Overview
- Election authorities are counting votes for the Gazole (SC) Assembly seat, with Indian Express and Times Now posting round-wise updates and trend trackers.
- Incumbent Chinmoy Deb Barman of the BJP faces rivals including CPI(M)'s Kshitish Chandra Sarkar, TMC's Prasenjit Das, and Congress's Prem Chowdhury.
- In 2021, Deb Barman won Gazole with 100,655 votes and a margin of 1,798 over the Trinamool Congress candidate after a tight race.
- The seat is reserved for Scheduled Castes and has swung from CPI(M) in 2016 to the BJP in 2021, making 2026 a closely watched contest.
- Separately, the Election Commission ordered a fresh vote in Falta across all 285 polling stations on May 21 with counting on May 24 after finding severe electoral offences.