General election to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal for 292 constituencies of the 294 constituencies in West Bengal were held between 27 March to 29 April 2021 in 8 phases.[3] Voting for 2 remaining constituencies was delayed and are scheduled to be held on 16 May 2021.[4]
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292 out of 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly148 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Background
Electoral system
Outlined in Article 168 of the Constitution of India, the West Bengal Legislative Assembly is the only house of the unicameral legislature of West Bengal and not a permanent body and subject to dissolution.[5] The tenure of the Legislative Assembly is five years from the date appointed for its first sitting unless dissolved sooner. Members of the Legislative Assembly are directly elected by the people. The tenure of current West Bengal Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 30 May 2021.[6]
Previous general election
In the previous elections in 2016, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) retained its majority in the Legislative Assembly with 211 seats. The Indian National Congress won 44 seats and the Left Front won 33 seats fighting within an alliance. While the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha managed to win only 3 seats each of the total 294 seats.[7]
Political developments
In the 2019 general elections AITC won 22 and the BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal.[8] Bagging 40 percent of the vote share, an increase from the previous time and in by-elections from 2016 to 2021, BJP had also increased their seats in the legislative assembly by 31 as of 2021 through defections from TMC, Congress and Left leaders.[9] According to various political analysts, the shifting of left and other opposition voters towards the BJP caused the meteoric rise in BJP's vote share.[10][11][12]
Political issues
COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic became an election issue.[13][14] The Government of West Bengal was accused of "fudging" the count of positive cases and deaths in the regions.[15] The AITC-led state government and BJP-led union government blamed each other for the surge in COVID-19 infections over the course of the campaign.[16]
The BJP accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of not having attended COVID-19 emergency management meetings held during the months of election campaigning, despite the advent of the second wave of infections.[17]
Cyclone Amphan
In May 2020, Cyclone Amphan hit the state a year before elections.[18][13] After the passing away of the cyclone, widespread allegations of mismanagement[19] and relief scam were seen.[20][21] Protest broke out in various district of the state over these allegations.[22][23] The opposition made it an election issue ahead of the Assembly polls.[24][25]
Citizenship, immigration and refugee issues
In 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union Government passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) in the Indian Parliament, promising citizenship to immigrants and refugees belonging from the religious minorities in Bangladesh and hoping to provide them with rehabilitation.[9][26] The BJP's Bengali booklet released in January 2020 claimed that the National Register of Citizens will be implemented to identify allegedly undocumented illegal Muslim immigrants, but religiously persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Jain, Parsi and other religious minorities will be "shielded" by the Citizenship Amendment Act.[27][28]
Other issues
Polarisation amongst various religious, linguistic and caste communities are also likely to play a role in this election.[29] Both TMC and BJP have promised schemes for various communities.[30][31] Although previously mobilized by Left governments against elites under the 'class' narrative, the Dalits of West Bengal have started asserting their identity politically.[32][33][34] Religious polarization is particularly intense in districts bordering Bangladesh such as North 24 Parganas. Arguments regarding who are native to the state and constituencies are also likely to impact the elections.[35][36][37] Rebellion and dissatisfaction of many Trinamool leaders are also likely to impact the elections.[38] Also, from 1 December 2020, the Government of West Bengal has started a scheme of Duare Sarkar, to provide all the major schemes of Government like Swasthya Sathi, Khadya Sathi etc. and got a very high response.[39][40]
Schedule
Election schedule were announced on 26 February 2021 and the election was held in 8 phases from 27 March 2021 to 29 April 2021 and votes will be counted on 2 May 2021.[41][42] Due to polling abnormalities, re-polling for the booth number 88 of Jangipara was held in the fourth phase.[43] The elections in Jangipur and Samserganj were adjourned due to the death of the Congress candidate in Samserganj and RSP candidate in Jangipur.[44] A new schedule for the election in these two seats were announced and the polling will be held on 13 May 2021.[45] However, due to the day being Eid, the voting day was again rescheduled for 16 May.[46]
Poll Event | Phase | ||||||||
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I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | — | |
Map of constituencies and their phases | |||||||||
No. of Constituencies | 30 | 30 | 31 | 44 | 45 | 43 | 34 | 35 | 2 |
Date of Issue of Notification | 2 March 2021 | 5 March 2021 | 12 March 2021 | 16 March 2021 | 23 March 2021 | 26 March 2021 | 31 March 2021 | 31 March 2021 | — |
Last Date for filling nomination | 9 March 2021 | 12 March 2021 | 19 March 2021 | 23 March 2021 | 30 March 2021 | 3 April 2021 | 7 April 2021 | 7 April 2021 | 26 April 2021[a] |
Scrutiny of nomination | 10 March 2021 | 15 March 2021 | 20 March 2021 | 24 March 2021 | 31 March 2021 | 5 April 2021 | 8 April 2021 | 8 April 2021 | 27 April 2021[a] |
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | 12 March 2021 | 17 March 2021 | 22 March 2021 | 26 March 2021 | 3 April 2021 | 7 April 2021 | 12 April 2021 | 12 April 2021 | 29 April 2021[a] |
Date of Poll | 27 March 2021 | 1 April 2021 | 6 April 2021 | 10 April 2021 | 17 April 2021 | 22 April 2021 | 26 April 2021 | 29 April 2021 | 16 May 2021[46] |
Date of Counting of Votes | 2 May 2021 | 19 May 2021[4] | |||||||
Source: Election Commission of India |
Parties and alliances
Trinamool Congress & Allies
Both factions of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) expressed support to Trinamool Congress for the assembly election.[49] Trinamool Congress allotted three seats in the Darjiling to GJM, However the two factions of GJM, namely Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Bimal) and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang) declared to field their candidates in each of the three seats.[50] Shiv Sena also endorsed Trinamool for the election.[51] Trinamool Congress supported Independent candidate in Joypur after their candidate's nomination got cancelled.[52][53]
Party | Symbol | Leader | Contesting Seats | ||
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All India Trinamool Congress | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 290 | ||
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha | GJM | Unrecognised | Bimal Gurung Binoy Tamang | 3 | |
Independent | N/A | 1 |
Sanjukta Morcha
On 28 January 2021 Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury announced that seat-sharing talks between the Congress and Left Front had concluded for 193 seats and that the remaining 101 seats would be decided at a later point.[54][55] Out of the 193 seats agreed upon by 28 January, 92 went to Congress and 101 to the Left Front.[54] These 193 seats included agreements over all the 77 seats the Congress and Left Front had won in the 2016 election.[54] Left Congress and ISF announced that they will fight together in an alliance named as 'Sanyukta Morcha' from Brigade Rally on 28 February 2021.[56] ISF initially claimed that they have secured 30 seats from the Left Front's quota.[57] After the final seat sharing agreement was concluded, it was announced that the Left Front will contest on 165 seats, Congress will contest on 92 seats and ISF will contest on 37 seats.[58][59]
Left Front chairman Biman Bose announced candidates for first and second-phase elections on 5 March alongside Congress and ISF leaders leaving seats for them in the list.[60] Indian National Congress revealed its first list of 13 candidates for the first two phases on 6 March.[61] Left Front Announced its second list of candidates on 10 March comprising of several new and young faces from AISF, AIYF, SFI and DYFI along with some well-known veteran faces including ex ministers of Left Front govt and ex-MPs.[62] That day Biman Bose declared DYFI West Bengal state president Minakshi Mukherjee as the CPI(M) candidate for 'High-Profile' Nandigram (Vidhan Sabha constituency) seat which was kept vacant in the first list published on 5 March.[63] Congress revealed its second list of 34 candidates on 14 March.[64] ISF released list of their first set of 20 candidates on the same day.[65] Sanyukta Morcha announced 15 more candidates on 17 March consisting of 9 from the Left, 2 from Congress and 4 from ISF camp.[66] Congress revealed its third list of 39 candidates on 20 March,[67] and two more on 22 March.
Party | Symbol | Leader(s) | Bloc(s) | Contesting Seats | ||
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | CPI(M) | Surjya Kanta Mishra[68] | Left Front | 137 | ||
All India Forward Bloc | AIFB | Debabrata Biswas | 18 | |||
Revolutionary Socialist Party | RSP | Biswanath Chowdhury | 11 | |||
Communist Party of India | CPI | Swapan Banerjee | 10 | |||
Marxist Forward Bloc | MFB | Samar Hazra | 1 | |||
Indian National Congress | INC | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | - | 91 | ||
Indian Secular Front[b] | ISF[71] | Abbas Siddiqui | - | 27 |
Bharatiya Janata Party & Allies
Five hill-based parties pledged support to BJP ahead of the assembly election (Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF), Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists, Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League (ABGL), Gorkhaland Rajya Nirman Morcha and SUMETI Mukti Morcha.[49] Hindu Samhati, a right wing organisation in West Bengal, withdrew their support from the BJP initially[72] and later declared to contest elections on its own,[73] however in the end they supported the BJP.[74] BJP alloted a seat of Amta constituency to the president of Hindu Samhati to contest on BJP's symbol.[75]
BJP also allotted the Baghmundi constituency, bordering Jharkhand, to the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU).[76][77]
Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats | ||
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Bharatiya Janata Party | BJP | Dilip Ghosh | 293 | ||
All Jharkhand Students Union | AJSU | Ashutosh Mahto | 1 |
Others
Shiv Sena initially said that they would contest in around 100 seats,[78] but later on 4 March 2021 announced that they would not contest and will instead support Mamata Banerjee and TMC from outside.[79]
Party | Symbol | Leader(s) | Contesting Seats | ||
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Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | SUCI(C) | Provash Ghosh | 193 | ||
Janata Dal (United)[80] | JD(U) | Sanjay Verma | 40[81] | ||
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation[82] | CPI(ML)L | Dipankar Bhattacharya | 12 | ||
Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Red Star[83] | CPI(ML) Red Star | K N Ramchandran | 4 | ||
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen[84] | AIMIM | Asaduddin Owaisi | 13 | ||
Bahujan Samaj Party[85] | BSP | Mayawati | 113 | ||
National People's Party[86] | NPP | 2 |
Candidates
In 292 seats, a total of 2,132 candidates were in the fray. The voting in 2 constituencies had to be postponed to 16 May, after the death of 1 candidate each.
List of the candidates constituency wise of the four main parties/alliance:
Assembly Constituency | AITC[87][88][89][90][91][92][93] | NDA[77][94][95][96][97][98] | Sanyukta Morcha | Voting On | |||||||
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# | Name | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | Party | Candidate | ||||
Cooch Behar district | |||||||||||
1 | Mekliganj | AITC | Paresh Chandra Adhikary | BJP | Dadhiram Ray | AIFB | Gobindo Ray | 10 April 2021 | |||
2 | Mathabhanga | AITC | Girindra Nath Barman | BJP | Sushil Barman | CPI(M) | Ashok Barman | ||||
3 | Cooch Behar Uttar | AITC | Binay Krishna Barman | BJP | Sukumar Roy | AIFB | Nagendra Nath Ray | ||||
4 | Cooch Behar Dakshin | AITC | Avijit Dey Bhowmik | BJP | Nikhil Ranjan Dey | AIFB | Akshay Thakur | ||||
5 | Sitalkuchi | AITC | Partha Pratim Ray | BJP | Baren Chandra Barman | CPI(M) | Sudhangsu Pramanik | ||||
6 | Sitai | AITC | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia | BJP | Dipak Kumar Roy | INC | Keshab Chandra Roy | ||||
7 | Dinhata | AITC | Udayan Guha | BJP | Nisith Pramanik | AIFB | Abdul Rauf | ||||
8 | Natabari | AITC | Rabindra Nath Ghosh | BJP | Mihir Goswami | CPI(M) | Akik Hasan | ||||
9 | Tufanganj | AITC | Pranab Kumar Dey | BJP | Maloti Rava Roy | INC | Rabin Roy | ||||
Alipurdar district | |||||||||||
10 | Kumargram | AITC | Leos Kujur | BJP | Manoj Oraon | RSP | Kishor Minz | 10 April 2021 | |||
11 | Kalchini | AITC | Pasang Lama | BJP | Bishal Lama | INC | Abhijit Narzinari | ||||
12 | Alipurduars | AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | BJP | Suman Kanjilal | INC | Debprosad Roy | ||||
