West Bengal state assembly election, 2006
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The West Bengal state assembly election of 2006, part of a series of state assembly elections in 2006
, was scheduled to occur in five phases. The election took place in the following manner — for 45 assembly constituency (AC)s occurred on April 17, 2006; 66 ACs on April 22, 77 ACs on April 27, 57 ACs on May 3,and 49 ACs on May 8, 2006. 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.
Total number of ACs in the state is 294. Elections were held for all 294 constituencies. Total electors numbering 48,165,156 voted in 53,293 polling stations. The electoral turnout was 81.92% of possible voters.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)
-led Left Front
won the election. The previous government, formed by the Left Front
and led by chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya, completed its full five-year term in office following its coming to power in 2001. The Left Front has been ruling the state of West Bengal for the last three decades, the world's longest-running democratically-elected Communist government.
! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
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| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| align="right" | 212
| align="right" | 176
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| Indian National Congress
| align="right" | 262
| align="right" | 21
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| Communist Party of India
| align="right" | 13
| align="right" | 8
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| Bahujan Samaj Party
| align="right" | 128
| align="right" | 0
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| Bharatiya Janata Party
| align="right" | 29
| align="right" | 0
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| Nationalist Congress Party
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
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| All India Trinamool Congress
| align="right" | 257
| align="right" | 30
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| All India Forward Bloc
| align="right" | 34
| align="right" | 23
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| Revolutionary Socialist Party
| align="right" | 23
| align="right" | 20
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| Samajwadi Party
| align="right" | 32
| align="right" | 0
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| Rashtriya Janata Dal
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 1
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| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
| align="right" | 25
| align="right" | 0
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| Lok Jan Shakti Party
| align="right" |8
| align="right" | 0
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| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
| align="right" | 7
| align="right" | 0
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| Janata Dal (Secular)
| align="right" | 6
| align="right" | 0
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| Indian Union Muslim League
| align="right" | 6
| align="right" | 0
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| Shiv Sena
| align="right" | 3
| align="right" | 0
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| Janata Dal (United)
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
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| West Bengal Socialist Party
| align="right" | 4
| align="right" | 4
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| Gorkha National Liberation Front
| align="right" | 5
| align="right" | 3
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| Jharkhand Party (Naren)
| align="right" | 4
| align="right" | 1
|-
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| Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 1
|-
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| Amra Bangalee
| align="right" | 22
| align="right" | 0
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| Party for Democratic Socialism
| align="right" | 12
| align="right" | 0
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| Jharkhand Disom Party
| align="right" | 10
| align="right" | 0
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| Indian Justice Party
| align="right" | 6
| align="right" | 0
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| Indian People's Forward Bloc
| align="right" | 3
| align="right" | 0
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| Paschim Banga Rajya Muslim League
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
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| Samajtantric Party of India
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
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| Jana Unnayan Mancha
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
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| Social Justice Party
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
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| Shoshit Samaj Party
| align="right" |1
| align="right" | 0
|-
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| Republican Party of India (Athvale)
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
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| Rashtriya Samadhaan Party
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
|-
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| Independent
| align="right" | 526
| align="right" | 6
|}
Total Number of constituencies : 294
Results declared : 294
Total contestants : 1654
State Assembly elections in India, 2006
The State Assembly elections in India of 2006 took place between April 3, 2006 and May 8, 2006. The Indian states that went into poll are Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Pondicherry....
, was scheduled to occur in five phases. The election took place in the following manner — for 45 assembly constituency (AC)s occurred on April 17, 2006; 66 ACs on April 22, 77 ACs on April 27, 57 ACs on May 3,and 49 ACs on May 8, 2006. The votes were counted three days later on May 11, 2006 and, thanks to the electronic voting machines
Indian voting machines
Electronic Voting Machines are beingused in Indian General and State Elections to implement electronic voting in part from 1999 elections and in total since 2002 elections...
, all the results were out by the end of the day.
Total number of ACs in the state is 294. Elections were held for all 294 constituencies. Total electors numbering 48,165,156 voted in 53,293 polling stations. The electoral turnout was 81.92% of possible voters.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
-led Left Front
Left Front
The Left Front is an alliance of Indian leftist parties. After a 34-year reign in West Bengal, the Left Front was swept from power in the 2011 election...
won the election. The previous government, formed by the Left Front
Left Front
The Left Front is an alliance of Indian leftist parties. After a 34-year reign in West Bengal, the Left Front was swept from power in the 2011 election...
and led by chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya, completed its full five-year term in office following its coming to power in 2001. The Left Front has been ruling the state of West Bengal for the last three decades, the world's longest-running democratically-elected Communist government.
