	197	Dhanekhali (SC)	Ashima Patra	MAITC
	198	Tarakeswar	Santu Pan	BJP
	199	Pursurah	Biman Ghosh
	200	Arambagh (SC)	Hemanta Bag
	201	Goghat (SC)	Prasanta Digar
	202	Khanakul	Susanta Ghosh
Purba Medinipur	203	Tamluk	Hare Krishna Bera		Minister of State
	204	Panskura Purba	Subrata Maity
	205	Panskura Paschim	Sintu Senapati
	206	Moyna	Ashok Dinda		Minister of State
	207	Nandakumar	Nirmal Khanra
	208	Mahisadal	Subhas Chandra Panja
	209	Haldia (SC)	Pradip Kumar Bijali
	210	Nandigram	Suvendu Adhikari		Chief Minister ; Resigned on 13 May 2026
	210	Nandigram	Hasirani Rath		Elected through 2026 bypoll
	211	Chandipur	Pijush Kanti Das
	212	Patashpur	Tapan Maity
	213	Kanthi Uttar	Sumita Sinha
	214	Bhagabanpur	Shantanu Pramanik		Minister of State
	215	Khejuri (SC)	Subrata Paik
	216	Kanthi Dakshin	Arup Kumar Das		Cabinet Minister
	217	Ramnagar	Chandra Shekhar Mondal
	218	Egra	Dibyendu Adhikari
Paschim Medinipur	219	Dantan	Ajit Kumar Jana
Jhargram	220	Nayagram (ST)	Amiya Kisku		Minister of State
	221	Gopiballavpur	Rajesh Mahata		Minister of State (Independent Charge)
	222	Jhargram	Lakshmikanta Sau
Paschim Medinipur	223	Keshiary (ST)	Bhadra Hemram
	224	Kharagpur Sadar	Dilip Ghosh		Cabinet Minister
	225	Narayangarh	Rama Prasad Giri
	226	Sabang	Amal Kumar Panda
	227	Pingla	Swagata Manna
	228	Kharagpur	Dinen Roy	DTC
	229	Debra	Subhasish Om	BJP
	230	Daspur	Tapan Kumar Dutta
	231	Ghatal (SC)	Shital Kapat
	232	Chandrakona (SC)	Sukanta Dolui
	233	Garbeta	Pradip Lodha
	234	Salboni	Biman Mahata
	235	Keshpur (SC)	Seuli Saha	DTC
	236	Medinipur	Sankar Guchhait	BJP
Jhargram	237	Binpur	Pranat Tudu
Purulia	238	Bandwan (ST)	Labsen Baskey
	239	Balarampur	Jaladhar Mahato
	240	Baghmundi	Rahidas Mahato
	241	Joypur	Biswajit Mahato
	242	Purulia	Sudip Kumar Mukherjee
	243	Manbazar (ST)	Mayna Murmu
	244	Kashipur	Kamalakanta Hansda
	245	Para (SC)	Nadiar Chand Bouri		Minister of State
	246	Raghunathpur (SC)	Mamoni Bauri
Bankura	247	Saltora (SC)	Chandana Bauri
	248	Chhatna	Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay
	249	Ranibandh (ST)	Kshudiram Tudu		Cabinet Minister
	250	Raipur (ST)	Kshetra Mohan Hansda
	251	Taldangra	Souvik Patra
	252	Bankura	Niladri Sekhar Dana
	253	Barjora	Billeshwar Sinha
	254	Onda	Amarnath Shakha
	255	Bishnupur	Shukla Chatterjee
	256	Katulpur (SC)	Lakshmikanta Majumdar
	257	Indas (SC)	Nirmal Kumar Dhara
	258	Sonamukhi (SC)	Dibakar Gharami		Minister of State
Purba Bardhaman	259	Khandaghosh (SC)	Nabin Chandra Bag	DTC
	260	Bardhaman Dakshin	Moumita Biswas Mishra	BJP	Minister of State
	261	Raina (SC)	Souvik Patra
	262	Jamalpur (SC)	Arun Halder
	263	Monteswar	Saikat Panja
	264	Kalna	Siddharth Majumdar
	265	Memari	Manab Guha
	266	Bardhaman Uttar (SC)	Nisith Kumar Malik	DTC
	267	Bhatar	Soumen Karfa	BJP
	268	Purbasthali Dakshin	Prankrishna Tapadar
	269	Purbasthali Uttar	Gopal Chattopadhyay
	270	Katwa	Krishna Ghosh
	271	Ketugram	Anadi Ghosh
	272	Mangalkot	Shishir Ghosh
	273	Ausgram (SC)	Kalita Maji		Minister of State
	274	Galsi (SC)	Raju Patra
Paschim Bardhaman	275	Pandabeswar	Jitendra Tiwari
	276	Durgapur Purba	Chandra Shekhar Banerjee
	277	Durgapur Paschim	Lakshman Chandra Ghorui
	278	Raniganj	Partho Ghosh
	279	Jamuria	Bijan Mukherjee
	280	Asansol Dakshin	Agnimitra Paul		Cabinet Minister
	281	Asansol Uttar	Krishnendu Mukherjee
	282	Kulti	Ajay Kumar Poddar		Cabinet Minister
	283	Barabani	Arijit Roy
Birbhum	284	Dubrajpur (SC)	Anup Kumar Saha
	285	Suri	Jagannath Chattopadhyay		Cabinet Minister
	286	Bolpur	Chandranath Sinha	DTC
	287	Nanoor (SC)	Bidhan Chandra Majhi	DTC
	288	Labhpur	Debasis Ojha	BJP
	289	Sainthia (SC)	Krishna Kanta Saha
	290	Mayureswar	Dudh Kumar Mondal		Cabinet Minister
	291	Rampurhat	Dhruba Saha
	292	Hansan	Fayezul Haque	DTC
	293	Nalhati	Rajendra Prasad Singh
	294	Murarai	Mosarraf Hossain

