The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured a landslide victory in West Bengal, ousting Mamata Banerjee’s TMC which has been at the helm since 2011. The BJP has emerged as a winner in 206 of 294 seats, steamrolling past the majority mark (148).
The party is set to form a government in the State for the first time ever. With one seat (Rajarhat New Town) still in the fray, here is how the results in State panned out.
Trinamool Congress failed to secure a seat in nine of 23 districts in the State. The district of Purba Medinapur emerged as a BJP stronghold where the opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari won the Nandigram seat in addition to defeating the outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Bhabhanipur.
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The BJP’s influence in the State has risen drastically since 2016, when the party secured just 3 of 294 seats in the 2016 Assembly Elections (with around 10% of the votes). It emerged as the prime opposing political force against the TMC in 2021, when the party secured around 77 seats.
