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All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered | 65,939,006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 83.02% ( 1.31 pp) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Seatwise Result Map of the election | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the Vidhan Sabha in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority. Like in the 2011 election, the poll was held in six phases, with the first phase divided into two days.[1][2] The first phase was held in Naxalite-Maoist affected red corridor areas with two polling dates: 4 April and 11 April. The other phases were held on 17, 21, 25, 30 April and 5 May. The result of the election was declared on 19 May.
In the previous election in 2011, the All India Trinamool Congress in a coalition with INC won a majority and ended the 34-year rule of the Left Front government.
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- ^ "Assembly Election Result 2016, Assembly Election Schedule Candidate List, Assembly Election Opinion/Exit Poll Latest News 2016". infoelections.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.