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- BJP won 208 seats, a historic victory.
- Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lost her own seat from Bhawanipur.
- Suvendu Adhikari won by more than 15,000 votes
- Mamta Banerjee got a big shock after 15 years in power
Bengal Election Results 2026: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has achieved a historic victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections with an overwhelming majority. BJP has won 208 seats in the 294-seat Bengal Assembly, but the most shocking thing is that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who held power in West Bengal for 15 years and Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Bhawanipur, failed to save her own seat. Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly and BJP candidate from Bhawanipur Assembly seat, Subhendu Adhikari has defeated Mamata Banerjee by a total margin of 15,105 votes.
In the 16th round of vote counting in Bengal, BJP candidate Shubhendu Adhikari took the lead by 554 votes against Mamata Banerjee in Bhawanipur assembly seat. At the same time, in the 19th round of counting on Monday (May 4, 2026) at 9:30 pm, Mamata Banerjee was seen lagging behind Shubhendu Adhikari by 15,001 votes. Whereas after the last 20th round of counting ended at 10 pm, Shubhendu Adhikari won by a margin of 15,105 votes.
BJP And TMC How many votes did the candidates get in Bhawanipur??
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is the Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Bhawanipur Assembly seat of West Bengal, against whom Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Subhendu Adhikari is the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. After 19 rounds of counting till 9:30 on May 4, BJP candidate Shubhendu Adhikari got a total of 73,390 votes and after the 20th round of counting, this figure increased to 73,917. While CM Mamata Banerjee got 58,812 votes. In such a situation, the total difference of votes between the two candidates was 15,105 votes.
Big shock to Mamata Banerjee after 15 years in power
This time, the results of the assembly elections held in West Bengal have proved to be a huge blow for Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee became the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the first time in May 2011. After this, he made a hat-trick on the post of Chief Minister in Bengal by winning the assembly elections again in the year 2016 and 2021, that is, he successfully completed three terms as the CM of Bengal. However, this time’s election proved to be quite shocking for Mamata Banerjee.
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