13 | Falakata | AITC | Subhash Roy | BJP | Dipak Barman | CPI(M) | Khsitish Chandra Roy | ||||
14 | Madarihat | AITC | Rajesh Lakra | BJP | Manoj Tigga | RSP | Subhas Lohar | ||||
Jalpaiguri district | |||||||||||
15 | Dhupguri | AITC | Mitali Roy | BJP | Bishnu Pada Roy | CPI(M) | Dr. Pradip Kumar Roy | 17 April 2021 | |||
16 | Maynaguri | AITC | Manoj Roy | BJP | Koushik Roy | RSP | Naresh Chandra Roy | ||||
17 | Jalpaiguri | AITC | Pradip Kumar Barma | BJP | Sujit Singha | INC | Sukhbilas Barma | ||||
18 | Rajganj | AITC | Khageswar Roy | BJP | Supen Roy | CPI(M) | Ratan Ray | ||||
19 | Dabgram-Phulbari | AITC | Goutam Deb | BJP | Sikha Chatterjee | CPI(M) | Dilip Singh | ||||
20 | Mal | AITC | Bulu Chik Baraik | BJP | Mahesh Bagey | CPI(M) | Manu Oraon | ||||
21 | Nagrakata | AITC | Joseph Munda | BJP | Puna Bhengra | INC | Sukhbir Subba | ||||
Kalimpong district | |||||||||||
22 | Kalimpong | GJM (Gurung) | Dr. Ram Bahadur Bhujel | BJP | Suva Pradhan | INC | Dilip Pradhan | 17 April 2021 | |||
GJM (Tamang) | Ruden Sada Lepcha | ||||||||||
Darjeeling district | |||||||||||
23 | Darjeeling | GJM (Gurung) | Pemba Tshering | BJP | Neeraj Zimba | CPI(M) | Gautam Raj Rai | 17 April 2021 | |||
GJM (Tamang) | Keshav Raj Sharma | ||||||||||
24 | Kurseong | GJM (Gurung) | Narbu Lama | BJP | Bishnu Prasad Sharma | CPI(M) | Uttam Brahman | ||||
GJM (Tamang) | Tshering Lama Dahal | ||||||||||
25 | Matigara-Naxalbari | AITC | Rajan Sundas | BJP | Anandamoy Barman | INC | Sankar Malakar | ||||
26 | Siliguri | AITC | Prof. Omprakash Mishra | BJP | Shankar Ghosh | CPI(M) | Ashok Bhattacharya | ||||
27 | Phansidewa | AITC | Choton Kisku | BJP | Durga Murmu | INC | Sunil Chandra Tirkey | ||||
Uttar Dinajpur district | |||||||||||
28 | Chopra | AITC | Hamidul Rahaman | BJP | Md. Shahin Akhtar | CPI(M) | Anwarul Haque | 22 April 2021 | |||
29 | Islampur | AITC | Abdul Karim Chowdhury | BJP | Saumya Roop Mandal | INC | Sadikul Islam | ||||
30 | Goalpokhar | AITC | Md.Ghulam Rabbani | BJP | Gulam Sarwar | INC | Masud Nasim Ehsan | ||||
31 | Chakulia | AITC | Minhajul Arfin Azad | BJP | Sachin Prasad | AIFB | Ali Imran Ramz | ||||
32 | Karandighi | AITC | Goutam Pal | BJP | Subhash Singha | AIFB | Hafizul Iqbal | ||||
33 | Hemtabad | AITC | Satyajit Barman | BJP | Chandrima Roy | CPI(M) | Bhupendra Nath Barman | ||||
34 | Kaliaganj | AITC | Tapan Dev Singha | BJP | Soumen Roy | INC | Provas Sarkar | ||||
35 | Raiganj | AITC | Kanaia Lal Agarwal | BJP | Krishna Kalyani | INC | Mohit Sengupta | ||||
36 | Itahar | AITC | Mosaraf Hossain | BJP | Amit Kumar Kundu | CPI | Srikumar Mukherjee | ||||
Dakshin Dinajpur district | |||||||||||
37 | Kushmandi | AITC | Rekha Roy | BJP | Ranjit Kumar Roy | RSP | Narmada Chandra Roy | 26 April 2021 | |||
38 | Kumarganj | AITC | Toraf Hossain Mandal | BJP | Manas Sarkar | INC | Nargis Banu Chowdhury | ||||
39 | Balurghat | AITC | Sekhar Dasgupta | BJP | Ashok Lahiri | RSP | Sucheta Biswas | ||||
40 | Tapan | AITC | Kalpana Kisku | BJP | Budhrai Tudu | RSP | Raghu Urwo | ||||
41 | Gangarampur | AITC | Goutam Das | BJP | Satyendra Nath Roy | CPI(M) | Nandalal Hazra | ||||
42 | Harirampur | AITC | Biplab Mitra | BJP | Nilanjan Roy | CPI(M) | Rafikul Islam | ||||
Malda district | |||||||||||
43 | Habibpur | AITC | Pradip Baskey | BJP | Joyel Murmu | CPI(M) | Thakur Tudu | 26 April 2021 | |||
44 | Gazole | AITC | Basanti Barman | BJP | Chinmoy Deb Barman | CPI(M) | Arun Biswas | ||||
45 | Chanchal | AITC | Nihar Ranjan Ghosh | BJP | Dipankar Ram | INC | Asif Mehbub | ||||
46 | Harishchandrapur | AITC | Tajmul Hossain | BJP | Md. Matiur Rahaman | INC | Alam Mostaque | ||||
47 | Malatipur | AITC | Abdul Rahim Boxi | BJP | Mausumi Das | INC | Alberuni Zulkarnain | ||||
48 | Ratua | AITC | Samar Mukherjee | BJP | Abhishek Singhania | INC | Najima Khatun | ||||
49 | Manikchak | AITC | Sabitri Mitra | BJP | Gour Chand Mandal | INC | Md. Mottakin Alam | 29 April 2021 | |||
50 | Maldaha | AITC | Ujjal Chowdhury | BJP | Gopal Chandra Saha | INC | Bhupendra Nath Halder | ||||
51 | English Bazar | AITC | Krishnendu Narayan Chowdhury | BJP | Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury | CPI(M) | Koushik Mishra | ||||
52 | Mothabari | AITC | Sabina Yeasmin | BJP | Shyam Chand Ghosh | INC | Md. Dulal Sekh | ||||
53 | Sujapur | AITC | Md Abdul Ghani | BJP | S K Jiyauddin | INC | Isha Khan Choudhury | ||||
54 | Baisnabnagar | AITC | Chandana Sarkar | BJP | Swadhin Kumar Sarkar | INC | Azizul Haque | ||||
Murshidabad district | |||||||||||
55 | Farakka | AITC | Monirul Islam | BJP | Hemanta Ghosh | INC | Mainul Haque | 26 April 2021 | |||
56 | Samserganj | AITC | Amirul Islam | BJP | Milan Ghosh | INC | Rokeya Khatun | TBD | |||
57 | Suti | AITC | Emani Biswas | BJP | Kaushik Das | INC | Humayun Roja | 26 April 2021 | |||
58 | Jangipur | AITC | Jakir Hossain | BJP | Sujit Das | RSP | Janey Alam | TBD | |||
59 | Raghunathganj | AITC | Akhruzzaman | BJP | Golam Modarsha | INC | Abdul Kasem Biswas | 26 April 2021 | |||
60 | Sagardighi | AITC | Subrata Saha | BJP | Mafuja Khatun | INC | S. K. Hasnuzzaman | ||||
61 | Lalgola | AITC | Mohammad Ali | BJP | Kalpana Ghosh | INC | Abu Hena | ||||
62 | Bhagabangola | AITC | Idris Ali | BJP | Mehbub Alam | CPI(M) | Kamaal Hossain | ||||
63 | Raninagar | AITC | Soumik Hossain | BJP | Masuhara Khatun | INC | Firoza Begam | ||||
64 | Murshidabad | AITC | Shaoni Singha Roy | BJP | Gouri Sankar Ghosh | INC | Niazuddin Sekh | ||||
65 | Nabagram | AITC | Kanai Chandra Mondal | BJP | Mohan Halder | CPI(M) | Kripalini Ghosh | ||||
66 | Khargram | AITC | Ashis Marjit | BJP | Aditya Moulik | INC | Bipadtaran Bagdi | 29 April 2021 | |||
67 | Burwan | AITC | Jiban Krishna Saha | BJP | Amiya Kumar Das | INC | Shiladitya Haldar | ||||
68 | Kandi | AITC | Apurba Sarkar(David) | BJP | Goutam Roy | INC | Saiful Alam Khan | ||||
69 | Bharatpur | AITC | Humayun Kabir | BJP | Iman Kalyan Mukherje | INC | Kamalesh Chatterjee | ||||
70 | Rejinagar | AITC | Rabiul Alam Chowdhury | BJP | Arobindo Biswas | INC | Kafiruddin Sekh | ||||
71 | Beldanga | AITC | Hasanuzzaman Sk. | BJP | Sumit Ghosh | INC | Seikh Safiujjaman | ||||
72 | Baharampur | AITC | Naru Gopal Mukherjee | BJP | Subrata Moitra | INC | Manoj Chakraborty | ||||
73 | Hariharpara | AITC | Niamot Sheikh | BJP | Tanmoy Biswas | INC | Mir Almagir | ||||
74 | Naoda | AITC | Sahina Mamtaz Begum (Khan) | BJP | Anupam Mondal | INC | Mosharaf Hossain Mondal | ||||
75 | Domkal | AITC | Jafikul Islam | BJP | Rubiya Khatun | CPI(M) | Mustafizur Rahman | ||||
76 | Jalangi | AITC | Abdur Razzak | BJP | Chandan Mondal | CPI(M) | Saiful Islam Molla | ||||
Nadia district | |||||||||||
77 | Karimpur | AITC | Bimalendu Sinha Roy | BJP | Samarendra Nath Ghosh | CPI(M) | Pravas Majumdar | 22 April 2021 | |||
78 | Tehatta | AITC | Tapas Kumar Saha | BJP | Ashutosh Paul | CPI(M) | Subodh Biswas | ||||
79 | Palashipara | AITC | Manik Bhattacharya | BJP | Bibhash Chandra Mandal | CPI(M) | M. S. Sadi | ||||
80 | Kaliganj | AITC | Naseeruddin Ahamed (Lal) | BJP | Abhijit Ghosh | INC | Abdul Kasem | ||||
81 | Nakashipara | AITC | Kallol Khan | BJP | Shantanu Deb | CPI(M) | Sukla Saha Chakraborty | ||||
82 | Chapra | AITC | Rukbanur Rahman | BJP | Kalyan Kumar Nandi | RSMP | Kanchan Moitra | ||||
83 | Krishnanagar Uttar | AITC | Koushani Mukherjee | BJP | Mukul Roy | INC | Sylvie Saha | ||||
84 | Nabadwip | AITC | Pundarikakshya Saha (Nanda) | BJP | Siddartha Naskar | CPI(M) | Swarnendu Singha | ||||
85 | Krishnanagar Dakshin | AITC | Ujjal Biswas | BJP | Mahadev Sarkar | CPI(M) | Sumit Biswas | ||||
86 | Santipur | AITC | Ajoy Dey | BJP | Jagannath Sarkar | INC | Riju Ghoshal | 17 April 2021 | |||
87 | Ranaghat Uttar Paschim | AITC | Sankar Singha | BJP | Partha Sarathi Chatterjee | INC | Bijoyendu Biswas | ||||
88 | Krishnaganj | AITC | Dr. Tapas Mandal | BJP | Ashis Kumar Biswas | CPI(M) | Jhunu Baidya | ||||
89 | Ranaghat Uttar Purba | AITC | Samir Kumar Poddar | BJP | Ashim Biswas | RSMP | Dinesh Chandra Biswas | ||||
90 | Ranaghat Dakshin | AITC | Barnali Dey | BJP | Mukut Mani Adhikari | CPI(M) | Rama Biswas | ||||
91 | Chakdaha | AITC | Subhankar Singha (Jishu) | BJP | Bankim Ch. Ghosh | CPI(M) | Narayan Dasgupta | ||||
92 | Kalyani | AITC | Aniruddha Biswas | BJP | Ambika Roy | CPI(M) | Sabuj Das | ||||
93 | Haringhata | AITC | Nilima Nag (Mallick) | BJP | Ashim Sarkar | CPI(M) | Alakesh Das | ||||
North 24 Parganas district | |||||||||||
94 | Bagda | AITC | Paritosh Kumar Saha | BJP | Biswajit Das | INC | Prabir Kirtania | 22 April 2021 | |||
95 | Bangaon Uttar | AITC | Shyamal Roy | BJP | Ashok Kritonia | CPI(M) | Piyush Kanti Saha | ||||
96 | Bangaon Dakshin | AITC | Alo Rani Sarkar | BJP | Swapan Majumdar | CPI(M) | Tapas Kumar Biswas | ||||
97 | Gaighata | AITC | Narottam Biswas | BJP | Subrata Thakur | CPI | Kapil Krishna Thakur | ||||
98 | Swarupnagar | AITC | Bina Mandal | BJP | Brindaban Sarkar | CPI(M) | Biswajit Mondal | ||||
99 | Baduria | AITC | Quasi Abdul Mallick | BJP | Sukalyan Baidya | INC | Dr. Abdus Sattar | ||||
100 | Habra | AITC | Jyotipriyo Mallick | BJP | Rahul Sinha | CPI(M) | Rijinandan Biswas | ||||
101 | Ashokenagar | AITC | Narayan Goswami | BJP | Tanuja Chakraborty | RSMP | Tapas Banerjee | ||||
102 | Amdanga | AITC | Rafiqur Rahman | BJP | Jaydeb Manna | RSMP | Jamal Uddin | ||||
103 | Bijpur | AITC | Subodh Adhikary | BJP | Subhranshu Roy | CPI(M) | Sukanta Rakshit | ||||
104 | Naihati | AITC | Partha Bhowmick | BJP | Phalguni Patra | CPI(M) | Indrani Kundu Mukherjee | ||||
105 | Bhatpara | AITC | Jitendra Shaw | BJP | Pawan Singh | INC | Dharmendra Shaw | ||||
106 | Jagatdal | AITC | Somnath Shyam | BJP | Arindam Bhattacharya | AIFB | Nimai Saha | ||||
107 | Noapara | AITC | Manju Basu | BJP | Sunil Singh | INC | Suvankar Sarkar | ||||
108 | Barrackpore | AITC | Raj Chakraborty | BJP | Dr. Candramani Shukla | CPI(M) | Debasish Bhowmick | ||||
109 | Khardaha | AITC | Kajal Sinha | BJP | Shilbhadra Dutta | CPI(M) | Debojyoti Das | ||||
110 | Dum Dum Uttar | AITC | Chandrima Bhattacharya | BJP | Archana Majumdar | CPI(M) | Tanmoy Bhattacharya | ||||
111 | Panihati | AITC | Nirmal Ghosh | BJP | Sonmoy Bandopadhyay | INC | Tapas Mazumdar | 17 April 2021 | |||
112 | Kamarhati | AITC | Madan Mitra | BJP | Anindya Raju Banarjee | CPI(M) | Sayandip Mitra | ||||
113 | Baranagar | AITC | Tapas Roy | BJP | Parno Mittra | INC | Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay | ||||
114 | Dum Dum | AITC | Bratya Basu | BJP | Bimal Shankar Nanda | CPI(M) | Palash Das | ||||
115 | Rajarhat New Town | AITC | Tapas Chatterjee | BJP | Bhaskar Roy | CPI(M) | Saptarshi Deb | ||||
116 | Bidhannagar | AITC | Sujit Bose | BJP | Sabyasachi Dutta | INC | Abhishek Bandopadhyay | ||||
117 | Rajarhat Gopalpur | AITC | Aditi Munsi | BJP | Samik Bhattacharya | CPI(M) | Subhajit Dasgupta | ||||
118 | Madhyamgram | AITC | Rathin Ghosh | BJP | Rajashree Rajbanshi | RSMP | Biswajit Maity | ||||
119 | Barasat | AITC | Chiranjeet Chakraborty | BJP | Shankar Chaterjee | AIFB | Sanjib Chattopadhyay | ||||
120 | Deganga | AITC | Rahima Mondal | BJP | Deepika Chatterjee | RSMP | Karim Ali | ||||
121 | Haroa | AITC | Haji Sk. Nurul Islam | BJP | Rajendra Saha | RSMP | Kutubuddin Fatehi | ||||
122 | Minakhan | AITC | Usha Rani Mondal | BJP | Jayanta Mondal | CPI(M) | Pradyot Ray | ||||
123 | Sandeshkhali | AITC | Sukumar Mahata | BJP | Bhaskar Sardar | RSMP | Barun Mahato | ||||
124 | Basirhat Dakshin | AITC | Dr. Saptarshi Banerjee | BJP | Taraknath Ghosh | INC | Amit Majumder | ||||
125 | Basirhat Uttar | AITC | Rafikul Islam Mondal | BJP | Narayan Mondal | RSMP | Baijid Amin | ||||
126 | Hingalganj | AITC | Debes Mondal | BJP | Nimai Das | CPI | Dr. Ranjan Mondal | ||||
South 24 Parganas district | |||||||||||
127 | Gosaba | AITC | Jayanta Naskar | BJP | Chitta Pramanik | RSP | Anil Chandra Mondal | 1 April 2021 | |||
128 | Basanti | AITC | Shyamal Mondal | BJP | Ramesh Maji | RSP | Subhas Naskar | 6 April 2021 | |||
129 | Kultali | AITC | Ganesh Chandra Mondal | BJP | Mintu Haldar | CPI(M) | Ram Shankar Haldar | ||||
130 | Patharpratima | AITC | Samir Kumar Jana | BJP | Ashit Haldar | INC | Sukhdeb Bera | 1 April 2021 | |||
131 | Kakdwip | AITC | Manturam Pakhira | BJP | Deepankar Jana | INC | Indranil Raut | ||||
132 | Sagar | AITC | Bankim Chandra Hazra | BJP | Bikash Kamila | CPI(M) | Sk. Mukuleshwar Rahman | ||||
133 | Kulpi | AITC | Jogaranjan Halder | BJP | Pranab Mallik | RSMP | Shirajuddin Gazi | 6 April 2021 | |||
134 | Raidighi | AITC | Alok Jaldata | BJP | Shantanu Bapuli | CPI(M) | Kanti Ganguly | ||||
135 | Mandirbazar | AITC | Jaydeb Halder | BJP | Dilip Jatuwa | RSMP | Sanjay Sarkar | ||||
136 | Jaynagar | AITC | Biswanath Das | BJP | Rabin Sardar | CPI(M) | Apurba Pramanik | ||||
137 | Baruipur Purba | AITC | Bibhas Sardar | BJP | Chandan Mandal | CPI(M) | Swapan Naskar | ||||
138 | Canning Paschim | AITC | Paresh Ram Das | BJP | Arnab Roy | INC | Pratap Mondal | ||||
139 | Canning Purba | AITC | Saokat Molla | BJP | Kalipada Naskar | RSMP | Gazi Sahabuddin Siraj | ||||
140 | Baruipur Paschim | AITC | Biman Banerjee | BJP | Debapam Chaatopadhyay | CPI(M) | Lahek Ali | ||||
141 | Magrahat Purba | AITC | Namita Saha | BJP | Chandan Naskar | CPI(M) | Chandan Saha | ||||
142 | Magrahat Paschim | AITC | Giasuddin Molla | BJP | Manash Saha | RSMP | Maidul Islam | ||||
143 | Diamond Harbour | AITC | Pannalal Halder | BJP | Dipak Haldar | CPI(M) | Pratik Ur Rahman | ||||
144 | Falta | AITC | Sankar Kumar Naskar | BJP | Bidhan Parui | INC | Abdur Rezzak Molla | ||||
145 | Satgachia | AITC | Mohan Chandra Naskar | BJP | Chandan Paul Das | CPI(M) | Goutam Paul | ||||
146 | Bishnupur (S 24) | AITC | Dilip Mondal | BJP | Agnishwar Naskar | CPI(M) | Jhuma Kayal | ||||
