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 151–200 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
KALYANPUR	CPMRABINDRA NATH MITRA	INCASIT MITRA	4,0883.39%	80.2%
KAMARHATI	CPMMANASH MUKHERJEE	AITCSUBHRANGSHU BHATTACHARYA	30,68824.27%	77.2%
KANDI	INDAPURBA SARKAR (DAVID)	CPIABDUL HAMID	2,6321.83%	81.7%
KANKSA	CPMANKURE SARESH	AITCLAKSHI NARAYAN SAHA	54,78740.92%	82.4%
KARANDIGHI	AIFBGOKUL ROY	INCHAZI SAJJAD HUSSAIN	4,4352.80%	80.2%
KARIMPUR	CPMPRAFULLA KUMAR BHOWMICK	INCARABINDA MANDAL	19,87512.66%	89.8%
KASHIPUR	CPMRABINDRA NATH HEMBRAM	AITCANATH BANDHU PATAR	26,84626.78%	76.9%
KATWA	INCCHATTERJEE RABINDRANATH	CPMSUDIPTA BAGCHI	5,4053.41%	86.0%
KESHIARI	CPMMAHESWAR MURMU	AITCSHYAM CHARAN MANDI	53,86038.51%	88.5%
KESHPUR	CPMRAMESWAR DOLOI	AITCASIS PRAMANIK	66,16645.74%	90.8%
KETUGRAM	CPMTAMAL CHANDRA MAJHI	INCAMAR RAM	33,17625.32%	84.1%
KHAJURI	WBSPSWADESH PATRA	AITCDR. PARTHA PRATIM DAS	23,38118.44%	92.2%
KHANAKUL	CPMBANSHI BADAN MAITRA	AITCKALYANI MAJI	31,32321.37%	84.5%
KHANDAGHOSH	CPMPRASANTA MAJHI	AITCBISWANATH ROY	58,88645.06%	88.8%
KHARAGPUR RURAL	CPMHAQUE NAZMUL	AITCAJIT MAITY	33,65123.35%	80.5%
KHARAGPUR TOWN	INCGYAN SINGH SOHANPAL	RJDPREM CHANDRA JHA	8,97511.37%	59.2%
KHARBA	INCMAHABUBUL HAQUE(BADAL)	CPMANJUMANARA	10,1877.71%	85.4%
KHARDAH	CPMASIM KUMAR DASGUPTA	BJPMAHADEB BASAK	42,30523.24%	85.6%
KHARGRAM	CPMMANABENDRANATH SAHA	INCASHIS MARJIT	5,4013.97%	84.6%
KOTULPUR	CPMKALPANA KOLEY	AITCSEN MAUMDAR ALOKA	54,17236.86%	91.2%
KRANTI	CPMFAZLUL KARIM	INDATUL ROY	43,17936.78%	84.9%
KRISHNAGANJ	CPMBINAY KRISHNA BISWAS	AITCSUSHIL BISWAS	5,0383.66%	89.3%
KRISHNAGAR EAST	CPMGHOSH SUBINAY (BHAJAN)	AITCDR. RAMENDRA NATH SARKAR	5570.36%	86.1%
KRISHNAGAR WEST	CPMASOKE BANERJEE	AITCUJJAL BISWAS	11,2298.46%	90.0%
KULPI	CPMSAKUNTALA PAIK	AITCJAGARANJAN HALDAR	1,7921.59%	82.0%
KULTALI	INDJOYKRISHNA HALDER	CPMRAMSANKAR HALDER	8040.57%	86.4%
KULTI	AITCUJJAL CHATTERJEE	AIFBACHARYA MANIKLAL	16,81616.07%	66.0%
KUMARGANJ	CPMMAFUJA KHATUN	AITCAHMAD ALI SARDAR (MOULANA SAHEB)	10,6366.84%	88.6%
KUMARGRAM	RSPDASRATH TIRKEY	AITCSWAPAN KUJUR	37,16828.82%	85.3%
KURSEONG	GNLFSHANTA CHHETRI	BSPMATILDA GURUNG	59,14980.84%	43.9%
KUSHMANDI	RSPNARMADA CHANDRA ROY	INCRAJIB LOCHAN SARKAR	22,21615.74%	88.4%
LABHPUR	CPMNABANITA MUKHERJEE	AITCOJHA DEBASIS	31,54127.88%	82.8%
LALGOLA	INCABU HENA	CPMJINNATUNNESA BEGAM	6,3374.49%	87.1%
MADARIHAT	RSPKUMARI KUJUR	INCATUL SUBA	18,76616.24%	81.9%
MAGRAHAT EAST	CPMBANSARI MOHAN KANJI	AITCNOMITA SAHA	20,32015.31%	78.6%
MAGRAHAT WEST	CPMDR.ABUL HASNAT	AITCGIASUDDIN MOLLA	21,22518.06%	76.5%
MAHAMMAD BAZAR	CPMDHIREN BAGDI	INCBISWAJIT MUKHERJEE	26,48020.41%	81.9%
MAHESHTALA	CPMMURSALIN MOLLA	INCDULAL DAS	27,85621.20%	75.8%
MAHISHADAL	CPMTAMALIKA PANDA SETH	AITCBUDDHADEB BHOWMIK	3,0322.26%	91.0%
MAINAGURI	RSPBACHCHAMOHAN ROY	BJPGOKUL KUMAR ROY	47,38635.17%	84.3%
MAL	CPMSOMRA LAKRA	INCTURI KOL MUNDA	9,9568.52%	83.3%
MALDA	CPMSUBHENDU CHOWDHURY	INCBHUPENDRA NATH HALDER (ARJUN)	11,3367.31%	84.3%
MANBAZAR	CPMSAMYA PYARI MAHATO	AITCKAMAKSHYA PRASAD SINGH DEO	8,7047.59%	81.7%
MANDIRBAZAR	CPMDR. TAPATI SAHA	AITCCHOUDHURY MOHAN JATUA	1,3521.02%	80.6%
MANGALKOT	CPMSADHANA MALLIK	AITCABDUL BASED SEKH	40,61433.11%	80.1%
MANICKTOLA	CPMRUPA BAGCHI	AITCPARESH PAUL	1,3851.23%	73.2%
MANIKCHAK	CPMASIMA CHAUDHURI	INCRAM PRABESH MANDAL	5,4645.30%	76.0%
MANTESWAR	CPMCHAUDHURI MD. HEDAYATULLAH	AITCNARAYAN HAZRA CHOWDHURY	36,87829.15%	85.0%
MATHABHANGA	CPMANANTA ROY	BJPHEM CHANDRA BARMAN	28,00019.71%	86.3%
MATHURAPUR	CPMKANTI GANGULY	AITCSAYTARANJAN BAPULI	7,7315.12%	88.0%

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.