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2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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FieldValue
election_name2006 West Bengal state assembly election
countryIndia
typeparliamentary
ongoingno
previous_election2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
previous_year2001
next_election2011 West Bengal state assembly election
next_year2011
election_date17 April - 8 May 2006
seats_for_electionAll 294 seats in the West Bengal state assembly
outgoing_members2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election#Elected members
elected_members2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election#Elected members
turnout81.97%
image1
leader1Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
party1Communist Party of India (Marxist)
leader_since12000
leaders_seat1Jadavpur
alliance1LF
last_election136.59%, 143 seats
seats1176
seat_change133
popular_vote114,652,200
percentage137.13%
swing10.54 pp
image2
leader2Mamata Banerjee
party2All India Trinamool Congress
leader_since21998
leaders_seat2Did Not Contest
alliance2National Democratic Alliance (India)
last_election230.66%, 60 seats
seats230
seat_change230
popular_vote210,512,153
percentage226.64%
swing24.02 pp
image3
leader3Pranab Mukherjee
party3Indian National Congress
leader_since32000
leaders_seat3Did not contest
alliance3UPA
last_election37.98%, 26 seats
seats321
seat_change35
popular_vote35,805,398
percentage314.71%
swing36.73 pp
map_imageFile:2006 west bengal assembly election map.svg
map_size300px
titleChief Minister
before_electionBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
before_partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
after_electionBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
after_partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
majority_seats148
registered48,165,156
posttitleChief Minister after election
image3_size71px
map2_imageIndia West Bengal Legislative Assembly 2006.svg
map2_size300px
map2_captionStructure of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after the election
1blankAlliance seats
1data1235
1data231
1data326
2blankSeat change
2data136
2data229
2data33

Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The election took place in five phases between 17 April and 8 May. The votes were counted three days later on May 11, 2006, and thanks to the electronic voting machines, all the results were out by the end of the day.{{cite web |access-date = 2006-05-23 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060523060020/http://www.eci.gov.in/May2006/index_st.htm |archive-date = 2006-05-23 |url-status = dead

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front won the election with an overwhelming majority. The previous government, formed by the Left Front and led by chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, completed its full five-year term in office following its coming to power in 2001. The Left Front had been ruling the state of West Bengal for the last three decades, the world's longest-running democratically elected Communist government.

Election schedule

Poll eventFirst phaseSecond phaseThird phaseFourth phaseFifth phase
Notification Date24 March28 March1 April5 April13 April
Last Date for filing nomination31 March4 April8 April12 April20 April
Scrutiny of nomination1 April5 April10 April13 April21 April
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination3 April7 April12 April17 April24 May
Date of poll17 April22 April27 April3 May8 May
Date of counting of votes11 May
*No. of assembly constituencies*4566775749

Seat Allotment

{{legend2|{{party color|Left Front (West Bengal)}}|[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]]}}

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderContesting Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist)[[File:CPI-M-flag.svg50px]][[File:CPIM election symbol.png50px]]Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
All India Forward Bloc[[File:AIFB Flag 2023.png50px]][[File:Indian Election Symbol Lion.svg50px]]Debabrata Biswas
Revolutionary Socialist Party[[File:RSP-flag.svg50px]][[File:Indian Election Symbol Spade and Stoker.png50px]]Kshiti Goswami
Communist Party of India[[File:CPI-banner.svg50px]][[File:CPI symbol.svg50px]]Swapan Banerjee
West Bengal Socialist Party[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]Kiranmoy Nanda
Nationalist Congress Party[[File:NCP-flag.svg50px]][[File:Clock symbol of NCP.png50px]]P. A. Sangma
Rashtriya Janata Dal[[File:RJD Flag.svg50px]][[File:Indian Election Symbol Hurricane Lamp.png50px]]Lalu Prasad Yadav
Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)[[File:DSP-flag.svg50px]]Prabodh Chandra Sinha
Marxist Forward Bloc[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]Pratim Chatterjee
The parties which were contested under CPI(M) Ticket
Biplobi Bangla Congress[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]][[File:CPIM election symbol.png50px]]
Revolutionary Communist Party of IndiaRasik Bhatt1

{{legend2|{{party color|National Democratic Alliance}}|[[National Democratic Alliance]]}}