147 | Sonarpur Dakshin | AITC | Arundhuti Moitra | BJP | Anjana Basu | CPI | Shuvam Banerjee | 10 April 2021 | |||
148 | Bhangar | AITC | Md. Rezaul Karim | BJP | Soumi Hati | RSMP | Naushad Siddiqui | ||||
149 | Kasba | AITC | Javed Ahmed Khan | BJP | Indranil Khan | CPI(M) | Shatarup Ghosh | ||||
150 | Jadavpur | AITC | Moloy Majumder | BJP | Rinku Naskar | CPI(M) | Sujan Chakraborty | ||||
151 | Sonarpur Uttar | AITC | Firdousi Begum | BJP | Ranjan Baidya | CPI(M) | Monalisa Sinha | ||||
152 | Tollygunge | AITC | Aroop Biswas | BJP | Babul Supriyo | CPI(M) | Debdut Ghosh | ||||
153 | Behala Purba | AITC | Ratna Chatterjee | BJP | Payel Sarkar | CPI(M) | Samita Har Chowdhury | ||||
154 | Behala Paschim | AITC | Partha Chatterjee | BJP | Srabanti Chatterjee | CPI(M) | Nihar Bhakta | ||||
155 | Maheshtala | AITC | Dulal Chandra Das | BJP | Umesh Das | CPI(M) | Pradyut Chowdhury | ||||
156 | Budge Budge | AITC | Ashok Deb | BJP | Tarun Adak | INC | Sk. Mujibar Rahman | ||||
157 | Metiaburuz | AITC | Abdul Khaleque Molla | BJP | Ramji Prasad | RSMP | Nurujjaman | ||||
Kolkata district | |||||||||||
158 | Kolkata Port | AITC | Firhad Hakim | BJP | Awad Kishore Gupta | INC | Md. Muktar | 26 April 2021 | |||
159 | Bhabanipur | AITC | Sovandeb Chattopadhyay | BJP | Rudranil Ghosh | INC | Md. Shadab Khan | ||||
160 | Rashbehari | AITC | Debasish Kumar | BJP | Lt. Gen Subrata Saha | INC | Ashutosh Chatterjee | ||||
161 | Ballygunge | AITC | Subrata Mukherjee | BJP | Loknath Chatterjee | CPI(M) | Dr. Fuad Halim | ||||
162 | Chowrangee | AITC | Nayana Bandopadhyay | BJP | Devdutta Maji | INC | Santosh Pathak | 29 April 2021 | |||
163 | Entally | AITC | Swarna Kamal Saha | BJP | Priyanka Tibrewal | RSMP | Md. Iqbal Alam | ||||
164 | Beleghata | AITC | Paresh Paul | BJP | Adv. Kashinath Biswas | CPI(M) | Rajib Biswas | ||||
165 | Jorasanko | AITC | Vivek Gupta | BJP | Mina Devi Purohit | INC | Janab Ajmal Khan | ||||
166 | Shyampukur | AITC | Sashi Panja | BJP | Sandipan Biswas | AIFB | Jiban Prakash Saha | ||||
167 | Maniktala | AITC | Sadhan Pande | BJP | Kalyan Chaubey | CPI(M) | Rupa Bagchi | ||||
168 | Kashipur-Belgachia | AITC | Atin Ghosh | BJP | Shivaji Singha Roy | CPI(M) | Pratip Dasgupta | ||||
Howrah district | |||||||||||
169 | Bally | AITC | Rana Chatterjee | BJP | Baishali Dalmiya | CPI(M) | Dipsita Dhar | 10 April 2021 | |||
170 | Howrah Uttar | AITC | Goutam Chowdhury | BJP | Umesh Rai | CPI(M) | Pawan Singh | ||||
171 | Howrah Madhya | AITC | Arup Roy | BJP | Sanjay Singh | INC | Palash Bhandary | ||||
172 | Shibpur | AITC | Manoj Tiwary | BJP | Rathindranath Chakraborty | AIFB | Dr. Jagannath Bhattacharya | ||||
173 | Howrah Dakshin | AITC | Nandita Chowdhury | BJP | Rantideb Sengupta | CPI(M) | Sumitra Adhikari | ||||
174 | Sankrail | AITC | Priya Paul | BJP | Prabakar Pandit | CPI(M) | Samir Malik | ||||
175 | Panchla | AITC | Gulsan Mallick | BJP | Mohit Ghanti | RSMP | Md. Jaleel | ||||
176 | Uluberia Purba | AITC | Bidesh Bose | BJP | Pratyush Mondal | RSMP | Abbasuddin Khan | ||||
177 | Uluberia Uttar | AITC | Dr. Nirmal Maji | BJP | Chiran Bera | CPI(M) | Ashok Dolui | 6 April 2021 | |||
178 | Uluberia Dakshin | AITC | Pulak Roy | BJP | Paapia Adhikari | AIFB | Kutubuddin Ahmed | ||||
179 | Shyampur | AITC | Kalipada Mandal | BJP | Tanusree Chakraborty | INC | Amitabha Chakraborty | ||||
180 | Bagnan | AITC | Arunava Sen | BJP | Anupam Mallik | CPI(M) | Bashir Ahmed | ||||
181 | Amta | AITC | Sukanto Paul | BJP | Debtanu Bhattacharya | INC | Asit Mitra | ||||
182 | Udaynarayanpur | AITC | Samir Kumar Panja | BJP | Sumit Ranjan Karar | INC | Alok Koley | ||||
183 | Jagatballavpur | AITC | Sitanath Ghosh | BJP | Anupam Ghosh | RSMP | Sk. Sabbir Ahmed | ||||
184 | Domjur | AITC | Kalyan Ghosh | BJP | Rajib Banerjee | CPI(M) | Uttam Bera | 10 April 2021 | |||
Hooghly district | |||||||||||
185 | Uttarpara | AITC | Kanchan Mullick | BJP | Prabir Ghoshal | CPI(M) | Rajat Banerjee | 10 April 2021 | |||
186 | Sreerampur | AITC | Sudipto Roy | BJP | Kabir Sankar Bose | INC | Alok Ranjan Banerjee | ||||
187 | Champdani | AITC | Arindam Guin | BJP | Dilip Singh | INC | Abdul Mannan | ||||
188 | Singur | AITC | Becharam Manna | BJP | Rabindranath Bhattacharjee | CPI(M) | Srijan Bhattacharya | ||||
189 | Chandannagar | AITC | Indranil Sen | BJP | Deepanjan Ghuha | CPI(M) | Goutam Sarkar | ||||
190 | Chunchura | AITC | Asit Mazumdar | BJP | Locket Chatterjee | AIFB | Dr. Pranab Ghosh | ||||
191 | Balagarh | AITC | Monoranjan Byapari | BJP | Subhas Chandra Haldar | CPI(M) | Mahamaya Mondal | ||||
192 | Pandua | AITC | Dr. Ratna De Nag | BJP | Partha Sharma | CPI(M) | Sk. Amjad Hossain | ||||
193 | Saptagram | AITC | Tapan Dasgupta | BJP | Debbrata Biswas(Baban) | INC | Pabitra Deb | ||||
194 | Chanditala | AITC | Swati Khandoker | BJP | Yash Dasgupta | CPI(M) | Mohammed Salim | ||||
195 | Jangipara | AITC | Snehashis Chakraborty | BJP | Debjit Sarkar | RSMP | Sk. Moinuddin (Budo) | 6 April 2021 | |||
196 | Haripal | AITC | Karabi Manna | BJP | Samiran Mitra | RSMP | Simal Soren | ||||
197 | Dhanekhali | AITC | Ashima Patra | BJP | Tushar Majumdar | INC | Anirban Saha | ||||
198 | Tarakeswar | AITC | Ramendu Singha Roy | BJP | Swapan Dasgupta | CPI(M) | Surajit Ghosh | ||||
199 | Pursurah | AITC | Dilip Yadav | BJP | Biman Ghosh | INC | Monika Mallick Ghosh | ||||
200 | Arambagh | AITC | Sujata Mondal Khan | BJP | Madhusudhan Bag | CPI(M) | Sakti Mohan Malik | ||||
201 | Goghat | AITC | Manas Mazumder | BJP | Biswanath Karak | AIFB | Shivprasad Malik | ||||
202 | Khanakul | AITC | Munsi Nazbul Karim | BJP | Susanta Ghosh | RSMP | Faisal Khan | ||||
Purba Medinipur district | |||||||||||
203 | Tamluk | AITC | Soumen Mahapatra | BJP | Harekrishna Bera | CPI | Goutam Panda | 1 April 2021 | |||
204 | Panskura Purba | AITC | Biplab Roychowdhury | BJP | Debabrata Patnayak | CPI(M) | Sk. Ibrahim Ali | ||||
205 | Panskura Paschim | AITC | Firoza Bibi | BJP | Shintu Senapati | CPI | Chittaranjan Das Thakur | ||||
206 | Moyna | AITC | Sangram Kumar Dolui | BJP | Ashoke Dinda | INC | Manik Bhownik | ||||
207 | Nandakumar | AITC | Sukumar Dey | BJP | Nilanjan Adhikari | CPI(M) | Karuna Shankar Bhowmick | ||||
208 | Mahisadal | AITC | Tilak Chakraborty | BJP | Biswanath Banarjee | RSMP | Bikram Chatterjee | ||||
209 | Haldia | AITC | Swapan Naskar | BJP | Tapasi Mondal | CPI(M) | Manika Kar Paik | ||||
210 | Nandigram | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | BJP | Suvendu Adhikari | CPI(M) | Minakshi Mukherjee | ||||
211 | Chandipur | AITC | Soham Chakraborty | BJP | Pulak Kanti Guriya | CPI(M) | Ashish Guchhait | ||||
212 | Patashpur | AITC | Uttam Basak | BJP | Ambujaksha Mahanti | CPI | Saikat Giri | 27 March 2021 | |||
213 | Kanthi Uttar | AITC | Tarun Kumar Jana | BJP | Sunita Singha | CPI(M) | Sutanu Maity | ||||
214 | Bhagabanpur | AITC | Ardhendu Maity | BJP | Rabindranath Maity | INC | Shiu Maiti | ||||
215 | Khejuri | AITC | Parthapratim Das | BJP | Santanu Pramanik | CPI(M) | Himangshu Das | ||||
216 | Kanthi Dakshin | AITC | Jyotirmoy Kar | BJP | Arup Kumar Das | CPI | Anulup Panda | ||||
217 | Ramnagar | AITC | Akhil Giri | BJP | Swadesh Ranjan Nayak | CPI(M) | Sabyasachi Jana | ||||
218 | Egra | AITC | Tarun Maity | BJP | Arup Das | INC | Manas Kumar Karmahapatra | ||||
Paschim Medinipur district | |||||||||||
219 | Dantan | AITC | Bikram Chandra Pradhan | BJP | Sakti Pada Nayak | CPI | Sisir Patra | 27 March 2021 | |||
Jhargram district | |||||||||||
220 | Nayagram | AITC | Dulal Murmu | BJP | Bakul Murmu | CPI(M) | Haripada Soren | 27 March 2021 | |||
221 | Gopiballavpur | AITC | Khagendranath Mahato | BJP | Sanjit Mahato | CPI(M) | Prashanta Das | ||||
222 | Jhargram | AITC | Birbaha Hansda | BJP | Sukhmoy Satpati | CPI(M) | Madhuja Sen Roy | ||||
Paschim Medinipur district | |||||||||||
223 | Keshiary | AITC | Paresh Murmu | BJP | Sonali Murmu | CPI(M) | Pulin Bihari Baske | 27 March 2021 | |||
224 | Kharagpur Sadar | AITC | Pradip Sarkar | BJP | Hiranmoy Chattopadhyaya | INC | Reeta Sharma | 1 April 2021 | |||
225 | Narayangarh | AITC | Suryakanta Atta | BJP | Ramprasad Giri | CPI(M) | Tapas Sinha | ||||
226 | Sabang | AITC | Manas Bhunia | BJP | Amulya Maity | INC | Chiranjib Bhowmik | ||||
227 | Pingla | AITC | Ajit Maity | BJP | Antara Bhattacharya | INC | Samir Roy | ||||
228 | Kharagpur | AITC | Dinen Ray | BJP | Tapan Bhuiya | CPI(M) | Sk. Saddam Ali | 27 March 2021 | |||
229 | Debra | AITC | Humayun Kabir | BJP | Bharati Ghosh | CPI(M) | Prankrishna Mondal | 1 April 2021 | |||
230 | Daspur | AITC | Mamata Bhunia | BJP | Prashanth Bera | CPI(M) | Dhrubasekhar Mondal | ||||
231 | Ghatal | AITC | Shankar Dolui | BJP | Shital Kapat | CPI(M) | Kamal Dolui | ||||
232 | Chandrakona | AITC | Arup Dhara | BJP | Shibram Das | RSMP | Gouranga Das | ||||
233 | Garbeta | AITC | Uttara Singha | BJP | Madan Ruidas | CPI(M) | Tapan Ghosh | 27 March 2021 | |||
234 | Salboni | AITC | Srikanta Mahata | BJP | Rajib Kundu | CPI(M) | Susanta Ghosh | ||||
235 | Keshpur | AITC | Siuli Saha | BJP | Pritish Ranjan | CPI(M) | Rameshwar Dolui | 1 April 2021 | |||
236 | Medinipur | AITC | June Malia | BJP | Shamit Dash | CPI | Tarun Kumar Ghosh | 27 March 2021 | |||
Jhargram district | |||||||||||
237 | Binpur | AITC | Debnath Hansda | BJP | Palan Saren | CPI(M) | Dibakar Hansda | 27 March 2021 | |||
Purulia district | |||||||||||
238 | Bandwan | AITC | Rajib Lochan Saren | BJP | Parsi Murmu | CPI(M) | Sushanta Besra | 27 March 2021 | |||
239 | Balarampur | AITC | Shantiram Mahato | BJP | Baneswar Mahato | INC | Uttam Banerjee | ||||
240 | Baghmundi | AITC | Sushanta Mahato | AJSU | Ashutosh Mahato | INC | Nepal Mahata | ||||
241 | Joypur | IND | Dibyojyoti Singh Deo[53][52] | BJP | Narahari Mahato | AIFB | Dhiren Mahato | ||||
242 | Purulia | AITC | Sujoy Banerjee | BJP | Sudip Mukherjee | INC | Partha Prathim Banerjee | ||||
243 | Manbazar | AITC | Sandhya Rani Tudu | BJP | Gouri Singh Sardar | CPI(M) | Jaminikanta Mandi | ||||
244 | Kashipur | AITC | Swapan Kumar Beltharia | BJP | Kamalakanta Hansda | CPI(M) | Mallika Mahata | ||||
245 | Para | AITC | Umapada Bauri | BJP | Nadia Chand Bauri | CPI(M) | Swapan Bauri | ||||
246 | Raghunathpur | AITC | Hazari Bauri | BJP | Bivekananda Bauri | CPI(M) | Ganesh Bauri | ||||
Bankura district | |||||||||||
247 | Saltora | AITC | Santosh Mondal | BJP | Chandana Bauri | CPI(M) | Nandadulal Bauri | 27 March 2021 | |||
248 | Chhatna | AITC | Subhasis Batabyal | BJP | Satyanarayan Mukherjee | RSP | Falguni Mukherjee | ||||
249 | Ranibandh | AITC | Jyostna Mandi | BJP | Khudiram Tudu | CPI(M) | Deblina Hembram | ||||
250 | Raipur | AITC | Mrittunjay Murmu | BJP | Sudhangsu Hansda | RSMP | Milan Mandi | ||||
251 | Taldangra | AITC | Arup Chakraborty | BJP | Shyamal Kumar Sarkar | CPI(M) | Manoranjan Patra | 1 April 2021 | |||
252 | Bankura | AITC | Sayantika Banerjee | BJP | Niladri Sekhar Dana | INC | Radha Rani Banerjee | ||||
253 | Barjora | AITC | Alok Mukherjee | BJP | Supriti Chatterji | CPI(M) | Sujit Chakraborty | ||||
254 | Onda | AITC | Arup Kumar Khan | BJP | Amar Sakha | AIFB | Tarapada Chakraborty | ||||
255 | Bishnupur (Bankura) | AITC | Archita Bid | BJP | Tanmoy Ghosh | INC | Debu Chatterjee | ||||
256 | Katulpur | AITC | Sangeeta Malik | BJP | Harkali Patihar | INC | Akshay Santra | ||||
257 | Indas | AITC | Runu Mete | BJP | Nirmal Dhara | CPI(M) | Nayan Sil | ||||
258 | Sonamukhi | AITC | Shyamal Santra | BJP | Dibakar Ghourmi | CPI(M) | Ajit Roy | ||||
Purba Bardhaman district | |||||||||||
259 | Khandaghosh | AITC | Nabin Chandra Bag | BJP | Bijon Mondal | CPI(M) | Ashima Roy | 17 April 2021 | |||
260 | Bardhaman Dakshin | AITC | Khokon Das | BJP | Sandip Nandi | CPI(M) | Pritha Ta | ||||
261 | Raina | AITC | Shampa Dhara | BJP | Manik Roy | CPI(M) | Basudev Khan | ||||
262 | Jamalpur | AITC | Alok Kumar Majhi | BJP | Balaram Bapari | MFB[c] | Samar Hazra | ||||
263 | Manteswar | AITC | Siddiqulla Chowdhury | BJP | Saikat Panja | CPI(M) | Anupam Ghosh | ||||
264 | Kalna | AITC | Deboprasad Bag | BJP | Bishwajit Kundu | CPI(M) | Nirab Khan | ||||
265 | Memari | AITC | Madhusudan Bhattacharya | BJP | Bhismadeb Bhattacharya | CPI(M) | Sanat Banerjee | ||||
266 | Bardhaman Uttar | AITC | Nisith Kumar Malik | BJP | Radhakanta Roy | CPI(M) | Chandi Charan Let | ||||
267 | Bhatar | AITC | Mangobindo Adhikary | BJP | Mahendra Konar | CPI(M) | Najrul Haque | 22 April 2021 | |||
268 | Purbasthali Dakshin | AITC | Swapan Debnath | BJP | Rajib Kumar Bhowmik | INC | Abhijit Bhattacharya | ||||
269 | Purbasthali Uttar | AITC | Tapan Chatterjee | BJP | Gobardhan Das | CPI(M) | Pradip Kumar Saha | ||||
270 | Katwa | AITC | Rabindranath Chatterjee | BJP | Shyama Majumdar | INC | Prabir Gangopadhyay | ||||
271 | Ketugram | AITC | Sekh Sahonawez | BJP | Mathura Ghosh | CPI(M) | Mizanur Rahman | ||||
272 | Mangalkot | AITC | Apurba Chowdhury | BJP | Rana Pratap Goswami | CPI(M) | Shah Jahan Chowdhury | ||||
273 | Ausgram | AITC | Abhedananda Thander | BJP | Kalita Majhi | CPI(M) | Chanchal Majhi | ||||
274 | Galsi | AITC | Nepal Ghorui | BJP | Bikash Biswas | AIFB | Nanda Pandit | ||||
Paschim Bardhaman district | |||||||||||
275 | Pandaveswar | AITC | Narendranath Chakraborty | BJP | Jitendra Tiwari | CPI(M) | Subhas Bauri | 26 April 2021 | |||
276 | Durgapur Purba | AITC | Pradip Majumder | BJP | Col.Diptangshu Chaudhury | CPI(M) | Abhas Raychowdhury | ||||
277 | Durgapur Paschim | AITC | Biswanath Parial | BJP | Lakshman Ghorai | INC | Debesh Chakraborty | ||||
278 | Raniganj | AITC | Tapas Banerjee | BJP | Dr. Bijan Mukherjee | CPI(M) | Hemant Pravakar | ||||
279 | Jamuria | AITC | Hareram Singh | BJP | Tapas Roy | CPI(M) | Aishe Ghosh | ||||
280 | Asansol Dakshin | AITC | Saayoni Ghosh | BJP | Agnimitra Paul | CPI(M) | Prashanta Ghosh | ||||
