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West Bengal Assembly, 1951 → 2026: BJP gained +208 seats, INC lost +113
BJP finished 2026 on 208 of 294 seats (45.9% vote share). The largest shift was BJP at +208 seats on a +45.9% vote-share move. The house changed size (187 → 294 seats), so seat-level flips aren't 1:1 comparable.
- BJP seats
- 0 → 208
- AITC seats
- 0 → 80
- Seats that flipped
- —
- BJP vote share
- 0.0% → 45.9%
+45.9% share
+40.7% share
house resized
+45.9%
Who held the house · 1951
187 seats- INC11561%
- CPI2312%
- IND1910%
- 1.Datasets: West Bengal Assembly Election, 1951 and West Bengal Assembly Election, 2026. Seats matched by constituency name.
- 2.Seats: count of constituencies won by each party in each year.
- 3.Vote share: party votes ÷ all valid votes, per year.
- 4.Deltas are simple year-over-year differences.
Data & method
- Data source
- DataMeet · india-election-data (mirror of ECI) · thecont1/india-votes-data (scraped from ECI)
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