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderContesting Seats
All India Trinamool Congress[[File:All India Trinamool Congress flag (2).svg50px]][[File:All India Trinamool Congress symbol 2021.svg50px]]Mamata Banerjee
Bharatiya Janata Party[[File:BJP flag.svg50px]][[File:Lotus flower symbol.svg50px]]Rahul Sinha
Janata Dal (United)[[File:JanataDalUnitedFlag.PNG50px]][[File:Indian Election Symbol Arrow.svg50px]]Nitish Kumar
Jharkhand Party (Naren)[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]Chunibala Hansda
Independents[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]

{{legend2|{{party color|United Progressive Alliance}}|[[United Progressive Alliance]]}}

PartyFlagSymbolLeaderContesting Seats
Indian National Congress[[File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg50px]][[File:Hand INC.svg50px]]Pranab Mukherjee
Lok Janshakti Party[[File:Lok Janshakti Party Flag.svg50px]]Ram Vilas Paswan
Party for Democratic Socialism[[File:Pds flag.jpg50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]Saifuddin Choudhury
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha[[File:Jharkhand Mukti Morcha flag.svg50px]][[File:Indian Election Symbol Bow And Arrow.svg50px]]Shibu Soren
Gorkha National Liberation Front[[File:Flag of Gurkhaland.svg50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]
Indian People's Forward Bloc[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]
Republican Party of India (Athawale)[[File:Flag of various Republican Parties of India.svg50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]Ramdas Athawale
Independents[[File:Blank.svg50x50px]][[File:Blank.svg50x50px]]

Results

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front won a landslide victory by winning a total of 235 seats

Source: Indian elections

Alliance wise result

LFSEATS%NDASEATS%UPASEATS%
CPIM17637.13AITC3026.63INC21
AIFB235.66JKP(N)10.26GNLF3
RSP203.71BJP01.93IND(INC)2
CPI81.91JD(U)00.10JMM0
WBSP40.71LJP0
RJD10.08PDS0
DSP(PC)10.36BSP0
NCP00.19IPFB0
TOTAL (2006)23549.72TOTAL (2006)3128.91TOTAL (2006)26
TOTAL (2001)196TOTAL (2001)60TOTAL (2001)29

Party wise result

PartyCandidates ContestedSeats Won
Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}"Communist Party of India (Marxist)212
Indian National Congress}}"Indian National Congress262
Communist Party of India}}"Communist Party of India13
Bahujan Samaj Party}}"Bahujan Samaj Party128
Bharatiya Janata Party}}"Bharatiya Janata Party29
Nationalist Congress Party}}"Nationalist Congress Party2
All India Trinamool Congress}}"All India Trinamool Congress257
All India Forward Bloc}}"All India Forward Bloc34
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}"Revolutionary Socialist Party23
Samajwadi Party }}"Samajwadi Party32
Rashtriya Janata Dal}}"Rashtriya Janata Dal2
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation}}"Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation25
Lok Jan Shakti Party}}"Lok Jan Shakti Party8
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha}}"Jharkhand Mukti Morcha7
Janata Dal (Secular)}}"Janata Dal (Secular)6
Indian Union Muslim League}}"Indian Union Muslim League6
Shiv Sena }}"Shiv Sena3
Janata Dal (United)}}"Janata Dal (United)2
West Bengal Socialist Party }}"West Bengal Socialist Party4
Gorkha National Liberation Front}}"Gorkha National Liberation Front5
Jharkhand Party (Naren)4
Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)2
Amra Bangalee22
Party for Democratic Socialism12
Jharkhand Disom Party10
Indian Justice Party6
Indian People's Forward Bloc3
Paschim Banga Rajya Muslim League2
Samajtantric Party of India2
Jana Unnayan Mancha1
Social Justice Party1
Shoshit Samaj Party1
Republican Party of India (Athvale)1
Rashtriya Samadhaan Party1
Independent526

