Left Front announces first list of 192 candidates for West Bengal Assembly polls
The Hindu
The Left Front announces its first candidate list for 192 West Bengal Assembly seats, featuring veterans and emerging youth leaders.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front on Monday (March 16, 2026) released its candidate for 192 out of 294 Assembly seats for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls. Party veterans along with the emerging youth leaders have made to the candidate list. The list includes 27 women candidates.
The highlight of the CPI(M) candidate list is Sabina Yasmin from Kaliganj Assembly seat in Nadia district. Ms. Yasmin is the mother of nine-year-old Tamanna Khatun, a young girl who was killed in political violence on June 23, 2025. Trinamool Congress workers hurled crude bombs on her residence after winning the local by-elections killing the child on the spot.
Some of the most important faces to emerge in the list are women youth leaders Minakshi Mukherjee from Uttarpara and Dipsita Dhar from Dum Dum Uttar. Former Kolkata Mayor and Rajya Sabha MP Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya in Jadavpur, and former MLA and senior minority leader Deblina Hembram from Ranibandh are among the notable candidates featuring in the first list.
With the Congress deciding to contest polls on its own strength, the Left Front have reached an electoral understanding for seat-sharing with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation and the Indian Secular Front.
The Congress and Left Front fielding candidates separately marks an end of almost a decade of understanding between the two political forces. In the last Assembly elections in 2021, Left Front and Congress drew a blank while the ISF won one seat in West Bengal.
The lists from CPI(ML) and ISF are yet to be published and likely to be shared by the parties themselves in the coming days.
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