2009 Indian general election in West Bengal

2009 Indian general election in West Bengal

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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout	81.42% ( 3.38 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mamata Banerjee Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Tathagata Roy Party AITC CPI(M) BJP Alliance UPA TF NDA Leader since 1998 2000 2002 Leader's seat Kolkata Dakshin Did not contest Kolkata Uttar (lost) Last election 21.04%, 1 seat 41.81%, 40 seats 8.06%, 0 seat Seats won 19 9 1 Seat change 18 17 1 Popular vote 13,321,553 14,144,667 3,513,121 Percentage 31.2% 33.1% 10.16% Alliance seats 26 15 1
Seatwise Result Map of the 2009 general election in West Bengal
Prime Minister before election Manmohan Singh INC Elected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh INC

The Indian general election, 2009 in West Bengal were held for 42 seats with the state going to polls in the last three phases of the general elections. There was pre-poll alliance in the state between the Indian National Congress and the Trinamool Congress against the Left Front. Indian National Congress contested on 14 seats across the state whereas the Trinamool Congress contested on 27 seats^[1] and SUCI(C) contested one seat. The alliance was largely successful as the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the SUCI(C) won 19, 6 and 1 seat respectively, dislodging the Left Front, which won only 15 seats out of 42.