With counting of votes complete in West Bengal, the results show that the Trinamool Congress has won 22 seats in the state, while the BJP is at its heels with 18 seats. The Congress was able to win only two seats, and the Left did not even bag one.
In 2014, the TMC had won 34 seats out of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats. The Congress had managed to pick up four seats, while the BJP and CPI(M) had won two seats each.
- Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee won in Diamond Harbour seat
- Congress’ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury won Baharampur
- BJP’s Babul Supriyo won in Asansol by 1,97,637 votes
- TMC’s Mala Roy won against Chandra Kumar Bose in Kolkata Dakshin
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WB Election Results: Big Winners and Losers
- BJP's state unit chief Dilip Ghosh won the Medinipur seat by defeating TMC's Manas Ranjan Bhunia with a margin of 88,952 votes.
- Bengali superstar Deepak Adhikari, popularly known as Dev, was re-elected from the Ghatal seat on a Trinamool Congress ticket. He defeated former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh, the BJP candidate, by 1,07,973 votes.
- Khalilur Rahman of Trinamool Congress won the Jangipur seat by a margin of 2,45,782 votes. He defeated BJP's Mafuja Khatun. Interestingly, the sitting MP of the Congress, Abhijit Mukherjee, son of former President Pranab Mukherjee, was relegated to the third spot with 2,55,836 votes.
- Union minister S S Ahluwalia, BJP's sitting MP from Darjeeling who was shifted to the Burdwan-Durgapur seat this time, won the elections by a slender margin of 2,439 votes. He defeated Trinamool Congress's Mamtaz Sanghamita.
- In Darjeeling, Raju Bista of BJP defeated TMC's Amar Singh Rai by a massive margin of 4,13,443 votes.
- Actor Mimi Chakraborty, who was pitched in Jadavpur by Mamata Banerjee against BJP's Anupam Hazra, won by a margin of 2,95,239 votes. She bagged 6,88,472 votes, while Hazra managed 3,93,233.
- In the Kolkata Uttar seat, TMC's sitting MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay defeated BJP's Rahul Sinha by 1,27,095 votes.
- Debasree Chaudhuri of the BJP defeated TMC's Kanaialal Agarwal by 60,574 votes in Raiganj, once a bastion of the Congress.
22 Seats for TMC, BJP Close Behind With 18
Trinamool Congress has won 22 seats in West Bengal, while the BJP has won 18 seats.
The Congress was able to win only two seats. The party's sitting MP from Baharampur in Murshidabad district Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Maldaha South MP Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury managed to retain their respective seats.
TMC's Dinesh Trivedi Loses to BJP's Arjun Singh in Barrackpore
BJP's Arjun Singh wrested the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat from Trinamool Congress's Dinesh Trivedi in a fiercely fought poll battle by a margin of 14,857 votes.
Singh bagged 4,72,994 votes, while Trivedi, the former railway minister, managed to win 4,58,137 votes.
In Bangaon, which has a sizeable number of Matua votes, BJP's Shantanu Thakur defeated Trinamool Congress's Mamata Thakur by a margin of 1,11,594 votes.
BJP's Babul Supriyo Wins in Asansol
BJP’s Babul Supriyo wins from Asansol by 1,97,637 votes.