West Bengal assembly election, May 2006

294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 81.82% turnout.

Seats

294

Candidates

1,654

139 women, 37 elected

Turnout

81.82%

3.94 cr of 4.82 cr

Leading party

CPM

176 of 294 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	176	+33	212	1,46,34,200	37.13%	+0.54
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	30	-30	257	1,05,12,153	26.67%	-3.99
AIFB AIFB	23	+23	34	22,32,850	5.67%	—
INC Indian National Congress	21	-5	262	58,05,398	14.73%	+6.75
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	20	+3	23	14,63,901	3.71%	+0.28
CPI Communist Party of India	8	+1	13	7,53,317	1.91%	+0.12
IND Independent	6	-3	526	16,38,520	4.16%	-0.89
WBSP WBSP	4	0	4	2,81,883	0.72%	+0.04
GNLF GNLF	3	0	5	1,96,030	0.50%	-0.02
DSPP DSPP	1	+1	2	1,40,589	0.36%	—
JKPN JKPN	1	+1	4	1,01,490	0.26%	+0.24
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	1	+1	2	31,080	0.08%	+0.01
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	29	7,60,236	1.93%	-3.26
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	128	2,75,274	0.70%	+0.49
IPFB IPFB	0	0	3	84,490	0.21%	—
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	2	74,911	0.19%	-0.28
SP Samajwadi Party	0	0	32	71,438	0.18%	+0.12
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	0	7	70,711	0.18%	-0.19
CPI(ML)CPI(ML)	0	0	23	64,170	0.16%	—
PDS PDS	0	0	12	45,415	0.12%	-0.48
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	2	39,694	0.10%	+0.04
AMB AMB	0	0	22	28,212	0.07%	+0.02
JDP Janta Darbar Party	0	0	10	26,409	0.07%	—
LJP Lok Janshakti Party	0	0	8	24,235	0.06%	—
MUL Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	6	14,657	0.04%	-0.04
IJP IJP	0	0	6	7,607	0.02%	—
JD(S)JD(S)	0	0	6	6,977	0.02%	-0.06
PBRML PBRML	0	0	2	6,508	0.02%	—
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	3	5,498	0.01%	—
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	2	3,961	0.01%	-0.13
SJP SJP	0	0	1	2,141	0.01%	-0.01
STPI STPI	0	0	2	1,820	0.00%	—
SHSP SHSP	0	0	1	1,729	0.00%	—
RSMP Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party	0	0	1	1,394	0.00%	—
RPIA RPIA	0	0	1	1,298	0.00%	—
JUM JUM	0	0	1	639	0.00%	—

CPM176 (60%)
AITC30 (10%)
AIFB23 (8%)
INC21 (7%)
RSP20 (7%)
CPI8 (3%)
Others16 (5%)

CPM176
AITC30
AIFB23
INC21
RSP20
CPI8
Others16

CPM176
AITC30
AIFB23
INC21
RSP20
CPI8
IND6
WBSP4
Others6

Constituency performance

From the 294 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

HARIHARPARA

won by 97 (0.06%)

Biggest victory

KURSEONG

won by 59,149 (80.84%)

Highest turnout

SABANG

94.16%

Lowest turnout

BARA BAZAR

42.13%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (2001), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained200 (68%)
Changed hands94 (32%)

200 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 94 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

