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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.
On 8 July 2023, 12 persons died due to election-day violence. On 9 July 2023, six more deaths were reported, [ 4 ] increasing the death toll to 18 on the election day. The dead included 10 Trinamool Congress supporters, four from the Indian National Congress , two from the Bharatiya Janata Party and two from the Communist Party of India (Marxist) .
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 ...
West Bengal assembly elections, 2011: Haroa constituency [16] [18] Party Candidate Votes % ±% AITC: Julfiquer Ali Molla 76,627 45.70 +5.84# CPI(M) Imtiaz Hossain 75,503 45.03 −10.40 BJP: Subodh Kumar Chakraborty 7,409 4.42 People’s Democratic Conference of India Wallur Rahman 3,910 Independent Golam Faruque Mollah 2,401 BSP: Dilip Bairagi ...
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.
Hindu Samhati, a right wing organisation in West Bengal, withdrew their support from the BJP initially [25] and later declared to contest elections on its own. [26] However, in the end they supported the BJP. [27] BJP allotted a seat of Amta constituency to the president of Hindu Samhati to contest on BJP's symbol. [28]
The All India Trinamool Congress had won overwhelming majority of 102 municipalities out of 108. CPI(M) had won 1 municipal body. BJP which was the last largest opposition party in 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election failed to win a single municipality.