Rural sweep and urban gains sets the BJP up for a decisive majority in West Bengal | Data

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Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party motion  during a run  rally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi up  of the West Bengal authorities   Legislative Assembly elections, successful  Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 26, 2026.

Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party motion during a run rally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi up of the West Bengal authorities Legislative Assembly elections, successful Kolkata, India, Sunday, April 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to person yet breached West Bengal aft years of threatening to decision the formidable Trinamool Congress (TMC) successful the astir populous State successful eastbound India. Based connected trends arsenic of 1:30 PM, the ruling enactment astatine the Centre has managed to pb successful 188 of the 294 Assembly seats, astir two-thirds of the Assembly, relegating Mamata Banerjee’s TMC to a distant 2nd with leads successful 94 seats. 

The BJP has done this by improving its ballot stock by astir 7 percent points compared to 2021, garnering 44.8%, adjacent to 3 points much than the TMC’s 41.9% (in conjugation with the BGPM from the Darjeeling area). The Left Front-led confederation has registered a beingness with 3 seats and a 6.4% ballot share, its archetypal non-zero spot tally successful the State since 2016, if the leads hold. The Congress has drawn a blank truthful far. 

Published - May 04, 2026 03:11 p.m. IST

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