West Bengal Lok Sabha election results: Initial trends show TMC leading in 32 seats, BJP in 9

Initial trends in the West Bengal Lok Sabha election results show TMC candidates Abhishek Banerjee, Sayoni Ghosh, Partha Bhowmik and Mahua Moitra leading, among others.

While the TMC’s two-time MP Abhishek Banerjee has a comfortable lead of over 96,000 votes from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency, the party’s Sayoni Ghosh is leading in the Jadavpur constituency with over 20,000 votes. (Representative image)

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) is leading in 32 seats in West Bengal as compared to the BJP, which is leading in nine seats, and the Congress in one, initial trends for the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats showed on Tuesday after three to four rounds of counting.

Among the other TMC candidates who are leading are Partha Bhowmik, who is contesting against BJP’s Arjun Singh in Barrackpore, Mahua Moitra in Krishnanagar, Kalyan Banerjee in Serampore, Sudip Banerjee in Kolkata Uttar and Kakali Ghosh Dastidar in Barasat.

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Among the BJP candidates in the lead are S S Ahluwalia in Asansol, Shantanu Thakur in Bongaon, Saumitra Khan in Bishnupur and Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato in Purulia.

BJP state president Sukanta Majumder in Balurghat, former BJP state president Dilip Ghosh in Bardhaman, minister of state for home Nishith Pramanik in Coochbehar, BJP candidate Manoj Tigga in Alipurduar and BJP candidate in Basirhat, Rekha Patra, are the candidates who are trailing, but with low margins.

Congress candidate Adhir Chowdhury is trailing by around 3,000 votes and cricketer-turned-TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan is leading in Baharampur. Congress candidate Isha Khan Chowdhury is leading in the Malda Dakshin seat.

Ravik Bhattacharya

Ravik Bhattacharya is the Chief of Bureau of The Indian Express, Kolkata. Over 20 years of experience in the media industry and covered politics, crime, major incidents and issues, apart from investigative stories in West Bengal, Odisha, Assam and Andaman Nicobar islands. Ravik won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in 2007 for political reporting. Ravik holds a bachelor degree with English Hons from Scottish Church College under Calcutta University and a PG diploma in mass communication from Jadavpur University. Ravik started his career with The Asian Age and then moved to The Statesman, The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. ... Read More

Atri Mitra

Atri Mitra is a Special Correspondent of The Indian Express with more than 20 years of experience in reporting from West Bengal, Bihar and the North-East. He has been covering administration and political news for more than ten years and has a keen interest in political development in West Bengal. Atri holds a Master degree in Economics from Rabindrabharati University and Bachelor's degree from Calcutta University. He is also an alumnus of St. Xavier's, Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Asrama, Narendrapur. He started his career with leading vernacular daily the Anandabazar Patrika, and worked there for more than fifteen years. He worked as Bihar correspondent for more than three years for Anandabazar Patrika. He covered the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 2010 assembly elections. He also worked with News18-Bangla and covered the Bihar Lok Sabha election in 2019. ... Read More

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