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The party was reelected in the 2016 election to a supermajority government, and Banerjee continued as chief minister. [40] The party won the most seats in West Bengal in the 2019 Indian general election, but suffered significant losses to the Bharatiya Janata Party, which for the first time established itself as a major force in the state.
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election ← 2016 27 March – 29 April 2021 (292 seats) 30 September 2021 (2 remaining seats) 2026 → ← outgoing members elected members → 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 72,924,106 Turnout 82.30% (0.72 pp) Majority party Minority party Leader Mamata Banerjee Dilip Ghosh Party ...
Party Leader Logo/Flag Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha State Assemblies State Councils Base INC: Indian National Congress: Mallikarjun Kharge: 99 29 682 60 National Party: SP: Samajwadi Party: Akhilesh Yadav: 37 3 112 10 Uttar Pradesh: AITC: All India Trinamool Congress: Mamata Banerjee: 29 13 228 – West Bengal, Meghalaya: DMK: Dravida Munnetra ...
The incumbent All India Trinamool Congress government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee won re-election by a large margin, despite opinion polls generally predicting a close race against the Bharatiya Janata Party, which became the Official Opposition but significantly underperformed expectations, winning 77 seats.
The Trinamool Congress led United Progressive Alliance won an absolute majority of seats in the state in a historic win marking the end of 34-year rule of Left Front, the longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the world, a fact that was noted by international media.
Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the Indian state of West Bengal.The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority.
Party Leader(s) Symbol Contesting Seats Left Front: Communist Party of India (Marxist) Mohammed Salim Sujan Chakraborty: All India Forward Bloc: Naren Chatterjee Revolutionary Socialist Party: Tapan Hore Communist Party of India: Swapan Banerjee Marxist Forward Bloc: Samar Hazra Congress and allies: Indian National Congress: Adhir Ranjan ...
Party Entitled to vote [a] 1 Cooch Behar (SC) Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia: Trinamool Congress: Yes 2 Alipurduars (ST) Manoj Tigga: Bharatiya Janata Party: Yes 3 Jalpaiguri (SC) Jayanta Kumar Roy: Yes 4 Darjeeling: Raju Bista: Yes 5 Raiganj: Kartick Paul: Yes 6 Balurghat: Sukanta Majumdar: No 7 Maldaha Uttar: Khagen Murmu: Yes 8 Maldaha ...