2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 April and 10 May 2011 for all the 294 seats of the Assembly.

2011 West Bengal state general election
18 April 2011 (2011-04-18) – 10 May 2011 (2011-05-10)
All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
148 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout84.33% ( 2.36 pp)
  Majority party Minority party Third party
 
Leader Mamata Banerjee Manas Bhunia Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Party AITC INC CPI(M)
Alliance UPA UPA LF
Leader since 1 January 1998 23 October 2008 6 November 2000
Leader's seat Bhabanipur (By-elected) Sabang (Won) Jadavpur
(Lost)
Last election 26.64%, 30 seats 14.71%, 21 seats 37.13%, 176 seats
Seats before 30 21 176
Seats won 184 42 40
Seat change 154 21 136
Popular vote 18,547,678 4,330,580 14,330,061
Percentage 38.93% 9.09% 30.08%
Swing 12.29 pp 5.62 pp 7.05 pp
Chief Minister before election

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
CPI(M)

 Chief Minister after election

Mamata Banerjee
AITC

The Trinamool Congress led United Progressive Alliance won an absolute majority of seats in the state in a historic win marking the end of 34-year rule of Left Front, the longest-serving democratically elected communist government in the world, a fact that was noted by international media. Notably, the incumbent Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee lost even his Jadavpur seat to Trinamool's Manish Gupta, which was considered to be an electoral bastion of the CPI(M).

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