281 | Asansol Uttar | AITC | Moloy Ghatak | BJP | Krishnendu Mukherjee | RSMP | Md. Mustakin | ||||
282 | Kulti | AITC | Ujjal Chatterjee | BJP | Dr. Ajoy Poddar | INC | Chandidas Chatterjee | ||||
283 | Barabani | AITC | Bidhan Upadhyay | BJP | Arijit Roy | INC | Ranendra Bath Bagchi | ||||
Birbhum district | |||||||||||
284 | Dubrajpur | AITC | Debabrata Saha | BJP | Anup Saha | AIFB | Bijoy Bagdi | 29 April 2021 | |||
285 | Suri | AITC | Bikash Roy Chowdhury | BJP | Jagannath Chattopadhyay | INC | Chanchal Chatterjee | ||||
286 | Bolpur | AITC | Chandranath Singha | BJP | Anirban Ganguly | RSP | Tapan Hore | ||||
287 | Nanoor | AITC | Bidhan Chandra Majhi | BJP | Tarak Saha | CPI(M) | Shyamali Pradhan | ||||
288 | Labpur | AITC | Abhijit Sinha | BJP | Biswajit Mondal | CPI(M) | Syed Mahfuzul Karim | ||||
289 | Sainthia | AITC | Nilabati Saha | BJP | Piya Saha | CPI(M) | Mausumi Konai | ||||
290 | Mayureswar | AITC | Abhijit Roy | BJP | Shyamapada Mondal | RSMP | Kashinath Pal | ||||
291 | Rampurhat | AITC | Dr.Asish Banerjee | BJP | Subhasis Choudhury | CPI(M) | Sanjib Barman | ||||
292 | Hansan | AITC | Ashok Kumar Chattopadhay | BJP | Nikhil Banerjee | INC | Miltan Rashid | ||||
293 | Nalhati | AITC | Rajendra Prasad Singh | BJP | Tapas Kumar Yadav | AIFB | Dipak Chatterjee | ||||
294 | Murarai | AITC | Mosaraf Hossain | BJP | Debashis Roy | INC | Md. Asif Iqbal |
Surveys and polls
Exit poll
The Election Commission on 27 March, banned publication of any surveys and exit polls till 7:30 PM of 29 April to prevent any influence on voters.[100][101] However, in another notification, the time was brought forward to 7:00PM of the same day.[102]
Date published | Polling agency | Lead | ||||
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AITC+ | BJP+ | SM | Others | |||
29 April 2021 | ABP News - C-Voter[103][104][105] | 152-164 | 109-121 | 14-25 | - | 31-55 |
42.1% | 39.2% | 15.4% | 3.3% | 2.9% | ||
29 April 2021 | NK Digital Magazine[106] | (193+1)=194 | 73 | 22 | 3 | 121 |
30 April - 1 May 2021 | Ekhon Biswa Bangla Sangbad[107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114] | 217 | 63 | 10±2 | 2 | 154 |
30 April 2021 | FAM Community[115] | (182-1)=181 | 99 | (12-1)=11 | 1 | 82 |
29 April 2021 | DB Live[116][117] | 154-169 | 94-109 | 24-34 | 0-1 | 45-75 |
29 April 2021 | Drishtibhongi[118] | 174 | 103 | 15 | 2 | 71 |
45% | 38% | 12% | 5% | 7% | ||
29 April 2021 | Ground Zero Research[119][120][121] | 154-186 | 96-124 | 6-14 | 2-3 | 30-90 |
29 April 2021 | IPSOS[120] | 158 | 115 | 19 | - | 43 |
29 April 2021 | Today's Chanakya[122] | 169-191 | 97-119 | 0-8 | 0-3 | 50-94 |
46% | 39% | 9% | 6% | 7% | ||
29 April 2021 | ETG Research[123] | 164-176 | 105-115 | 10-15 | 0-1 | 49-71 |
42.4% | 39.1% | 14.2% | 4.3% | 3.3% | ||
29 April 2021 | P-MARQ[124][125][126] | 152-172 | 112-132 | 10-20 | - | 20-60 |
44% | 40% | 12% | - | 4% | ||
29 April 2021 | NEWSX - Polstrat[127][126][128][129][130] | 152-162 | 115-125 | 16-26 | - | 27-47 |
29 April 2021 | TV9 Bharatvarsh - Polstrat[131][129][132][128] | 142-152 | 125-135 | 16-26 | - | 7-27 |
43.9% | 40.5% | 10.7% | 4.9% | 3.4% | ||
29 April 2021 | India Today - Axis-My-India[133][126] | 130-156 | 134-160 | 0-2 | 0-1 | HUNG |
44% | 43% | 10% | 3% | 1% | ||
29 April 2021 | Republic TV - CNX[134][126] | 128-138 | 138-148 | 11-21 | - | 0-20 |
40.07% | 42.75% | 14.42% | 2.76% | 2.68% | ||
29 April 2021 | India TV - Peoples Pulse[135] | 64-88 | 173-192 | 7-12 | - | 85-128 |
29 April 2021 | Jan-Ki-Baat[130][136][126] | 104-121 | 162-185 | 3-9 | - | 58-64 |
44-45% | 46-48% | 5-8% | 2% | 1-4% | ||
29 April 2021 | Priyo Bandhu Media[137] | 82 | 187 | 22 | 1 | 105 |
29 April 2021 | Arambagh TV[138] | 84-119 | 159-192 | 11-20 | - | 40-108 |
29 April 2021 | Sudarshan News[139] | 97-104 | 170-180 | 6-10 | 1-3 | 66-83 |
Overall Average | 143-155 | 121-134 | 12-17 | 1 | 9-34 |
Opinion poll
A number of Pre-poll surveys for the elections were published by different agencies and groups in the span of one year until 27 March. However most polls contradicted each other regarding the possible outcome.[140]
Date published | Polling agency | Lead | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AITC+ | BJP+ | SM | Others | |||
25 March 2021 | P-Marq[141][142] | 121-130 | 149-158 | 11-15 | - | 19-37 |
43% | 42% | 13% | - | 1% | ||
25 March 2021 | DB Live[143] | 170-175 | 74-79 | 42-47 | 0-2 | 91-101 |
19-25 March 2021 | Priyo Bandhu Media[144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156] | 93 | 168 | 33 | - | 75 |
24 March 2021 | Times Now C-Voter [157] | 152-168 | 104-120 | 18-26 | 0-2 | 32-64 |
42% | 37% | 13% | 8% | |||
24 March 2021 | TV9 Bharatvarsh [158] | 146 | 122 | 23 | 3 | HUNG |
39.6% | 37.1% | 17.4% | 5.9% | |||
23 March 2021 | ABP News - CNX[159] | 136-146 | 130-140 | 14-18 | 1-3 | HUNG |
40% | 38% | 16% | 6% | |||
23 March 2021 | India TV- Peoples Pulse[160] | 95 | 183 | 16 | 0 | 88 |
23 March 2021 | Jan-Ki-Baat[161][162] | 118-134 | 150-162 | 10-14 | 0 | 16-44 |
44.1% | 44.8% | 7.5% | 3% | |||
20 March 2021 | Polstrat[163] | 163 | 102 | 29 | 0 | 61 |
44.4% | 37.4% | 11.7% | - | 7% | ||
17 March 2021 | Shining India[164] | 157-179 | 78-100 | 28-42 | 0-4 | 57-101 |
15 March 2021 | ABP News - C Voter | 150-166 | 98-114 | 23-31 | 3-5 | 36-52 |
43.4% | 38.4% | 12.7 | 5.5% | |||
8 March 2021 | ABP News - CNX[165] | 154-164 | 102-112 | 22-30 | 01-03 | 42-62 |
42% | 34% | 20% | 4% | |||
8 March 2021 | Times Now - C Voter[166] | 146-162 | 99-112 | 29-37 | 0 | 31-63 |
42.2% | 37.5% | 14.8% | 5.5% | |||
24 February 2021 | Times Democracy[144][128] | 151 | 131 | 12 | - | 20 |
44.10% | 39.61% | 12.70% | 3.59% | 4.49% | ||
13-14 February 2021 | NK Digital Magazine[167][168][169] | 192 | 69 | 30 | 3 | 123 |
49% | 39% | 10% | 2% | 10% |
Election
These elections is being conducted amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, necessary guidelines are being issued by the Election Commission of India.[170]
COVID-19 guidelines
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, the Election Commission of India issued various health guidelines for conducting the elections. The guidelines include use of masks, sanitisation of the polling booths, use of thermal scanners before entering the polling booths, maintaining social distancing, and so forth.[171] The number of maximum voters for each polling station has also been brought down to 1000 from 1500.[172]
After hikes in COVID-19 cases in the state,[173] the Election Commission issued warning against all recognised state and national political parties for following the COVID-19 guidelines strictly.[174] The Election Commission banned all political rallies, public meetings, street plays and nukkad sabhas during 7 PM to 10 AM starting from 16 April.[175] On 22 April 2021, owing to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, ahead of the 7th & 8th phase of voting the Election Commission of India withdrew permission for any kind of roadshows including cycle, bike, vehicle rallies and added that not more than 500 people would be allowed in public meetings.[176] ECI on 27 April issued a notification banning all kinds of victory processions on and after the day of counting of votes.[177]
Security preparations
After several instances of violence, threats and murders even before the polls were announced, the Election Commission of India and Home Ministry ordered twelve companies of central forces were be deployed in West Bengal from 20 February. At least 125 more central troops were ordered to reach West Bengal on 25 February to ensure law and order in the poll-bound state. The Election commission said that forces will lay stress on area domination, especially in sensitive zones.[178] 60 companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 30 companies of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), 25 companies of the Border Security Force (BSF) and five companies each of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).[179] The total number of central forces deployed increased progressively to 725 companies.[180][181] The number of total deployment of central security forces increased to 1000 companies following deployment of additional 200 CAPF companies after the third phase of polling.[182]
In the second phase of election, Section 144 was implemented across areas of Tamluk and Haldia subdivisions.[183] After fourth phase of polling, ECI deployed additional 71 companies of central forces, making the total deployment number at 1,071 companies of central forces.[184]
Voting
Voter Turnout
Phase | Seats | Voters | Polled | Turnout | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
I | 30 | 73,80,942 | 84.63% | ||
II | 30 | 75,94,549 | 86.11% | ||
III | 31 | 78,52,425 | 84.61% | ||
IV | 44 | 1,15,81,022 | 79.90% | ||
V | 45 | 1,13,47,344 | 82.49% | ||
VI | 43 | 1,03,87,791 | 82.00% | ||
VII | 34 | 81,88,907 | 76.89% | ||
VIII | 35 | 84,77,728 | 78.32% | ||
Later | 2 | 4,90,212 | |||
Total | 294 | 7,32,98,428 | 5,99,35,988 | 81.87% |
Phase I
Nearly 74 lakh electorates across 10,288 polling stations of West Bengal were registered to in this phase of election. Webcasting were arranged for 5392 polling stations. During this phase, a total of 10288 Ballot Units (BUs), 10288 Control Units (CUs) and 10288 VVPATs were used in West Bengal.[185]
Phase II
Nearly 73 lakh electorates across 10,592 polling stations of West Bengal were registered to in this phase of election. Webcasting were arranged for 5,535 polling stations. During this phase, a total of 10,620 Ballot Units (BUs), 10,620 Control Units(CUs) and 10,620 VVPATs were used. 1,137 Flying Squads (FS) and 1012 Static Surveillance Teams (SST) were operational to check movement of cash, liquor, drugs & freebies. 3 Air Intelligence Units (AIU) of IT Department were also set up at Kolkata, Andal in Durgapur and Bagdogra. 14,499 cases of Model Code of Conduct violations were reported from West Bengal with 11,630 disposed till 4.30 pm of voting day.[186]
Phase III
A total of 7,852,425 voters were eligible to vote in 10,871 polling stations of this phase, out of which, 64,083 were physically disabled voters and 126,177 were voters above the age of 80. In the third phase, 22 general observers, 7 police observers and 9 expenditure observers were deployed.[187]
Phase IV
A total of 11,581,022 voters were eligible to vote in this phase of election, out of which, 50,523 were physically disabled voters and 203,927 were voters above the age of 80.[188]
Phase V
A total of 11,347,344 voters were eligible to vote in this phase of election, out of which, 60,198 were physically disabled voters and 179,634 were voters above the age of 80.[189]
Phase VI
A total of 10,387,791 voters were eligible to vote in this phase of election, out of which, 64,266 were physically disabled voters and 157,290 were voters above the age of 80.[190]
Incidents
- Ahead of the first phase of election, an election vehicle was set on fire by two unknown men.[191]
- Two security personnel were reportedly injured in Satsatmal village of Purba Medinipur district in a firing and bombing incident during the phase 1 of polling.[192]
- A BJP worker's dead body found in Paschim Medinipur during the first phase of election.[193]
- Three TMC activists were injured in blast in Bankura during the first phase.[194]
- In Dantan constituency, it was reported that the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was preventing people from voting. A complaint was lodged at a local police station which alleged that the CRPF were allowing BJP workers to reside in the booth and casting votes in their name.[195]
- On 28 March, the ECI stated that 56 bombs were seized from Narendrapur of South 24 Parganas district.[196]
- During the filing of nomination by a BJP candidate in Barrackpore, gunshots were fired and later clashes broke out between BJP and TMC workers.[197]
- On 30 March, Ashok Dinda, BJP's candidate from Moyna, Purba Medinipur was attacked and his vehicle was vandalised during a campaign. He claimed that hundreds of goons, wielding lathi and rods hurled stones at his vehicle. Dinda was injured on his shoulder.[198]
- On 2 April, the West Bengal Police seized 41 crude bombs in Bhangar constituency.[199]
- During the third phase of polling, EVM and VVPAT machines were found in the house of a Trinamool Congress politician. Later, the sector officer were suspended.[200]
- In the fourth phase of polling, there were two major instances of violence, both in Sitalkuchi constituency of Cooch Behar district. In one incident in Pathantuli, a first-time voter Ananda Barman was shot dead by unknown assailants after casting his vote. Both parties claimed he was a worker of theirs, but family members said he was a BJP worker.[201] Elsewhere in Sitalkuchi, CISF personnel who were guarding a polling station in Jorepatki shot dead four villagers, who they alleged were part of a mob attacking them. According to them, the mob attacked them over rumours the security forces had thrashed a local boy and they fired in self-defence. The families of the deceased alleged the firing was deliberate, and that they were simply in a queue to vote.[202][203]
- During the fifth phase of polling, in the Shantinagar locality of Bidhannagar, bricks and stones were hurled by TMC and BJP booth workers at each other leaving eight people injured [204]
- BJP candidate, Gopal Chandra Saha was shot at while campaigning in Malda district, he was admitted to a hospital.[205]
- On 29 April, during the 8th phase of voting crude bombs were hurled near Mahajati Sadan in north Kolkata.[206]
Results
Election result for 292 constituencies was announced on 2 May 2021 from 8:00AM (UTC+5:30), whereas results for 2 constituencies was delayed till 19 May 2021.