Total Number of constituencies : 294

Results declared : 294

Total contestants : 1654

Elected members

ConstituencyReserved for
(SC/ST/None)MemberParty
MekliganjSCParesh Chandra Adhikary
SitalkuchiSCHarish Chandra Barman
MathabhangaSCAnanta Roy
Cooch Behar NorthNoneDipak Chandra Sarkar
Cooch Behar WestNoneAkshay Thakur
SitaiNoneDr. Mohammad Fazle Haque
DinhataNoneAshok Mandal
NatabariNoneTamser Ali
TufanganjSCAlaka Barman
KumargramSTDasrath Tirkey
KalchiniSTManohar Tirkey
AlipurduarsNoneNirmal Das
FalakataSCJogesh Ch. Barman
MadarihatSTKumari Kujur
DhupguriSCLakshmi Kanta Roy
NagrakataSTSukhmoith (piting) Oraon
MainaguriSCBachchamohan Roy
MalSTSomra Lakra
KrantiNoneFazlul Karim
JalpaiguriNoneDeba Prasad Roy
RajganjSCMahendra Kumar Roy
KalimpongNoneGaulan Lepcha
DarjeelingNonePranay Rai
KurseongNoneShanta Chhetri
SiliguriNoneAsok Bhattacharya
PhansidewaSTKisku Chhotan
ChopraNoneAnwarul Haque
IslampurNoneMd. Faruque
GoalpokharNoneDeepa Dasmunsi
KarandighiNoneGokul Roy
RaiganjSCChitta Ranjan Ray
KaliaganjSCNani Gopal Roy
KushmandiSCNarmada Chandra Roy
ItaharNoneSrikumar Mukherjee
GangarampurNoneNarayan Biswas
TapanSTKhara Soren
KumarganjNoneMafuja Khatun
BalurghatNoneBiswanath Choudhury
HabibpurSTKhagen Murmu
GajolSTSadhu Tudu
KharbaNoneMahabubul Haque(badal)
HarishchandrapurNoneTajmul Hossain
RatuaNoneSailen Sarkar
AraidangaNoneSabitri Mitra
MaldaSCSubhendu Chowdhury
EnglishbazarNoneKrishnendu Narayan Choudhury
ManikchakNoneAsima Chowdhuri
SuzapurNoneRubi Noor
KaliachakNoneBiswanath Ghosh
FarakkaNoneMainul Haque
AurangabadNoneTouab Ali
SutiNoneJane Alam Mian
SagardighiSCParikshit Let
JangipurNoneAbul Hasnat
LalgolaNoneAbu Hena
BhagabangolaNoneChand Mohammad
NabagramNoneMukul Mondal
MurshidabadNoneBivas Chakraborty
JalangiNoneUnus Sarkar
DomkalNoneAnisur Rahaman
NaodaNoneAbu Taher Khan
HariharparaNoneInsar Ali Biswas
BerhamporeNoneManoj Chakraborty
BeldangaNoneRefatullah Md.
KandiNoneApurba Sarkar (david)
KhargramSCManabendranath Saha
BarwanNoneBiswa Nath Banerjee
BharatpurNoneId Mohammad
KarimpurNonePrafulla Kumar Bhowmick
PalashiparaNoneBiswanath Ghosh
NakashiparaNoneKallol Khan
KaliganjNoneDhananjoy Modak
ChapraNoneShamsul Islam Mollah
KrishnaganjSCBinay Krishna Biswas
Krishnagar EastNoneGhosh Subinay (bhajan)
Krishnagar WestNoneAsoke Banerjee
NabadwipNonePundarikakshya Saha
SantipurNoneAjoy Dey
HanskhaliSCNayan Sarkar
Ranaghat EastSCDebendra Nath Biswas
Ranaghat WestNoneAloke Kumar Das
ChakdahaNoneMalay Kumar Samanta
HaringhataNoneBankim Chandra Ghosh
BagdahaSCDulal Bar
BongaonNoneBhupendra Nath Seth
GaighataNoneJyoti Priya Mallick
HabraNonePranab Kumar Bhattacharyya
AshokenagarNoneSatyasebi Kar
AmdangaNoneAbdus Sattar
BarasatNoneDr. Bithika Mondal
RajarhatSCRabindranath Mondal
DegangaNoneDr. Mortoza Hossain
SwarupnagarNoneMostafa Bin Quasem
BaduriaNoneMd. Shelim Gain
BasirhatNoneNarayan Mukherjee
HasnabadNoneGoutam Deb
HaroaSCAsim Kumar Das
SandeshkhaliSCAbani Roy
HingalganjSCGopal Gayen
GosabaSCChitta Ranjan Mandal
BasantiSCSubhas Naskar
