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23 & 29 April 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All 294 elected seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 64,561,152 ( 12.06%) [1] [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map of the assembly constituencies in West Bengal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative Assembly elections are scheduled to be held in West Bengal from 23 and 29 April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 4 May 2026.
The tenure of West Bengal Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 7 May 2026. [3] The previous assembly elections were held in March–April 2021. After the election, the incumbent Trinamool Congress formed the state government again after winning 215 out of 294 seats in the assembly, with Mamata Banerjee sworn in as the Chief Minister. [4] [5] [6]
The Election Commission of India announced the schedule for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election on 15 March 2026. [7]
| Poll event | Phases | |
|---|---|---|
| I | II | |
| Notification date | 30 March 2026 | 2 April 2026 |
| Last date for filing nomination | 6 April 2026 | 9 April 2026 |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 7 April 2026 | 10 April 2026 |
| Last date for withdrawal of nomination | 9 April 2026 | 13 April 2026 |
| Date of poll | 23 April 2026 | 29 April 2026 |
| Date of counting of votes | 4 May 2026 | |
| Number of constituencies | 152 seats | 142 seats |
According to the Election Commission of India, 70,459,284 voters were eligible to vote in the assembly elections in West Bengal. This includes 36,022,642 male, 34,435,260 female, and 1,382 third gender. [1]
| Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats [8] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinamool Congress |  | Mamata Banerjee | 291 [9] | |
| Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha |  | Anit Thapa [10] | 3 [11] | |
| Total | 294 | |||
| Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party |  | Suvendu Adhikari | 294 (144 announced) [12] | |
Communist Party of India (Marxist) gave a call for a broader understanding of the left-wing parties and other secular, democratic forces against the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Apart from the members of Left Front, CPI(M) held talks with CPI(ML) Liberation, CPI(ML) Mass Line and other communist and socialist parties along with Indian Secular Front (ISF) and some Ambedkarite and environmentalist parties and organisations. [13] [14] [15] [16]
| Left Front+ | ||||
| Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) |  | Mohammed Salim [17] | TBD (144 declared) [a] [18] | |
| All India Forward Bloc |  | Naren Chatterjee [19] | TBD (21 declared) [18] | |
| Communist Party of India |  | Swapan Banerjee [20] | TBD (14 declared) [18] | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) |  | Tapan Hore [21] | TBD (13 declared) [18] | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation |  | Abhijit Majumder [22] | 10 [23] | |
| Indian Secular Front |  | Nawsad Siddiqui [24] | ||
| Total | 294 | |||
| Party | Symbol | Leader | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress |  | Subhankar Sarkar [25] | ||
| Bahujan Samaj Party |  | Jay Prakash Singh [26] | ||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) |  | Chandidas Bhattacharya [27] | (230 Declared) | |
| Aam Janata Unnayan Party | Humayun Kabir [28] | |||
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen |  | Imran Solanki [29] | ||
BGPM released their list of 3 candidates on 15 March 2026. [30] AITC released their list of 291 candidates on 17 March 2026. [9]
Left Front Chairman Biman Bose announced the first list of 192 candidates on 16 March 2026, including 142 seats for CPI(M), 21 seats for AIFB, 14 seats for CPI, 13 seats for RSP, and 1 seat each for RCPI and MFB. [18] [31] CPI(ML)L announced the name of their candidates on 10 seats on 17 March 2026. [32]
BJP released the first list of 144 candidates on 16 March 2026. [12]
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC+ | BJP | LF | INC | Others |
| Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC+ | BJP | LF | INC | ISF | AJUP | Others | |||||
| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| AITC+ | Trinamool Congress | 291 | |||||||
| Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha | 3 | ||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||||
| LF+ | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||||||||
| All India Forward Bloc | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation | |||||||||
| Indian Secular Front | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Indian National Congress | |||||||||
| Other parties | |||||||||
| Independents | |||||||||
| NOTA | |||||||||
| Total | 100% | — | 294 | — | |||||
| District | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AITC+ | BJP | Others | ||
| Cooch Behar | 9 | |||
| Alipurduar | 5 | |||
| Jalpaiguri | 7 | |||
| Kalimpong | 1 | |||
| Darjeeling | 5 | |||
| Uttar Dinajpur | 9 | |||
| Dakshin Dinajpur | 6 | |||
| Malda | 12 | |||
| Murshidabad | 22 | |||
| Nadia | 17 | |||
| North 24 Parganas | 33 | |||
| South 24 Parganas | 31 | |||
| Kolkata | 11 | |||
| Howrah | 16 | |||
| Hooghly | 18 | |||
| Purba Medinipur | 16 | |||
| Paschim Medinipur | 15 | |||
| Jhargram | 4 | |||
| Purulia | 9 | |||
| Bankura | 12 | |||
| Purba Bardhaman | 16 | |||
| Paschim Bardhaman | 9 | |||
| Birbhum | 11 | |||
| Total | 294 |