213 | 77 | 1 | 1 |
AITC | BJP | ISF | GJM (T) |
Parties and coalitions | Popular vote | Seats | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | |||
All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) | 28,735,420 | 47.94 | 288 | 213 | 2 | |||
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) | 22,850,710 | 38.13 | 291 | 77 | 74 | |||
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) | 2,837,276 | 4.73 | 136 | 0 | 26 | |||
Indian National Congress (INC) | 1,757,131 | 2.94 | 90 | 0 | 44 | |||
Indian Secular Front (ISF) | 813,489 | 1.35 | 27 | 1 | 1 | |||
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) | 318,932 | 0.53 | 18 | 0 | 3 | |||
Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) | 126,121 | 0.21 | 10 | 0 | 2 | |||
Communist Party Of India (CPI) | 118,655 | 0.20 | 10 | 0 | 1 | |||
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) (T) Faction | 163,797 | 0.27 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) (B) Faction | 103,190 | 0.17 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
None of the Above (NOTA) | 646,827 | 1.08 | ||||||
Total | 59,935,988 | 100.0 | 292 | ±0 |
Alliance Wise Results
AITC and Allies | Sanjukta Morcha | BJP and Allies | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Party | Seats | Popular vote | Party | Seats | Popular vote | Party | Seats | Popular vote | |||||||||||||||
AITC+ | Contestesting | Winning | Votes | % | ±pp | SNM | Contestesting Seats | Winning Seats | BJP+ | Contestesting Seats | Winning Seats | Votes | % | ±pp | |||||||||
AITC | 290 | 213 | +2 | INC | 91 | 0 | -44 | BJP | 293 | 77 | +74 | ||||||||||||
GJM(G) | 3 | 0 | -3 | CPI(M) | 137 | 0 | -26 | AJSU | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
GJM(T) | 1 | +1 | CPI | 10 | 0 | -1 | |||||||||||||||||
IND | 1 | 0 | 35,429 | 0.06 | RSP | 11 | 0 | -3 | |||||||||||||||
AIFB | 18 | 0 | -2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
ISF | 28 | 1 | +1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 214 | +3 | Total | 1 | Total | 77 |
District wise Results
Region | District | Total Seats | Demographics [207] | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TMC + | NDA | SNM | Oth. | Hindu | Muslim | Others | |||
Jalpaiguri division | Cooch Behar | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 74.06 | 25.54 | 0.4 |
Alipurduar | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Jalpaiguri | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 84.16 | 13.64 | 2.2 | |
Kalimpong | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Darjeeling | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 74.00 | 11.33 | 14.67 | |
Total | 27 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Malda division | Uttar Dinajpur | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 49.31 | 49.92 | 0.77 |
Dakshin Dinajpur | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 73.55 | 24.63 | 1.83 | |
Malda | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 47.99 | 51.27 | 0.74 | |
Murshidabad | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33.21 | 66.27 | 0.25 | |
Total | 47 | 36 | 11 | 0 | |||||
Presidency division | Nadia | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 72.15 | 26.76 | 1.09 |
North 24 Parganas | 33 | 28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 73.46 | 25.82 | 0.72 | |
South 24 Parganas | 31 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 63.17 | 35.57 | 1.26 | |
Howrah | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 72.9 | 26.2 | 0.9 | |
Kolkata | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76.5 | 20.6 | 2.9 | |
Total | 108 | 93 | 14 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Medinipur division | Purba Medinipur | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 85.24 | 14.59 | 0.17 |
Paschim Medinipur | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 86.52 | 9.49 | 3.99 | |
Jhargram | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Purulia | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.42 | 7.12 | 9.47 | |
Bankura | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 84.34 | 8.07 | 7.59 | |
Total | 56 | 33 | 23 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Bardhaman division | Hooghly | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 82.89 | 15.77 | 1.34 |
Paschim Bardhaman | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 84.75 | 13.32 | 1.93 | |
Purba Bardhaman | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73.75 | 25.89 | 0.37 | |
Birbhum | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 62.3 | 37.1 | 0.6 | |
Total | 54 | 46 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Results by Polling Phase
Phase of Elections | Total Seats | TMC+ | BJP+ | SM | Others |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First Phase | 30 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
Second Phase | 30 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Third Phase | 31 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Fourth Phase | 44 | 31 | 12 | 1 | 0 |
Fifth Phase | 45 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
Sixth Phase | 43 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Seventh Phase | 34 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
Eighth Phase | 35 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 292 | 214 | 77 | 1 | 0 |
Constituency Wise Results
Assembly Constituency | Turnout (%) | Winner | Runner Up | Margin | Voting date | |||||||||
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# | Name | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Cooch Behar district | ||||||||||||||
1 | Mekliganj (SC) | AITC | Paresh Chandra Adhikary | 99338 | 49.98 | BJP | Dadhiram Ray | 84653 | 42.59 | 14685 | 10 April 2021 | |||
2 | Mathabhanga (SC) | BJP | Sushil Barman | 113249 | 52.87 | AITC | Girindra Nath Barman | 87115 | 40.67 | 26134 | ||||
3 | Cooch Behar Uttar (SC) | BJP | Sukumar Roy | 120483 | 49.40 | AITC | Binay Krishna Barman | 105868 | 43.40 | 14615 | ||||
4 | Cooch Behar Dakshin | BJP | Nikhil Ranjan Dey | 96629 | 46.83 | AITC | Avijit De Bhowmik | 91830 | 44.31 | 4799 | ||||
5 | Sitalkuchi (SC) | BJP | Baren Chandra Barman | 124955 | 50.80 | AITC | Partha Pratim Ray | 107140 | 43.56 | 17815 | ||||
6 | Sitai (SC) | AITC | Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia | 117908 | 49.42 | BJP | Dipak Kumar Roy | 107796 | 45.18 | 10112 | ||||
7 | Dinhata | BJP | Nisith Paramanik | 116035 | 47.60 | AITC | Udayan Guha | 115978 | 47.58 | 57 | ||||
8 | Natabari | BJP | Mihir Goswami | 111743 | 51.45 | AITC | Rabindra Nath Ghosh | 88303 | 40.66 | 23440 | ||||
9 | Tufanganj | BJP | Malati Rava Roy | 114503 | 54.69 | AITC | Pranab Kumar Dey | 83305 | 39.79 | 31198 | ||||
Alipurduar district | ||||||||||||||
10 | Kumargram (ST) | BJP | Manoj Kumar Oraon | 111974 | 48.16 | AITC | Leos Kujar | 100973 | 43.43 | 11001 | 10 April 2021 | |||
11 | Kalchini (ST) | BJP | Bishal Lama | 103104 | 52.65 | AITC | Pasang Lama | 74528 | 38.06 | 28576 | ||||
12 | Alipurduars | BJP | Suman Kanjilal | 107333 | 48.19 | AITC | Sourav Chakraborty | 91326 | 41.00 | 16007 | ||||
13 | Falakata | BJP | Dipak Barman | 102993 | 46.71 | AITC | Subhash Chanda Roy | 99003 | 44.90 | 3990 | ||||
14 | Madarihat | BJP | Manoj Tigga | 90718 | 54.35 | AITC | Rajesh Lakra | 61033 | 36.56 | 29685 | ||||
Jalpaiguri district | ||||||||||||||
15 | Dhupguri (SC) | BJP | Bishnu Pada Ray | 104688 | 45.64 | AITC | Mitali Roy | 100333 | 43.75 | 4355 | 17 April 2021 | |||
16 | Maynaguri (SC) | BJP | Kaushik Roy | 115306 | 48.84 | AITC | Manoj Roy | 103395 | 43.79 | 11911 | ||||
17 | Jalpaiguri (SC) | AITC | Pradip Kumar Barma | 95668 | 42.34 | BJP | Sujit Singha | 94727 | 41.93 | 941 | ||||
18 | Rajganj (SC) | AITC | Khageswar Roy | 104641 | 48.5 | BJP | Supen Roy | 88868 | 41.19 | 15773 | ||||
19 | Dabgram-Phulbari | BJP | Sikha Chatterjee | 129088 | 49.85 | AITC | Goutam Deb | 101495 | 39.19 | 27593 | ||||
20 | Mal (ST) | AITC | Bulu Chik Baraik | 99086 | 46.46 | BJP | Mahesh Bagey | 93621 | 43.9 | 5465 | ||||
21 | Nagrakata (ST) | BJP | Puna Bhengra | 70945 | 47.78 | AITC | Joseph Munda | 56543 | 38.08 | 14402 | ||||
Kalimpong district | ||||||||||||||
22 | Kalimpong | 72.57 | GJM (Tamang) | Ruden Sada Lepcha | 58206 | 37.59 | BJP | Suva Pradhan | 54336 | 35.09 | 3870 | 17 April 2021 | ||
Darjeeling district | ||||||||||||||
23 | Darjeeling | 68.09 | BJP | Neeraj Zimba | 68907 | 40.88 | GJM (Tamang) | Keshav Raj Sharma | 47631 | 28.26 | 21726 | 17 April 2021 | ||
24 | Kurseong | 73.93 | BJP | Bishnu Prasad Sharma | 73475 | 41.86 | GJM (Tamang) | Tshering Lama Dahal | 57960 | 33.02 | 15515 | |||
25 | Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) | 83.43 | BJP | Anandamoy Barman | 139785 | 58.10 | AITC | Rajen Sundas | 68454 | 28.65 | 70848 | |||
26 | Siliguri | 77.37 | BJP | Shankar Ghosh | 89370 | 50.03 | AITC | Om Prakash Mishra | 53784 | 30.11 | 35586 | |||
27 | Phansidewa (ST) | 86.02 | BJP | Durga Murmu | 105651 | 50.89 | AITC | Choton Kisku | 77940 | 37.55 | 27711 | |||
Uttar Dinajpur district | ||||||||||||||
28 | Chopra | AITC | Hamidul Rahaman | 124923 | 61.2 | BJP | Md. Shahin Akhtar | 59604 | 29.4 | 65319 | 22 April 2021 | |||
29 | Islampur | AITC | Abdul Karim Chowdhury | 100131 | 58.91 | BJP | Saumya Roop Mandal | 62691 | 36.88 | 37440 | ||||
30 | Goalpokhar | AITC | Md. Ghulam Rabbani | 105649 | 65.4 | BJP | Gulam Sarwar | 32135 | 19.89 | 73514 | ||||
31 | Chakulia | AITC | Minhajul Arfin Azad | 86311 | 49.78 | BJP | Sachin Prasad | 52474 | 30.26 | 33837 | ||||
32 | Karandighi | AITC | Goutam Pal | 116594 | 54.7 | BJP | Subhash Singha | 79968 | 37.52 | 36626 | ||||
33 | Hemtabad (SC) | AITC | Satyajit Burman | 116425 | 52.14 | BJP | Chandima Roy | 89210 | 39.95 | 27215 | ||||
34 | Kaliaganj (SC) | BJP | Soumen Roy | 116768 | 48.71 | AITC | Tapan Dev Singha | 94948 | 39.61 | 21820 | ||||
35 | Raiganj | BJP | Krishna Kalyani | 79775 | 49.44 | AITC | Agarwal Kanata Lal | 59027 | 36.58 | 20748 | ||||
36 | Itahar | AITC | Mosaraf Hossain | 114645 | 59.10 | BJP | Amit Kumar Kundu | 70670 | 36.43 | 43975 | ||||
Dakshin Dinajpur district | ||||||||||||||
37 | Kushmandi (SC) | AITC | Rekha Roy | 89968 | 48.88 | BJP | Ranjit Kumar Roy | 77384 | 42.08 | 12584 | 26 April 2021 | |||
38 | Kumarganj | AITC | Toraf Hossain Mondal | 89117 | 52.58 | BJP | Manas Sarkar | 59736 | 35.24 | 29381 | ||||
39 | Balurghat | BJP | Ashok Kumar Lahiri | 70484 | 47.25 | AITC | Sekhar Dasgupta | 57585 | 38.60 | 12899 | ||||
40 | Tapan (ST) | BJP | Budhrai Tudu | 84381 | 45.29 | AITC | Kalpana Kisku | 82731 | 44.41 | 1650 | ||||
41 | Gangarampur (SC) | BJP | Satyendra Nath Ray | 88724 | 46.82 | AITC | Goutam Das | 84132 | 44.40 | 4592 | ||||
42 | Harirampur | AITC | Biplab Mitra | 96131 | 51.23 | BJP | Nilanjan Roy | 73459 | 39.15 | 22672 | ||||
Malda district | ||||||||||||||
43 | Habibpur (ST) | BJP | Joyel Murmu | 94075 | 47.52 | AITC | Prodip Baskey | 74558 | 37.66 | 19517 | 26 April 2021 | |||
44 | Gazole (SC) | BJP | Chinmoy Deb Barman | 100655 | 45.5 | AITC | Basanti Barman | 98857 | 44.69 | 1798 | ||||
45 | Chanchal | AITC | Nihar Ranjan Ghosh | 115966 | 58.08 | BJP | Dipankar Ram | 48628 | 24.35 | 67338 | ||||
46 | Harishchandrapur | AITC | Tajmul Hossain | 122527 | 60.31 | BJP | Matibur Rahaman | 45054 | 22.18 | 77473 | ||||
47 | Malatipur | AITC | Abdur Rahim Boxi | 126157 | 68.02 | BJP | Mousumi Das | 34208 | 18.44 | 91949 | ||||
48 | Ratua | AITC | Samar Mukherjee | 130674 | 59.63 | BJP | Abhishek Singhania | 55024 | 25.11 | 75650 | ||||
49 | Manikchak | AITC | Sabitri Mitra | 110234 | 53.26 | BJP | Gour Chandra Mandal | 76356 | 36.89 | 33878 | 29 April 2021 | |||
50 | Maldaha | BJP | Gopal Chandra Saha | 93398 | 45.23 | AITC | Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury | 77942 | 37.75 | 15456 | ||||
51 | English Bazar | BJP | Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury | 107755 | 49.96 | AITC | Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury | 87656 | 40.64 | 20099 | ||||
52 | Mothabari | AITC | Yeasmin Sabina | 97397 | 59.70 | BJP | Shyamchand Ghosh | 40824 | 25.02 | 56573 | ||||
53 | Sujapur | AITC | Md Abdul Ghani | 152445 | 73.44 | INC | Isha Khan Choudhury | 22282 | 10.73 | 130163 | ||||
54 | Baisnabnagar | AITC | Chandana Sarkar | 83061 | 39.81 | BJP | Swadhin Kumar Sarkar | 80590 | 38.62 | 2471 | ||||
Murshidabad district | ||||||||||||||
55 | Farakka | AITC | Manirul Islam | 102319 | 54.89 | BJP | Hemanta Ghosh | 42374 | 22.73 | 59945 | 26 April 2021 | |||
56 | Samserganj | TBD | ||||||||||||
57 | Suti | AITC | Emani Biswas | 127351 | 58.87 | BJP | Koushik Das | 56650 | 26.19 | 70701 | 26 April 2021 | |||
58 | Jangipur | TBD | ||||||||||||
59 | Raghunathganj | AITC | Akhruzzaman | 126834 | 66.59 | BJP | Golam Modaswer | 28521 | 14.97 | 98313 | 26 April 2021 | |||
60 | Sagardighi | AITC | Subrata Saha | 95189 | 50.95 | BJP | Mafuza Khatun | 44983 | 24.08 | 50206 | ||||
61 | Lalgola | AITC | Mohammad Ali | 107860 | 56.64 | INC | Abu Hena | 47153 | 24.76 | 60707 | ||||
62 | Bhagabangola | AITC | Idris Ali | 153795 | 68.05 | CPI(M) | Md Kamal Hossain | 47787 | 21.15 | 106008 | ||||
63 | Raninagar | AITC | Abdul Soumik Hossain | 134957 | 60.79 | INC | Firoza Begam | 55255 | 24.89 | 79702 | ||||
64 | Murshidabad | BJP | Gouri Shankar Ghosh | 95967 | 41.86 | AITC | Shaoni Singha Roy | 93476 | 40.78 | 2491 | ||||
65 | Nabagram (SC) | AITC | Kanai Chandra Mondal | 100455 | 48.18 | BJP | Mohan Halder | 64922 | 31.14 | 35533 | ||||
66 | Khargram (SC) | AITC | Ashis Marjit | 93255 | 50.15 | BJP | Aditya Moulik | 60682 | 32.64 | 32573 | 29 April 2021 | |||
67 | Burwan (SC) | AITC | Jiban Krishna Saha | 81890 | 46.32 | BJP | Amiya Kumar Das | 79141 | 44.76 | 2749 | ||||
68 | Kandi | AITC | Apurba Sarkar | 95399 | 51.16 | BJP | Goutam Roy | 57319 | 30.74 | 38080 | ||||
69 | Bharatpur | AITC | Humayun Kabir | 96226 | 50.90 | BJP | Iman Kalyan Mukherjee | 53143 | 28.11 | 43083 | ||||
70 | Rejinagar | AITC | Rabiul Alam Chowdhury | 118494 | 56.31 | BJP | Arabinda Biswas | 50226 | 23.87 | 68268 | ||||
71 | Beldanga | AITC | SK Hasanuzzaman | 112862 | 55.19 | BJP | Sumit Ghosh | 59030 | 28.86 | 53832 | ||||
72 | Baharampur | BJP | Subrata Maitra | 89340 | 45.21 | AITC | Naru Gopal Mukherjee | 62488 | 31.62 | 26852 | ||||
73 | Hariharpara | AITC | Niamot Sheikh | 102660 | 47.51 | INC | Mir Alamgir | 88594 | 41.00 | 14066 | ||||
74 | Naoda | AITC | Sahina Momtaz Khan | 117684 | 58.16 | BJP | Anupam Mandal | 43531 | 21.51 | 74153 | ||||
75 | Domkal | AITC | Jafikul Islam | 127671 | 56.45 | CPI(M) | Md Mostafizur Rahaman | 80442 | 35.57 | 47229 | ||||
76 | Jalangi | AITC | Abdur Razzak | 123840 | 55.74 | CPI(M) | Saiful Islam Molla | 44564 | 20.06 | 79276 | ||||
Nadia district | ||||||||||||||
77 | Karimpur | AITC | Bimlendu Sinha Roy | 110911 | 50.07 | BJP | Samarendra Nath Ghosh | 87336 | 39.43 | 23575 | 22 April 2021 | |||
78 | Tehatta | AITC | Tapas Kumar Saha | 97848 | 44.86 | BJP | Ashutosh Paul | 90933 | 41.69 | 6915 | ||||
79 | Palashipara | AITC | Dr. Manik Bhattacharya | 110274 | 54.22 | BJP | Bibhash Chandra Mandal | 58938 | 28.98 | 51336 | ||||
80 | Kaliganj | AITC | Nasiruddin Ahamed | 111696 | 53.35 | BJP | Abhijit Ghosh | 64709 | 30.91 | 46987 | ||||
81 | Nakashipara | AITC | Kallol Khan | 104812 | 50.01 | BJP | Santanu Dey | 83541 | 39.86 | 21271 | ||||