KultaliSCJoykrishna Halder
JoynagarNoneDebaprasad Sarkar
BaruipurNoneRahul Ghosh
Canning WestSCDwijapada Mondol
Canning EastNoneAbdur Razzak Molla
BhangarNoneArabul Islam
JadavpurNoneBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
SonarpurSCShyamal Naskar
Bishnupur EastSCAnanda Kumar Biswas
Bishnupur WestNoneRathin Sarkar
Behala EastNoneKumkum Chakraborti
Behala WestNonePartha Chatterjee
Garden ReachNoneAbdul Khaleque Molla
MaheshtalaNoneMursalin Molla
Budge BudgeNoneAshok Kumar Deb
SatgachiaNoneSonali Guha (bose)
FaltaNoneChandana Ghoshdostidar
Diamond HarbourNoneRishi Halder
Magrahat WestNoneDr.abul Hasnat
Magrahat EastSCBansari Mohan Kanji
MandirbazarSCDr. Tapati Saha
MathurapurNoneKanti Ganguly
KulpiSCSakuntala Paik
PatharpratimaNoneJajneswar Das
KakdwipNoneAshok Giri
SagarNoneMilan Parua
BijpurNoneDr. Nirjharini Chakrabarty
NaihatiNoneRanjit Kundu
BhatparaNoneArjun Sing
JagatdalNoneHaripada Biswas
NoaparaNoneKusadhwaj Ghosh
TitagarhNoneDr. Pravin Kumar
KhardahNoneAsim Kumar Dasgupta
PanihatiNoneGopal Krishna Bhattacharyya
KamarhatiNoneManash Mukherjee
BaranagarNoneAmar Chowdhury
Dum DumNoneRekha Goswami
Belgachia EastNoneSubhas Chakraborti
CossipurNoneBandyopadhyay Tarak
ShyampukurNoneJiban Prakash Saha
JorabaganNoneParimal Biswas
JorasankoNoneDinesh Bajaj
Bara BazarNoneMd. Sohrab
Bow BazarNoneSudip Bandyopadhyay
ChowringheeNoneSubrata Bakshi
KabitirthaNoneRam Pyare Ram
AliporeNoneTapas Paul
Rashbehari AvenueNoneSobhandeb Chattopadhyay
TollygungeNoneAroop Biswas
DhakuriaNoneKshiti Goswami
BallygungeNoneAhmed Javed Khan
EntallyNoneHashim Abdul Halim
TaltolaSCDebesh Das
BeliaghataNoneManabendra Mukherjee
SealdahNoneSomendra Nath Mitra
VidyasagarNoneAnadi Kumar Sahu
BurtolaNoneSadhan Pande
ManicktolaNoneRupa Bagchi
Belgachia WestNoneMala Saha
BallyNoneKanika Ganguly
Howrah NorthNoneLagan Deo Singh
Howrah CentralNoneArup Ray (tukun)
Howrah SouthNoneKrishna Kisor Ray (k.k.ray)
ShibpurNoneDr. Jagannath Bhattacharyya
DomjurNoneMohanta Chatterjee
JagatballavpurNoneBiplab Majumdar
PanchlaNoneDoli Roy
SankrailSCSital Kumar Sardar
Uluberia NorthSCMohan Mondal
Uluberia SouthNoneRabindra Ghosh
ShyampurNoneKali Pada Mandal
BagnanNoneAkkel Ali Khan
KalyanpurNoneRabindra Nath Mitra
AmtaNonePratyush Mukherjee
UdaynarayanpurNoneChandra Lekha Bag
JangiparaNoneSudarsan Raychaudhuri
ChanditalaNoneBhaktaram Pan
UttarparaNoneProf. Dr. Srutinath Praharaj
SeramporeNoneDr. Ratna De (nag)
ChampdaniNoneJibesh Chakraborty
ChandernagoreNoneSibaprosad (ratan) Bandyopadhyay
SingurNoneRabindranath Bhattacharjee
HaripalNoneBharati Mukherjee
TarakeswarNonePratim Chatterjee
ChinsurahNoneNaren Dey
BansberiaNoneAshutosh Mukhopadhyay
BalagarhSCDibakanta Routh
PanduaNoneSekh Majed Ali
PolbaNoneShaktipada Khanra
DhaniakhaliSCAjit Patra
PursurahNoneSaumendranath Bera
KhanakulSCBanshi Badan Maitra
ArambaghNoneBinoy Datta
GoghatSCNiranjan Pandit
ChandrakonaNoneGurupada Dutta
GhatalSCRatan Pakhira
DaspurNoneSunil Adhikari
NandanpurNoneChowdhury Chakraborty Bula
Panskura WestNoneChittaranjan Dasthakur
