Mamata Banerjee Leads In Bhabanipur, Suvendu Adhikari In Nandigram
Kolkata:
West Bengal Assembly Election Results 2026 LIVE Updates: The BJP is sustaining a snug lead properly previous the midway mark as counting is underway for the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026. The Trinamool is closing in on its bid to safe a fourth time period in opposition to a stronger-than-before BJP, within the first election after a file deletion of voters underneath the Special Intensive Revision (SIR).
Defending its bastion, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is in a direct showdown with the BJP, the face of which is the Chief Minister’s former lieutenant, now a fiery Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari. Other gamers embody the Congress and Left entrance; Adding a twist to the political dynamics is a brand new occasion shaped by suspended Trinamool MLA Humayun Kabir, who had shot to limelight along with his initiative to construct a mosque named after the Babri.
Bengal voted in two phases on April 23 and 29, with repolling ordered in Falta constituency and a few cubicles elsewhere.
The Assembly Math
The West Bengal Assembly has 294 seats. To type the federal government, a easy majority of 148 seats is required. Any occasion or coalition of events should achieve the magic determine to win the election.
Exit polls have did not undertaking a transparent winner this time.
In 2021, Trinamool received 215 seats whereas the BJP made deeper inroads in Bengal and ended up bagging 77 seats, changing into the principle opposition occasion for the primary time within the state meeting. The Congress and the Left had been zero. Chief Minister Banerjee misplaced to LoP Adhikari in Nandigram however was later elected by way of a bypoll from Bhabanipur.
Adhikari has this time introduced the battle to Banerjee’s doorstep in Bhabanipur, which goes to steal the main focus this counting session.
But the warmth was felt all through Bengal, for what was an intense battle of ideologies, grassroots politics, aggressive guarantees of ache and growth, and contemporary calls of change in a state the place the Left fortress fell 15 years in the past.