82 | Chapra | AITC | Rukbanur Rahman | 73866 | 34.65 | IND | Jeber Sekh | 61748 | 28.97 | 12118 | ||||
83 | Krishnanagar Uttar | BJP | Mukul Roy | 109357 | 54.19 | AITC | Koushani Mukherjee | 74268 | 36.80 | 35089 | ||||
84 | Nabadwip | AITC | Pundarikakshya Saha | 102170 | 48.52 | BJP | Sidhartha Shankar Naskar | 83599 | 39.70 | 18571 | ||||
85 | Krishnanagar Dakshin | AITC | Ujjal Biswas | 91738 | 46.88 | BJP | Mahadev Sarkar | 82433 | 42.13 | 9305 | ||||
86 | Santipur | BJP | Jagannath Sarkar | 109722 | 49.94 | AITC | Ajoy Dey | 93844 | 42.72 | 15878 | 17 April 2021 | |||
87 | Ranaghat Uttar Paschim | BJP | Parthasarathi Chatterjee | 113637 | 50.91 | AITC | Sankar Singha | 90509 | 40.55 | 23128 | ||||
88 | Krishnaganj (SC) | BJP | Ashis Kumar Biswas | 117668 | 50.73 | AITC | Dr. Tapas Mandal | 96391 | 41.56 | 21277 | ||||
89 | Ranaghat Uttar Purba (SC) | BJP | Ashim Biswas | 116786 | 54.39 | AITC | SAMIR KUMAR PODDAR | 85004 | 39.59 | 31782 | ||||
90 | Ranaghat Dakshin (SC) | BJP | Mukut Mani Adhikari | 119260 | 49.34 | AITC | Barnali Dey Roy | 102745 | 42.51 | 16515 | ||||
91 | Chakdaha | BJP | Bankim Chandra Ghosh | 99368 | 46.86 | AITC | Subhankar Singha | 87688 | 41.35 | 11680 | ||||
92 | Kalyani (SC) | BJP | Ambika Roy | 97026 | 44.04 | AITC | Aniruddha Biswas | 94820 | 43.03 | 2206 | ||||
93 | Haringhata (SC) | BJP | Asim Kumar Sarkar | 97666 | 46.31 | AITC | Nilima Nag | 82466 | 39.11 | 15200 | ||||
North 24 Parganas district | ||||||||||||||
94 | Bagda (SC) | BJP | Biswajit Das | 108111 | 49.41 | AITC | Paritosh Kumar Saha | 98319 | 44.94 | 9792 | 22 April 2021 | |||
95 | Bangaon Uttar (SC) | BJP | Ashok Kirtania | 97761 | 47.65 | AITC | Shyamal Roy | 87,273 | 42.54 | 10488 | ||||
96 | Bangaon Dakshin (SC) | BJP | Swapan Majumder | 97,828 | 47.07 | AITC | Alo Rani Sarkar | 95824 | 46.11 | 2004 | ||||
97 | Gaighata (SC) | BJP | Subrata Thakur | 100,808 | 47.27 | AITC | Narottam Biswas | 91,230 | 42.78 | 9578 | ||||
98 | Swarupnagar (SC) | AITC | Bina Mondal | 99,784 | 47.11 | BJP | Brindaban Sarkar | 64,984 | 30.68 | 34800 | ||||
99 | Baduria | AITC | Abdur Rahim Quazi | 109,701 | 51.53 | BJP | Sukalyan Baidya | 53,257 | 25.02 | 56,444 | ||||
100 | Habra | AITC | Jyotipriya Mallick | 90533 | 44.34 | BJP | Biswajit Sinha | 86692 | 42.46 | 3841 | ||||
101 | Ashoknagar | AITC | Narayan Goswami | 93,587 | 43.18 | BJP | Tanuja Chakraborty | 70,055 | 32.32 | 23,532 | ||||
102 | Amdanga | AITC | Rafiqur Rahaman | 88,935 | 42.00 | BJP | Joydev Manna | 63,455 | 29.97 | 25,480 | ||||
103 | Bijpur | AITC | Subodh Adhikary | 66,625 | 47.90 | BJP | Subhranshu Roy | 53,278 | 38.30 | 13,347 | ||||
104 | Naihati | AITC | Partha Bhowmick | 77753 | 49.69 | BJP | Phalguni Patra | 58898 | 37.64 | 18855 | ||||
105 | Bhatpara | BJP | Pawan Kumar Singh | 57244 | 53.40 | AITC | Jitendra Shaw | 43557 | 40.63 | 13687 | ||||
106 | Jagatdal | AITC | Somenath Shyam Ichini | 87030 | 48.01 | BJP | Arindam Bhattacharya | 68666 | 37.88 | 18364 | ||||
107 | Noapara | AITC | Manju Basu | 94203[208] | 48.9 | BJP | Sunil Singh | 67493 | 35.04 | 26710 | ||||
108 | Barrackpore | AITC | Raj Chakraborty | 68887 | 46.47 | BJP | Chandramani Shukla | 59665 | 40.25 | 9222 | ||||
109 | Khardaha | AITC | Kajal Sinha | 89807 | 49.04 | BJP | Silbhadra Datta | 61667 | 33.67[209] | 28140 | ||||
110 | Dum Dum Uttar | AITC | Chandrima Bhattacharya | 95465 | 44.79 | BJP | Dr. Archana Majumdar | 66966[210] | 31.42 | 28499 | ||||
111 | Panihati | AITC | Nirmal Ghosh | 86,495 | 49.61 | BJP | Sanmoy Bandyopadhyay | 61,318 | 35.17 | 25,177 | 17 April 2021 | |||
112 | Kamarhati | AITC | Madan Mitra | 73,845 | 51.17 | BJP | Anindya Banerjee | 38,437 | 26.64 | 35,408 | ||||
113 | Baranagar | AITC | Tapas Roy | 85,615 | 53.42 | BJP | Parno Mitra | 50,468 | 31.49 | 35,147 | ||||
114 | Dum Dum | AITC | Bratya Basu | 87,999 | 47.48 | BJP | Bimalshankar Nanda | 61,368 | 33.06 | 26,731 | ||||
115 | Rajarhat New Town | AITC | Tapash Chatterjee | 1,27,374 | 54.22 | BJP | Bhaskar Roy | 70,942 | 30.2 | 56,432 | ||||
116 | Bidhannagar | AITC | Sujit Bose | 75,912 | 46.85 | BJP | Sabya Sachi Dutta | 67,915 | 41.91 | 7,997 | ||||
117 | Rajarhat Gopalpur | AITC | Aditi Munshi | 87,650 | 49.04 | BJP | Samik Bhattacharya | 62,354 | 34.89 | 25,296 | ||||
118 | Madhyamgram | AITC | Rathin Ghosh | 1,12,741 | 48.93 | BJP | Rajasree Rajbanshi | 64,615 | 28.04 | 48,126 | ||||
119 | Barasat | AITC | Chiranjeet Chakraborty | 1,04,431 | 46.27 | BJP | Sankar Chatterjee | 80,648 | 35.73 | 23,783 | ||||
120 | Deganga | AITC | Rahima Mondal | 1,00,105 | 46.7 | ISF | Karim Ali | 67,568 | 32,537 | |||||
121 | Haroa | AITC | Islam Sk Nurul (Haji) | 1,30,398 | 57.34 | ISF | Kutubuddin Fathe | 49,420 | 21.73 | 80,978 | ||||
122 | Minakhan (SC) | AITC | Usha Rani Mondal | 1,09,818 | 51.72 | BJP | Jayanta Mondal | 53,988 | 25.42 | 55,830 | ||||
123 | Sandeshkhali (ST) | AITC | Sukumar Mahata | 1,12,450 | 54.64 | BJP | Dr. Bhaskar Sardar | 72,765 | 35.36 | 39,685 | ||||
124 | Basirhat Dakshin | AITC | Dr. Saptarshi Banerjee | 1,15,873 | 49.15 | BJP | Tarak Nath Ghosh | 91,405 | 38.77 | 24,468 | ||||
125 | Basirhat Uttar | AITC | Rafikul Islam Mondal | 1,37,216 | 57.55 | ISF | Md. Baijid Amin | 47,865 | 89,351 | |||||
126 | Hingalganj (SC) | AITC | Debes Mandal | 1,04,706 | 53.78 | BJP | Nemai Das | 79,790 | 40.98 | 24,916 | ||||
South 24 Parganas district | ||||||||||||||
127 | Gosaba (SC) | AITC | Jayanta Naskar | 1,05,723 | 53.99 | BJP | Barun Pramanik (Chitta) | 82,014 | 41.88 | 23,709 | 1 April 2021 | |||
128 | Basanti (SC) | AITC | Shyamal Mondal | 1,11,453 | 52.1 | BJP | Ramesh Majhi | 60,811 | 28.43 | 50,642 | 6 April 2021 | |||
129 | Kultali (SC) | AITC | Ganesh Chandra Mondal | 1,17,238 | 51.57 | BJP | Mintu Halder | 70,061 | 30.82 | 47,177 | ||||
130 | Patharpratima | AITC | Samir Kumar Jana | 1,20,181 | 51.85 | BJP | Asit Kumar Haldar | 98,047 | 42.3 | 22,134 | 1 April 2021 | |||
131 | Kakdwip | AITC | Manturam Pakhira | 1,14,493 | 52.14 | BJP | Dipankar Jana | 89,191 | 40.62 | 25,302 | ||||
132 | Sagar | AITC | Bankim Chandra Hazra | 1,29,000 | 53.96 | BJP | Kamila Bikash | 99,154 | 41.48 | 29846 | ||||
133 | Kulpi | AITC | Jogaranjan Halder | 96,577 | 50.01 | BJP | Pranab Kumar Mallik | 62,759 | 32.5 | 33,818 | 6 April 2021 | |||
134 | Raidighi | AITC | Aloke Jaldata | 1,15,707 | 48.47 | BJP | Santanu Bapuli | 80,139 | 33.57 | 35568 | ||||
135 | Mandirbazar (SC) | AITC | Joydeb Halder | 95,834 | 48.04 | BJP | Dilip Kumar Jatua | 72,342 | 36.26 | 23,492 | ||||
136 | Jaynagar (SC) | AITC | Biswanath Das | 1,04,952 | 51.85 | BJP | Rabin Sardar | 66,269 | 32.74 | 38,683 | ||||
137 | Baruipur Purba (SC) | AITC | Bivas Sardar (Vobo) | 1,23,243 | 54.75 | BJP | Chandan Mondal | 73,602 | 32.7 | 49,641 | ||||
138 | Canning Paschim (SC) | AITC | Paresh Ram Das | 1,11,059 | 50.86 | BJP | Arnab Roy | 75,816 | 34.72 | 35,243 | ||||
139 | Canning Purba | AITC | Saokat Molla | 1,22,301 | 52.54 | ISF | Gazi Shahabuddin Siraji | 69,294 | 53,007 | |||||
140 | Baruipur Paschim | AITC | Biman Banerjee | 1,21,006 | 57.27 | BJP | Debopam Chattopadhyaya(Babu) | 59,096 | 27.97 | 61,910 | ||||
141 | Magrahat Purba (SC) | AITC | Namita Saha | 1,10,945 | 53.82 | BJP | Chandan Kumar Naskar | 56,866 | 27.58 | 54,079 | ||||
142 | Magrahat Paschim | AITC | Gias Uddin Molla | 97,006 | 49.93 | BJP | Dhurjati Saha (Manas) | 50,065 | 25.77 | 46,941 | ||||
143 | Diamond Harbour | AITC | Pannalal Halder | 98,478 | 43.69 | BJP | Dipak Kumar Halder | 81,482 | 36.15 | 16996 | ||||
144 | Falta | AITC | Sankar Kumar Naskar | 1,17,179 | 56.35 | BJP | Bidhan Parui | 76,405 | 36.75 | 40,774 | ||||
145 | Satgachia | AITC | Mohan Chandra Naskar | 1,18,635 | 50.37 | BJP | Chandan Pal | 95,317 | 40.47 | 23,318 | ||||
146 | Bishnupur (South 24 Parganas) (SC) | AITC | Dilip Mondal | 1,36,509 | 57.46 | BJP | Agniswar Naskar | 77,677 | 32.7 | 58,832 | ||||
147 | Sonarpur Dakshin | AITC | Arundhuti Maitra (Lovely) | 1,09,222 | 46.92 | BJP | Anjana Basu | 83,041 | 35.67 | 26,181 | 10 April 2021 | |||
148 | Bhangar | ISF | Md. Nawsad Siddique | 1,09,237 | 45.1 | AITC | Karim Rezaul | 83,086 | 34.31 | 26,151 | ||||
149 | Kasba | AITC | Javed Ahmed Khan | 1,21,372 | 54.39 | BJP | Dr. Indranil Khan | 57,750 | 25.88 | 63,622 | ||||
150 | Jadavpur | AITC | Debabrata Majumdar (Malay) | 98,100 | 45.54 | CPI(M) | Dr. Sujan Chakraborty | 59,231 | 38,869 | |||||
151 | Sonarpur Uttar | AITC | Firdousi Begum | 1,19,957 | 49.88 | BJP | Ranjan Baidya | 83,867 | 34.87 | 36,090 | ||||
152 | Tollygunge | AITC | Aroop Biswas | 1,01,440 | 51.4 | BJP | Babul Supriyo | 51,360 | 26.02 | 50,080 | ||||
153 | Behala Purba | AITC | Ratna Chatterjee | 1,10,968 | 50.01 | BJP | Payel Sarkar | 73,540 | 33.15 | 37,428 | ||||
154 | Behala Paschim | AITC | Partha Chatterjee | 1,14,778 | 49.51 | BJP | Srabanti Chatterjee | 63,894 | 27.56 | 50,884 | ||||
155 | Maheshtala | AITC | Dulal Chandra Das | 1,24,008 | 56.38 | BJP | Umesh Das | 66,059 | 30.03 | 57,949 | ||||
156 | Budge Budge | AITC | Ashok Kumar Deb | 1,22,357 | 56.41 | BJP | Dr. Tarun Kumar Adak | 77,643 | 35.8 | 44,714 | ||||
157 | Metiaburuz | AITC | Abdul Khaleque Molla | 1,51,066 | 76.85 | BJP | Ramjit Prasad | 31,462 | 16 | 1,19,604 | ||||
Kolkata district | ||||||||||||||
158 | Kolkata Port | AITC | Firhad Hakim | 1,05,543 | 69.23 | BJP | Awadh Kishore Gupta | 36,989 | 24.26 | 68,554 | 26 April 2021 | |||
159 | Bhabanipur | AITC | Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay | 73,505 | 57.71 | BJP | Rudranil Ghosh | 44,786 | 35.16 | 28,719 | ||||
160 | Rashbehari | AITC | Debasish Kumar | 65,704 | 52.79 | BJP | Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Subrata Saha | 44,290 | 35.59 | 21,414 | ||||
161 | Ballygunge | AITC | Subrata Mukherjee | 1,06,585 | 70.6 | BJP | Lokenath Chatterjee | 31,226 | 20.68 | 75,359 | ||||
162 | Chowrangee | AITC | Nayna Bandyopadhyay | 70,101 | 62.87 | BJP | Devdutta Maji | 24,757 | 22.2 | 45,344 | 29 April 2021 | |||
163 | Entally | AITC | Swarna Kamal Saha | 1,01,709 | 64.83 | BJP | Priyanka Tibrewal | 43,452 | 27.7 | 58,257 | ||||
164 | Beleghata | AITC | Paresh Paul | 1,03,182 | 65.1 | BJP | Kashinath Biswas | 36,042 | 22.74 | 67,140 | ||||
165 | Jorasanko | AITC | Vivek Gupta | 52,123 | 52.67 | BJP | Meena Devi Purohit | 39,380 | 39.8 | 12,743 | ||||
166 | Shyampukur | AITC | Dr. Shashi Panja | 55,785 | 54.18 | BJP | Sandipan Biswas | 33,265 | 32.31 | 22,520 | ||||
167 | Maniktala | AITC | Sadhan Pande | 67,577 | 50.82 | BJP | Kalyan Chaubey | 47,339 | 35.6 | 20,238 | ||||
168 | Kashipur-Belgachia | AITC | Atin Ghosh | 76,182 | 56.48 | BJP | Sibaji Sinha Roy | 40,792 | 30.24 | 35,390 | ||||
Howrah district | ||||||||||||||
169 | Bally | AITC | Rana Chatterjee | 53,347 | 42.38 | BJP | Baishali Dalmiya | 47,110 | 37.43 | 6,237 | 10 April 2021 | |||
170 | Howrah Uttar | AITC | Gautam Chowdhuri | 71,575 | 47.81 | BJP | Umesh Rai | 66,053 | 44.12 | 5,522 | ||||
171 | Howrah Madhya | AITC | Arup Roy | 1,11,554 | 57.16 | BJP | Sanjay Singh | 65,007 | 33.31 | 46,547 | ||||
172 | Shibpur | AITC | Manoj Tiwary | 92,372 | 50.69 | BJP | Rathin Chakrabarty | 59,769 | 32.8 | 32,603 | ||||
173 | Howrah Dakshin | AITC | Nandita Chowdhury | 1,16,839 | 53.85 | BJP | Rantidev Sengupta | 66,270 | 30.55 | 50,569 | ||||
174 | Sankrail (SC) | AITC | Priya Paul | 1,11,888 | 50.37 | BJP | Probhakar Pandit | 71,461 | 32.17 | 40,427 | ||||
175 | Panchla | AITC | Gulsan Mullick | 1,04,572 | 48.19 | BJP | Mohit Lal Ghanti | 71,821 | 33.1 | 32,751 | ||||
176 | Uluberia Purba | AITC | Bidesh Ranjan Bose | 86,526 | 44.83 | BJP | Pratyush Mandal | 69,400 | 35.95 | 17,126 | ||||
177 | Uluberia Uttar (SC) | AITC | Dr. Nirmal Maji | 91,501 | 49.25 | BJP | Chiran Bera | 70,498 | 37.95 | 21,003 | 6 April 2021 | |||
178 | Uluberia Dakshin | AITC | Pulak Roy | 1,01,880 | 50.37 | BJP | Papia Dey (Adhikary) | 73,442 | 36.31 | 28,438 | ||||
179 | Shyampur | AITC | Kalipada Mandal | 1,14,804 | 51.74 | BJP | Tanusree Chakraborty | 83,293 | 37.54 | 31,511 | ||||
180 | Bagnan | AITC | Arunava Sen (Raja) | 1,06,042 | 53.04 | BJP | Anupam Mallik | 75,922 | 37.97 | 30,120 | ||||
181 | Amta | AITC | Sukanta Kumar Paul | 1,02,445 | 49.06 | BJP | Debtanu Bhattacharya | 76,240 | 36.51 | 26,205 | ||||
182 | Udaynarayanpur | AITC | Samir Kumar Panja | 1,01,510 | 51.21 | BJP | Sumit Ranjan Karar | 87,512 | 44.15 | 13,998 | ||||
183 | Jagatballavpur | AITC | Sitanath Ghosh | 1,16,562 | 49.45 | BJP | Anupam Ghosh | 87,366 | 37.06 | 29196 | ||||
184 | Domjur | AITC | Kalyan Ghosh | 1,30,499 | 52 | BJP | Rajib Banerjee | 87,879 | 35.01 | 42620 | 10 April 2021 | |||
Hooghly district | ||||||||||||||
185 | Uttarpara | AITC | Kanchan Mullick | 93,878 | 46.96 | BJP | Prabir Kumar Ghosal | 57,889 | 28.96 | 35,989 | 10 April 2021 | |||
186 | Sreerampur | AITC | Dr. Sudipto Roy | 93,021 | 49.46 | BJP | Kabir Shankar Bose | 69,588 | 37 | 23,433 | ||||
187 | Champdani | AITC | Arindam Guin (Bubai) | 1,00,972 | 50.2 | BJP | Dilip Singh | 70,894 | 35.25 | 30,078 | ||||
188 | Singur | AITC | Becharam Manna | 1,01,077 | 48.15 | BJP | Rabindranath Bhattacharya | 75,154 | 35.8 | 25,923 | ||||
189 | Chandannagar | AITC | Indranil Sen | 86,778 | 47.63 | BJP | Deepanjan Kumar Guha | 55,749 | 30.6 | 31,029 | ||||
190 | Chunchura | AITC | Asit Mazumder (Tapan) | 1,17,104 | 45.97 | BJP | Locket Chatterjee | 98,687 | 38.74 | 18,417 | ||||
191 | Balagarh (SC) | AITC | Manoranjan Byapari | 1,00,364 | 45.63 | BJP | Subhas Chandra Haldar | 94,580 | 43 | 5,784 | ||||
192 | Pandua | AITC | Dr. Ratna De Nag | 1,02,874 | 45.99 | BJP | Partha Sharma | 71,016 | 31.75 | 31,858 | ||||
193 | Saptagram | AITC | Tapan Dasgupta | 93,328 | 48.56 | BJP | Debabrata Biswas | 83,556 | 43.48 | 9,772 | ||||
194 | Chanditala | AITC | Swati Khandoker | 1,03,118 | 49.79 | BJP | Debashish Dasgupta(Yash D Guptaa) | 61,771 | 29.83 | 41,347 | ||||
195 | Jangipara | AITC | Snehasis Chakraborty | 1,01,885 | 48.42 | BJP | Debjit Sarkar | 83,959 | 39.9 | 17,926 | 6 April 2021 | |||
196 | Haripal | AITC | Dr. Karabi Manna | 1,10,215 | 49.92 | BJP | Samiran Mitra | 87,143 | 39.47 | 23,072 | ||||
197 | Dhanekhali (SC) | AITC | Asima Patra | 1,24,776 | 53.36 | BJP | Tusar Kumar Majumdar | 94,617 | 40.46 | 30,159 | ||||
198 | Tarakeswar | AITC | Ramendu Sinharay | 96,698 | 46.96 | BJP | Dr. Swapan Dasgupta | 89,214 | 43.33 | 7484 | ||||
199 | Pursurah | BJP | Biman Ghosh | 1,19,334 | 53.5 | AITC | Dilip Yadav | 91,156 | 40.86 | 28,178 | ||||
200 | Arambagh (SC) | BJP | Madhusudan Bag | 1,03,108 | 46.88 | AITC | Sujata Mondal | 95,936 | 43.62 | 7,172 | ||||
201 | Goghat (SC) | BJP | Biswanath Karak | 1,02,227 | 46.56 | AITC | Manas Majumdar | 98,080 | 44.67 | 4,147 | ||||
202 | Khanakul | BJP | Susanta Ghosh | 1,07,403 | 49.27 | AITC | Munsi Nazbul Karim | 94,519 | 43.36 | 12,884 | ||||
Purba Medinipur district | ||||||||||||||
203 | Tamluk | AITC | Saumen Kumar Mahapatra | 1,08,243 | 45.86 | BJP | Hare Krishna Bera | 1,07,450 | 45.52 | 793 | 1 April 2021 | |||
204 | Panskura Purba | AITC | Biplab Roy Chowdhury | 91,213 | 45.97 | BJP | Debabrata Pattanayek | 81,553 | 41.11 | 9,660 | ||||
205 | Panskura Paschim | AITC | Phiroja Bibi | 1,11,705 | 47.71 | BJP | Sintu Senapati | 1,02,816 | 43.91 | 8,889 | ||||
206 | Moyna | BJP | Ashoke Dinda | 1,08,109 | 48.17 | AITC | Sangram Kumar Dolai | 1,06,849 | 47.61 | 1,260 | ||||
