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The Next West Bengal Legislative Assembly election is speculated to be held on or before March-April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.
In the previous assembly elections, The AITC-GJM coalition won 214 seats out of 292 seats, with 2 seats being vacant. After the victory, Mamata Banerjee became the next chief minister of the state. 5 MLA, with Mukul Roy, joined the AITC from the BJP. After Mamata Banerjee lost from Nandigram, she won the by-election from Bhabanipur. [1] [2]
| Poll Event | Schedule |
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| Notification Date | TBD |
| Last Date for filing nomination | TBD |
| Scrutiny of nomination | TBD |
| Last Date for Withdrawal of nomination | TBD |
| Date of Poll | TBD |
| Date of Counting of Votes | TBD |
| Alliance/Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats Contested | ||||
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| All India Trinamool Congress |  |  | Mamata Banerjee | TBD | ||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party |  |  | Suvendu Adhikari | TBD | ||||
| Secular Democratic Alliance | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |  |  | Mohammed Salim | TBD | TBD | ||
| Indian National Congress |  |  | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | TBD | ||||
| All India Forward Bloc |  |  | Debabrata Biswas | TBD | ||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party |  |  | Manoj Bhattacharya | TBD | ||||
| Communist Party of India |  |  | Swapan Banerjee | TBD | ||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation |  |  | Janardan Prasad | TBD | ||||
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha |  |  | Shibu Soren | TBD | ||||
| Hamro Party |  | | Ajoy Edwards | TBD | ||||
| Indian Secular Front |  |  | Nawsad Siddique | TBD | ||||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) |  |  | Provash Ghosh | TBD | ||||
| Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha | Anit Thapa | TBD | ||||||
| Gorkha Janmukti Morcha | Bimal Gurung | TBD | ||||||
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