West Bengal, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

CPM
AITC
AIFB
INC

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 101–150 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
GARHBETA EAST	CPMGHOSH SUSANTA	AITCMD. ROFIQUE	61,42445.80%	92.9%
GARHBETA WEST	CPMKRISHNA PRASAD DULEY	BJPTAPAS SAHA	54,27339.30%	91.5%
GHATAL	CPMRATAN PAKHIRA	BJPAYAN DOLUI	50,88737.56%	82.6%
GOALPOKHAR	INCDEEPA DASMUNSI	AIFBHAFIZ ALAM SAIRANI	8,3106.47%	75.8%
GOGHAT	AIFBNIRANJAN PANDIT	AITCBISHNUPADA PAKHIRA	73,20145.91%	90.9%
GOPIBALLAVPUR	CPMRABI LAL MAITRA	AITCSWAPAN PATRA	51,46541.28%	85.1%
GOSABA	RSPCHITTA RANJAN MANDAL	AITCJAYANTA NASKAR	6,4845.48%	84.3%
HABIBPUR	CPMKHAGEN MURMU	BJPRAMLAL HANSDA	9,1947.43%	83.5%
HABRA	CPMPRANAB KUMAR BHATTACHARYYA	AITCTAPATI DATTA	28,09516.36%	87.0%
HANSAN	INCASIT KUMAR MAL	CPMKHAGENDRA NATH MAL	9,4908.01%	85.5%
HANSKHALI	CPMNAYAN SARKAR	AITCDR. RAMENDRA NATH BISWAS	3,0211.71%	88.9%
HARIHARPARA	CPMINSAR ALI BISWAS	INCNIAMOT SHEIKH	970.06%	87.2%
HARINGHATA	CPMBANKIM CHANDRA GHOSH	AITCDIPAK BASU	27,46614.92%	89.6%
HARIPAL	CPMBHARATI MUKHERJEE	AITCSAFIUL ISLAM SARKAR	19,05514.75%	81.3%
HARISHCHANDRAPUR	AIFBTAJMUL HOSSAIN	INCALAM MOSTAQUE	2,0021.51%	83.5%
HAROA	CPMASIM KUMAR DAS	AITCMRITYUNJOY MONDAL	32,52422.44%	87.3%
HASNABAD	CPMGOUTAM DEB	AITCISLAM RAFIKUL MONDAL	16,60913.56%	85.2%
HINGALGANJ	CPMGOPAL GAYEN	AITCDEBES MANDAL	12,0739.38%	87.5%
HIRAPUR	CPMAMITAVA MUKHOPADHYAY	AITCGHATAK MOLOY	2,6042.82%	68.0%
HOWRAH CENTRAL	CPMARUP RAY (TUKUN)	AITCAMBICA BANERJEE	6,6697.91%	73.7%
HOWRAH NORTH	CPMLAGAN DEO SINGH	AITCBANI SINGHA ROY	30,90231.75%	66.3%
HOWRAH SOUTH	CPMKRISHNA KISOR RAY (K.K.RAY)	JD(U)AMITAVA DATTA	23,00627.30%	64.2%
HURA	CPMSUBHAS CHANDRA MAHATA	AITCBAGHAMBAR MAHATO	22,09020.17%	78.2%
INDAS	CPMMAHADEB PATRA	AITCDIGAR BASUDEB	51,56538.38%	87.4%
INDPUR	CPIINDRAJIT TANGI	BJPGOUR CHANDRA LOHAR	33,93629.91%	80.8%
ISLAMPUR	CPMMD. FARUQUE	AITCABDUL KARIM CHOWDHARY	7,4126.07%	75.4%
ITAHAR	CPISRIKUMAR MUKHERJEE	INCAMAL ACHARJEE	7400.51%	86.9%
JADAVPUR	CPMBUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE	AITCDIPAK KUMAR GHOSH	58,13027.85%	75.9%
JAGATBALLAVPUR	CPMBIPLAB MAJUMDAR	AITCBIMAN CHAKRABORTI	11,4097.71%	80.0%
JAGATDAL	AIFBHARIPADA BISWAS	BJPRAHUL (BISWAJIT) SINHA	9,7407.15%	81.9%
JAIPUR	AIFBBINDESWAR MAHATO	INCSHANTIRAM MAHATO	2,2391.91%	77.4%
JALANGI	CPMUNUS SARKAR	INCSUBRATA SAHA	12,2877.47%	90.5%
JALPAIGURI	INCDEBA PRASAD ROY	AIFBGOBINDA ROY	1,0180.84%	83.5%
JAMALPUR	INDSAMAR HAZRA	AITCSANKAR CHANDRA MALLICK	53,05135.68%	88.2%
JAMURIA	CPMDHIRAJLAL HAZRA	AITCTAPAN CHAKRABORTY	54,77352.34%	71.6%
JANGIPARA	CPMSUDARSAN RAYCHAUDHURI	AITCEHSANUL HAQUE KAZI (BADSHA)	28,77320.86%	82.3%
JANGIPUR	RSPABUL HASNAT	INCHABIBUR RAHAMAN	13,49710.72%	80.8%
JHALDA	INCNEPAL MAHATA	AIFBASHIM SINGHA	18,05915.60%	79.8%
JHARGRAM	CPMAMAR BASU	INCSHIVENDRA BIJOY MALLADEB	40,00129.51%	78.7%
JORABAGAN	CPMPARIMAL BISWAS	AITCSANJOY BAKSHI	6,70915.01%	55.2%
JORASANKO	AITCDINESH BAJAJ	AIFBSHYAM SUNDAR GUPTA	8192.38%	50.9%
JOYNAGAR	INDDEBAPRASAD SARKAR	CPMASISH GHOSH	13,48610.30%	79.8%
KABITIRTHA	INCRAM PYARE RAM	AIFBMOINUDDIN SHAMS	9,35711.73%	53.3%
KAKDWIP	CPMASHOK GIRI	AITCMANTURAM PAKHIRA	8,4166.33%	88.1%
KALCHINI	RSPMANOHAR TIRKEY	INCPABAN KUMAR LAKRA	4,9894.36%	82.8%
KALIACHAK	CPMBISWANATH GHOSH	INCABU HASEM KHAN CHOUDHURY	1,9771.31%	83.7%
KALIAGANJ	CPMNANI GOPAL ROY	INCPRAMATHA NATH RAY	2,2821.47%	88.3%
KALIGANJ	RSPDHANANJOY MODAK	AITCNASIRUDDIN AHMED (LAL)	3,7612.85%	81.7%
KALIMPONG	GNLFGAULAN LEPCHA	INDNORDEN LAMA	25,81125.13%	68.1%
KALNA	CPMANJALI MONDAL	AITCASIS CHAKRABORTY	47,04731.21%	89.3%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.