West Bengal assembly election, May 2016

294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 82.95% turnout.

Seats

294

Candidates

1,961

200 women, 41 elected

Turnout

82.95%

5.47 cr of 6.59 cr

Leading party

AITC

211 of 294 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	211	+27	293	2,45,64,523	44.91%	+5.98
INC Indian National Congress	44	+2	92	67,00,938	12.25%	+3.16
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	26	-14	152	1,08,08,360	19.76%	-10.32
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	3	+3	291	55,55,134	10.16%	+6.09
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	3	-4	19	9,11,004	1.67%	-1.30
GOJAM GOJAM	3	0	5	2,54,626	0.47%	-0.26
AIFB AIFB	2	-9	25	15,43,764	2.82%	-1.98
IND Independent	1	-1	371	11,84,047	2.16%	-0.97
CPI Communist Party of India	1	-1	11	7,91,925	1.45%	-0.39
SUCI SUCI	0	-1	182	3,65,996	0.67%	+0.23
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	161	3,00,294	0.55%	-0.06
DSPP DSPP	0	-1	2	1,67,576	0.31%	-0.05
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	1	69,898	0.13%	+0.10
JKPN JKPN	0	0	2	51,099	0.09%	-0.02
SHS Shiv Sena	0	0	21	49,218	0.09%	—
SP Samajwadi Party	0	-1	23	46,402	0.08%	-0.66
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	35	45,730	0.08%	-0.07
WPOI WPOI	0	0	22	43,754	0.08%	—
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	2	40,327	0.07%	-0.06
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	0	18	39,326	0.07%	-0.40
BMUP BMUP	0	0	23	35,915	0.07%	—
AMB AMB	0	0	21	32,025	0.06%	+0.03
KPPU KPPU	0	0	13	31,080	0.06%	—
JDP Janta Darbar Party	0	0	16	30,350	0.06%	-0.07
PDS PDS	0	0	23	26,791	0.05%	-0.05
IUC IUC	0	0	16	19,326	0.04%	0.00
BHNP BHNP	0	0	12	18,272	0.03%	—
AJSUP AJSUP	0	0	12	17,257	0.03%	+0.03
SDPI Social Democratic Party of India	0	0	8	15,888	0.03%	-0.05
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	0	1	15,639	0.03%	-0.02
IUML Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	10	13,468	0.02%	+0.02
LJP Lok Janshakti Party	0	0	19	13,204	0.02%	+0.02
GRAC GRAC	0	0	4	12,001	0.02%	—
MPOI MPOI	0	0	14	11,785	0.02%	—
RPIA RPIA	0	0	6	6,923	0.01%	0.00
NDPOI NDPOI	0	0	4	4,771	0.01%	—
JHAP JHAP	0	0	2	3,855	0.01%	-0.03
ABGL ABGL	0	0	1	3,855	0.01%	-0.03
ABHM ABHM	0	0	4	2,781	0.01%	0.00
GMM GMM	0	0	2	2,220	0.00%	—

AITC211 (72%)
INC44 (15%)
CPM26 (9%)
BJP3 (1%)
RSP3 (1%)
GOJAM3 (1%)
Others4 (1%)

AITC211
INC44
CPM26
BJP3
RSP3
GOJAM3
Others4

AITC211
INC44
CPM26
BJP3
RSP3
GOJAM3
AIFB2
IND1
Others1

Constituency performance

From the 294 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

MURARAI

won by 280 (0.14%)

Biggest victory

KESHPUR

won by 1,01,151 (49.43%)

Highest turnout

NARAYANGARH

90.85%

Lowest turnout

JORASANKO

53.72%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (2011), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained198 (67%)
Changed hands96 (33%)

198 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 96 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

