Next West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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The Next West Bengal Legislative Assembly election is speculated to be held on or before March-April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
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Background edit
In the previous assembly elections, The AITC-GJM coalition won 214 seats out of 292 seats, with 2 seats being vacant. After the victory, Mamata Banerjee became the next chief minister of the state. 5 MLA, with Mukul Roy, joined the AITC from the BJP. After Mamata Banerjee lost from Nandigram, she won the by-election from Bhabanipur.[1][2]
Schedule edit
Poll Event | Schedule |
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Notification Date | TBD |
Last Date for filing nomination | TBD |
Scrutiny of nomination | TBD |
Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | TBD |
Date of Poll | TBD |
Date of Counting of Votes | TBD |
Parties and alliances edit
Alliance/Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats Contested | ||||
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All India Trinamool Congress+ | All India Trinamool Congress | Mamata Banerjee | TBD | TBD | ||||
Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha | Anit Thapa | TBD | ||||||
Secular Democratic Alliance | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Mohammed Salim | TBD | TBD | ||||
Indian National Congress | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | TBD | ||||||
Hamro Party | Ajoy Edwards | TBD | ||||||
All India Forward Bloc | Debabrata Biswas | TBD | ||||||
Revolutionary Socialist Party | Manoj Bhattacharya | TBD | ||||||
Communist Party of India | Swapan Banerjee | TBD | ||||||
Bharatiya Janata Party | Suvendu Adhikari | TBD | ||||||
Indian Secular Front | Nawsad Siddique | TBD | ||||||
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | Provash Ghosh | TBD | ||||||
Gorkha Janmukti Morcha | Bimal Gurung | TBD |
Results edit
Results by party or alliance edit
Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
AITC+ | AITC | ||||||||
BGPM | |||||||||
Total | |||||||||
SDA | CPI(M) | ||||||||
INC | |||||||||
AIFB | |||||||||
RSP | |||||||||
CPI | |||||||||
HP | |||||||||
Total | |||||||||
BJP | |||||||||
ISF | |||||||||
SUCI(C) | |||||||||
Others | |||||||||
IND | |||||||||
NOTA | |||||||||
Total | 100% | - | 294 | - |
Surveys and polls edit
Opinion polls edit
Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||||
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AITC+ | SDA | BJP | ISF | SUCI(C) | Others | |||||
Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||||
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AITC+ | SDA | BJP | ISF | SUCI(C) | Others | |||||
Exit polls edit
Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||||
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AITC+ | SDA | BJP | ISF | SUCI(C) | Others | |||||
References edit
- ^ "Mamata Banerjee wins Bhabanipur bypoll by landslide margin". BusinessLine. 3 October 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ "Mamata Banerjee back in Bengal Assembly with Bhabanipur win". The Hindu. 3 October 2021. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 21 November 2023.