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Legislative Assembly elections are expected to be held in West Bengal in March–April 2026 to elect all 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1][2][3][4][5]
Background
The tenure of West Bengal Legislative Assembly is scheduled to end on 7 May 2026.[6] The previous assembly elections were held in March–April 2021. After the election, the incumbent All India Trinamool Congress formed the state government again after winning 215 out of 294 seats in the assembly, with Mamata Banerjee sworn in as the Chief Minister.[7][8][9]
Schedule
| Poll event | Schedule |
|---|---|
| Notification date | TBD |
| Last date for filing nomination | TBD |
| Scrutiny of nomination | TBD |
| Last date for withdrawal of nomination | TBD |
| Date of poll | TBD |
| Date of counting of votes | TBD |
Parties and alliances
AITC-led Alliance
| AITC-led Alliance[10] | |||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinamool Congress | 
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Mamata Banerjee | TBD | |
| Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha | Anit Thapa[11] | TBD | |||
| Total | TBD | ||||
Bharatiya Janata Party
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 
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Suvendu Adhikari | TBD | |
Left Front
| Left Front | |||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 
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Mohammed Salim[12] | TBD | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 
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Naren Chatterjee[13] | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India | 
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Swapan Banerjee[14] | TBD | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | 
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Tapan Hore[15] | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation | 
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Abhijit Majumder[16] | TBD | |
| Total | TBD | ||||
Others
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | 
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Subhankar Sarkar[17] | TBD | |
| Bahujan Samaj Party | 
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Achintya Kumar Biswas | TBD | |
| Aam Aadmi Party | .svg/1280px-Aam_Aadmi_Party_flag_(2).svg.png)
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Sanjoy Basu | TBD | |
| Indian Secular Front | 
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Naushad Siddiqui[18] | TBD | |
| All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen | 
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Imran Solanki[19] | TBD | |
| Janata Unnayan Party | .png/1280px-JUP_Flag_(Digitised).png)
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Humayun Kabir[20] | TBD | ||
| Socialist Unity Centre of India | 
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Chandidas Bhattacharya[21] | TBD | |
| Indian Gorkha Janshakti Front | 
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Ajoy Edwards | TBD | ||
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Candidates
Surveys and polls
Opinion polls
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| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||||
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| AITC+ | BJP | LF | INC | Others |
| Polling agency | Date published | Sample size | Margin of Error | Lead | |||||
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| AITC+ | BJP | LF | INC | Others |
Results
Results by alliance or party
| Alliance/ Party | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
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| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| AITC+ | All India Trinamool Congress | ||||||||
| Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | |||||||||
| LF | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | ||||||||
| All India Forward Bloc | |||||||||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India | |||||||||
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation | |||||||||
| Marxist Forward Bloc | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Indian National Congress | |||||||||
| Other parties | |||||||||
| Independents | |||||||||
| NOTA | |||||||||
| Total | 100% | — | 294 | — | |||||
Results by district
| District | Seats | |||||
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| AITC+ | BJP | LF | INC | Others | ||
| Cooch Behar | 9 | |||||
| Alipurduar | 5 | |||||
| Jalpaiguri | 7 | |||||
| Kalimpong | 1 | |||||
| Darjeeling | 5 | |||||
| Uttar Dinajpur | 9 | |||||
| Dakshin Dinajpur | 6 | |||||
| Malda | 12 | |||||
| Murshidabad | 22 | |||||
| Nadia | 17 | |||||
| North 24 Parganas | 33 | |||||
| South 24 Parganas | 31 | |||||
| Kolkata | 11 | |||||
| Howrah | 16 | |||||
| Hooghly | 18 | |||||
| Purba Medinipur | 16 | |||||
| Paschim Medinipur | 15 | |||||
| Jhargram | 4 | |||||
| Purulia | 9 | |||||
| Bankura | 12 | |||||
| Purba Bardhaman | 16 | |||||
| Paschim Bardhaman | 9 | |||||
| Birbhum | 11 | |||||
| Total | 294 |
Results by constituency
References
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