2019 Indian general election in West Bengal


The 2019 Indian general election were held in India between April and May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. The Bharatiya Janata Party made major inroads into the state by winning nearly half the seats, which has been termed a "paradigm shift" in the state's political narrative.

Party-wise Result

PartyAITCBJPINCCPI
Party
LeaderMamata Banerjee Dilip GhoshSomen MitraSurya Kanta Mishra
Leader
Votes43.69%, 24,757,34540.64%, 23,028,5175.67%, 3,210,4916.34%, 3,594,283
Votes
Seats22 18 2 0
Seats

Impact

There has been a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 general elections in West Bengal. The Statesman says, “Making an aggressive penetration in Bengal for the first time since its inception in 1980, BJP alone has dramatically increased its vote share close to 40 percent this time. Thus, it has virtually made the CPI-M into a mere marginalised political party and at the same time the saffron party set a strong challenge before the Trinamool Congress hardly two years ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled in 2021 in the state.” This obviously is the most important impact of the general elections in the state visible in the voting pattern right across the state, irrespective of who won or lost a particular seat.

Surveys and Polls

Vote share

Seat projections

Candidates

Trinamool Congress

On 12 March 2019, party president Mamata Banerjee announced the party candidates for the election. 41% of the candidates were women. Notable exclusions from the list were the party's general secretary Subrata Bakshi and Sugata Bose. Bose did not get permission from Harvard University, where he is a professor, to contest the election. Notable inclusions were Bengali actresses Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan.

Left Front

Indian National Congress

Bharatiya Janata Party

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

NOTE:-Bjp lost 30 Ac by below 6000 margin and 42 Ac by below 10000 margin.

Constituency-wise Results