The Bharatiya Janata Party has secured a commanding victory in the West Bengal assembly election, winning 207 seats and reducing the Trinamool Congress to just 80 seats. The final result was confirmed after the declaration of the delayed outcome from the Rajarhat New Town constituency, which recorded the narrowest victory margin in the entire election.
Final Seat Tally
According to the Election Commission, the Congress and the Aam Janta Unnayan Party each won two seats, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the All India Secular Front secured one seat apiece. The results mark a historic shift in the state's political landscape.
Rajarhat New Town: A Nail-Biting Finish
The final result from Rajarhat New Town came after a prolonged counting process. BJP candidate Pijush Kanoria edged past Trinamool's Tapas Chatterjee by just 316 votes. After 18 rounds of counting, Kanoria polled 1,06,564 votes, while Chatterjee secured 1,06,248 votes. This narrow margin underscored the intense competition in the constituency.
Other Close Contests
The BJP also registered several other narrow victories across the state. In Satgachi, BJP's Agniswar Naskar defeated Trinamool's Somashree Betal by 401 votes. In Raina, BJP's Subhash Patra beat Trinamool's Mandira Dalui by 834 votes. These results highlighted the BJP's ability to win tight races.
Vote Share Analysis
The scale of the BJP's victory was reflected not only in seat share but also in vote percentage. The party improved its vote share from 38% in the 2021 assembly polls to 45.84% in 2026, a jump of nearly eight percentage points. In contrast, the Trinamool Congress saw its vote share fall from 48% to 40.8%, a drop of around seven percentage points. Despite the vote share gap between the two parties being just about 5 percentage points—the narrowest margin in the past 25 years—the BJP converted that lead into a dominant seat haul, winning more than 2.5 times the number of seats secured by the ruling party.
Geographic Sweep
The BJP's sweep was particularly striking in several districts where it completely shut out the Trinamool Congress. The party blanked the ruling outfit in eight districts: Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Kalimpong, and Darjeeling in north Bengal, and Purulia, Bankura, East Burdwan, and Jhargram in the south. The Trinamool Congress managed just one seat in Cooch Behar.
Strong Performance in Key Regions
The BJP's strong performance in regions where it had already built momentum in recent elections, including north Bengal and Jangalmahal, was expected. However, its performance in the second phase of polling proved decisive in turning the contest into a landslide. Of the 152 seats that voted in the first phase, the BJP won 109, while the Trinamool Congress secured 38.
In the second phase, 142 constituencies were scheduled to vote on April 29, though polling in Falta was countermanded and will now be held on May 21, with results expected on May 24. Excluding Falta, the BJP won 98 of the remaining 141 seats, while the Trinamool Congress managed 42. These numbers underline the scale of the BJP's breakthrough in a state long seen as one of its toughest political battlegrounds.