207 | Nandakumar | AITC | Sukumar De | 1,08,181 | 47.6 | BJP | Nilanjan Adhikary | 1,02,775 | 45.22 | 5,406 | ||||
208 | Mahisadal | AITC | Tilak Kumar Chakraborty | 1,01,986 | 46.49 | BJP | Biswanath Banerjee | 99,600 | 45.41 | 2,386 | ||||
209 | Haldia (SC) | BJP | Tapasi Mondal | 1,04,126 | 47.15 | AITC | Swapan Naskar | 89,118 | 40.36 | 15,008 | ||||
210 | Nandigram | BJP | Suvendu Adhikari | 1,10,764 | 48.49 | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | 1,08,808 | 47.64 | 1,956 | ||||
211 | Chandipur | AITC | Soham Chakraborty | 1,09,770 | 49.82 | BJP | Pulak Kanti Guria | 96,298 | 43.71 | 13,472 | ||||
212 | Patashpur | AITC | Uttam Barik | 1,05,299 | 50.42 | BJP | Ambujaksha Mahanti | 95,305 | 45.64 | 9,994 | 27 March 2021 | |||
213 | Kanthi Uttar | BJP | Sumita Sinha | 1,13,524 | 49.7 | AITC | Tarun Kumar Jana | 1,04,194 | 45.62 | 9,330 | ||||
214 | Bhagabanpur | BJP | Rabindranath Maity | 1,21,480 | 54.46 | AITC | Ardhendu Maity | 93,931 | 42.19 | 27,549 | ||||
215 | Khejuri (SC) | BJP | Santanu Pramanik | 1,10,407 | 51.93 | AITC | Partha Pratim Das | 92,442 | 43.48 | 17,965 | ||||
216 | Kanthi Dakshin | BJP | Arup Kumar Das | 98,477 | 50.58 | AITC | Jyotirmoy Kar | 88,184 | 45.3 | 10,293 | ||||
217 | Ramnagar | AITC | Akhil Giri | 1,12,622 | 50.72 | BJP | Swadesh Ranjan Nayak | 1,00,105 | 45.08 | 12,517 | ||||
218 | Egra | AITC | Tarun Kumar Maity | 1,25,763 | 52.22 | BJP | Arup Dash | 1,07,272 | 44.55 | 18,491 | ||||
Paschim Medinipur district | ||||||||||||||
219 | Dantan | AITC | Bikram Chandra Pradhan | 94,609 | 48.18 | BJP | Saktipada Nayak | 93,834 | 47.79 | 775 | 27 March 2021 | |||
Jhargram district | ||||||||||||||
220 | Nayagram (ST) | AITC | Dulal Murmu | 99,825 | 52.52 | BJP | Bakul Murmu | 77,089 | 40.55 | 22,736 | 27 March 2021 | |||
221 | Gopiballavpur | AITC | Dr. Khagendra Nath Mahata | 1,02,710 | 52.34 | BJP | Sanjit Mahata | 79,106 | 40.31 | 23,604 | ||||
222 | Jhargram | AITC | Birbaha Hansda | 1,08,044 | 54.34 | BJP | Sukhamay Satpathy (Jahar) | 70,048 | 35.23 | 37,996 | ||||
Paschim Medinipur district | ||||||||||||||
223 | Keshiary (ST) | AITC | Paresh Murmu | 1,06,366 | 50.01 | BJP | Sonali Murmu | 91,036 | 42.8 | 15,330 | 27 March 2021 | |||
224 | Kharagpur Sadar | BJP | Hiran Chatterjee | 79,607 | 46.45 | AITC | Pradip Sarkar | 75,836 | 44.25 | 3,771 | 1 April 2021 | |||
225 | Narayangarh | AITC | Suryakanta Atta | 1,00,894 | 46.33 | BJP | Ramprasad Giri | 98,478 | 45.23 | 2,416 | ||||
226 | Sabang | AITC | Manas Bhunia | 1,12,098 | 47.46 | BJP | Amulya Maity | 1,02,234 | 43.28 | 9,864 | ||||
227 | Pingla | AITC | Ajit Maity | 1,12,435 | 49.17 | BJP | Antara Bhattacharya | 1,05,779 | 46.26 | 6,656 | ||||
228 | Kharagpur | AITC | Dinen Ray | 1,09,727 | 54.85 | BJP | Tapan Bhuiya | 73,497 | 36.74 | 36,230 | 27 March 2021 | |||
229 | Debra | AITC | Humayun Kabir | 95,850 | 46.79 | BJP | Bharati Ghosh | 84,624 | 41.31 | 11,226 | 1 April 2021 | |||
230 | Daspur | AITC | Mamata Bhunia | 1,14,753 | 51.58 | BJP | Prashanth Bera | 87,911 | 39.52 | 26,842 | ||||
231 | Ghatal | BJP | Shital Kapat | 1,05,812 | 46.95 | AITC | Shankar Dolui | 1,04,846 | 46.52 | 966 | ||||
232 | Chandrakona (SC) | AITC | Arup Dhara | 1,21,846 | 48.87 | BJP | Shibram Das | 1,10,565 | 44.35 | 11,281 | ||||
233 | Garbeta | AITC | Uttara Singha | 94,928 | 45.71 | BJP | Madan Ruidas | 84,356 | 40.62 | 10,572 | 27 March 2021 | |||
234 | Salboni | AITC | Srikanta Mahata | 1,26,020 | 50.57 | BJP | Rajib Kundu | 93,376 | 37.47 | 32,644 | ||||
235 | Keshpur | AITC | Siuli Saha | 1,16,992 | 50.81 | BJP | Pritish Ranjan | 96,272 | 41.82 | 20,720 | 1 April 2021 | |||
236 | Medinipur | AITC | June Malia | 1,21,175 | 50.72 | BJP | Shamit Dash | 96,778 | 40.51 | 24,397 | 27 March 2021 | |||
Jhargram district | ||||||||||||||
237 | Binpur (ST) | AITC | Debnath Hansda | 99,786 | 53.18 | BJP | Palan Saren | 60,213 | 32.09 | 39,573 | 27 March 2021 | |||
Purulia district | ||||||||||||||
238 | Bandwan (ST) | AITC | Rajib Lochan Saren | 1,12,183 | 47.07 | BJP | Parsi Murmu | 93,298 | 39.14 | 18,885 | 27 March 2021 | |||
239 | Balarampur | BJP | Baneswar Mahato | 88,803 | 45.17 | AITC | Shantiram Mahato | 88,530 | 45.03 | 2733 | ||||
240 | Baghmundi | AITC | Sushanta Mahato | 75,245 | 36.76 | AJSU | Ashutosh Mahato | 61,510 | 30.05 | 13,735 | ||||
241 | Joypur | BJP | Nara Hari Mahato | 73,713 | 36.66 | INC | Phanibhushan Kumar | 61,611 | 30.64 | 12,102 | ||||
242 | Purulia | BJP | Sudip Kumar Mukherjee | 88,899 | 43.33 | AITC | Sujoy Banerjee | 82,134 | 40.12 | 6,585 | ||||
243 | Manbazar (ST) | AITC | Sandhyarani Tudu | 1,02,169 | 48.39 | BJP | Gouri Singh Sardar | 86,679 | 41.05 | 15,490 | ||||
244 | Kashipur | BJP | Kamalakanta Hansda | 92,061 | 47.68 | AITC | Swapan Kumar Beltharia | 84,829 | 43.93 | 7,240 | ||||
245 | Para (SC) | BJP | Nadiar Chand Bouri | 86,930 | 45.01 | AITC | Umapada Bauri | 82,986 | 42.96 | 3944 | ||||
246 | Raghunathpur (SC) | BJP | Vivekananda Bauri | 94,994 | 44.59 | AITC | Bouri Hazari | 89,671 | 42.04 | 5,323 | ||||
Bankura district | ||||||||||||||
247 | Saltora (SC) | BJP | Chandana Bauri | 91,648 | 45.28 | AITC | Santosh Kumar Mondal | 87,503 | 43.23 | 4,145 | 27 March 2021 | |||
248 | Chhatna | BJP | Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay | 90,233 | 45.84 | AITC | Subasish Batabyal | 83,069 | 42.20 | 7,164 | ||||
249 | Ranibandh (ST) | AITC | Jyotsna Mandi | 90,928 | 43.06 | BJP | Kshudiram Tudu | 86,989 | 41.19 | 3,939 | ||||
250 | Raipur (ST) | AITC | Mrityunjoy Murmu | 1,01,043 | 51.96 | BJP | Sudhanshu Hansda | 81,645 | 41.98 | 19,398 | ||||
251 | Taldangra | AITC | Arup Chakraborty | 92,026 | 45.29 | BJP | Shyamal Kumar Sarkar | 79,649 | 39.20 | 12,377 | 1 April 2021 | |||
252 | Bankura | BJP | Niladri Sekhar Dana | 95,466 | 43.79 | AITC | Sayantika Banerjee | 93,998 | 43.12 | 1,468 | ||||
253 | Barjora | AITC | Alok Mukherjee | 93,290 | 42.51 | BJP | Supriti Chatterjee | 90,021 | 41.02 | 3,269 | ||||
254 | Onda | BJP | Amarnath Shakha | 10,4940 | 46.48 | AITC | Arup Kumar Khan | 93,389 | 41.37 | 11,551 | ||||
255 | Bishnupur (Bankura) | BJP | Tanmay Ghosh | 88,743 | 46.79 | AITC | Archita Bid | 77,610 | 40.92 | 11,133 | ||||
256 | Katulpur (SC) | BJP | Harakali Pratihar | 10,6022 | 47.31 | AITC | Sangeeta Malik | 94,237 | 42.05 | 11,785 | ||||
257 | Indas (SC) | BJP | Nirmal Kumar Dhara | 1,04,936 | 48.04 | AITC | Runu Mete | 97,716 | 44.73 | 7,220 | ||||
258 | Sonamukhi (SC) | BJP | Dibakar Gharami | 98,161 | 47.25 | AITC | Dr Shyamal Santra | 87,273 | 42.01 | 10,888 | ||||
Purba Bardhaman district | ||||||||||||||
259 | Khandaghosh (SC) | AITC | Nabin Chandra Bag | 1,04,264 | 47.85 | BJP | Bijan Mandal | 83,378 | 38.26 | 20,886 | 17 April 2021 | |||
260 | Bardhaman Dakshin | AITC | Khokan Das | 91,015 | 44.32 | BJP | Sandip Nandi | 82,910 | 40.38 | 8,105 | ||||
261 | Raina (SC) | AITC | Shampa Dhara | 1,08,752 | 47.46 | BJP | Manik Roy | 90,547 | 39.51 | 18,205 | ||||
262 | Jamalpur (SC) | AITC | Alok Kumar Majhi | 96,999 | 46.93 | BJP | Balaram Bapari | 79,028 | 38.24 | 17,971 | ||||
263 | Manteswar | AITC | Chowdhury Siddiqullah | 1,05,460 | 50.45 | BJP | Saikat Panja | 73,655 | 35.24 | 31,805 | ||||
264 | Kalna (SC) | AITC | Deboprasad Bag (Poltu) | 96,073 | 45.98 | BJP | Biswajit Kundu | 88,595 | 42.4 | 7,478 | ||||
265 | Memari | AITC | Madhusudan Bhattacharya | 1,04,851 | 47.92 | BJP | Bhismadeb Bhattacharya | 81,773 | 37.37 | 23,078 | ||||
266 | Bardhaman Uttar (SC) | AITC | Nisith Kumar Malik | 1,11,211 | 45.97 | BJP | Radha Kanta Roy | 93,943 | 38.83 | 17,268 | ||||
267 | Bhatar | AITC | Adhikari Mangobinda | 1,08,028 | 50.44 | BJP | Mahendranath Kowar | 76,287 | 35.62 | 31,741 | 22 April 2021 | |||
268 | Purbasthali Dakshin | AITC | Swapan Debnath | 1,05,698 | 49.08 | BJP | Rajib Kumar Bhowmick | 88,288 | 41 | 17,410 | ||||
269 | Purbasthali Uttar | AITC | Tapan Chatterjee | 92,421 | 43.52 | BJP | Gobardhan Das | 85,715 | 40.37 | 6,706 | ||||
270 | Katwa | AITC | Rabindranath Chatterjee | 1,07,894 | 48.07 | BJP | Shyama Majumdar | 98,739 | 43.99 | 9,155 | ||||
271 | Ketugram | AITC | Sekh Sahonawez | 1,00,226 | 46.55 | BJP | Anadi Ghosh (Mathura) | 87,543 | 40.66 | 12,683 | ||||
272 | Mangalkot | AITC | Apurba Chowdhury (Achal) | 1,07,596 | 49.51 | BJP | Rana Protap Goswami | 85,259 | 39.23 | 22,337 | ||||
273 | Ausgram (SC) | AITC | Abhedananda Thander | 1,00,392 | 46.25 | BJP | Kalita Maji | 88,577 | 40.8 | 11,815 | ||||
274 | Galsi (SC) | AITC | Nepal Ghorui | 1,09,504 | 49.21 | BJP | Bikash Biswas | 90,242 | 40.55 | 19,262 | ||||
Paschim Bardhaman district | ||||||||||||||
275 | Pandaveswar | AITC | Narendranath Chakraborty | 73922 | 44.99 | BJP | Kumar Jitendra Tewari | 70119 | 42.68 | 3803 | 26 April 2021 | |||
276 | Durgapur Purba | AITC | Pradip Mazumdar | 79303 | 41.16 | BJP | Colonel Diptansu Chaudhury | 75557 | 39.21 | 3746 | ||||
277 | Durgapur Paschim | BJP | Lakshman Chandra Ghorui | 91186 | 46.31 | AITC | Biswanath Parial | 76522 | 38.86 | 14664 | ||||
278 | Raniganj | AITC | Tapas Banerjee | 78164 | 42.90 | BJP | Dr. Bijan Mukherjee | 74608 | 40.95 | 3556 | ||||
279 | Jamuria | AITC | Hareram Singh | 71002 | 42.59 | BJP | Tapas Kumar Roy | 62951 | 37.76 | 8051 | ||||
280 | Asansol Dakshin | BJP | Agnimitra Paul | 87881 | 45.13 | AITC | Sayani Ghosh | 83394 | 42.82 | 4487 | ||||
281 | Asansol Uttar | AITC | Moloy Ghatak | 100931 | 52.32 | BJP | Krishnendu Mukherjee | 79821 | 41.38 | 21110 | ||||
282 | Kulti | BJP | Ajay Kumar Poddar | 81112 | 46.41 | AITC | Ujjal Chatterjee | 80433 | 46.02 | 679 | ||||
283 | Barabani | AITC | Bidhan Upadhyay | 88430 | 52.26 | BJP | Arijit Roy | 64973 | 38.40 | 23457 | ||||
Birbhum district | ||||||||||||||
284 | Dubrajpur (SC) | BJP | Anup Kumar Saha | 98,083 | 47.94 | AITC | Debabrata Saha | 94,220 | 46.05 | 3,863 | 29 April 2021 | |||
285 | Suri | AITC | Bikash Roychoudhury | 1,05,871 | 48.43 | BJP | Chattopadhyay Jagannath | 98,551 | 45.08 | 7,320 | ||||
286 | Bolpur | AITC | Sinha Chandranath | 1,16,443 | 50.57 | BJP | Anirban Ganguly | 94,163 | 40.89 | 22,280 | ||||
287 | Nanoor (SC) | AITC | Bidhan Chandra Majhi | 1,12,116 | 47.64 | BJP | Tarakeswar Saha | 1,05,446 | 44.81 | 6670 | ||||
288 | Labpur | AITC | Abhijit Sinha (Rana) | 1,08,423 | 51.14 | BJP | Biswajit Mondal | 90,448 | 42.66 | 17,975 | ||||
289 | Sainthia (SC) | AITC | Nilabati Saha | 1,10,572 | 49.84 | BJP | Piya Saha | 95,329 | 42.97 | 15,243 | ||||
290 | Mayureswar | AITC | Abhijit Roy | 1,00,425 | 50.36 | BJP | Shyamapada Mondal | 88,350 | 44.3 | 12,075 | ||||
291 | Rampurhat | AITC | Asish Banerjee | 1,03,276 | 47.52 | BJP | Subhasis Choudhury (Khokan) | 94,804 | 43.62 | 8,472 | ||||
292 | Hansan | AITC | Dr. Asok Kumar Chattopadhyay | 1,08,289 | 51.42 | BJP | Nikhil Banerjee | 57,676 | 27.39 | 50,613 | ||||
293 | Nalhati | AITC | Rajendra Prasad Singh (Raju Singh) | 1,17,438 | 56.54 | BJP | Tapas Kumar Yadav(Ananda Yadav) | 60,533 | 29.15 | 56,905 | ||||
294 | Murarai | AITC | Dr Mosarraf Hossain | 1,46,496 | 67.23 | BJP | Debasish Roy | 48,250 | 22.14 | 98,246 |
Nandigram Controversy
On 18 January Mamata Banerjee announced at a rally in Nandigram that she would contest the upcoming assembly elections from Nandigram. Hours later, Suvendu Adhikari said he would defeat the CM by a margin of at least 50,000 votes or quit politics.[211][212]
Adhikari even attempted communal polarisation in Nandigram and started saying things that attempt to divide Hindus and Muslims.[213][214]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was likely to address over 20 rallies and Home Minister Amit Shah 50 in poll-bound Bengal.[215][216]
On 10 March Banerjee filed her nomination at the Haldia sub-divisional office headquarters. Around 6:15 pm she got injured when she was about to leave the Birulia market area. She alleged that she was pushed by "four-five people" who manhandled her and slammed the door of her car on her foot. Banerjee was taken to SSKM Hospital in Kolkata for treatment.[217][218][219] Two days later, she left the hospital on a wheelchair with her left foot plastered. Doctors at the SSKM Hospital took the decision after the Trinamool supremo repeatedly requested them to discharge her from the medical establishment.[220] On 30 March at the end of a rally she stood up in honor of the National Anthem. This was the only instance during her election campaign when she got up from her wheelchair.[221] Later on, a shocking information came to light. According to police sources, the intelligence department had earlier warned that two miscreants could attack Ms. Banerjee in Nandigram. Among them was a man named Armaan Bhola, close aide of Suvendu Adhikari. The input sent by the detectives before March 10 said that there could be an 'ink attack' on the CM and it had clearly indicated the possibility of the attack in Birulia.[222]
On 13 March Yashwant Sinha joined TMC at Trinamool Bhavan. About this decision he said “The tipping point was the attack (the alleged Nandigram incident in which Mamata hurt her left foot). This (BJP) government can do anything to win an election,” and that he will work together with Mamata Banerjee to save democracy. “She has always been a fighter” said Sinha while disclosing that Mamata had offered to be a hostage as part of a negotiation strategy during the Kandahar hijacking crisis. “She was ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the country” Sinha added.[223][224]
On 15 March Adhikari sought removal of Banerjee's electoral roll from Nandigram alleging that the Bengal CM withheld information about six criminal cases against her while filing her nomination affidavit.[225][226] News came in later that at least one of the cases mentioned by BJP — a CBI case in Asansol — had to do with “a different Mamata Banerjee and not the Bengal CM”.[227] During a workers' meeting on 16 March, Suvendu said "Mamata's intention is to ruin my political career."[228][229][230] Later on Sisir Adhikari also told Locket Chatterjee that Mamata decided to contest from Nandigram to finish Suvendu.[231] On 17 March local women protested with brooms and shoes before Suvendu's convoy in Nandigram. [232][233] On the same day TMC demanded cancellation of the nomination of Suvendu Adhikari alleging that Adhikari filed “false particulars of his residence” in his nomination paper.[234][235] Next day, Nandigram was heated around Shuvendu Adhikari's programme. Trinamool and BJP workers clashed in Sonachura. Several people from both sides were admitted to the hospital in bloody condition.[236][237] On 22 March Trinamool's Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien lodged a complaint to Election Commission that Suvendu was giving shelter to 'outsiders' at four houses of Nandigram, mentioning addresses of each houses.[238] The next day, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar told ABP Ananda that BJP goons are terrorising the people of Khodambari and Haridevpur in Nandigram.[239] On 26 March Suvendu had to face another protest while campaigning in Nandigram. The protesters were chanting 'Chor chor chor ta. Sisir babur chele ta' (which roughly translates to 'the son of Mr. Sisir is a thief').[240][241] On the same day, Derek O’Brien and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar complained to EC that Suvendu was gathering miscreants in some constituencies to create unrest.[242] Next day, a woman was injured in bombing and TMC blocked road in protest.[243] BJP-backed miscreants also attacked three Trinamool workers. One of them, Rabin Manna, was admitted to SSKM Hospital with serious injuries.[244] TMC protesters again targeted Suvendu's convoy on 29 March while he was returning from a rally.[245][246][247] On 31 March Ms Banerjee said at a rally in Goghat that her car was attacked once again in Nandigram a day ago when she visited the house of Rabin Manna, adding that she had photographs and videos as proof and would take up the issue after the elections. She said "How dare they attack my car! I kept mum only because the elections are on. Or else I would have seen how big they have grown." Her message to the attackers of Rabin Manna was "Wherever you may go, if you think you will get rid of (punishment) for killing Rabin Manna, I will pull you back by the ears."[248][249][250][251][252]
