According to the EC website, the TMC shocked political analysts by winning 29 of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, defying all exit poll expectations. In contrast, the BJP found it difficult to gain a double digit advantage, winning just 12 seats, and the Congress managed to win just one seat.In the event that TMC’s leads become reality, the party will have achieved its second-best showing in the state, after winning 34 seats in 2014. By 6 p.m., the TMC received 46% of the votes, which was an increase from 43% in 2019.
Similar to 2019, the CPI(M) did not lead in any of the 42 seats, suggesting that it is failing to establish a presence in the state.
The West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who is running for a sixth term from Baharampur, gave the Congress, which was leading in Malda South, a shock. Chowdhury was behind TMC’s Yusuf Pathan by a margin of 73,000 votes.
With a lead of 707,360 votes over his closest competitor, BJP candidate Abhijit Das, TMC candidate and current Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee is winning in Diamond Harbour—possibly the largest margin in Bengal in recent memory.
Isha Khan Choudhury, the Congress candidate in Malda Dakshin, was ahead of Sreerupa Mitra Chowdhury, the nearest BJP competitor, by 126306 votes.In Jadavpur, Sayani Ghosh of the TMC was ahead of her closest BJP opponent, Anirban Ganguly, by more than 104,816 votes. Pratima Mondal, the sitting Member of Parliament for the TMC, was leading BJP candidate Ashok Kandary in Joynagar by a margin of more than 164,780 votes.
According to the EC website, heavyweight BJP candidate and state president Sukanta Majumdar was behind TMC’s Biplab Mitra, his closest competitor, in the Balurghat seat by 15,554 votes.
In Ranaghat Lok Sabha seat, BJP’s Jagannath Sarkar was leading by over 88716 votes against TMC’s Mukut Mani Adhikari. In Krishnanagar, TMC candidate Mahua Moitra, who was expelled last year from Lok Sabha in the cash-for-query scam, was leading by a margin of 57,083 votes over her nearest BJP rival, Amrita Roy.
Heavyweight BJP candidate Shantanu Thakur was leading in West Bengal’s Bongaon seat – a Matua bastion – over his nearest rival, TMC’s Biswajit Das, by over 63,947 votes. In Murshidabad, CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim was trailing by a margin of 133996 votes against his nearest rival and sitting MP, TMC’s Abu Taher Khan. Heavyweight BJP candidate and state president Sukanta Majumdar was leading in the Balurghat seat over his nearest rival, TMC’s Biplab Mitra, by 9,022 votes, as per the EC website.
BJP candidate SS Ahluwalia was trailing in Asansol seat over his nearest rival, TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha, by 59,677 votes.
TMC candidate Arup Chakraborty was ahead of BJP candidate and sitting MP Subhas Sarkar in Bankura Lok Sabha constituency by 32,783 votes. TMC candidate and party’s Lok Sabha leader Sudip Bandopadhyay was leading by 49,491 votes from the Kolkata North seat over his nearest BJP rival, Tapas Roy.
In the Bardhaman-Durgapur seat, TMC candidate Kirti Azad was leading by 137,564 votes over his nearest BJP rival, Dilip Ghosh. In Kolkata South, TMC candidate Mala Roy was leading over her nearest rival, CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim, by a margin of 162,771 votes.
In Barrackpore, TMC’s Partha Bhowmick was leading by a margin of 60,421 votes over his nearest rival and sitting MP, Arjun Singh. In Tamluk Lok Sabha segment, TMC’s Debanghsu Bhattacharya was trailing by a margin of 41,428 votes against his nearest rival, BJP’s Abhijit Gangopadhyay.
Satabdi Roy, a three-term MP for the TMC, was leading BJP candidate Debtanu Bhattacharya in Birbhum by a wide margin of more than 161,000 votes.
Dipak Adhikari, also known as Dev, the TMC candidate and two-term MP from Ghatal, was ahead of his closest BJP competitor, Hiranmoy Chattopadhyay, by a total of 160,968 votes. Of the five seats the BJP had previously won in the Junglemahal district, it was now lagging in three: Bankura, Medinipur, and Jhargram.But in the Lok Sabha seats of Purulia and Bishnupur, the saffron movement was in the lead. The TMC praised the trends on Tuesday, stating that the people had voted against the forces opposed to Bengali independence and that the party was outpacing its competitors.
The counting of votes for 42 Lok Sabha constituencies began at 8 am.