Alliance wise result
| LF | SEATS | TC+ | SEATS | INC+ | SEATS | OTHERS | SEATS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of... |
175 | TC All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition... |
30 | INC Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian... |
21 -2 (by-polls) | IND Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... |
6 |
| AIFB All India Forward Bloc The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India... |
23 | JKP(N) | 1 | GNLF Gorkha National Liberation Front Gorkha National Liberation Front is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India... |
3 | ||
| RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok... |
20 | BJP Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament... |
0 | IPFB Indian People's Forward Bloc Indian People's Forward Bloc is a political party in West Bengal, India. The party emerged through a split in the All India Forward Bloc. The party is led by Jayanta Roy, former AIFB Rajya Sabha member, and Chhaya Ghosh, former West Bengal Minister of Agriculture. Ahead of the 2006 legislative... |
0 | ||
| CPI Communist Party of India The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925... |
9 | JD(U) Janata Dal (United) Janata Dal is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand. Janta Dal party mentor and patron is "Veteran Socialist leader" George Fernandes; George Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994. Presently it is led... |
0 | JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a state political party in the state Jharkhand, India. It has a strength of 2 in the 15th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of JMM... |
0 | ||
| WBSP West Bengal Socialist Party West Bengal Socialist Party was a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WBSP was formed when the Bengali socialists in the then Janata Party split in the beginning of the 1980s . WBSP was a part of Left Front... |
4 | LJP Lok Janshakti Party The Lok Jan Shakti Party is a state political party in the state Bihar , India. It is led by Ram Vilas Paswan. The party was formed in 2000 when Paswan split from Janata Dal . The party has considerable following amongst Dalits in Bihar. The 2004 Lok Sabha elections marked a major break-through for... |
0 | ||||
| RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal The Rashtriya Janata Dal is a political party in India, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. The party came about as a result of Lalu Prasad Yadav, ex-president of Janata Dal, being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the then president, on corruption charges ... |
1 | PDS Party of Democratic Socialism (India) The Party of Democratic Socialism is a political party in West Bengal in India. The PDS was founded in February 2001 by former Communist Party of India leader Saifuddin Choudhury... |
0 | ||||
| DSP(P) Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra) Democratic Socialist Party is a social democratic political party in India. The party was formed in 1981 when H.N Bahuguna came out of the then Janata Party and took the lead in forming it.The party is almost completely limited to West Bengal. The party was formed when the Bengali socialists, who... |
1 | SHSP | 0 | ||||
| NCP Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party is a centre to centre left political party primarily based in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Background:... |
0 | RPI(A) Republican Party of India (Athvale) The Republican Party of India is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India. The president of the party is Ramdas Athvale.... |
0 | ||||
| TOTAL (2006) | 233 | TOTAL (2006) | 30 | TOTAL (2006) | 24 | TOTAL (2006) | 6 |
| TOTAL (2001) | n/a | TOTAL (2001) | n/a | TOTAL (2001) | n/a | TOTAL (2001) | n/a |
Party wise result
|! align="center" | Party
! align="center" | Seats Contested
! align="center" | Seats Won
|-
|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
| align="right" | 212
| align="right" | 176
|-
|
| Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
| align="right" | 262
| align="right" | 21
|-
|
| Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India
The Communist Party of India is a national political party in India. In the Indian communist movement, there are different views on exactly when the Indian communist party was founded. The date maintained as the foundation day by CPI is 26 December 1925...
| align="right" | 13
| align="right" | 8
|-
|
Bahujan Samaj Party
The Bahujan Samaj Party is a centrist national political party in India with socialist leanings. It was formed to chiefly represent Bahujans , referring to people from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes as well as Buddhists. The party claims to be inspired by the...
| align="right" | 128
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Bharatiya Janata Party
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party ,; translation: Indian People's Party) is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Indian National Congress. Established in 1980, it is India's second largest political party in terms of representation in the parliament...
| align="right" | 29
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Nationalist Congress Party
Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party is a centre to centre left political party primarily based in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Background:...
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| All India Trinamool Congress
All India Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress is a state political party in West Bengal. Founded in 1 January 1998, the party is led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Trinamool Congress is currently the second largest member of the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition...
| align="right" | 257
| align="right" | 30
|-
|
| All India Forward Bloc
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India...
| align="right" | 34
| align="right" | 23
|-
|
| Revolutionary Socialist Party
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...
| align="right" | 23
| align="right" | 20
|-
|
| Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party
Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...
| align="right" | 32
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Rashtriya Janata Dal
Rashtriya Janata Dal
The Rashtriya Janata Dal is a political party in India, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. The party came about as a result of Lalu Prasad Yadav, ex-president of Janata Dal, being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the then president, on corruption charges ...
