2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

2011 West Bengal state general election
← 2006 18 April 2011 (2011-04-18) – 10 May 2011 (2011-05-10) 2016 →
All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
148 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout84.33% (Increase 2.36 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
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Leader Mamata Banerjee Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Manas Bhunia
Party AITC CPI(M) INC
Alliance UPA LF UPA
Leader since 1998 2000 2008
Leader's seat Bhabanipur (By-elected)[1] Jadavpur
(Lost) 		Sabang (Won)
Last election 26.64%, 30 seats 37.13%, 176 seats 14.71%, 21 seats
Seats before 30 176 21
Seats won 184 40 42
Seat change Increase 154 Decrease 136 Increase 21
Popular vote 18,547,678 14,330,061 4,330,580
Percentage 38.93% 30.08% 9.09%
Swing Increase 12.29 pp Decrease 7.05 pp Decrease 5.62 pp
Seatwise Map of the Election Results
Structure of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after election
Chief Minister before election

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
CPI(M)

Chief Minister after election

Mamata Banerjee[2]
AITC

Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Assembly.[3]

The Trinamool Congress led United Progressive Alliance won an absolute majority of seats in the state in a historic win marking the end of 34-year rule of Left Front, the longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the world, a fact that was noted by international media.[4][5][6][7] Notably, the incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost even his Jadavpur seat to Trinamool's Manish Gupta, which was considered to be an electoral bastion of the CPI(M).[1] Bhattacharjee became the 2nd Chief minister of the state to lose from his own seat, after Congress' Prafulla Chandra Sen's defeat in Arambagh to Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee of Bangla Congress in 1967.

  1. ^ a b "Constituency Wise Result Status". Eciresults.ap.nic.in. 14 May 2011. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Chief Minister-in-waiting". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 14 May 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  3. ^ "Assembly Election Schedule 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  4. ^ "Result | Home". results.eci.gov.in.
  5. ^ "India: Mamata Banerjee routs communists in West Bengal". BBC News. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  6. ^ Bose, Sumantra. "End of an era in Bengal". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. ^ "West Bengal expects a Communist rout this week". Riding the Elephant. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2024.