2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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The Next West Bengal legislative assembly election is expected to be held in March–April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1] Mamata Banerjee is the incumbent Chief Minister of West Bengal.[2][3][4][5][6]
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]| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| All India Trinamool Congress | .svg){kind=small}
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Mamata Banerjee | TBD | |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Bharatiya Janata Party | 
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Suvendu Adhikari | TBD | |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 
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Mohammed Salim | TBD | |
| Indian National Congress | 
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Subhankar Sarkar | TBD | |
| Indian Secular Front | 
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Nawsad Siddique | TBD | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 
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Naren Chatterjee | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India | 
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Swapan Banerjee | TBD | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 
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Tapan Hore | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation | 
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Abhijit Majumder | TBD | |
| Hamro Party | 
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Ajoy Edwards | TBD | |
| Marxist Forward Bloc |
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Samar Hazra | TBD | |
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 
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Hemant Soren | TBD | |
Others
[edit]| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
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| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | 
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Provash Ghosh | TBD | |
| Samajwadi Party | 
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Kiranmoy Nanda | TBD | |
Candidates
[edit]Results
[edit]Results by alliance or party
[edit]| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| Trinamool Congress | |||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||||
| SDA | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||||||||
| Indian National Congress | |||||||||
| Indian Secular Front | |||||||||
| All India Forward Bloc | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation | |||||||||
| Marxist Forward Bloc | |||||||||
| Hamro Party | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Other parties | |||||||||
| Independents | |||||||||
| NOTA | |||||||||
| Total | 100% | — | 294 | — | |||||
Results by region
[edit]| Region | Seats | ||||
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| AITC | BJP | SDA | Others | ||
| North Bengal | 54 | ||||
| Rarh Bengal | 56 | ||||
| South Bengal | 184 | ||||
| Total | 294 |
Results by division
[edit]| Division | Seats | ||||
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| AITC | BJP | SDA | Others | ||
| Jalpaiguri | 27 | ||||
| Malda | 49 | ||||
| Presidency | 108 | ||||
| Burdwan | 54 | ||||
| Medinipur | 56 | ||||
| Total | 294 |
Results by district
[edit]| District | Seats | ||||
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| AITC | BJP | SDA | Others | ||
| Cooch Behar | 9 | ||||
| Alipurduar | 5 | ||||
| Jalpaiguri | 7 | ||||
| Kalimpong | 1 | ||||
| Darjeeling | 5 | ||||
| Uttar Dinajpur | 9 | ||||
| Dakshin Dinajpur | 6 | ||||
| Malda | 12 | ||||
| Murshidabad | 22 | ||||
| Nadia | 17 | ||||
| North 24 Parganas | 33 | ||||
| South 24 Parganas | 31 | 1 | |||
| Kolkata | 11 | ||||
| Howrah | 16 | ||||
| Hooghly | 18 | ||||
| Purba Medinipur | 16 | ||||
| Paschim Medinipur | 15 | ||||
| Jhargram | 4 | ||||
| Purulia | 9 | ||||
| Bankura | 12 | ||||
| Purba Bardhaman | 16 | ||||
| Paschim Bardhaman | 9 | ||||
| Birbhum | 11 | ||||
| Total | 294 |
Results by constituency
[edit]| |!Opinion Poll
!AITC - 138
!BJP - 144
!LEFT+INC - 11
!ISF - 1
!OTHERs - 0
References
[edit]- ^ "Legislative Assemblies : Term of State/House". eci.gov.in.
- ^ "BJP hopeful of turnaround in Bengal in 2026 Assembly elections". The Telegraph India. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ "'Govt change in Bengal possible only if BJP remains in power in Delhi… Poll a semi-final for 2026': Dilip Ghosh". The New Indian Express. 12 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "'No room for complacency': TMC sets agenda for State poll". The Hindu. 21 July 2024. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ "West Bengal: Mamata cocks a snook at Modi, gets ready for strong showing in 2026 Assembly polls". Money Control. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "TMC govt won't last till 2026 if BJP gets even one more seat than them in LS polls: Sukanta Majumdar". The Economic Times. 24 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.