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 201–250 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
MOTHABARI	INCYEASMIN SABINA	AITCMD. NAJRUL ISLAM	38,17428.61%	80.1%
MOYNA	AITCSANGRAM KUMAR DOLAI	INCMANIK BHOWMIK	12,1246.03%	87.3%
MURARAI	AITCABDUR RAHAMAN (LITON)	INCALI MORTUZA KHAN	2800.14%	85.1%
MURSHIDABAD	INCSHAONI SINGHA ROY	AITCASHIM KRISHNA BHATTA	25,13912.50%	85.6%
NABADWIP	AITCPUNDARIKAKSHYA SAHA	CPMSUMIT BISWAS	35,79618.38%	86.2%
NABAGRAM	CPMKANAI CHANDRA MONDAL	AITCDILIP SAHA	38,44321.16%	81.6%
NAGRAKATA	AITCSUKRA MUNDA	INCJOSEPH MUNDA	3,2281.83%	82.5%
NAIHATI	AITCPARTHA BHOWMICK	CPMGARGI CHATTERJEE	28,62819.55%	80.9%
NAKASHIPARA	AITCKALLOL KHAN	CPMTANMAY GANGULI	6,2503.31%	85.4%
NALHATI	AITCMOINUDDIN SHAMS	AIFBDIPAK CHATTERJEE	10,3285.61%	84.9%
NANDAKUMAR	AITCSUKUMAR DE	INDSIRAJ KHAN	10,8665.30%	89.6%
NANDIGRAM	AITCADHIKARI SUVENDU	CPIABDUL KABIR SEKH	81,23040.30%	86.9%
NANOOR	CPMSHYAMALI PRADHAN	AITCGADADHAR HAZRA	25,73012.34%	82.7%
NAODA	INCABU TAHER KHAN	AITCMASUD KARIM	19,26210.60%	83.2%
NARAYANGARH	AITCPRODYUT KUMAR GHOSH	CPMSURJYAKANTA MISHRA	13,5896.76%	90.8%
NATABARI	AITCRABINDRA NATH GHOSH	CPMTAMSER ALI	16,1578.09%	89.2%
NAYAGRAM	AITCDULAL MURMU	BJPBAKUL MURMU	43,25524.72%	85.0%
NOAPARA	INCMADHUSUDAN GHOSE	AITCMANJU BASU	1,0950.58%	78.1%
ONDA	AITCARUP KUMAR KHAN	AIFBMANIK MUKHERJEE	10,8485.48%	86.6%
PALASHIPARA	AITCTAPAS KUMAR SAHA	CPMS.M.SADI	5,5593.05%	83.7%
PANCHLA	AITCGULSAN MULLICK	AIFBDOLI ROY	31,92716.73%	81.1%
PANDABESWAR	AITCKUMAR JITENDRA TEWARI	CPMGOURANGA CHATTERJEE	5,4703.59%	79.8%
PANDUA	CPMAMJAD HOSSAIN SK.	AITCSAIYAD RAHIM NABI	1,3920.66%	85.5%
PANIHATI	AITCNIRMAL GHOSH	INCSANMOY BANDYOPADHYAY	3,0301.84%	78.4%
PANSKURA PASCHIM	AITCPHIROJA BIBI	CPICHITTARANJAN DASTHAKUR	3,1451.50%	84.8%
PANSKURA PURBA	CPMSK IBRAHIM ALI	AITCBIPLAB ROY CHOWDHURY	4,7672.61%	84.6%
PARA	AITCUMAPADA BAURI	CPMDINANATH BAURI	13,8787.83%	81.9%
PATASHPUR	AITCJYOTIRMOY KAR	CPIMAKHANLAL NAYAK	29,88815.73%	88.7%
PATHARPRATIMA	AITCSAMIR KUMAR JANA	INCPHANIBHUSHAN GIRI	13,7936.52%	89.3%
PHANSIDEWA	INCSUNIL CHANDRA TIRKEY	AITCCAROLUS LAKRA	7,0743.90%	87.8%
PINGLA	AITCSAUMEN KUMAR MAHAPATRA	DSPPPRABODH CHANDRA SINHA	24,21811.68%	90.2%
PURBASTHALI DAKSHIN	AITCSWAPAN DEBNATH	INCABHIJIT BHATTACHARYYA	37,66619.07%	88.1%
PURBASTHALI UTTAR	CPMPRADIP KUMAR SAHA	AITCTAPAN CHATTERJEE	2,8281.45%	86.4%
PURSURAH	AITCDR. M. NURUZZAMAN	INCPRATIM SINGHA ROY	29,12714.14%	86.3%
PURULIA	INCSUDIP KUMAR MUKHERJEE	AITCDIBYAJYOTI PRASAD SINGH DEO	4,9112.69%	80.2%
RAGHUNATHGANJ	INCAKHRUZZAMAN	AITCABUL KASEM MOLLA	23,78614.32%	79.8%
RAGHUNATHPUR	AITCPURNA CHANDRA BAURI	CPMSATYANARAYAN BAURI	16,1428.37%	82.3%
RAIDIGHI	AITCDEBASREE ROY	CPMKANTI GANGULY	1,2290.56%	89.3%
RAIGANJ	INCMOHIT SENGUPTA	AITCPURNENDU DEY (BABLU)	51,24734.36%	83.4%
RAINA	AITCNEPAL GHORUI	CPMKHAN BASUDEB	4480.22%	87.6%
RAIPUR	AITCBIRENDRA NATH TUDU	CPMDILIP KUMAR HANSDA	26,72215.07%	86.7%
RAJARHAT GOPALPUR	AITCPURNENDU BASU	CPMNEPALDEB BHATTACHARJEE	6,8744.18%	71.7%
RAJARHAT NEW TOWN	AITCSABYA SACHI DUTTA	CPMNARENDRA NATH CHATTERJEE (BALAI)	9,1934.62%	84.3%
RAJGANJ	AITCKHAGESWAR ROY	CPMSATYENDRA NATH MONDAL	14,6777.54%	89.9%
RAMNAGAR	AITCAKHIL GIRI	CPMTAPAS SINHA	28,25313.98%	84.1%
RAMPURHAT	AITCASISH BANERJEE	INCSYED SIRAJ JIMMI	21,19910.84%	85.6%
RANAGHAT DAKSHIN	CPMRAMA BISWAS	AITCABIR RANJAN BISWAS	17,2537.87%	85.0%
RANAGHAT UTTAR PASCHIM	INCSANKAR SINGHA	AITCPARTHASARATHI CHATTERJEE (BABU)	23,42011.12%	86.5%
RANAGHAT UTTAR PURBA	AITCSAMIR KUMAR PODDAR	CPMBABUSONA SARKAR	14,9727.73%	81.1%
RANIBUNDH	AITCJYOTSNA MANDI	CPMDEBLINA HEMBRAM	23,31312.01%	83.9%

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.