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 201–250 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
MAYURESWAR	CPMBAGDI SADHUCHARAN	BJPSUBHAS CHANDRA MANDAL	37,00133.79%	79.0%
MEKLIGANJ	AIFBPARESH CHANDRA ADHIKARY	AITCSUNIL CHANDRA ROY	28,00119.41%	87.4%
MEMARI	CPMSANDHYA BHATTACHARYA	AITCSK. MOHAMMAD ISMILE	55,07932.37%	88.3%
MIDNAPORE	CPISANTOSH RANA	AITCRAMA PRASAD TEWARY	56,57437.04%	83.4%
MOYNA	CPMSK. MUJIBUR RAHMAN	AITCPRAFULLA KUMAR BARAI	11,0747.68%	90.0%
MUGBERIA	WBSPKIRANMAY NANDA	AITCKAJAL BARMAN	14,65210.71%	92.2%
MURARAI	CPMELAHI MD. QAMRE	INCDR. MOTAHAR HOSSAIN	4,2193.25%	87.4%
MURSHIDABAD	AIFBBIVAS CHAKRABORTY	IPFBJOYANTA ROY	13,2987.91%	86.6%
NABADWIP	AITCPUNDARIKAKSHYA SAHA	CPMCHHAYA SEN SARMA	9,3727.07%	89.0%
NABAGRAM	CPMMUKUL MONDAL	INCRATHIN GHOSH	22,57615.85%	86.9%
NADANGHAT	AITCSWAPAN DEBNATH	CPMRATAN DAS	9,7585.71%	91.0%
NAGRAKATA	CPMSUKHMOITH (PITING) ORAON	INCSHANKAR BARAIK	21,74216.42%	82.8%
NAIHATI	CPMRANJIT KUNDU	AITCDHILLON SARKAR	9,8847.90%	80.6%
NAKASHIPARA	AITCKALLOL KHAN	CPMS. M. SADI	4100.29%	86.5%
NALHATI	AIFBDIPAK CHATTERJEE	INCABDUL WALEE MOLLAH	10,1678.72%	83.6%
NANDANPUR	CPMCHOWDHURY CHAKRABORTY BULA	AITCNANDA KUMAR MISHRA	3,8583.04%	88.0%
NANDIGRAM	CPIILLIAS MAHAMMAD SK.	AITCSK. SUPIAN	4,8233.39%	88.0%
NANUR	CPMJOYDEB HAZRA	AITCGADADHAR HAZRA	31,36525.26%	82.0%
NAODA	INCABU TAHER KHAN	RSPJAYANTA KUMAR BISWAS	1,3320.86%	86.5%
NARAYANGARH	CPMSURJYA KANTA MISHRA	AITCSALIL KUMAR DAS PATTANAYAK	36,90724.34%	89.4%
NARGHAT	WBSPNANDA BRAHMAMAY	AITCAMIYA KANTI BHATTACHARYA (KABLU)	8,6105.74%	91.8%
NATABARI	CPMTAMSER ALI	AITCRABINDRA NATH GHOSH	4,8363.48%	90.3%
NAYAGRAM	CPMBHUTNATH SAREN	AITCSHUNARAM MAHALI	44,37541.22%	81.1%
NOAPARA	CPMKUSADHWAJ GHOSH	AITCMANJU BASU	4,5074.83%	78.7%
ONDA	AIFBTARAPADA CHAKRABARTI	AITCABEDA BIBI SK.	47,69535.65%	81.6%
PALASHIPARA	CPMBISWANATH GHOSH	AITCSAHA TAPAS KUMAR	32,36522.05%	85.7%
PANCHLA	AIFBDOLI ROY	AITCABUL KASEM MOLLA	25,50318.96%	75.2%
PANDUA	CPMSEKH MAJED ALI	AITCALAM KAZI ROWSHAN ( BADSHA )	45,65830.58%	85.7%
PANIHATI	CPMGOPAL KRISHNA BHATTACHARYYA	AITCNIRMAL GHOSH	3,8462.45%	80.4%
PANSKURA EAST	CPMAMIYA KUMAR SAHOO	AITCBIPLAB RAY CHOWDHURY	6,8604.67%	88.1%
PANSKURA WEST	CPICHITTARANJAN DASTHAKUR	AITCJAIDUL KHAN	26,98619.93%	85.9%
PARA	CPMBILASIBALA SAHIS .	AITCSIMA BAURI	35,27529.87%	77.2%
PATASPUR	CPIKAMAKHYANANDAN DASMAHAPATRA	AITCKAR TAPAN KANTI	6,9254.82%	92.1%
PATHARPRATIMA	CPMJAJNESWAR DAS	AITCSAMIR KUMAR JANA	9,4417.28%	87.7%
PHANSIDEWA	CPMKISKU CHHOTAN	INCMAMLA KUJUR	35,50419.03%	84.4%
PINGLA	DSPPRAMPADA SAMANTA	AITCHRISHIKESH DINDA	29,72922.80%	89.8%
POLBA	CPMSHAKTIPADA KHANRA	AITCSK. SAHADAT ALI	35,56926.86%	84.7%
PURBASTHALI	CPMSUBRATA BHOWAL	AITCANSAR MONDAL	16,03511.26%	87.5%
PURSURAH	CPMSAUMENDRANATH BERA	AITCSK.PARVEZ RAHMAN	34,96224.64%	89.6%
PURULIA	CPMNIKHIL MUKHERJEE	INCDR.SUKUMAR ROY	16,00212.74%	75.3%
RAGHUNATHPUR	CPMUMA RANI BOURI	AITCPURNA CHANDRA BOURI	22,79523.23%	73.3%
RAIGANJ	INCCHITTA RANJAN RAY	NCPDILIP KUMAR DAS	15,7609.46%	81.6%
RAINA	CPMSWAPAN SAMANTA	AITCNITYANANDA TAH	57,65641.63%	88.5%
RAIPUR	CPMUPEN KISKU	AITCBIBHABATI TUDU	25,90119.58%	82.7%
RAJARHAT	CPMRABINDRANATH MANDAL	AITCTANMOY MONDAL	16,8097.13%	82.1%
RAJGANJ	CPMMAHENDRA KUMAR ROY	AITCKHAGESWAR ROY	49,47223.33%	83.1%
RAJNAGAR	AIFBBIJOY BAGDI	AITCSEULI SAHA	32,43728.87%	80.0%
RAMNAGAR	CPMSWADESH RANJAN NAYAK	AITCAKHIL GIRI	8,8275.60%	88.3%
RAMPURHAT	AITCASISH BANERJEE	AIFBNIRAD BARAN MANDAL	8,1536.27%	81.8%
RANAGHAT EAST	CPMDEBENDRA NATH BISWAS	AITCNILIMA NAG (MALLICK)	10,1135.16%	88.8%

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.