By- elections

Date	Constituency		Winning Candidate		Losing candidate
6 October 2026	70	Rejinagar	Sakharav Sarkar	BJP	Golam Nabi Azad (Robin)	AJUP
By- elections in the Rejinagar Assembly constituency was necessited following the resignation of sitting MLA Humayun Kabir on 15 May 2026.
6 October 2026	210	Nandigram	Hasirani Rath	BJP	Milan Pradhan	INC
6 October 2026	210	Nandigram	By- elections in Nandigram Assembly constituency was necessited following the resignation of sitting MLA Suvendu Adhikari on 13 May 2026.

Notes

↑ AJUP - 2
INC- 2
CPI(M) - 1
ISF - 1
↑ MAITC - 15
Indian National Congress - 2
AJUP - 1
CPI(M) - 1
ISF - 1
↑ LF- 2
UPA- 2
AJUP+- 2
↑ TMC+- 15
LF- 2
UPA- 2
AJUP+- 1

References

↑ "West Bengal election results: Full list of winners". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
↑ "Who is Rathindra Bose? First-time MLA set to become West Bengal Assembly Speaker". India TV. Retrieved 14 May 2026.
↑ "West Bengal Government Formation Highlights: Suvendu Adhikari Named Next Chief Minister Of Bengal". NDTV. Retrieved 8 May 2026.
↑ "ইংরেজবাজারের বিধায়ক অম্লান ভাদুড়ি আনুষ্ঠানিক ভাবে মুখ্য সচেতকের দায়িত্ব নেন". Anandabazar Patrika. Retrieved 18 June 2026.
↑ ""Real" Trinamool Backs Rebel For Key Post, Says 'Mamata Banerjee Our Leader'". NDTV. Retrieved 3 June 2026.

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[2] AJUP - 2
INC- 2
CPI(M) - 1
ISF - 1

[3] MAITC - 15
Indian National Congress - 2
AJUP - 1
CPI(M) - 1
ISF - 1

[4] LF- 2
UPA- 2
AJUP+- 2

[5] TMC+- 15
LF- 2
UPA- 2
AJUP+- 1

[1] "West Bengal election results: Full list of winners". The Hindu. Retrieved 4 May 2026.

[6] "Who is Rathindra Bose? First-time MLA set to become West Bengal Assembly Speaker". India TV. Retrieved 14 May 2026.

[7] "West Bengal Government Formation Highlights: Suvendu Adhikari Named Next Chief Minister Of Bengal". NDTV. Retrieved 8 May 2026.

[8] "ইংরেজবাজারের বিধায়ক অম্লান ভাদুড়ি আনুষ্ঠানিক ভাবে মুখ্য সচেতকের দায়িত্ব নেন". Anandabazar Patrika. Retrieved 18 June 2026.

[9] ""Real" Trinamool Backs Rebel For Key Post, Says 'Mamata Banerjee Our Leader'". NDTV. Retrieved 3 June 2026.

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