west bengal assembly election results 2026 Suvendu Adhikari Leads Mamata Banerjee From Bhabanipur In Early Trends

New Delhi:

Suvendu Adhikari and Mamata Banerjee went backwards and forwards Monday within the race for the Bhabanipur constituency as counting progresses for the 2026 Bengal Assembly election.

Adhikari dealt Banerjee a shock within the final election, beating her by fewer than 2,000 votes to assert the long-lasting Nandigram seat.

That compelled the Trinamool boss to hunt re-election from Bhabanipur to retain her Assembly seat.

In the build-up to this election, Adhikari went after Banerjee once more, this time saying his candidature from the household bastion of Nandigram and Bhabanipur too. He is presently main from Nandigram.

Located inside the wider Kolkata district, the Bhabanipur seat has been a Trinamool stronghold since 2011, when it was received by Subrata Bakshi. Before that it was the Kalighat seat for 4 elections and the Congress received three of these 4 polls.

Mamata Banerjee changed Bakshi because the MLA later that yr in a by-poll; curiously that too was facilitated to permit her to turn out to be an Assembly member and retain her chief ministry.

Meanwhile, within the total image, at 9.45 am the BJP raced the bulk mark within the 234-seat Assembly, setting itself firmly heading in the right direction to win the state for the primary time ever and inflict a giant defeat on the Trinamool.

The BJP was forward in 158 seats to the Trinamool’s 119. The Congress, routed in 2021, was forward in 4.

Bengal voted in a two-phase ballot – on April 23 and 29 – after a shrill marketing campaign that noticed the Trinamool and the BJP commerce hearth at each flip, and exchanged critical allegations of ballot violence and misconduct, every of which the opposite facet denied.

In the 2021 Bengal election the Trinamool delivered an announcement win over the BJP, profitable 215 of the state’s 294 seats to make Mamata Banerjee the chief minister for a 3rd straight time.