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 1
|-
|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation
Communist Party of India Liberation is a communist political party in India.Communist Party of India was formed in 1969 by the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, who had split from Communist Party of India in 1967...
| align="right" | 25
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Lok Jan Shakti Party
| align="right" |8
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha is a state political party in the state Jharkhand, India. It has a strength of 2 in the 15th Lok Sabha. Shibu Soren is the president of JMM...
| align="right" | 7
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Janata Dal (Secular)
Janata Dal (Secular)
The Janata Dal is a Centre-left ಕನ್ನಡ: ಜನತಾ ದಳIndian political party led by former Prime Minister of India H.D. Deve Gowda.The party recognized as state party in the states of Karnataka and Kerala . It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party. It has political presence mainly in...
| align="right" | 6
| align="right" | 0
|-
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| Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League
Indian Union Muslim League is a state political party in the state of Kerala, India. The chief support base of the party falls inside northern and central Kerala...
| align="right" | 6
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena
Shiv Sena , is a political party in India founded on 19 June 1966 by Balasaheb Thackeray. It is currently headed by Thackeray's son, Uddhav Thackeray...
| align="right" | 3
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal (United)
Janata Dal is a political party in India with political presence mainly in Bihar and Jharkhand. Janta Dal party mentor and patron is "Veteran Socialist leader" George Fernandes; George Fernandes broke away from the erstwhile Janata Dal and formed the Samata Party in 1994. Presently it is led...
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| West Bengal Socialist Party
West Bengal Socialist Party
West Bengal Socialist Party was a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WBSP was formed when the Bengali socialists in the then Janata Party split in the beginning of the 1980s . WBSP was a part of Left Front...
| align="right" | 4
| align="right" | 4
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|
| Gorkha National Liberation Front
Gorkha National Liberation Front
Gorkha National Liberation Front is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India...
| align="right" | 5
| align="right" | 3
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| Jharkhand Party (Naren)
| align="right" | 4
| align="right" | 1
|-
|
| Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
Democratic Socialist Party (Prabodh Chandra)
Democratic Socialist Party is a social democratic political party in India. The party was formed in 1981 when H.N Bahuguna came out of the then Janata Party and took the lead in forming it.The party is almost completely limited to West Bengal. The party was formed when the Bengali socialists, who...
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 1
|-
|
| Amra Bangalee
Amra Bangalee
Amra Bangali is a political party in India. The movement believes in the values and objectives explained by the socioeconomic theory called PROUT, founded by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Presently it is involved in communal fight against the Gorkha's against Gorkhaland...
| align="right" | 22
| align="right" | 0
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| Party for Democratic Socialism
| align="right" | 12
| align="right" | 0
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| Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party
Jharkhand Disom Party is a political party in India. The party works for the rights of the adivasi peoples. For example the party works for more quotas and reservations for adivasis...
| align="right" | 10
| align="right" | 0
|-
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| Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party
Indian Justice Party is a political party of India that was established by Dr. Udit Raj.-External links:* *...
| align="right" | 6
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Indian People's Forward Bloc
Indian People's Forward Bloc
Indian People's Forward Bloc is a political party in West Bengal, India. The party emerged through a split in the All India Forward Bloc. The party is led by Jayanta Roy, former AIFB Rajya Sabha member, and Chhaya Ghosh, former West Bengal Minister of Agriculture. Ahead of the 2006 legislative...
| align="right" | 3
| align="right" | 0
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| Paschim Banga Rajya Muslim League
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
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| Samajtantric Party of India
| align="right" | 2
| align="right" | 0
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| Jana Unnayan Mancha
Jana Unnayan Mancha
Jana Unnayan Mancha, a registered political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. JUM is the political front of Federation of Consumer Associations, West Bengal. The state secretary of JUM is Ramanimohan Nag Chowdhury, a retired senior officer of the Central Bureau of Investigation...
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
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| Social Justice Party
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
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| Shoshit Samaj Party
| align="right" |1
| align="right" | 0
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|
| Republican Party of India (Athvale)
Republican Party of India (Athvale)
The Republican Party of India is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India. The president of the party is Ramdas Athvale....
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
|-
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| Rashtriya Samadhaan Party
| align="right" | 1
| align="right" | 0
|-
|
| Independent
Independent (politician)
In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
| align="right" | 526
| align="right" | 6
|}
Total Number of constituencies : 294
Results declared : 294
Total contestants : 1654