Panskura EastNoneAmiya Kumar Sahoo
TamlukNoneMitra Jagannath
MoynaNoneSk. Mujibur Rahman
MahishadalNoneTamalika Panda Seth
SutahataSCNityananda Bera
NandigramNoneSheikh Mohammad Illias
NarghatNoneNanda Brahmamay
BhagabanpurNoneArdhendu Maity
KhajuriSCSwadesh Patra
Contai NorthNoneChakradhar Maikap
Contai SouthNoneSuvendu Adhikari
RamnagarNoneSwadesh Ranjan Nayak
EgraNoneAdhikari Sisir Kumar
MugberiaNoneKiranmay Nanda
PataspurNoneKamakhyanandan Dasmahapatra
SabangNoneManas Ranjan Bhunia
PinglaNoneRampada Samanta
DebraNoneSheikh Jahangir Karim
KeshpurSCRameswar Doloi
Garhbeta EastNoneSusanta Ghosh
Garhbeta WestSCKrishna Prasad Duley
SalbaniNoneKhagendra Nath Mahata
MidnaporeNoneSantosh Rana
Kharagpur TownNoneGyan Singh Sohanpal
Kharagpur RuralNoneSheikh Najmul Haque
KeshiariSTMaheswar Murmu
NarayangarhNoneSurjya Kanta Mishra
DantanNoneNanda Gopal Battacharjee
NayagramSTBhutnath Saren
GopiballavpurNoneRabi Lal Maitra
JhargramNoneAmar Basu
BinpurSTChunibala Hansda
BanduanSTUpendra Nath Hansda
ManbazarNoneSamya Pyari Mahato
BalrampurSTBhandu Majhi
ArsaNonePrabhat Mahato
JhaldaNoneNepal Mahata
JaipurNoneBindeswar Mahato
PuruliaNoneNikhil Mukherjee
ParaSCBilasibala Sahis .
RaghunathpurSCUma Rani Bouri
KashipurSTRabindra Nath Hembram
HuraNoneSubhas Chandra Mahata
TaldangraNoneManoranjan Patra
RaipurSTUpen Kisku
RanibandhSTDeblina Hembram
IndpurSCIndrajit Tangi
ChhatnaNoneAnath Bandhu Mondal
GangajalghatiSCAngad Bauri
BarjoraNoneSusmita Biswas
BankuraNonePartha De
OndaNoneTarapada Chakrabarti
VishnupurNoneSwapan Ghosh
KotulpurNoneKalpana Koley
IndasSCMahadeb Patra
SonamukhiSCNiresh Bagdi
KultiNoneUjjal Chatterjee
BarabaniNoneDilip Sarkar
HirapurNoneAmitava Mukhopadhyay
AsansolNonePrativaranjan Mukherjee
RaniganjNoneHaradhan Jha
JamuriaNoneDhirajlal Hazra
UkhraSCMadan Bauri
Durgapur-iNoneMrinal Banerjee
Durgapur-iiNoneBiprendu Kumar Chakraborty
KanksaSCAnkure Saresh
AusgramSCKartick Chandra Bag
BhatarNoneSayed Md. Masih
GalsiNoneMehbub Mondal
Burdwan NorthNonePradip Tah
Burdwan SouthNoneNirupam Sen
KhandaghoshSCPrasanta Majhi
RainaNoneSwapan Samanta
JamalpurSCSamar Hazra
MemariNoneSandhya Bhattacharya
KalnaNoneAnjali Mondal
NadanghatNoneSwapan Debnath
ManteswarNoneChaudhuri Md. Hedayatullah
PurbasthaliNoneSubrata Bhowal
KatwaNoneChatterjee Rabindranath
MangalkotNoneSadhana Mallik
KetugramSCTamal Chandra Majhi
NanurSCJoydeb Hazra
BolpurNoneTapan Hore
LabhpurNoneNabanita Mukherjee
DubrajpurNoneGhosh Bhakti Pada
RajnagarSCBijoy Bagdi
SuriNoneTapan Roy
Mahammad BazarNoneDhiren Bagdi
MayureswarSCBagdi Sadhucharan
RampurhatNoneAsish Banerjee
HansanSCAsit Kumar Mal
NalhatiNoneDipak Chatterjee
MuraraiNoneDr. Mohammad Qamre Elahi

Notes

References

References

  1. (12 May 2011). "Communists routed in West Bengal". BBC News.
  2. "West Bengal Election Result, West Bengal Assembly Election 2006 Results, West Bengal State Assembly Elections, India Assembly Elections, State Assembly Elections, Indian Assembly Election 2006".
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