Mumbai, May 25 -- Debangshu Panda of the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Falta Assembly seat in West Bengal by a margin of 1.09 lakh votes in the repoll held last week.

Panda secured 1,49,666 votes and defeated Sambhu Nath Kurmi of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who polled 40,645 votes. Abdur Razzak Molla of the Indian National Congress finished third with 10,084 votes.

The result marked a major setback for the ruling All India Trinamool Congress, whose candidate Jahangir Khan slipped to fourth position and lost his security deposit. Jahangir Khan had announced his withdrawal from active campaigning two days before the repoll, though his name remained on the ballot.

The Election Commission had ordered a repoll across all 285 bo...