Assembly poll results: Change of guard in three Opposition-ruled states, BJP retains Assam

Three Opposition chief ministers on Monday lost power as the Trinamool Congress was defeated by the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal, the Left Democratic Front by the Congress-led alliance in Kerala and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by actor-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam.

The votes in Assembly elections held in four states – West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu – and the Union Territory of Puducherry were counted on Monday. The polls were held in several phases in April.

Here is a short summary of the results:

West Bengal

The BJP won 206 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, ending a 15-year rule of the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC.

A party or an alliance needs 148 seats in the Assembly to secure a majority. The TMC had won 80 seats and was leading in one constituency, data from the Election Commission showed at 8.30 am on Tuesday.

The Congress and former minister Humayun Kabir’s Aam Janata Unnayan Party won two seats each. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the All India Secular Front secured one win each.

Banerjee lost to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari by more than 15,000 votes in the Bhabanipur constituency. Adhikari had defeated Banerjee in Nandigram seat in the 2021 polls, after which the TMC chief had been elected to the Assembly from Bhabanipur...

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