2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election information
Indian state election
2011 West Bengal state general election
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18 April 2011 (2011-04-18) – 10 May 2011 (2011-05-10)
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All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly 148 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout
84.33% ( 2.36 pp)
Majority party
Minority party
Third party
Leader
Mamata Banerjee
Manas Bhunia
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Party
AITC
INC
CPI(M)
Alliance
UPA
UPA
LF
Leader since
1998
2008
2000
Leader's seat
Bhabanipur (By-elected)[1]
Sabang (Won)
Jadavpur (Lost)
Last election
26.64%, 30 seats
14.71%, 21 seats
37.13%, 176 seats
Seats before
30
21
176
Seats won
184
42
40
Seat change
154
21
136
Popular vote
18,547,678
4,330,580
14,330,061
Percentage
38.93%
9.09%
30.08%
Swing
12.29 pp
5.62 pp
7.05 pp
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]
^ ab"Constituency Wise Result Status". Eciresults.ap.nic.in. 14 May 2011. Archived from the original on 16 May 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
^"Chief Minister-in-waiting". Economictimes.indiatimes.com. 14 May 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
^"Assembly Election Schedule 2011" (PDF). Retrieved 16 October 2011.
^"Result | Home". results.eci.gov.in.
^"India: Mamata Banerjee routs communists in West Bengal". BBC News. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
^Bose, Sumantra. "End of an era in Bengal". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
^"West Bengal expects a Communist rout this week". Riding the Elephant. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
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