Not a single Left-Congress MLA for the first time since independence in Bengal

- TMC wins 213 out of 292 seats counted, BJP wins 77 seats

New delhi date. Monday, May 3, 2021

The results of the Bengal elections have come. The Trinamool Congress has returned to power in Bengal for the third time in a row, winning 213 out of 292 seats. The TMC has garnered about 10 per cent more votes than the rival BJP. The TMC got about 48 per cent and the BJP about 38 per cent. The most shocking result of all this was that the Congress, which emerged as the second largest party with 44 seats in the last elections, did not even open an account.

Congress got 2.93 per cent votes but did not get a single seat. The same was true of the Left Front, which contested the elections in alliance with the Congress and Peerzada Abbas Siddiqui's party, the Indian Secular Front. The alliance of the Left Front and the Congress was reduced to zero seats. The two parties, which had been in power in the region for a long time, came together but were ignored by the people of Bengal.

The TMC won 213 of the 292 seats counted in Bengal. The BJP won 77 seats. One independent candidate from the National Secular Majlis Party also won the election but none from the Congress and the Left won.

This is the first time since independence that the Congress and the Left Front have not had a single MLA in the Bengal Legislative Assembly. In the last elections, the Congress won 44 and the CPI-M won 26 assembly seats. The Congress managed to win 42 seats in the 2011 elections when the Left's long rule came to an end.