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The by-elections for Bhagabangola and Baranagar in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly was also scheduled with the general election and took place on 7 May and 1 June respectively. [3] West Bengal, along with Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were the only states where the 2024 Indian general election was held in all 7 phases.
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election ← 2016 27 March – 29 April 2021 (292 seats) 30 September 2021 (2 remaining seats) 2026 → ← outgoing members elected members → 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority Opinion polls Registered 72,924,106 Turnout 82.30% (0.72 pp) Majority party Minority party Leader Mamata Banerjee Dilip Ghosh Party ...
80.71 percent of the total voters exercised their franchise in the three-tier panchayat elections, according to the West Bengal State Election Commission. [4] The re-poll in 600 booths where voting had to be suspended due to violence is scheduled to be held on 10 July 2023. [4]
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 .
The election results were announced along with other four state assemblies on 19 May 2016. [25] [26] AITC won 211 seats, and thus was reelected with an enhanced majority. They also became the first ruling party to win without an ally since 1962 in West Bengal. [27]
The Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of West Bengal constituted after the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections which were concluded earlier on 29 April 2021 and the results were announced on 2 May 2021. [1] The tenure of West Bengal Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 7 May 2026. [2]
Elections in West Bengal, a state in India are conducted in accordance with the Constitution of India. The Assembly of West Bengal creates laws regarding the conduct of local body elections unilaterally while any changes by the state legislature to the conduct of state level elections need to be approved by the Parliament of India.
A female voter casting her vote at a polling station, in Abadanga, Birbhum district, during the Assembly Election in West Bengal on April 23, 2011 A Polling Officer checking the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM's) and other necessary inputs required in the West Bengal Assembly Election, before the distribution of machines, at Bolpur Govt. High ...