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- By Aditya Jha
- Wed, 06 May 2026 01:49 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Bengal Election Result: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ended the 15-year rule of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal in the recently conducted assembly elections. While the BJP registered victory in 207 of the 294 constituencies, the incumbent party could only manage to get 80 seats. Apart from this, other parties, including Congress, CPI(M), and Humayun Kabir's AJUP, got two seats each. A split in the non-BJP voters has potentially helped the saffron party in the hard-fought election.
As per the data provided by the Election Commission of India (ECI), the candidate who remained at the third position secured more votes than the winning margin on at least 82 seats, reported the Times of India. The report suggests that the candidates securing the third position on several seats had enough votes to change the results completely.
Key Seats With Similar Results:
- Behrampore: The BJP defeated Congress senior leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by over 17,000 votes. However, the TMC candidate got over 49,000 votes on this high-profile seat.
- Jadavpur: The BJP candidate won here against the TMC by approximately 28,000 votes. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, the TMC candidate, finished third with over 41,000 votes.
- Dum Dum North: The BJP won here against the Mamata Banerjee-led party by the margin of 26,404 votes as the CPM secured 38,428 votes in third place
- Tollygunge: BJP's Papiya Adhikari defeated the TMC candidate by over 6,000 votes, while the CPM's candidate managed to get over 30,000 votes
- Behala West: The CPM's candidate got over 30,000 votes as the BJP registered victory by nearly 25,000 votes
As per the "spoiler effect", votes get divided when multiple candidates of similar ideology compete against each other. While the TMC could not have formed an alliance with CPM, a possible tie with Congress could have improved its tally.