Bengal results: Mamata Banerjee loses to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari in Bhabanipur

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday lost to Bharatiya Janata Party’s Suvendu Adhikari in the Bhabanipur constituency in the 2026 Assembly elections.

Banerjee lost by more than 15,000 votes, according to Election Commission data. She was briefly leading earlier in the day.

Adhikari also won in Nandigram against Trinamool Congress’ Pabitra Kar by more than 9,600 votes.

Nandigram was the high-profile contest between Banerjee and Adhikari in the 2021 Assembly elections as well, when the two faced each other directly and the BJP leader had defeated her.

Following that loss, the chief minister had been elected to the Assembly through a bye-election victory in Bhabanipur later that year. Banerjee had represented the seat since 2011, barring that brief interval in 2021.

Adhikari, once a close aide of Banerjee, had joined the BJP in 2020 and is currently the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly.

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Both seats have also been under scrutiny in discussions around electoral roll revisions. Analyses by Sabar Institute, a Kolkata-based research organisation, have highlighted significant patterns in deletion of Muslims during the special intensive revision process.

In Nandigram, although Muslims make up only 25% of the population, they accounted for 95.5% of the deletions in seven supplementary lists released by the Election Commission.

In Bhabanipur, more than 40% of the...

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