On the eve of polling in Nandigram, Election Commission ordered the transfer of the sub-divisional police officer of Haldia and the circle inspector of Mahishadal in Purba Medinipur district to non-election assignments.[253]
On the day of second phase polling i.e. 1 April, the Chief Minister visited some booth across the Nandigram constituency where local TMC leaders complained that their election agents were not being allowed to enter booths. In Boyal, villagers had alleged that BJP supporters had stopped them from going to polling booths. Ms Banerjee sat in a wheelchair outside booth 7 in Boyal for two hours amidst complaints that BJP workers were not allowing voting to take place there. She demanded re-polling in booth number 7 and also reportedly made a telephone call to Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar from the booth with the complaint that BJP was fomenting violence. Reporters, security forces and bystanders swarmed the rural school. At around 3:45 pm, Ms Banerjee was helped out by police and Central forces.[254] BJP claimed, 2% of the votes were low due to the Chief Minister's dharna ignoring section 144 in front of booth no. 7 in Boyal. But according to the report of the Election Commission, the turnout in Nandigram had increased this time. In 2016, where 87.14 per cent votes were cast, this time the turnout was 88.01 per cent. So EC rejected BJP's theory of low turnout and announced that no re-polling would take place in Nandigram.[255]
A day after the polling, stray clashes took place between workers of the TMC and the BJP in some parts of Nandigram.[256]
On 3 April Mamata said at a rally in Raydighi "Rabin Manna's wife was telling me 'Didi, they (BJP goons) are threatening to abduct my daughter. Didi, they are threatening to kidnap my child.' I said 'Where are you?' " Mamata claimed that the woman had to take refuge with a local minority family for fear of BJP's outsider goons.[257] After 14 days of fighting, Rabin Manna finally died on 9 April around 4:30 am at SSKM Hospital.[258] Drawing on the issue, Mamata Banerjee said at a rally in Bardhaman "Rabin of Nandigram has died today. The BJP has murdered him. Police did not arrest the murderer. It seems that section 357 has been issued in the state."[259] Rabin's body was taken to the party office of Trinamool Congress in Nandigram block. There, TMC supporters paid their last respects to him.[260]
On 15 April Ms Banerjee, in a live interview on ABP Ananda, said that already 15 TMC workers have died in poll violence. About Nandigram polling, she said that BJP party workers rigged 10 booths with the help of central force and as a compensation for that, she had to sit outside a booth for hours because if she hadn't sat there on that day, their plan was to rig 70 booths.[261]
Banerjee said on 18 April that her plaster will remain for one more week as per doctors' suggestion.[262] In an interview to News18 Bangla on the same day, she said "BJP has brought 1.5 lakh (central) force and more than 1 lakh outsiders (to West Bengal) without doing their covid test." About Nandigram she said "I was sitting at a booth for 3 hours because they (BJP) had plan to rig 70 booths but I prevented that. They had rigged 10 booths and for that they will loot 10-15-20 thousand votes."[263][264][265] On 25 April she indicated in a virtual rally that her leg injury had “substantially improved” and her plaster would be removed after she returns home. The plaster was removed on 27 April.[266][267][268][269]
Home Minister Amit Shah was bent on winning Bengal this time. He not only held rallies there, but also used Central government agencies to strengthen his party’s position.[270] Dilip Ghosh, who is famous for his controversial remarks, made below-the-belt attack on the incumbent Chief Minister during his election campaign. Ghosh asked Ms. Banerjee to wear 'bermudas' in order to display her plastered leg.[271] Not only that, later on he even defended his bermuda remark.[272] Prime Minister Modi’s use of ‘Didi-O-Didi’ for Mamata Banerjee didn’t go down well with netizens.[273] Mahua Moitra countered those words of the PM by "Modi Go Modi"[274] and later on said that the PM was acting like a "street-side fellow".[275][276][277] Although the tone of the ‘Didi O Didi’ was called out as ‘mocking’ and an ‘insult to women of the state’ since the very first time it was used in 2021 rallies, by the TMC, PM Modi continued to use the phrase.[278][279]
Counting of votes was done on 2 May. All eyes were set on the updates of high voltage Nandigram constituency. 17 rounds of counting was to be done before declaring the winner.
While TMC was leading in West Bengal, Prashant Kishor made the announcement of quitting the profession of election strategist. Talking about his experience in Bengal, Kishor said that the campaigning was made difficult due to Election Commission's bias and the TMC went through "hell" to fight the propaganda built by the BJP to showcase that it was winning. "EC is working like the extension of the BJP," said Kishor.[280]
(An election petition calling in question an election shall be filed in the High Court of the particular state in which the election was conducted within the time period of forty-five days from the date of declaration of results.[281])
From the night of 2 May TMC workers and supporters started dharna in front of SDO Office at Manjushree crossing in Haldia demanding recount in Nandigram. Hundreds of policemen and central troops were deployed around the counting centre. "We will continue our sit-down strike until the EC gives order for recounting. If police touches anyone then the intensity of the sit-down strike will take another level" said Suprakash Giri. "The EC was biased from day one. When BJP demanded a recount in Moyna, an assembly constituency next to ours, the votes were counted again last night. And then the TMC candidate lost. However, the EC didn't listen to our request for recount in Nandigram."[282][283][284] On 5 May TMC held a all-day long dharna in Bagmari at the junction of Beleghata and Maniktala constituencies demanding recount in Nandigram. Kunal Ghosh was present on the dharna manch.[285][286] At Nandigram staunch TMC leaders and supporters didn't allowed to take the EVMs out of Haldia counting centre. On the night of 5 May when on-duty Central Force personnel and the police tried to bring those EVMs out they had an altercation with protesting TMC workers. Allegedly baton charge was launched at protesters after that. Trinamool leaders blocked the road for an hour at the Manjushree crossing on next day morning, accusing the central forces of attacking them.[287]
On 5 May the BJP held nationwide dharna.[288] Rupa Bhattacharjee, BJP's celebrity member, mocked her party leaders by tweeting "State leaders are giving dharna in cold rooms."[289][290][291] Suvendu said from dharna manch "Even if we could not form the government, we would have get more than 100 seats." He added that the Election Commission had completely 'failed' in the counting of votes and he would move to court demanding recount of 'all' EVMs. This was the first time when a BJP leader lodged a complaint against the commission.[292] Later on Dilip Ghosh announced that they will move to court for recount in seats lost by less than 2,000 votes. "Recounting does not happen because they have lost by two thousand votes. There should be allegations of irregularities in the counting", Sovandeb Chattopadhyay said regarding this. According to well-informed circles, BJP is thinking of moving to court after all the oath-takings of MLAs to cabinet are done because they (BJP) could not digest their defeat and these are just counter-pressure strategies.[293][294]
On 6 May a section of the media got into a scuffle with the security guards of Suvendu Adhikari while he was leaving the assembly.[295] As a result, the entry of central force into West Bengal Assembly was banned from next day.[296]
Banashree Khara, mother of minister Seuli Saha and Nandigram panchayat chief, was accused of being part of the conspiracy to defeat Mamata Banerjee. Banashree resigned as panchayat chief on 12 May citing physical illness. 11 TMC members of the gram panchayat filed a no-confidence motion against her at the BDO office of Nandigram-1 block on the same day. The total number of members of that panchayat is 13. Besides Banasree, his son Sudip Khara was also an elected member of the gram panchayat. However, he was removed during the announcement of the party's candidate for alleged collusion with the BJP. Banasree Devi said that she is with the party and also expressed happiness over her daughter becoming a minister. No confidence had also been brought against Swadesh Das Adhikari (Fisheries Supervisor of Nandigram-1 block and close aide of Suvendu Adhikari), a resident of Gokulnagar; Bapi Khuti, panchayat food chief of Daudpur region; and Shanwar Ali Shah, deputy chief of Kendemari gram panchayat, for allegedly working for BJP candidate Shuvendu Adhikari in the Assembly polls and the party instructed each of them to resign.[297][298][299][300] Regarding the party's no confidence motion against her mother, Seuli Saha said "I will not say anything publicly about the politics of Nandigram. However, the real truth will come out in due course."[301]
Aftermath
Violence
After the announcement of results, post-poll violence broke out in the state. The BJP claimed at least six of its' workers were killed during attacks by workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress.[302] The governor summoned the Director of General Police and Kolkata Police Commissioner to discuss the situation.[303] By 4 May allegedly around 11 opposition party workers were killed.[304] The CPI (M) and Congress alleged their workers had also been attacked by the TMC.[305][306] Till 5 May five supporters of the TMC were killed in post-poll violence.[307]
Union Ministry of Home Affairs sought a report from the Government of West Bengal over incidents of post-election brutality against opposition political workers in the state.[308]
Udayan Guha, TMC candidate from Dinhata and former Dinhata MLA was attacked by miscreants in Dinhata on 6 May. Guha suffered a hand fracture and other injuries.[309] FIR was lodged against 15 men and among them 4 were arrested till 10 May.[310]
BJP leaders Mithun Chakraborty, Dilip Ghosh, Sayantan Basu and Rahul Sinha made provocative remarks while Model Code of Conduct was in force, which created grounds for violence.[307][311][312][313] On 12 April, Dilip Ghosh also said "The police have to work under our feet."[314] After the election, Kolkata Police lodged FIR against Dilip Ghosh and Mithun Chakraborty for promoting enmity.[315] Kolkata Police also registered a case against Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut for allegedly instigating communal disharmony.[316]
On 5 May, after taking oath as the Chief Minister for third term, Mamata Banerjee reinstated state police officers who were transferred by the Election Commission. [317] In some areas TMC leaders and workers came to the rescue of BJP workers.[318][319][320][321] On 10 May, a five-judge special bench of Calcutta High Court expressed satisfaction over the action taken by the newly formed Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal to restore normality after post-results violence in pockets of the state.[322][323][324][325]
Misinformation on social media was used to confuse political violence with communal violence.[326][327][328][329][330][331] Bengal Police and CID arrested some men for spreading fake news.[332][333]
Government formation
Mamata Banerjee took oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time on 5 May 2021 at the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata.[334] She expanded the cabinet on 10 May 2021 when 43 TMC leaders were sworn in as ministers.[335] 17 new faces were there in the Third Banerjee ministry and out of 44 nine were women including the Chief Minister herself which was a record in the history of West Bengal post independence.[336][337]
Vacant seats and bye-election
TMC candidate Kajal Sinha from Khardaha constituency died due to COVID-19 infection after the polling but before the results of the state assembly elections were announced.[338] The Election Commission of India deferred the elections to two assembly seats in West Bengal in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. The polling had been earlier rescheduled to 16 May 2021 due to the death of two contestants from Samserganj and Jangipur constituencies.[339] Mocking this decision, the TMC said "The Election Commission, though late, finally woke up. But when demands were made repeatedly to arrange the election in one day by combining 2-3 phases, then they remained silent."[340] Two BJP MLAs - Nisith Pramanik from Dinhata and Jaganath Sarkar from Santipur constituencies - resigned from the membership of the state assembly after the election results as they were sitting MPs from Cooch Behar and Ranaghat, respectively, and wanted to continue as MPs.[341] TMC MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay from Bhabanipur constituency resigned after the election to allow Mamata Banerjee to contest a by-election from this constituency.[342]
Reactions and analysis
Suvendu Adhikari was elected as Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Legislative Assembly on 10 May 2021.[343]
See also
- 2016–21 West Bengal Legislative Assembly by-elections
- 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly
- 2021 elections in India
- 2019 Indian general election in West Bengal
- 2018 West Bengal Panchayat elections
- 2018 Tripura Legislative Assembly election
References
Notes
- ^ a b c For candidates only sponsored by the Indian National Congress in Samserganj[47] and Revolutionary Socialist Party in Jangipur.[48]
- ^ Indian Secular Front is an unregistered political party and currently contesting the election on "Envelope" symbol and name of Bihar based political party Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party[69][70]
- ^ Samar Hazra is a member of the Marxist Forward Bloc, however he is contesting the election as a CPIM candidate[99]
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Further reading
- Halder, Deep (2021). Bengal 2021: An Election Diary. India: HarperCollins. ISBN 9789354224171.
External links
- West Bangal General Legislative Election at the Election Commission of India