BJP Ousts TMC in West Bengal After 15 Years, Wins 206 Seats

Kolkata: How many CMs have changed in other states of the country between 1977 and 2025 in the last 5 decades, but on May 9, West Bengal is now going to get its fourth chief minister. The Bharatiya Janata Party has ousted the TMC after 15 years by winning 206 seats in Bengal. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP got 39.1% and the TMC 46.2% of the votes. This figure indicated that the BJP could be reduced to 105 seats in the Bengal Assembly elections and no one could shake the power of Mamata Banerjee. In the results of May 4, the TMC was almost wiped out in 3 out of the 5 regions of the state. In the 2026 Assembly elections, the strike rate of the BJP was 70.4%, while the strike rate of the TMC, which contested 290 seats, went up to 26%. Find out the highlights of the election. Anandamoy Barman of the BJP won from Matigara-Naxalbari by 1,04,265 votes. Anandamoy became the candidate with the highest number of votes. Rajarhat New Town from the 323-year-old Trinamool Congress became the youngest MLA of the BJP, winning only 27 years.