The

2019 Indian general election General elections were held in India in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to elect the members of the 17th Lok Sabha. Votes were counted and the result was declared on 23 May. Around 912 million people were eligible to vote, and voter ...

were held in

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between April and May 2019 to constitute the

17th Lok Sabha The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election. Elections, all across India, were conducted in seven phases from 11 April 2019 to 19 May 2019 by the Election Commission of India. Counting started offi ...

.Election results 2019: Bengal votes for the BJP, breaks many stereotypes
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Surveys and Polls

Vote share

Seat projections

Candidates

Trinamool Congress

On 12 March 2019, party president

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announced the party candidates for the election. 41% of the candidates were women. Notable exclusions from the list were the party's general secretary

Subrata Bakshi Subrata Bakshi (born 23 July 1950) is an Indian politician who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from West Bengal. He is the General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress and State President of West Bengal Trinamool Congr ...

and

Sugata Bose Sugata Bose (born 7 September 1956) is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose taught at Tufts University until 2 ...

. Bose did not get permission from

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, where he is a professor, to contest the election. Notable inclusions were Bengali actresses

Mimi Chakraborty Mimi Chakraborty (born 11 February 1989) is an Indian actress, singer and politician. She is known for her work in Bengali cinema and television. Her debut film was Bapi Bari Jaa in which she played the female lead, Dola. She was listed as ...

and

Nusrat Jahan Nusrat Jahan Ruhi (born 8 January 1990) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Bengali cinema. In 2019, Jahan became actively involved in politics and was elected as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Basirhat constituency as a Tri ...

List of candidates

Party-wise Result

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from All India Trinamool Congress to Bharatiya Janata Party

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* Alipurduars * Balurghat *

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* Barrackpore * Bishnupur *

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* Hooghly *

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Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Indian National Congress to All India Trinamool Congress

* Jangipur

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Indian National Congress to Bharatiya Janata Party

* Maldaha Uttar

Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Communist Party of India Marxist to Bharatiya Janata Party

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Lok Sabha seats that flipped from Communist Party of India Marxist to All India Trinamool Congress

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Constituency-wise Results

Alipurduars

Arambagh

Asansol

Baharampur

Balurghat

Bangaon

Bankura

Barasat

Bardhaman West

Bardhaman-Durgapur

Barrackpore

Basirhat

Birbhum

Bishnupur

Bolpur

Cooch Behar

Darjeeling

Diamond Harbour

Dum Dum

Ghatal

Hooghly

Howrah

Jadavpur

Jalpaiguri

Jangipur

Jaynagar

Jhargram

Kanthi

Kolkata Dakshin

Kolkata Uttar

Krishnanagar

Maldaha Dakshin

Maldaha Uttar

Mathurapur

Medinipur

Murshidabad

Purulia

Raiganj

Ranaghat

Sreerampur

Tamluk

Uluberia

Impact

There has been a major political shift from the left to the right in the 2019 general elections in West Bengal. ''The Statesman'' says, “Making an aggressive penetration in Bengal for the first time since its inception in 1980, BJP alone has dramatically increased its vote share close to 40 percent this time. Thus, it has virtually made the CPI-M into a mere marginalised political party and at the same time the saffron party set a strong challenge before the Trinamool Congress hardly two years ahead of the Assembly elections scheduled in

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in the state.” This obviously is the most important impact of the general elections in the state visible in the voting pattern right across the state, irrespective of who won or lost a particular seat.

Analysis

Assembly segments wise lead of Parties

Postal Ballot wise lead of Parties

TMC won 3 out of 3 assembly seats in the next assembly by-elections in November 2019. Even the seat of State BJP president Dilip Ghosh which fell vacant due to Dilip Ghosh's win in Loksabha election, Kharagpur Sadar was won by TMC by a lead of 22,000 votes. TMC was trailing in that seat by 158,000 votes in 2019 general elections.

Region-Wise Results

References

External links

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