AITC
INC
CPM
BJP

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 51–100 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
BONGAON DAKSHIN	AITCSURAJIT KUMAR BISWAS	CPMRAMENDRANATH AUDHYA	26,90414.33%	83.5%
BONGAON UTTAR	AITCBISWAJIT DAS	AIFBSUSHANTA BOWALI	33,19217.53%	82.5%
BUDGE BUDGE	AITCASHOK KUMAR DEB	INCSK. MUJIBAR RAHAMAN	7,1593.76%	83.2%
BURWAN	INCPROTIMA RAJAK	AITCSHASTHI CHARAN MAL	15,0029.90%	78.0%
CANNING PASCHIM	AITCSHYAMAL MONDAL	INCARNAB ROY	18,7269.83%	85.7%
CANNING PURBA	AITCSAOKAT MOLLA	CPMAJIJER RAHAMAN MOLLA	55,03428.44%	87.7%
CHAKDAHA	AITCKAR RATNA GHOSH	CPMBISWANATH GUPTA	23,65312.46%	84.9%
CHAKULIA	AIFBALI IMRAN RAMZ	BJPASHIM KUMAR MRIDHA	27,52918.29%	75.2%
CHAMPDANI	INCABDUL MANNAN	AITCMUZAFFAR KHAN	7,2823.95%	76.8%
CHANCHAL	INCASIF MEHBUB	AITCSOUMITRA RAY	52,36830.42%	79.1%
CHANDANNAGORE	AITCINDRANIL SEN E	CPMGAUTAM SARKAR SON OF KARTICK CHANDRA SARKAR	2,1141.25%	78.9%
CHANDIPUR	AITCAMIYAKANTI BHATTACHARJEE	CPMMANGAL CHAND PRADHAN	9,6544.88%	88.5%
CHANDITALA	AITCSWATI KHANDOKER	CPMAZIM ALI MD. SK.	14,1767.45%	79.2%
CHANDRAKONA	AITCCHHAYA DOLAI	CPMSANTINATH BODHUK	38,38117.05%	90.0%
CHAPRA	AITCRUKBANUR RAHMAN	CPMSHAMSUL ISLAM MOLLAH	13,4637.18%	85.2%
CHHATNA	RSPDHIRENDRA NATH LAYEK	AITCSUBHASIS BATABYAL	2,4171.35%	80.9%
CHOPRA	AITCHAMIDUL RAHAMAN	CPMAKRAMUL HOQUE	16,8609.48%	84.7%
CHOWRANGEE	AITCNAYNA BANDYOPADHYAY	INCSOMENDRANATH MITRA	13,21611.34%	56.2%
CHUNCHURA	AITCASIT MAZUMDER (TAPAN)	AIFBDR. PRANAB KUMAR GHOSH	29,68412.29%	82.0%
COOCH BEHAR DAKSHIN	AITCMIHIR GOSWAMI	AIFBDEBASIS BANIK	18,19510.15%	84.0%
COOCH BEHAR UTTAR	AIFBNAGENDRA NATH ROY	AITCPARIMAL BARMAN	12,2935.49%	86.5%
DABGRAM-PHULBARI	AITCGOUTAM DEB	CPMDILIP SINGH	23,81110.69%	85.4%
DANTAN	AITCBIKRAM CHANDRA PRADHAN	CPISISIR KUMAR PATRA	29,26016.35%	84.5%
DARJEELING	GOJAMAMAR SINGH RAI	AITCSARDA RAI SUBBA	49,91331.32%	67.1%
DASPUR	AITCMAMATA BHUNIA	CPMSWAPAN SANTRA	28,73913.36%	78.4%
DEBRA	AITCSELIMA KHATUN (BIBI)	CPMJAHANGIR KARIM SK	11,9086.29%	89.1%
DEGANGA	AITCRAHIMA MONDAL	AIFBMD. HASANOOR JAMAN CHOWDHURY	25,99013.57%	88.8%
DHANEKHALI	AITCASIMA PATRA	AIFBPRADIP MAJUMDAR	58,64426.93%	87.1%
DHUPGURI	AITCMITALI ROY	CPMMAMATA ROY	19,2649.23%	87.9%
DIAMOND HARBOUR	AITCDIPAK KUMAR HALDER	CPMDR. ABUL HASNAT	15,0377.54%	88.1%
DINHATA	AITCUDAYAN GUHA	AIFBAKSHAY THAKUR	21,7939.74%	81.8%
DOMJUR	AITCRAJIB BANERJEE	INDPROTIMA DUTTA W/O - LATE TAPAN KUMAR DUTTA	1,07,70149.05%	84.5%
DOMKAL	CPMANISUR RAHAMAN	AITCSOUMIK HOSSAIN	6,8903.52%	83.8%
DUBRAJPUR	AITCCHANDRA NARESH BAURI	AIFBBIJOY BAGDI	39,89421.88%	84.3%
DUM DUM	AITCBRATYA BASU	CPMPALASH DAS	9,3165.34%	79.1%
DUM DUM UTTAR	CPMTANMOY BHATTACHARYA	AITCCHANDRIMA BHATTACHARYA	6,5493.30%	82.6%
DURGAPUR PASCHIM	INCBISHWANATH PARIAL	AITCAPURBA MUKHERJEE	44,82422.48%	81.3%
DURGAPUR PURBA	CPMSANTOSH DEBRAY	AITCPRADIP MAZUMDAR	9,1314.80%	81.4%
EGRA	AITCDAS SAMARES	DSPPSHAIKH MAHMUD HOSSAIN	25,95611.75%	84.9%
ENGLISHBAZAR	INDNIHAR RANJAN GHOSH	AITCKRISHNENDU NARAYAN CHOUDHURY	39,72719.17%	84.0%
ENTALLY	AITCSWARNA KAMAL SAHA	CPMDEBESH DAS	27,98819.18%	70.7%
FALAKATA	AITCANIL ADHIKARI	CPMKSHITISH CHANDRA RAY	16,8398.51%	87.1%
FALTA	AITCTAMONASH GHOSH	CPMBIDHAN PARUI	23,58012.53%	88.6%
FARAKKA	INCMAINUL HAQUE	AITCMD. MUSTAFA	28,16717.26%	85.0%
GAIGHATA	AITCPULIN BIHARI RAY	CPIKAPIL KRISHNA THAKUR	29,57215.33%	86.0%
GALSI	AITCALOK KUMAR MAJHI	AIFBNANDALAL PONDIT	10,7715.25%	86.5%
GANGARAMPUR	INCGOUTAM DAS	AITCSATYENDRA NATH ROY	10,7336.19%	87.3%
GARBETA	AITCASHIS CHAKRABORTY (NANTI)	CPMSORFORAJ KHAN	61,15732.58%	90.6%
GAZOLE	CPMDIPALI BISWAS	AITCSUSHIL CHANDRA ROY	20,60210.39%	84.8%
GHATAL	AITCSHANKAR DOLAI	CPMKAMAL CHANDRA DOLUI	19,4799.00%	84.1%

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.